HoverWord is a quiet glass pane that hovers on your desktop. While you work, code, or browse, it flashes words at the edge of your sight — glance once, and the memory quietly compounds.
Reinforce memory with feedback, or passively stream words — switch in a tap. Restarts cleanly whenever you change mode.
Tap Know or Don't Know to drive the engine. Unanswered words reappear until you decide — memory you can actually track.
Set a dwell time and words rotate at your pace, hands-free. Each Section loops a set number of rounds before advancing.
Frameless, rounded, frosted and translucent — always on top, yet naturally low-key. It feels like part of your desktop, not an app window.
Place it anywhere; it remembers the screen and coordinates, across multiple displays.
The glass auto-matches your system appearance — clear by day, soft by night.
Detects fullscreen apps and steps aside, then quietly returns once you exit.
Auto-plays on word switch; toggle US/UK accent and adjust pace. Each enabled language gets its own accent & voice — fully offline.
▶ Replay the current word anytime.
Drop a UTF-8 TXT to import — auto-detects the language pair, validates, and reports errors down to the line. Export in one tap to take your library anywhere.
Import auto-detects the language pair, or set it manually; the UI follows your system or switches between English / Chinese.
Drop a TXT or build a wordbook; it auto-validates and splits into Sections.
The window stays on top, flashing words at the rhythm and mode you set.
No dedicated time needed — recall builds through high-frequency exposure in your work gaps.
Three presets — light, dark, eye-care green — or customize background, opacity, size and font, with a live preview. Phonetics and meanings can also be set to reveal on hover: recall first, then verify.
Clear glass for bright desktops.
Dark frost for night use.
Soft green to ease eye strain.
Nine transition effects from restrained to immersive — pick one and preview live in settings, so every switch feels just right.
Yes. No in-app purchases, no subscription, no ads — every feature is fully unlocked.
No. All libraries, progress and favorites stay on your Mac . Nothing is uploaded — it runs entirely local.
No. Pronunciation uses the macOS system TTS engine, and libraries import and store locally — fully offline.
macOS 14 (Sonoma) and later, on both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs.
Prepare a UTF-8 TXT file, one entry per line, fields separated by tabs (word, phonetic, part of speech and meaning). It validates on import and reports exact line numbers for errors.
Language-agnostic by design. Ship with Chinese learning English out of the box, and support English, French, Spanish, German, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and more — any pair.
Local, offline, zero interruption. Install it now and let memory happen in the in-between moments.
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