Learn English from subtitles

WordHunter is a macOS and Windows app for English learners. One keystroke pauses the scene, finds the word you do not know, defines it in context, and keeps it.

Download WordHunter for Mac or for Windows. 50 free lookups to start.

One keystroke, one new word

WordHunter picks the word you do not know and gives the exact meaning the scene intends: the subtitle's exact sense, plus the word's other meanings.

Four steps, one word

1. Press the hotkey.
2. The word you do not know lights up.
3. Read it in context.
4. Save it to your treasury.

Your treasury, on every device

Every word you save becomes a card in a collection that is yours. The same treasury syncs across Mac, Windows and your phone, and WordHunter remembers the scene you caught each word in. Review your vocabulary with spaced repetition wherever you actually do it, which for most people is on their phone.

The scheduler is Anki's, not a loose approximation of it: the same learning steps, the same ease numbers, and the same interval ladder of 10 minutes, 1 day, 3 days, 8 days and 20 days.

Already use Anki?

WordHunter can mirror every word you catch into an Anki deck on your own computer, either a WordHunter deck it makes for you or one of your existing decks. Turn it on in settings and your catches land in both places.

What makes it work

• On-device capture. No screenshots are uploaded.
• Reads over Netflix, Apple TV+, Disney+ and more.
• Spaced repetition review is built in, on Anki's own scheduling.
• Optional Anki mirroring for people who already have a deck.
• Option-key hotkeys that never collide with your player.
• 0% CPU while idle. Nothing runs until you ask.

WordHunter runs on macOS 14.0 or later and on Windows 10 or later.