Learn the words you actually keep seeing!

Vocab Counter turns the Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Korean or Chinese you already read — books, signs, menus, subtitles, packaging — into a vocabulary list ranked by how often you've met each word.

Point your camera at some text or import a screenshot. The app reads the words in the photo and counts every one it recognizes. Scan after scan, a small handful of words turns up again and again, and those rise to the top of your list. They're the vocabulary your own reading keeps asking you to know.

HOW IT WORKS

1. Scan — take a photo in the app, or pick one you already have. Pinch to zoom in on small print. You can even use screenshots from your phone.
2. Count — words you've met before move up in priority; new ones join your list with a definition and pronunciation.
3. Learn — study your most-met vocabulary on flashcards, then mark each word learned and watch it move to your Learned tab.

WHAT'S INSIDE

• Camera word scanning — on-device text recognition finds the vocabulary in any photo of real-world text
• Your own frequency ranking — each word shows how many times you've encountered it, and what share of your total captures that is
• Offline dictionary — definitions and pronunciations download once per language, then work with no connection
• Audio pronunciation — tap to hear any word spoken, on your word list and on flashcards
• Flashcards — a practice deck built from your to-learn words; flip for the definition, then choose "Still learning" or "Got it"
• To learn / Learned tabs — a clear split between the work ahead and the words behind you
• Daily reminders — an optional nudge to run through your flashcards
• No account needed — open the app and start; everything stays on your device

LANGUAGES

Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese, with definitions in English. Switch your learning language any time from your profile — each language keeps its own separate vocabulary list.

WHO IT'S FOR

• Language learners who read, watch and travel in the language, and want their study list to come from that rather than from someone else's word list
• Students supplementing a course, a textbook or a class reading
• Travelers collecting the vocabulary on the signs and menus in front of them
• Anyone past the beginner apps who wants vocabulary from real material

PRIVATE AND OFFLINE BY DEFAULT

Your vocabulary list lives on your device by default. Text recognition runs on your phone — your photos aren't uploaded anywhere. Once a language's dictionary has downloaded, scanning, definitions and flashcards all work offline.

AN HONEST NOTE ON ACCURACY

Vocab Counter reads text with automatic recognition and looks words up in open, community-written dictionaries. Both get things wrong — misread words, missing entries, definitions that don't fit the sentence you found them in. Counts are estimates rather than measurements, and the percentage on a word is its share of your own captures, not a measure of how common that word is in the language. It's a study aid: check anything that matters.

Definitions and pronunciations come from Kaikki.org (Wiktionary) and CC-CEDICT, used under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike. Full attribution is in the app under Profile → About.

Free to use!

Start counting the vocabulary your own reading hands you.