Zhenzhu
Look up Chinese while reading on macOS
Details
- External ID
- 49725610
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Zhenzhu
- Website domain
- zhenzhu.app
- Launched
- Sept. 16, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.12998405103668262
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 20, 2026, 5:44 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 20, 2026, 5:44 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS and desktop customization tools
- Vertical
- Education
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- chinese dictionary popup tool for macos readers
- Manually corrected
- False
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.
Discussion
No comments on this launch.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 199 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #167 of 200 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 299 days after the earliest competitor.
- Zhenzhu · ph · 2026-09-18 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.82
- Textracto · hn · 2026-08-05 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- I made text selection on macOS programmable · hn · 2026-09-03 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Zen Mode · hn · 2026-07-12 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Reader · hn · 2026-09-19 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- zxdesk · github · 2026-09-16 · 73 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Termini · hn · 2026-05-15 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- I fine-tuned Qwen 3.5 (0.8B–4B) on a Mac for text-to-SQL · hn · 2026-03-05 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.41
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.