Observed arrival · 2026-10-19
HangulHover: a Korean hover dictionary for Mac
HangulHover is an upcoming Mac app that presents Korean words, romanization, and English meanings when you hover over text, with tools for saving and reviewing vocabulary.
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- Korean learners reading across Mac apps
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- The page says normal use makes no network requests; area-select text recognition uses Apple's Vision framework on the Mac.
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The public demo lets visitors hover over Korean text and click a word to save it, giving a concrete preview of the central interaction. The feature list says area selection can extract words from images, PDFs, and video, with recognition handled locally using Apple's Vision framework. It also describes six learner vocabulary levels and detailed entries for 1,000 idioms and proverbs; the app itself is marked as coming soon.
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