Capture the unfamiliar words you're reading,
echo them back before they fade.
Press one shortcut while you read,
understand the word in a popover without breaking your flow,
and review it right before you would forget it.
Capture on your Mac today · the phone review companion is coming
You look a word up. You understand it for one sentence. By the next page it's gone — so you look it up again, and again, and it never quite sticks.
From screen to memory,
in one shortcut.
Each step removes friction from the one before it — so reading turns into remembering, and the word echoes back a little louder each time you meet it.
Press ⌥E
macOS's on-device text recognition reads the word and its sentence from whatever you're reading — articles, PDFs, subtitles, images, non-selectable text — or copy first, then press. You edit the word before saving.
On-device OCR or clipboardMeaning, in context
A concise core meaning and part of speech, shown when it's ready — your save never waits on it. Senses and pronunciation sit behind a calm expand.
In-context gloss · optional, 10/day freeBefore they fade
Saved words come back as spaced-repetition cards fronted by your own sentence. Rate Forget / Hard / Good / Easy and each returns just before you'd forget it.
Review on Mac today · phone companion comingThe sentence is part of the meaning.
A dictionary hands you a generic definition. Capecho keeps the exact sentence you met the word in — so the meaning has somewhere to live.
adjective — too great or extreme to be expressed or described in words.
a low, ineffable sense that the streets were holding their breath.
ineffable · adjective — too great or subtle to be put into words. Capecho keeps that meaning tied to the sentence you met it in, which is how it sticks.
Everything the loop needs. Nothing it doesn't.
- Capture anywhere
- Best-effort OCR off articles, PDFs, subtitles, images and non-selectable text — or the clipboard. Triggered only by you; you edit before saving.
- Save the context
- Your sentence travels with the word, not a generic example. The unit you captured stays exactly as it was.
- Understand with AI
- Core meaning and POS, distinct senses, per-POS pronunciation, and a system-Dictionary handoff.
- Review that schedules itself
- FSRS spaced repetition, cards fronted by your own sentence. No deck-building, ever.
- Private by design
- Your Mac's text recognition runs only on your keypress and returns just the text — the screen image never reaches Capecho — and you edit before anything saves.
- Yours to take
- One account for the loop, and clean Anki / CSV export — your vocabulary is never locked in.
Each tool solves a fragment. Capecho is the loop.
Not a replacement — a complement. Keep your dictionary and your Anki deck; Capecho is the capture-to-review thread between them.
| Dictionary | Translator | Anki | OCR tool | Capecho | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capture off any screen | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Explain the word | Yes | partial | No | No | Yes |
| Keeps your sentence | No | No | manual | No | Yes |
| Schedules review (SRS) | No | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| No card-building | No | No | No | No | Yes |
Capture is best-effort OCR — you edit or fix the word before it's saved.
Powerful capture you can trust.
Your Mac does the reading, not Capecho. At your keypress, macOS's own text recognition reads the pixels and hands Capecho only the recognized text — the screen image itself never reaches Capecho. You edit and confirm that text before anything saves.
- ·macOS's built-in text recognition does the reading — only at your keypress, never continuously, never in the background.
- ·The system API returns only the recognized text — the screen image itself never reaches Capecho, so there's nothing to store and nothing to upload.
- ·You edit and confirm the word and its sentence in the preview before anything is saved.
- ·The word you save and the context sentence.
- ·Its explanation and your review history.
- ·The small settings that ride along (learning / explanation language).
Synced to your private account — that's what makes cross-device review work.
The core loop is free.
You can run the whole capture → understand → review loop for free — up to 200 saved words and 10 in-context explanations a day. Pro ($6/mo or $48/yr) lifts both ceilings; the loop never sits behind a subscription.
- ·Capture (OCR + clipboard)
- ·The full word explanation — meaning + POS, senses, pronunciation
- ·The system-Dictionary handoff
- ·Word Book, FSRS review, cross-device sync
- ·Anki / CSV export
Up to 200 saved words · 10 in-context explanations a day.
- ·Unlimited saved words
- ·Unlimited in-context explanations
Save 33% on annual. Reaching a free limit never blocks the loop or locks what you've saved.
Before you ask.
Is Capecho available now? Yes — it's available now as a direct download for Mac. Capture and review work on the Mac today.
Why Mac first? Capture happens while you read on the desktop. The phone review companion is coming.
Is my screen uploaded? No. Your Mac's text recognition runs on-device and returns only the text — the screen image never reaches Capecho.
What does it cost? The core loop is free — up to 200 saved words and 10 in-context explanations a day. Pro ($6/mo or $48/yr) makes both unlimited.
Download Capecho for Mac.
Capture a word the moment you meet it, understand it in a popover without breaking your flow, and echo it back right before you'd forget — no deck-building, and the core loop stays free.
- On-device OCR
- Free core loop
- Anki & CSV export
Available now on Mac — the iPhone review companion is coming.