Easydict

Easy to look up words or translate text

Easydict

Easydict is a concise and easy-to-use translation dictionary macOS App that allows you to easily and elegantly look up words or translate text.

Easydict is ready to use out of the box, can automatically recognize the language of the input text, supports input translate, select translate, and OCR screenshot translate, and can query multiple translation services results at the same time.

Supported translation services: 🍎 Apple Dictionary, 🍎 Apple Translate, OpenAI, Gemini, DeepSeek, Ollama, Groq, Zhipu AI, GitHub Models, DeepL, Google, Youdao, Tencent, Bing, Baidu, Niutrans, Caiyun, Alibaba, Volcano and Doubao.

Features

• 🚀 Out of the box, automatic language recognition
• 🖱️ Auto select with mouse and shortcut key
• 📸 OCR screenshot translation and slient screenshot OCR
• 🔊 Multiple TTS voice services
• 📚 Support 🍎 Apple System Dictionary and System Translation
• 🌐 Support 20+ translation services (OpenAI, Gemini, DeepL, Google, Ollama, Groq, etc.)
• 🗣️ Support for 48 languages

If you like this app, please consider giving it a Star ⭐️, thanks! (^-^)

Contributing

If you're interested in this project, we welcome your contributions. Our development follows this workflow:

• dev branch: Latest development code, may contain features in progress
• main branch: Stable release code, regularly merged from dev branch

Please submit bug fixes and features to dev branch; for major new features or UI changes, please open an issue for discussion first. See full contribution guide.

AI Coding

We recommend using Codex for AI-assisted development in Easydict, especially for codebase exploration, issue diagnosis, patch generation, and refactoring.

• Prefer the latest available GPT models, such as GPT-5.4.
• Review AI-generated changes carefully before opening a PR, and make sure the result matches this repository's contribution workflow and coding standards.

AI Commit Helper

This repository supports Codex and Claude for automatic commit message generation.

• Stage your changes first, then run /git-commit.
• The command drafts an Angular-style English commit message from the staged diff and provides a Simplified Chinese preview.
• No commit is created until you explicitly approve the generated message.

Issue/PR Triage Notes

The maintainer has been quite busy recently and usually only has time to triage issues on weekends. PRs (especially bugfix PRs) are prioritized. Also, due to an overloaded inbox and notifications, some messages may not be seen or replied to promptly. Thanks for your understanding.

Installation

Homebrew Installation (Recommended)

brew install --cask easydict

Manual Installation

Download the latest release.

[!NOTE] Latest version supports macOS 13.0+, for older systems please use 2.7.2

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Usage

Ways	Description	Preview
Input Translate	Press the input translate shortcut key (default ⌥ + A), enter the text to be translated, and Enter key to translate
Mouse Select Translate	The query icon is automatically displayed after the word is selected, and the mouse hovers over it to query
Shortcut Select Translate	After selecting the text to be translated, press the shortcut key (default ⌥ + D)
Screenshot Translate	Press the screenshot translate shortcut key (default ⌥ + S) to capture the area to be translated
Silent Screenshot OCR	Press the Silent Screenshot shortcut key（default ⌥ + ⇧ + S）to capture the area, the OCR results will be copied directly to the clipboard

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Documentation

• 📖 Complete Usage Guide - Detailed features, configuration and tips
• 🔧 Developer Build Guide - Build and run from source code
• 🍎 How to use macOS System Dictionary
• 🍎 How to use macOS System Translation
• 🌍 How to translate Easydict

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Acknowledgements

• This project was inspired by saladict and Bob, and the initial version was made based on Bob (GPL-3.0). Easydict has made many improvements and optimizations on the original project, and many features and UI are referenced from Bob.
• Screenshot feature is based on isee15's Capture-Screen-For-Multi-Screens-On-Mac, and optimized on this project.
• Select text feature is referenced from PopClip.

Statement

Easydict is licensed under the GPL-3.0 open source license, which is for learning and communication only. Anyone can get this product and source code for free. If you believe that your legal rights have been violated, please contact the author immediately. You can use the source code freely, but you must attach the corresponding license and copyright.

Sponsor

Easydict is a free and open source project, currently mainly developed and maintained by the author. If you like this project and find it helpful, you can consider sponsoring this project to support it, so that it can go further.

Thanks to @CanglongCl for providing the Apple Developer account, which solved the app signature issue, allowing more people to use Easydict conveniently.

Thanks to all sponsors for their generous support. For details, please see the Sponsor List.

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