Vocabulary lives quietly in your menu bar — always visible, never in the way. Pick any language pair from 7 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 in the language you're learning, right at the top of your screen all day. Show translation next to it — or keep it hidden for a daily challenge.
Left-click to see the full translation in a popover. Hit the sound button to hear the word pronounced. Like a mini quiz, every time. Closes automatically after 5 seconds.
Beginner and Advanced, 20 categories — including DELE A1/A2 and B1/B2 vocabulary. Words in brackets remind you of gender and form.
Choose what you speak and what you want to learn. Set how often words change — every 1, 5, 10, 30, 60 or 90 minutes. Adapts to your day.
Add your own vocabulary — words from class, a textbook, or anything you want to practice. Up to 200 personal words, always in rotation.
Star words you want to master. Mark words you already know to skip them. Watch your 🏆 count grow — tracked separately for every language pair.
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. Words in brackets help you remember gender and context.
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.
7 languages: Spanish, English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Polish. Pick what you speak and what you want to learn. Switch the pair anytime from the menu.
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.
Mark words you already know and watch your count grow. Tracked separately for every language pair — so switching from Spanish to French doesn't reset your progress.
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.
Zero data collection. No account, no cloud, no tracking. Everything stays on your Mac. And zero ads — not in the free version, not in premium. Ever.
Free to download. No account needed.
Works from the first second.
macOS 14 Sonoma or later · No Dock icon · No account required