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Choose a task to find its steps, platform requirements and data boundaries. Features can vary with your installed version and account benefits.

Understand what you are reading

Look up words without leaving your reading

Use the desktop lookup panel with selectable text, PDFs, images and unfamiliar word forms.

Read games, subtitles and screen text

Freeze the current display, recognize text, look up words and keep selected text or images.

Translate a sentence, screen or selection

Choose the right desktop translation mode and understand allowance, recovery and privacy.

Search deliberately and revisit earlier lookups

Use the main window when you want a larger reading space or need to return to a word.

Build your dictionary collection

Install online sources or local MDict files, choose their order and read full entries.

Make the words stick

Turn encountered words into a word list

Save words, add notes and decide which words should remain in active learning.

Review words when they are due

Recall before revealing the answer, then let FSRS schedule the next review.

Work through a word book

Choose a book and train each small group through follow-write, spelling, listening and dictation.

Continue on another device

Continue on a phone, tablet or browser

Keep learning across devices while understanding which features belong to desktop.

Sign in and keep learning in sync

Understand what travels with your account, what remains on each device and how to manage access.

Get started and solve problems

Start using AALookup

Set up your device, prepare a dictionary, and complete your first lookup.

Make AALookup fit your reading habits

Tune triggers, recognition, pronunciation, language and data preferences.

Find the cause of a problem

Check capture, dictionary, learning, account and update problems before reporting them.

Let a local assistant use AALookup

Enable optional desktop agent access and understand the actions it permits.