Changelog

First public release in preparation

RealDict has not been released yet. The release date and version number will be posted here once they are set.

Planned for the first public release

Dictionaries

• StarDict, Lingvo DSL and MDict (.mdx and .mdd, v1.x and 2.x), plus Hunspell word-form packs
• Get dictionaries: curated picks, the full FreeDict list, 14 Hunspell word-form packs, the Basic Korean Dictionary (Korean → English and English → Korean)
• Lower memory use for DSL and MDict dictionaries, whose indexes are read straight from disk
• Drag and drop, folder scan, priority order, profiles
• A “New edition available” notice with an Update button for dictionaries from Get dictionaries; the old one is kept until the new edition is verified

Lookup in other apps

• The ⌃⌥D shortcut, hover with a modifier key, the Services menu, clipboard watch
• Text inside images and screenshots
• Search from the menu bar icon (on by default), and open at login (off by default)
• macOS Shortcuts actions: Look Up Word (returns the definition as text or opens RealDict) and Add to Vocabulary

Search

• Results as you type, base forms for inflections, typo suggestions, related phrases
• Find in definitions, history, text size and font settings
• Wildcard (*, ?) and Korean initial-consonant search
• Full-text search: an opt-in index per dictionary (about 22% of the dictionary’s text size), a Headwords | Definitions switch in the search field, up to 100 results
• Optional: show dictionaries for the typed language first
• Frequently looked-up words, Hanja readings, and Examples gathered from every dictionary
• Playback of recordings embedded in dictionaries (mp3, wav and more; .spx and .ogg not supported yet)

Translation

• Phrase and sentence translation: Apple Translation (default, macOS 15 or later, on your Mac), or DeepL and Azure Translator with your own API key, stored in the Keychain

Vocabulary and study

• Save words with deck, tags, context sentence and source app
• FSRS spaced repetition, Anki (.apkg) and CSV export
• Backup and restore: vocabulary, review history, lookup history, settings and dictionary order in one .realdict file; merge or replace (a safety backup is made before replacing)

Sync and speech

• iCloud Drive, a synced folder, Google Sheets, Google Drive
• macOS system voices, optional Azure neural voices

Look

• 4 styles, 4 accents, light, dark or system
• The interface in 20 languages

Getting started

• A first-launch setup guide (languages, free dictionary suggestions, permissions, trying the shortcut), which you can reopen from Settings

Trial and license

• A 14-day free trial. Afterwards, without a license key, main-window search keeps working while lookup from other apps, getting definitions as text in Shortcuts, and Anki export are locked; your vocabulary is left untouched
• One license key works on up to 3 Macs

Data used

• Hanja readings: Hanja data from libhangul (BSD-3-Clause)
• Basic Korean Dictionary — Source: National Institute of Korean Language, Basic Korean Dictionary (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)