ZhongwenHover

Read Chinese anywhere on your Mac.

Zhongwen Hover is an on-device dictionary for learners of Chinese. Move your cursor over any Chinese character on your screen in a website, PDF, eBook, social feed, video subtitle, or chat and then popup shows pinyin and an English translation in under half a second.

Powered by Apple's Vision framework, all OCR runs locally on your Mac. No screen content, no characters, no lookups ever leave your device. There is no account, no telemetry, no analytics.

PRIVACY FIRST

On-device OCR. No cloud. No tracking. No data collection.

Requires macOS 13 or later. Chinese text recognition is provided by Apple Vision.