Vocabulary lives quietly in your menu bar — always visible, never in the way. Pick any language pair from 12 supported languages. A new word every few minutes, without breaking your flow.
Tell LingoBar what language you speak and what you want to learn. Switch anytime — no restart needed.
Native macOS app. No Dock icon. Hold ⌘ and drag to place it anywhere in your menu bar.
A word from the language you're learning sits quietly in your menu bar. Click it for the translation, a real example sentence in both languages, and audio pronunciation — or jump straight to the next word.
English, Spanish, Polish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Hungarian, Swedish, Russian, Arabic and Korean. Learn any one from any other — and switch the pair anytime from the menu.
See how many words you know, manage all 1,500+ words across 23 categories, hide the ones you've mastered and tune how often each one appears — with progress tracked separately for every language pair.
Exactly the same experience whatever you're learning — including right-to-left languages like Arabic. Here: a Polish speaker learning Arabic, with a full example sentence and pronunciation.
No notifications, no pop-ups, no streaks to maintain. Just a new word every few minutes, right where you look dozens of times a day. Learning happens in the background — effortlessly.
See the word in the foreign language, try to recall the meaning, then click to confirm. This is how memory actually works — you're not passively reading, you're actively building vocabulary. Example sentences show each word in real context. German articles and plurals, Spanish gender — all the details that matter.
Change words every 1, 5, 10, 30, 60 or 90 minutes. Hide words you already know. Save favorites. Add your own vocabulary. Track how many words you've mastered per language pair. Your learning, your rules.
No Dock icon, no windows cluttering your desktop. Hold ⌘ and drag to place it wherever you want. Launches automatically when you log in.
12 languages: Spanish, English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Swedish, Hungarian, Russian, Arabic and Korean. Pick what you speak and what you want to learn. Switch anytime.
Add your own vocabulary — words from class, a textbook, or anything you want to drill. Up to 200 personal words in rotation alongside the built-in categories.
One place to manage everything: see how many words you know, browse all 1,500+ words across 23 categories, hide the ones you've mastered and fine-tune how often each appears. Progress tracked separately for every language pair.
Star any word to save it to your favorites list. Browse the full word list for any category, search and filter — then decide exactly which words stay in rotation.
Every word comes with a real example sentence in both languages — so you see it in context, not just as an isolated translation. Hear the sentence read aloud too.
German words show the article (der/die/das) and the plural form. Spanish words show gender in brackets. The details that actually make you fluent.
Tap to hear the word and its example sentence read aloud. Pick your favorite system voice — and the higher-quality natural voices are supported too.
Zero data collection. No account, no tracking. Everything stays on your Mac, with optional iCloud sync across your own devices. And zero ads — not in the free version, not in premium. Ever.
A quick look at how LingoBar lives in your menu bar.
Free to download. No account needed.
Works from the first second.
macOS 14 Sonoma or later · No Dock icon · No account required