AALookup 1.0.4 release notes

1.0.4

2026-09-16

Online dictionaries beside your own, and one import for every word list

Online dictionaries join the collection as ordinary rows: install Wiktionary and Wikipedia from Search & download, order them among your local dictionaries, and read their entries in the Library drawn in AALookup's own style. A website of your own can be added by address or imported from GoldenDict.
The lookup panel shows the first online dictionary that can be embedded and moves down the list when it cannot answer.
The search box completes from Wiktionary and Wikipedia as you type, below the local suggestions.
One import flow, from Settings or the Words page, reads TypeWords backups, AALookup bundles and word lists exported from Eudic and Youdao.
English can be chosen as the explanation language.

macOS Pointer lookup checks that the word's glyphs really sit under the pointer, and asks the application under the pointer when the system-wide hit test fails.
macOS With OCR off but Screen Recording granted, a lookup falls back to reading pixels for text that accessibility cannot see — code editors, canvases, games.
Windows The text recognized on the frozen screen can be corrected before copying, and Enter inserts a line break instead of copying the image.
The panel footer names what started the lookup — a three-finger tap or the shortcut that fired — and the context text can be selected and keeps its line breaks.
The website gets a recorded lookup demo on the homepage, landing pages for each platform and use, comparison pages, a dark appearance that follows the system, and release notes.

Windows Sentence capture reads the whole sentence from the paragraph, so a sentence that wraps in the browser is no longer cut at the line break.
Three startup crashes are fixed: the first launch after an update on Windows, a Windows OCR line-ordering panic, and every launch after the first on Android. The server's hourly backup no longer stalls requests while it runs.
On Android, Update now survives the trip to the Install unknown apps setting and does not download the package again on retry.

Settings → Dictionaries shows only what you need to pick a dictionary — name, size, whether it is online — and folds licence and version details away; the advanced manager and the phone's dictionary screen carry the rest, online dictionaries included.