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CLUSTER DICTIONARY-OFFLINE-DEFINITIONS · 41 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2015-12-06

Offline dictionary apps

This cluster of 34 products covers dictionary and thesaurus apps for general, specialized, and constructed languages, with a strong focus on offline lookup, pronunciation, and translation. Dated entries appear sporadically from November 2009 to July 2026 across about 20 distinct months, indicating a low but persistent release pattern. The only member with notable traction is ecdict-macos-dictionary at 5 stars, while other tracked members show zero stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

NOV 2009: 1DEC 2015: 1JUL 2018: 1MAR 2019: 1AUG 2019: 1FEB 2020: 1JUL 2020: 1NOV 2020: 1AUG 2021: 1NOV 2021: 1DEC 2021: 1APR 2023: 1DEC 2023: 2AUG 2024: 1JAN 2025: 1FEB 2025: 2AUG 2025: 1JUN 2026: 1JUL 2026: 1AUG 2026: 12SEP 2026: 3OCT 2026: 5
NOV 2009OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 ai-built · 3 hand-coded · 16 unlabelled

Operator · 6 hobby · 1 commercial · 8 open source · 5 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 20 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01qMdict0★18 daysliveOffline dictionary reader for MDict files that supports pronunciation and runs on Windows and Linux.
  2. 02ExplorerDict1★6 days—ai-builthobbyWindows desktop app that explains words selected in any non-game window, saves vocabulary with context and source, and generates concept maps.
  3. 03find_word1★9 days—hobbyCommand-line dictionary that looks up word definitions from a local text file and also serves as a generic key-value text lookup tool.
  4. 04onedict1★15 days—hobbyDesktop dictionary app that looks up selected words on screen, shows definitions from local and online dictionaries, and schedules vocabulary review cards.
  5. 05ecdict-macos-dictionary8★1 mo—Offline English-Chinese dictionary for macOS that provides millions of entries and three-finger lookup.
  6. 06dejanote0★7 days—hobbyCommand-line app that finds notes by meaning rather than keywords using local semantic embeddings, entirely offline.
  7. 07hebrew-dict0★19 days—hand-codedhobbyHebrew-English dictionary for macOS Dictionary app that indexes prefixed word forms from Wiktionary data.
  8. 08toscanini-launch0★1 mo—An offline-first, open-source desktop dictionary and language-learning app.
  9. 09basque-mac-dictionaries0★8 days—hobbyOpen-source Basque–Spanish and Basque–English dictionaries for Apple's built-in Dictionary app, including inflected-word lookup on macOS.
  10. 10MyLexicon0★18 daysliveopen sourceOffline Android app that lets users create and organize a personal dictionary with words, notes, and vocabulary collections stored locally.
  11. 11QuickDic0★1 moliveopen sourceOffline translation dictionary app that allows users to look up word translations.
  12. 12GoldenDict-ng0★2 moliveopen sourceDesktop dictionary lookup application supporting multiple dictionary formats for looking up word definitions and translations.
  13. 13Jargon0★1 moliveopen sourceOffline dictionary reader app that provides searchable access to over 2,300 hacker culture terms with favorites and random entries.
  14. 14latvian-language-agent0★1 mo—Tool that helps learn Latvian vocabulary from a personal Yandex collection.
  15. 15duoBooks: Language Learning0★2 moliveBilingual e‑reader that translates entire books word-by-word and builds a personal dictionary for language learning.
  16. 16freeDictionaryApp0★1 moliveopen sourceWord dictionary app that looks up definitions, examples, synonyms, and pronunciations from multiple language sources, with offline saving.
  17. 17wubi-dict-editor0★24 daysliveopen sourceDesktop app to edit and manage Wubi dictionaries for the Rime input method.
  18. 18OSS-Dict0★10 daysliveopen sourceOffline dictionary reader for Android that offers fast lookup, bookmarks, history, and customizable reading views.
  19. 19Dictionary Linguee0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedcommercialMobile app that provides bidirectional dictionary translations, example sentences, and pronunciations across multiple languages for offline use.
  20. 20Galnet Dictionary0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceMultilingual dictionary app providing translations and synonyms across 10 languages based on Wordnet.

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