Puffins
look up any word anywhere in one place for language learners
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Details
- External ID
- 1268795
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Puffling
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 4, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.76
- Tags
- Android, Education, Languages, Artificial Intelligence
Description
Puffins is a dictionary app for language learners, readers and translators. Look up any word in 20+ languages across 1000+ dictionaries (Wiktionary, Longman, Cambridge, Oxford and more) and switch sources with one tap. Add any dictionary site you like. When a definition isn't enough, ask AI Lookup for nuance and examples. Dictionaries and lookups are free, with no ads or tracking; only AI is paid. From the maker of Dictionariez. On Android now, iPhone in TestFlight beta.
Enrichment
- Niche
- language learning apps
- Vertical
- Education
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- universal word lookup tool for language learners
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The app is a standard web view/dictionary aggregator that queries public APIs, embeds web dictionaries, and hooks into an LLM API for contextual explanations.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #13 of 107 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 331 days after the earliest competitor.
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