VocabGlow – Learn Words as You Browse

Instant meanings, pronunciation, saved word categories, highlighting, reminders, and CSV import/export.

✨ VocabGlow - Learn Vocabulary While You Browse VocabGlow helps you grow your English vocabulary naturally while you browse the web. Select a word, get a clean in-page explanation, listen to pronunciation, save useful meanings, and revisit your vocabulary later from a dedicated review list. No ads. No tracking. No personal data collection. ✅ What VocabGlow can do: - Explain selected words directly on webpages with a small helper icon near your selection. - Add a right-click context menu option so you can explain selected text quickly. - Show a clean in-page popup with loading feedback, US/UK phonetics, pronunciation audio, part of speech, English definitions, examples, synonyms, and antonyms. - Let you choose whether the lookup popup opens with detailed definitions or a shorter summary. - Let you hide or show pronunciation, examples, synonyms, and antonyms. - Show translated meanings in more than 100 target languages when online translation is enabled in Settings. - Let you save the full result, save a short summary, save only the translation, or edit the word, meaning, and category before saving. - Show whether a word is already saved in your vocabulary list. - Keep a personal vocabulary list with recent words and word counts available from the extension popup. - Open a full-page vocabulary manager where you can search, filter by category, review category dashboard details, edit, delete, look up words manually, and play pronunciation for saved words. - Import and export your saved vocabulary as CSV, including categories. - Highlight saved words automatically as you browse the web. - Let you turn highlighting on or off, choose a highlight style, choose custom colors, and choose how many recent saved words are highlighted. - Send optional review reminder notifications with saved words and meaning snippets. - Let you choose reminder intervals from Settings. - Let you turn online translation on or off and choose a target language for translated meanings. - Cache lookup results locally to make repeated lookups faster. - Provide support links for rating the extension or sending a donation if you want to support the project. 📖 Feature details 🔎 Instant word lookup - Select a word on a webpage and click the helper icon that appears near the selection. - Right-click selected text and use "Explain this word" from the context menu. - The popup can show loading feedback, US and UK phonetic spelling, pronunciation audio, part of speech, up to 3 English definitions per part of speech, example sentences, synonyms, antonyms, and an optional translated meaning for your selected target language. - Lookup content can be customized from Settings. - The popup supports keyboard focus, Escape-to-close, and keyboard repositioning from the popup header. - The "More definitions" button can open Cambridge Dictionary, Oxford Learner's Dictionaries, or Merriam-Webster, depending on your setting. 💾 Flexible save actions - Save the full lookup result to your vocabulary list. - Save a short summary using the first definition for each part of speech plus one synonym when available. - Save only the translation when online translation is enabled. - Edit the word, meaning, and category before saving. - Update an existing saved word when you choose to replace a previous definition. 📚 Personal vocabulary list - View recent saved words from the extension popup. - See total saved words and words added today. - Open the full vocabulary page to search and filter saved words. - Organize words with categories. - Edit words, meanings, and categories. - Delete individual entries or clear the full list. - Look up and save a word manually from the full vocabulary page. - Play pronunciation audio for saved words when audio is available. - Import words from CSV and export saved words to CSV. 🖍️ Highlight saved words across the web - Automatically highlight saved vocabulary on webpages. - Turn highlighting on or off from Settings. - Choose a highlight style: Soft Glow, Marker, or Underline. - Customize highlight background and text colors. - Choose how many recent saved words are highlighted: 25, 50, 100, or 200. - Highlights update when saved words or highlight settings change. 🔔 Review reminders - Turn review reminders on or off from Settings. - Choose a reminder interval: 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 60 minutes, 2 hours, or 4 hours. - Receive browser notifications with a saved word and meaning snippet. - Click a reminder to open the full vocabulary list for review. 🌐 Languages and translation - Turn online translation on or off from Settings. - Choose a non-English target language for translated meanings from more than 100 supported languages. - Translation support is designed to help English learners connect an English word with a meaning in their preferred language, while English definitions remain available when translation is off. ⚙️ Settings and support - Customize lookup detail, pronunciation, examples, synonyms, antonyms, and detailed dictionary source. - Adjust reminder settings, highlight settings, online translation, and target language from the Options page. - Import, export, clear saved words, or reset settings. - Use the popup or full-list page to open support links, rate the extension, or send a donation. 🔐 Privacy - No analytics. - No tracking. - No ads. - No personal data collection. - No third-party data sharing. - Saved vocabulary words and lookup cache are stored locally in your browser. - User settings such as online translation preference, target language, reminder interval, lookup display preferences, and highlight preferences are stored using Chrome storage. - Only the selected word or phrase is sent to dictionary or translation services when you request a lookup. - Online translation is optional and can be disabled. 🚀 How it works 1. Select a word on a webpage. 2. Click the helper icon or use the right-click context menu. 3. Review the popup with pronunciation, definitions, examples, synonyms, antonyms, and optional online translation. 4. Save the full result, a short summary, only the translation, or an edited meaning to your list. 5. Revisit saved words from the popup, the full list page, page highlights, and reminder notifications. 🆕 What's new in Version 2.5.6 - Added category support for saved words. - Added category dashboard details and category filtering in the full vocabulary list. - Added category data to CSV import and export. - Added configurable lookup popup content. - Added a detailed dictionary source setting for Cambridge Dictionary, Oxford Learner's Dictionaries, or Merriam-Webster. - Added highlight style and highlight limit settings. - Added popup saved-word stats. - Improved settings organization across lookup, highlighting, reminders, data, privacy, sources, and services.