WordGlance - Dictionary & Translation by ShrekBytes
Get instant dictionary definitions and translations for any text on any website! Just select text and click the book icon.
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WordGlance - Your instant dictionary and translation companion!
Or get the userscript version.
✨ What it does:
How to use:
Supported Languages:
Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Zulu
Features:
Privacy & Security:
Browser Support:
This extension is designed specifically for Firefox. For Chrome, Edge, Safari, and other browsers, check out our userscript version.
Open Source:
WordGlance is completely free and open source under the GPL-3.0 license. Feel free to contribute, report bugs, or request features on our GitHub repository.
❤ Love WordGlance? Give it a ⭐ on GitHub!
Or get the userscript version.
✨ What it does:
- Dictionary: Get definitions, examples, synonyms, and antonyms instantly
- Pronunciation: Hear words read aloud with one tap, when audio is available
- Translation: Translate to 40+ languages with one click
- Per-site control: Turn WordGlance off on individual websites, right from the popup
- Mobile-friendly: Works perfectly on both desktop and mobile
- Customizable: Choose your preferred languages and settings
How to use:
- Select any text on any website
- Click the 📖 icon that appears
- Get instant definitions and translations
- Click the ‹ › arrows to browse multiple results
Supported Languages:
Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Zulu
Features:
- Auto-detect source language
- Customizable target language (defaults to English)
- Dark mode toggle
- Smart caching system
- Works on all websites (or turn it off per-site)
- No account required
- Completely free and open source
Privacy & Security:
- The word or phrase you select is sent directly to the Dictionary API and/or our translation API to fetch results - that's the only data that ever leaves your browser
- We don't run analytics, tracking, or ads, and we don't log or store your lookups ourselves
- Settings and cache stay in your browser's local storage
- Open source code, so you can verify all of this yourself
Browser Support:
This extension is designed specifically for Firefox. For Chrome, Edge, Safari, and other browsers, check out our userscript version.
Open Source:
WordGlance is completely free and open source under the GPL-3.0 license. Feel free to contribute, report bugs, or request features on our GitHub repository.
❤ Love WordGlance? Give it a ⭐ on GitHub!
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Permissions and data
Required permissions:
- Access your data for all websites
Required data collection, according to the developer:
- Website content
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- Version
- 3.3.2
- Size
- 79.21 KB
- Last updated
- 12 hours ago (Jul 6, 2026)
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