AALookup / Wiki
What would you like to do?
Start with a task. Find the steps, device requirements and details that help you keep going.
These guides follow the current app. Features can vary with your installed version, platform and account benefits.
Understand what you are reading
Look up words without leaving your reading
Use the desktop lookup panel with selectable text, PDFs, images and unfamiliar word forms.
Read games, subtitles and screen text
Freeze the current display, recognize text, look up words and keep selected text or images.
Translate a sentence, screen or selection
Choose the right desktop translation mode and understand allowance, recovery and privacy.
Search deliberately and revisit earlier lookups
Use the main window when you want a larger reading space or need to return to a word.
Build your dictionary collection
Install online sources or local MDict files, choose their order and read full entries.
Make the words stick
Turn encountered words into a word list
Save words, add notes and decide which words should remain in active learning.
Review words when they are due
Recall before revealing the answer, then let FSRS schedule the next review.
Work through a word book
Choose a book and train each small group through follow-write, spelling, listening and dictation.
Continue on another device
Get started and solve problems
Start using AALookup
Set up your device, prepare a dictionary, and complete your first lookup.
Make AALookup fit your reading habits
Tune triggers, recognition, pronunciation, language and data preferences.
Find the cause of a problem
Check capture, dictionary, learning, account and update problems before reporting them.
Let a local assistant use AALookup
Enable optional desktop agent access and understand the actions it permits.