Zhenzhu
Look up Chinese while reading on macOS
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HN · launched Sep 16, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 87%) · 0 views
Niche: translation and localization tools · 195 launches, 18 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Education
- Search & retrieval
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 195 launches in translation and localization tools →
Could you build this?
Yes It is a native macOS menu bar/helper app combining screen capture/Apple Vision OCR with open-source Chinese dictionary databases (CEDICT) and local FSRS/Anki integration.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 497 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #429 of 498 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 300 days after the earliest competitor.
- Zhenzhu · ph · 2026-09-18 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.82
- Chinese sentence checker with pinyin and English explanations · hn · 2026-11-04 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- mwoyeo · github · 2026-10-15 · 84 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- advanced-chinese-literacy-reader · github · 2026-10-10 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- mas-cn-desktop · github · 2026-11-06 · 149 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Textracto · hn · 2026-08-05 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Chinese to Pinyin · ph · 2026-10-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- I made text selection on macOS programmable · hn · 2026-09-03 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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