Poe: Language Lens

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About this app

Poe is your essential OCR language learning companion. It's like Yomichan but for your phone or tablet, giving you the power to learn from your favorite apps and media.

Simply hover over text in any app, website, e-book, or even your live camera feed, and Poe will display word definitions, translations, and more.

Features
- On-Screen Dictionary: Instantly look up words by hovering over them.
- Camera Text Recognition: Translate and define text directly from your camera.
- Seamless Integration: Works most apps like Chrome, YouTube, Netflix, Kindle, and more.
Quick Interface: Poe is ready to go, docked on the edge of your screen whenever you need him.

Whether you're learning Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, English, or any language with supported dictionaries, Poe Language Lens brings efficient, context-aware learning to your fingertips.

* Great as a tool for students studying foreign languages, especially at language schools.
* Fast! No internet connection needed, dictionaries and on-device OCR used to quickly bring relevant info to you.
* Current dictionaries: English to English, Japanese to English, English to Japanese, Chinese to English, and Vietnamese to English.
* More language support coming soon.
* Like Yomichan (now Yomitan) but for mobile.

Accessibility Service API Usage Disclaimer:

This app utilizes the AccessibilityService API to enhance its functionality and provide a better user experience. Below is a detailed explanation of how and why this API is used in the app:

1. Purpose of AccessibilityService API Usage
- The AccessibilityService API allows Poe to take a screenshot of everything on your screen and process it for language information. The API also allows Poe to see when you interact with other apps, so that it may periodically take a new screenshot and re-process. This only occurs while you are interacting with Poe in an undocked state.

2. Data Privacy and Security
- This app does not collect, or store any user data. While using Poe with the Poe Boosted feature, data may be sent for processing to a cloud server for processing but is not stored or retained.

3. Consent and Transparency
- The use of the AccessibilityService API is fully disclosed to users, and it is only activated after explicit user consent.
- Users have the option to enable or disable the service at any time through the app and the device's Accessibility settings.
Pop-up dictionary and OCR language learning tool for Japanese, Chinese and more.
Updated on
Aug 31, 2026

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
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Ratings and reviews

43 reviews
vpr
July 29, 2026
Please remove your pro plan advertisement from the dictionary, it covers definition and upon click on close button poe disappears at all so you have to manually re-enable it, it's irritating. Also you could've made much more reasonable price for it so it wont be a robbery to buy a subscription.
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Slime Creative
August 5, 2026
The accuracy boost suggestion banner should only display once and never again once you dismiss it. If it appears more often than that, please send feedback so it can be corrected.
ーKMrtn
August 3, 2026
Great app, but for some reason I have to keep giving its permissions back every other week in the settings, I don't know if this is my phone's OS' fault (MagicOS) or if the devs can do anything about this, but it's really annoying
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Slime Creative
August 5, 2026
I'll see if theres anything that can be done. Your phone's OS might just be trying to be extra protective since the permission is wide in scope. I do notice on stock Android the OS will send a notification every few weeks and ask me if I want to keep allowing the permission.
Chavo
June 13, 2026
considering the feature, it's more logical to be one time purchase app, this most likely from free dictionary like yomitan(they are free for browser use) so the actual sell point is the program application only.
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Slime Creative
June 13, 2026
The app is free however unfortunately the cloud OCR costs me money so that upgrade needs to be a subscription. Having a basic free version with an upgrade for most other features is really the only way I can continue maintaining the app. Let me know if you have suggestions to make it better.

What’s new

Added Japanese to Vietnamese dictionary and fixes to some crashes related to handling of bitmaps.