The quiet return of paper
Smartphones are in modern cities, but the paper notebook never quite left. At one small press, the committee its move to digital, and the smell of fresh ink in the print room.
Beta for macOS
Understand it now. Remember it next time.
Select text in any Mac app and press ⌥⇧T. MeerLingo shows what it means in your language, right where you are reading, and keeps track of the words you keep meeting.
Mac download coming soonFree during the beta. No account needed to look things up.
Press ⌥⇧T or click a marked word.Tap a marked word.
This demo runs in your browser and is drawn to match the app. The article and translations are examples, not live app output.
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Stay in the app you're reading
The answer appears beside your work or grows out of the notch. Press esc and you're back.
Read text you can't select
Press ⌥⇧S and drag over any area, even in an image. The text is read on your Mac.
Check a sentence in seconds
Press ⌥⇧Y for a small window to type or paste into.
See a passage in your language
Point Lens at part of your screen and read the translation laid over the original.
Learn English, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Thai or Cantonese. English has the richest support today.
A translator forgets the moment you close it.MeerLingo remembers where you met each word, and brings it back.
Look up. Keep. Review.
Look it up now, keep it automatically and review it later.
Look up
The answer first, without leaving your app
The likely meaning comes first, in a small panel next to your work or growing out of the notch. Select a whole sentence and you get the sentence translated.
- Keyboard first: ⌘C copy, ⌘S keep, esc close
- If an app won't share its selection, paste instead, or read the text off the screen
Keep
Only the words that come back
Look a word up a second time and it joins your library by itself, so the list holds words you actually run into. You can also keep one by hand, or change the rule.
- Each word shows where you met it: which app, and when
- The sentence you read it in stays with it
Review
Recall it from your own reading
Review shows the sentence you met, with the word missing. Type it, and each letter is marked. Stuck? Ask for options, or say you don't remember.
- Scheduled with FSRS, a modern spaced repetition method
- Words come back around the time you'd start to forget them
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Where your text goes
The plain version. Not everything happens on your Mac, so here is what does and what doesn't.
Stays on your Mac
- Your library, lookup memory and settings
- Text read off the screen, using Apple's Vision
- Repeat lookups, answered from memory
- The built-in English dictionary, which works offline
- Sign-in tokens and AI keys, kept in Keychain
May leave your Mac
- On supported Macs, suitable short text is tried with Apple Intelligence on the device first
- If an on-device answer is not available, the selected text may be sent to Google Translate
- If you add your own AI service, or sign in and use the account service, text goes there, with its sentence unless you turn that off
Yours to control
- Lookup memory clears after 7, 30 or 90 days, or turn it off
- Export everything to one ZIP you can read and check
- No account needed to look things up. Signing in syncs saved words
- Some apps hide their selection. MeerLingo then presses ⌘C for you and restores your clipboard. You can turn this off
Questions
What permissions does it ask for?
Accessibility, so it can read the text you select. Screen Recording only if you use it to read text off the screen.
Does it need a Mac with a notch?
No. The floating panel is the default and works on any display. The notch is an option you can turn on in settings.
Does it work offline?
Partly. English words still get answers from the built in dictionary, and words you've already looked up come from memory. Other translations need Apple's model on your Mac or a connection.
Which languages can I read it in?
Answers can be in Traditional or Simplified Chinese, Cantonese, English, Japanese, Korean or Thai. We built MeerLingo first for Chinese speakers learning English.
Will my words sync across devices?
Sign in to sync saved words, review progress and settings across your devices. Without an account, everything still works on this Mac.
What about Windows?
It's planned, after the Mac beta. We'll decide timing from what we learn.
What does it cost?
You won't pay anything in the beta. We haven't set pricing.
What will you measure during the beta?
We plan to measure whether lookups succeed, how fast they are and why they fail. Never the text you read, its translation or your screen.
What do I need to run it?
The build is made for Apple silicon Macs. Placeholder Minimum macOS version to be confirmed.
MeerLingo for Mac
The beta build is being prepared. When it is ready, allow Accessibility access to look up text in other apps.
Mac download coming soonFree during the beta. For Apple silicon Macs.
Placeholder The download link will appear here when the beta build is ready.