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Owlet

A quiet companion for reading and writing in another language.

Press a shortcut, and Owlet translates or polishes what you select, then keeps the words worth learning. In any app.

Translate

Read it in your language.

Select a few lines and press your shortcut. The original stays on top; the translation sits below.

Owlet panel with the first stanza of Jianjia from the Classic of Poetry above its English translation what you
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Learn

Find the words worth keeping.

Open Learn for the words that matter here, each explained in the line where you met it.

Owlet panel with three words to learn: lush, long for, and seek worth
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explained in context
Keep

Keep them with one click.

Each word goes into your word book, along with the line it came from.

Owlet panel with the word lush saved to the word book saved ⌘-click any word to look it up

《蒹葭》 · Classic of Poetry

Inside the app

Where your words and translations live.

The Owlet word book with five saved expressions in English, French, and Japanese, and the selected one showing its source sentence the line you found it in
Owlet history with translations and a polish grouped by day, the latest showing the poem and its translation every translation and polish,
by day
Languages
Owlet language settings with six languages, a target for each source language, and native languages
add any
language
a target for
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And the details

Small things that make another language a little easier.

Polish

Fixes grammar and smooths the phrasing, in the same language.

The moon is very beautiful tonight, it makes me remember my hometown.

The moon is beautiful tonight. It reminds me of home.

Any language

Add the languages you read. Owlet detects the source and picks the target.

日本語→简体中文English→简体中文 Français→English한국어→English 简体中文→English+ any language

Replace in place

Translate or polish straight over your selection.

明天见See you tomorrow

Look up and listen

⌘-click a word for its meaning, reading, and sound.

lush/lʌʃ/ · adj.

Growing thickly and richly.

Readings your way

One reading system for each language.

lush/lʌʃ/
木漏れ日こもれび
蒹葭jiān jiā

Side by side

Read in two blocks, or line by line.

Your own model

Any OpenAI-compatible service, or an agent CLI already on your Mac.

DeepSeekKimiQwenOpenRouter OllamaLM StudioClaude CodeCodex

Private

No account. No Owlet server.

History on your MacWords on your MacAPI key in the Keychain

Knows your languages

Tell it your native languages once.

简体中文nativeleft out of suggestions

Your own prompts

Tune how it translates and polishes.

Keep the poem’s line breaks. Prefer plain, modern English.
↺ Restore Default

Native on macOS

Liquid Glass, and an interface in four languages.

English简体中文繁體中文日本語

Bring Owlet to your Mac.