Notification Dictionary

Karthikeyan Singaravelan

About this app

An app to access meaning of selected word as a notification. It works across all apps that support text selection. The apps shows the meaning as a notification for quick reference. Clicking on the notification user can see all the meanings for the given word. The user can also search for meaning of other words.

* Easy access from all apps that have text selection.
* Enabled for offline usage.
* Click to copy meaning to clipboard.
* Long press to share meanings with others.
* Wide variety of meanings from Wikitionary.
* Open source and MIT License.

Ratings and reviews

This app is convenient, but not always. While it does show the word meaning in notification, several times it just cuts off mid-sentence or shows a part of the sentence from which you can't understand the meaning. I use another dictionary app that provides the same meaning (both the apps get the meanings from Wiktionary) so I know it's not showing the full sentence. Also, it gets complicated when a word has multiple meanings and I have to search further to know the exact meaning I'm looking for.

I see a great potential for this app, a hidden gem I found on f-droid. I suggest that their should be an option that aside from notification, the word meaning can be a pop-up (chathead like) , because pulling notification down can sometimes be a hassle not everytime but on some cases. Example, when reading, the whole notification menu will block what I am reading.

Found this on YouTube: HowToMen, Oct. 1st 2023. This is an amazing app! So much better, cleaner, and convenient than the standard Google search. Creates a simple notification rather than opening another page and displaying the definition there. Easy to use and works seamlessly when looking up a word's meaning while scrolling through an article in Chrome. Fantastic job dev! This app does exactly what it was meant to, simple and clean! Thumbs WAY up! Thank you!!!

What's new

* Add support for history and favourite words.
* Prioritize meanings of proper noun category to have lower priority improving results.
* Add lexical category to meaning content.