Look Up - A Pop Up Dictionary

Sharma Gaurav

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About this app

Look up words instantly without breaking your reading flow.

Miss the built-in Look Up experience from iPhone?
Switching from iOS to Android?

Look Up helps you feel right at home with fast pop-up word lookup from selected or shared text, so you can understand new words without jumping between apps.

Built for readers, learners, and anyone who wants a faster way to understand and remember words.

Look up words your way
• Use the Lookup action from selected text
• Share words or phrases directly to Look Up
• Open a full word view with definitions from multiple sources
• Fast search with predictive suggestions

Compare definitions across multiple dictionaries
Look Up supports offline and online dictionary sources, including:
• WordNet offline dictionary
• Urban Dictionary
• Google
• Wikipedia
• Vocabulary.com
• Cambridge
• Merriam-Webster
• Oxford Learner’s Dictionary
• Collins
• Dictionary.com
• Thesaurus.com

Offline language support
Use supported offline dictionaries for:
• English
• Italian
• Spanish
• German
• Portuguese
• French
• Russian

Built for learning, not just lookup
• Save favorite words
• View recent lookups
• Add personal notes to words
• Get a Word of the Day
• Send words to Anki as flashcards
• Hear words spoken aloud

Make it yours
• Choose which dictionaries to use
• Reorder dictionary tabs your way
• Adjust popup height and text size
• Use themes and timed dark mode
• Haptic feedback support

Keep your data safe
• Backup and restore your data
• Import and export locally
• Google Drive sync support

Great for
• Readers switching from iPhone to Android
• Book lovers and vocabulary builders
• Quick dictionary access across apps
• Saving words to review later

Integrations
• Moon+ Reader dictionary support
• Anki flashcard support

Ratings and reviews

Does what I want over the stock Android dictionary app, specifically look ups within look ups. The overlay on the center of the screen is obtrusive though, I'd prefer if it popped up on the lower half of my screen without a dark overlay over the rest of it. Being able to quickly look up a word and immediately re-read it in context is nice. Edit: Reachability setting doesn't change that the box covers up text underneath it. Imo, the box would take up 35% of the screen without obscuring any text.

The app is, in my mind, and absolute must have for everyone! No longer can people make an excuse to not expand their vocabulary or misuse a word. Having the ability to copy any word and get a quick definition of a word. The only suggestion i could give is i'd like additional sentences giving context to the words, but other than that this app is flawless and will always be the first app i download whenever i upgrade phones. A++

Seems like a great app. Unfortunately, though, it isn't compatible with Android 10 or up; which you don't find out until after installing it and then you get a pop-up. I really wish it was stated in the description. Waste of time. UPDATE 01/27/21: In response to Dev's comment. It does work in Android 11 by selecting/highlighting a word. But it doesn't seem to work universally in all apps.

What’s new

* Introducing 5 new Dictionary plugins - Oxford, Collins, Merriam-Webster, Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com
* New: Backup and restore Lookup data directly from Settings using file export/import.
* Bugfix: Theme handling is more stable and prevents Settings from freezing with legacy values.
* Improvement: Dictionary order handling is more reliable across updates.
Community: Updated the Lookup community link to Discord.