What's New

• Review is back: Leafy now brings your saved words back at the right time, a few each day. Set how many words a day you want, and it fills the rest.
• Fill-in-the-blank cards: review a word inside a real sentence you saved it from, not on its own.
• Memory tab: a year of your reviews at a glance, plus a per-folder page showing what you did this week.
• Anki export: send your words to Anki with a card layout you pick, previewed before you export.
• Select inside the scan popup: drag over any word in the popup to look it up, translate it, or save it, without scanning again.
• Import preview: see your CSV/XLSX file laid out before importing, and big files no longer bog the list down.
• Multi-word lookups now save as one entry instead of being split into single words.
• Plenty of review fixes and polish, including columns that show they're still loading instead of looking empty.

• PDF export: save your words to PDF, with 4 style options (Formal, Minimal, Warm Cards, Compact).
• Favorites: star your favorite words, and export just the ones you've selected.
• See it in action: a short video now plays right after setup, showing you how to scan and save words.
• Thai fix: Thai words no longer get rejected as "not a real word."
• Right-to-left fix: Arabic/Hebrew text now displays correctly throughout.
• Various bug fixes and smoothing across onboarding, translations, and import/export.

Maintenance update — bug fixes and behind-the-scenes improvements.

• Customizable word table: show, hide, and reorder columns.
• Word details redesigned, with faster loading.
• Selection toolbar: AI now tags key words, and can split phrases into words.
• Recently Scanned: jump straight to a saved word.
• Better language detection, plus polish and fixes.

• Menu bar mode: run Leafy with no Dock icon.
• Pinyin search: find Chinese words by typing pinyin.
• Greek added, with on-device text recognition.
• Smarter import: restores folders, icons, and colors.
• Selection toolbar now works in more apps and over PDFs.
• Clearer permission prompts.

• Menu bar mode is now stable — no more focus glitches.
• Permission prompts no longer get stuck behind the main window.
• Selection toolbar now appears over more apps.
• Apple Silicon only from this version on; Intel Macs should stay on 1.14.

• Settings no longer crashes when opened from the menu.
• Scan shortcut: dictionary downloads no longer pull you into Leafy.
• Daily limit now resets at your local midnight.

• Merge & Split words: combine words into a phrase, or split one back apart.
• Re-look up with AI: fix a word's spelling or language, then retry.
• Phrase explanations: merged phrases are now explained properly.
• Smarter language detection for scanned words.

• Popup theming fix: the lookup popup now follows your app theme correctly.
• Export/import dialogs now open on the correct window.
• Connection reliability: lookups no longer fail during quota outages.

• Localized part-of-speech tags throughout the app.
• Screen Recording fix: a denied permission now shows a clear prompt.
• Simplified languages: UI is now English and Spanish only.

• Rebuilt from the ground up — older features like Stories and text-to-speech were retired.
• Smarter definitions: filter your word list by part of speech.
• Auto-resume lookups after your Mac wakes.
• More languages, including Greek and Classical Chinese.