Dictionary Book
Free Mac vocab notebook with spaced repetition
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Look up words in the built-in macOS dictionaries, save them to your own vocabulary notebook, and review a little every day with spaced repetition. Everything stays on your Mac: no account, no ads, free. I first built it in 2013 and rebuilt v2.0 from scratch with vibe coding (pair-programming with AI).
PH · launched Nov 1, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 64%) · 0 views
Category and tags
- Education
- Workflow automation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Productivity
- Education
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Could you build this?
Yes A macOS dictionary lookup app with a vocabulary list and spaced repetition is a well-scoped desktop app. macOS exposes its built-in dictionaries through public APIs, and the scheduling algorithms are well documented.
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