yunit

You already spend hours reading. yunit turns some of that into the language you are learning.

On every page you open, it picks a few words you probably do not know and sets a small translation above each one, the way a reader pencils a note in a margin. The sentence underneath stays exactly as it was. Five or six words a screen. The rest of the page is left alone, and you go on reading.

Click a word that stopped you and a small panel opens with the translation, the sentence it arrived in, a definition, and the sound of it spoken. Keep it with one click.

Kept words come back

Most of the time they simply turn up again in something else you are reading, translated a second time, which is usually all it takes. Now and then one arrives as a question mark instead, and you can try to remember it before you check. A few a day at most. Reading never turns into a quiz.

It works the other way too

On pages in your own language, words from the one you are learning drift in beside the familiar ones, so even ordinary reading teaches you a little.

Free, and no account

Everything above runs in your browser and costs nothing. No sign-up, no trial, no card. Your words stay on your machine and you can export them at any time. An account is optional and also free, and adds settings sync and a daily backup of your vocabulary.

On YouTube

An optional lyrics panel fetches the song, lines it up with the video, and translates each line as it plays. Press Alt+Shift+D on any page to read it in two languages at once, inline or side by side. Both are free.

Premium, if you want it

Nine dollars a month or seventy-two a year. It adds live translated captions on videos that have no subtitles at all, fifteen hours a month, on Chrome and Edge. Sharper translations where machine translation loses an idiom. Live sync across your devices. Thirty days money back, no questions.

Languages

Twenty languages have word data and definitions. Annotations work in any language your browser can translate.

Privacy

yunit does not track what you read. Only the words and phrases you click or select are sent for translation. Everything else stays on your machine.

yunit is in beta. Everything described here works today, and it is all still changing. If something is rough or missing, write to support@yunit.app. A person reads every message, and beta feedback decides what gets built next.