Logophile

Learn new words as you surf the web
What is Logophile?
Logophile is a Chrome extension called Logophile that transforms new tabs into flashcards to help you learn words and expand your vocabulary. With Logophile, you can use one of the 3 included word lists or add words of your own. Each time you open a new tab, Logophile will display a new word from your list and provide the definition and an example sentence. You can mark words as 'Learned' once you've mastered them, and choose from 20 different color options to customize your new tab.

Extension stats

By: ryguy
Users: 307 ▲ 12
Rating: 4.63 (8)
Version: 1.5.5 (Last updated: 2021-04-17)
Creation date: 2020-04-27
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Overrides new tab: Yes
Permissions:
  • identity.email
  • identity
  • contextMenus
  • storage
Size: 196.61K

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Extension summary

Logophile transforms new tabs into flashcards to help you learn words and expand your vocabulary. You can use one of Logophile's 3 included word lists, or add words of your own.

Each time you open a new tab, Logophile will select a new word from your list and display it on the screen. You can then click on the screen to reveal the definition and an example sentence (if available), then mark the word as 'Learned' once you've mastered it. You can add words manually in bulk, add them from a webpage you're reading, or from your Kindle.

Pick and choose from 20 different color options to spruce up your new tab, and expand your vocabulary at the same time!

User reviews

I would give this 5 stars for English. But I thought I could have custom words and custom definitions. It seems custom word lists is just for English and there's no way to add definitions. Even stranger - when I added Japanese words, the extension said "No words available from the selected Lists". Maybe I'm doing something wrong? There do appear to be words on my list, but they do not have definitions. So for the "add words of your own" feature failing me and wasting my time I gave it the lower rating. Sorry :(
by Yuval Greenfield, 2024-01-25

Ryan, I like this app, but I use Momentum as my home tab. Is there a way to still use the app without forcing it to be the new tab?
by Russ Mitchell, 2023-05-16

This is awesome extension! Thanks a lot Ryan! Could you please add the International Phonetic Alphabet spelling to the word as the pronunciation button does not work on some words sometimes. Also if you could add an ability to amend the definition and an example for the word by the user, that would tick all the boxes!
by Artem Yagofarov, 2020-08-27
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Logophile requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

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