Turn reading history into learning material
Search, filter, edit, export, and revisit words from your own texts. The source sentence remains available as a richer cue than a translation alone.
Word Hunter 1.0.6 for Windows, Linux, and Android
Read real texts. Turn every unknown word into a review.
Word Hunter is a local-first reader, vocabulary trainer, PDF/OCR workspace, and SRS review tool for learners who want to study from real books, articles, subtitles, and scanned documents.
A reading-to-memory workflow
Do not just collect words. Build a path back to them.
A personal word base is useful when it changes what happens after you close a book. Word Hunter keeps each useful word connected to its sentence, then turns it into an active-recall prompt and schedules another encounter instead of letting it disappear into a notebook.
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Read something you care about
Use a book, article, subtitle file, EPUB, or PDF. Meaningful context gives an unknown word a situation, tone, and reason to remember it.
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Save the words worth learning
Add a translation, grammatical article, note, image, and the original sentence. Your database becomes a record of your vocabulary, not somebody else's generic list.
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Try to recall before revealing
Reader prompts and flashcards ask for the meaning first. Reveal the answer, use the context as feedback, and rate how well you remembered.
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Return when the word is due
The SRS queue spaces later reviews. You spend time on words that need attention while better-remembered words wait longer between reviews.
Practice producing the answer
Looking at a translation can feel familiar without proving that you can retrieve it. A recall attempt makes the review diagnostic and gives feedback something to correct.
Review less often, but more deliberately
Due dates distribute practice over time. Word Hunter also waits until at least the next day before a newly learned word becomes an in-reader recall prompt.
See the learning flow
Move from library to reader, word base, flashcards, progress, and Pocket without leaving your own data behind.
Twelve learning profiles
Each language has its own library, vocabulary, review queue, and progress.
English
German
Spanish
Italian
French
Polish
Ukrainian
Russian
Japanese
Chinese
Latin
Ancient Greek
Built for real reading habits
Word Hunter keeps the source material visible and turns vocabulary work into a natural part of reading.
PDF overlays and OCR
PDF pages can keep their original background while selectable words, status marks, and OCR/text-layer spacing stay aligned.
Clean text mode
Switch PDF reading between the original page background and a focused text-only view when layout gets in the way.
Context-first vocabulary
Words are saved with translations, notes, examples, and the text they came from.
Offline-friendly ownership
No account is required. Data stays local, and sync uses a folder you choose.
Desktop plus Android
Do heavy importing on desktop, then read, zoom, pan, and review on Word Hunter Pocket.
Windows, Linux, and Android
Release builds include Windows installers and portable archives, Android APK and AAB packages, and Linux Flatpak, AppImage, and DEB bundles.
What's new in 1.0.6
A stable maintenance release focused on keeping the Reader predictable on desktop and Pocket.
Continue from the current selection
Page changes restore keyboard focus, and Play starts from the exact selected word or phrase occurrence.
Learn today, recall tomorrow
Words first moved to Learning today no longer appear as in-text review prompts until the following day.
Clean scrolling under a fixed header
Word-card buttons and fields remain below the selected-word heading while the card content scrolls.
Correct A1-B2 title headers
Every bundled reader begins with its catalog title and a consistent Word Hunter Originals attribution.
Corrected interface copy
Incorrect and untranslated Italian labels were reviewed and corrected across the interface.
Seven validated release artifacts
Windows setup and portable builds, Android APK and AAB, and Linux Flatpak, AppImage, and DEB packages were built and validated by GitHub Actions.
Word Hunter 1.0.6 is available now
Choose the Windows installer or portable archive, install Word Hunter Pocket on Android, or download Flatpak, AppImage, or DEB for Linux.
The AppImage includes its own Syncthing executable. The DEB uses the distribution-provided syncthing package and leaves /usr/bin/syncthing untouched.
Package-manager status: Scoop is available, the official Homebrew tap for Linux x86_64 is available, WinGet 1.0.6 is under review, AppImageHub is under review, and the F-Droid inclusion request is open. The Chocolatey, Snap, AUR, and Nixpkgs recipes are prepared but are not yet published in their respective package stores.
Install with Scoop
scoop bucket add wordhunter https://github.com/Ironship/scoop-wordhunter
scoop install wordhunter/wordhunter
Install with Homebrew on Linux x86_64 (Homebrew 5.1.12+)
brew install --cask Ironship/wordhunter/wordhunter