Word Forage

Snap a word in the wild, save it with its story, and learn it your way.

You don't learn a language in a classroom — you learn it on a street sign, a menu, a shampoo bottle in a hotel bathroom. Word Forage turns every one of those moments into a flashcard, so exploring your everyday environment becomes the lesson. Point your camera at any word you don't know, wherever you find it, and walk away having actually learned it.

How it works Snap a photo of a word — a sign, a label, a page, anything. Tap the exact word you want (even mid-sentence), and Word Forage looks up a verified translation instantly. The photo and the place you found it are saved right alongside the word, so months later you'll still remember exactly where you picked it up.

Built to actually stick • Flashcard review, swipe to grade • Four practice games: matching, sentence mining, word search, and more • A daily practice streak and progress heatmap that reflects how much you actually practiced • Optional drip-feed of the 3,000 most common words in your target language, dictionary-verified and lemmatized — no junk, no slang, no proper nouns

Translations you can trust Common word pairs are cross-checked against Wiktionary and matched by part of speech, so a verb doesn't quietly turn into the wrong noun in translation. Supports 16 languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hindi, Polish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Greek, and Russian.

Private by design No accounts, no backend, no ads. Everything you collect lives on your device — nothing leaves it except the specific word you look up.

Every language is bigger than a textbook. Go find it.