Poe: Language Lens

Slime Creative

In-app purchases

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.

Ratings and reviews

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.

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.

Very convenient app. It's much easier to read something like a japanese tweet with this rather than highlight words I don't know and finding takoboto in the dropdown menu. My only nitpick is order of results being shown. 降る gave me the くだる result first when that kanji is most often used for ふる instead. It also showed いざなう before さそう for the word 誘う. I would prefer results ordered by frequency similar to jitendex on yomitan, or takoboto on android.

What’s new

Improved the initial setup flow