Start reading
without the detours.
Free while Leafy is in beta. One download, no account.
For Mac only
Download v1.16How it works
See it in action
While you're reading —
The forest thinned until the path opened onto a limestone shelf above the water. Below, the river moved without hurry — pale green near the shallows, darkening where the channel cut deeper into the stone.
She had read the word before, in a geology paper years ago, but never quite felt it until now. The river was effervescent in the morning light, its surface alive with tiny bubbles where the current crossed the shelf.
Farther down, the bank softened into silt and reed beds. A kingfisher dropped once, twice, and vanished upstream. She kept walking, the meaning still ringing in her mind long after the word had passed from the page.
Press ⌥A, get the meaning
Draw a box around any word on screen — even in images and PDFs. Leafy reads it and drops the definition, pronunciation, and the sense that fits right under the word, without leaving the page.
Everything in one place
Every word lands in your library, sorted into color-coded folders you can search and revisit — a living vocabulary, not a forgotten note.
See your reading rhythm
Words captured, active days, peak hours — a quiet picture of when you actually read.
Privacy & safety
Your words stay yours
No accounts, no sync server, no ad tracking. Leafy is built to keep what you read to yourself.
- stored only on your mac Vocabulary, definitions, and folders never leave your device.
- no ad tracking This site has no analytics or ad pixels. Browser storage only remembers that you dismissed the privacy notice.
- lookups stay anonymous Word queries route through a proxy — no name, account, or device ID attached.
Languages
Read & translate in 8 languages
English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Greek, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese — with more on the way.
Ready when you are.
Free while Leafy is in beta. One download, no account.
For Mac only
Download v1.16