# Desi Lingo

> Immersive Indian language learning — click-to-lookup dictionary, sentence mining, and vocabulary tracking

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/desi-lingo](https://chrome-stats.com/d/desi-lingo)

## Overview

- **ID:** `desi-lingo`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Desi Lingo
- **Category:** language-support
- **Version:** 0.2.2
- **Last updated:** 2026-03-31
- **First published:** 2026-03-10
- **Size:** 7.44 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/desi-lingo/)
- **Website:** [https://desi-lingo.app/guide/getting-started](https://desi-lingo.app/guide/getting-started)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/desi-lingo/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/desi-lingo/privacy/)

## Description

Learn Hindi by reading and watching content you enjoy. Desi Lingo adds a popup dictionary to any webpage — click any Hindi word to see its definition, transliteration, grammar, and frequency rank. 

Features:
- 130,000+ word dictionary with learner-friendly definitions
- Interactive subtitles for YouTube, Netflix, and Prime Video
- Word status tracking (unknown, seen, known) with color-coded underlines
- Sentence mining with screenshots and audio — export to Anki
- Grammar detection for ~90 Hindi grammar points
- Devanagari to romanized transliteration toggle
- Web dashboard at desi-lingo.app for stats, vocabulary, and study tools

All language processing runs locally in the browser — no data sent to external servers for NLP.

## Rankings

- #142,618 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`
- `storage`
- `unlimitedStorage`
- `tabs`
- `cookies`
- `scripting`
- `https://desi-lingo.app/*`
- `*://*.youtube.com/*`
- `*://*.netflix.com/*`
- `*://*.primevideo.com/*`
- `*://*.amazon.com/*`

### Content script matches

- `*.youtube.com`
- `*.netflix.com`
- `*.amazon.com`
- `*.primevideo.com`
- `desi-lingo.app`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Very high risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/desi-lingo)