Save words in context, from any screen

A word is easier to remember when it stays attached to the sentence, situation, and source where you first met it. Capecho keeps the exact sentence as the context of every saved word, so you review the word the way you actually encountered it, not as an entry on a generic list.

That sentence isn't decoration. It's the cue your memory will reach for later: the topic, the tone, the grammar, and your own recollection of the moment all ride along with it. Strip the sentence away and you're left with a bare word that's attached to nothing.

Most people mean to save the words they meet, then don't. The usual workflow is the problem: stop reading, copy the word, switch apps, paste it, hunt down a definition, retype the sentence, format a card. By the time that's done, you've lost both your place and the will to do it again tomorrow.

Capecho removes that tax. While you read on your Mac, one keyboard shortcut grabs the word and the sentence around it and opens a small preview right where you are. There's no second app to switch to and no card to build by hand, so saving a word costs a moment instead of a detour.

Capture runs on macOS's built-in on-device text recognition, the same engine behind Live Text. It reads the word and surrounding sentence only at the instant you press the shortcut and returns just the text — the screen image itself never reaches Capecho. Nothing runs in the background, nothing is uploaded, and your screen is never recorded or streamed.

If you'd rather not point a shortcut at the screen at all, there's a copy-paste mode: copy the passage yourself, press the shortcut, and Capecho reads only what you put on the clipboard. Either way, capture happens because you asked for it, the moment you asked.

The capture preview is a place to edit, not just a confirmation step. If recognition grabbed a stray character, fix the word. If the sentence runs long or includes something private like an email or an account ID, trim or mask it before saving. You decide exactly what enters your vocabulary.

The captured word itself stays fixed once saved, which keeps your records stable. The two surfaces you can always adjust are the context sentence and its gloss, so you can refine how a word is framed without rewriting what you actually met.

Every saved word carries a word explanation: its core meaning and part of speech, its distinct senses, per-part-of-speech pronunciation, and a handoff to the macOS system Dictionary. That explanation is free and unmetered. It's generated once from the word alone and shared from a public cache, so your own sentence is never part of it.

When you want the word explained as it's used in your specific sentence, that in-context explanation is metered: ten a day, free, with unlimited on Pro. Reaching that limit never blocks capturing, saving, reviewing, or the free word explanation. It only pauses that single feature until the next day.

Saving is step one. On your Mac, words come back as FSRS spaced-repetition cards fronted by your own sentence with the word in place, surfacing just before you'd forget so a fleeting encounter turns into something that sticks. There's no deck to assemble; capturing already built the card.

Capecho is built first for English, the first target we've quality-validated, but it was never English-only. You can capture, save, and review other languages today, and you can export everything to Anki or CSV at any time, with a target-language column so multi-language decks don't collide. A companion that lets you review on your phone is coming, so the words you save at your desk can return in the small gaps of your day.