What’s New in SnapVerbo

SnapVerbo helps you learn vocabulary from real-world text — books, menus, signs, subtitles, and everyday reading — without losing the original context.

Instead of replacing what you read, SnapVerbo captures it, helps you understand it, and lets you revisit it over time.

How SnapVerbo works

Capture — Take a photo, import a screenshot, or share text from any app.
Understand — See translations and definitions alongside the original text.
Save with context — Keep vocabulary together with the image it came from.
Review over time — Use spaced repetition flashcards and personal notes to make words stick.

This page tracks how SnapVerbo has evolved across each release.

v3.4.2 — November 10, 2026

Photos (iOS) — Choosing a photo no longer asks for access to your whole photo library.
Saved words — The bookmark turns green once a word is saved.
Importing — A file that isn’t a wordbook now says what to do instead, and a picture can be opened to read its text.
Notifications — Asked for after your first saved word, not when the app first opens.

v3.4.1 — November 7, 2026

Find your way around a long text in SnapPara.

Find in text — Tap the search icon to find a word in the original; each match lines up with its translation.
Progress — A percentage shows how far through the text you are.
Copy a sentence — Copy the highlighted sentence, its translation, or both.
Lists keep your place — Coming back from a word, a wordbook or a flashcard session no longer jumps to the top.

v3.4.0 — November 3, 2026

See how a word is built, and get a hook to remember it.

Word Parts — Tap Word Parts on a saved word to see its prefix, stem and compound parts, what they literally mean, and a memory hook, like vor + stell(en) + -ung for Vorstellung. Works in every language SnapVerbo reads and uses one AI credit.
Word Roots — For a word looked up in its own language, like English to English, the same link shows where the word comes from.

v3.3.3 — October 31, 2026

Noun gender — When translating into English, dictionary meanings show a noun’s gender, like noun, feminine for maison, in every language that has one.

v3.3.2 — October 29, 2026

Words and phrases translated into English now come with dictionary meanings, for fuller and more accurate lookups than before. AI Lookup and SnapPara’s translations are as good as ever, and lookups into other languages work as before.

Dictionary meanings — Words and phrases in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish and Norwegian show their dictionary meanings under the translation: on photos, shared text, SnapPara, the vocabulary card and flashcards.
Dictionary forms — A conjugated or inflected word shows the word it comes from, like fui → ir, now also in Polish, Czech, Russian, Ukrainian and Turkish.
German and Dutch separable verbs — Tap schlug in schlug … vor to get vorschlagen.
Chinese, Japanese and Korean dictionaries — Pinyin and idioms for Chinese, readings and conjugations for Japanese, Hanja and word endings for Korean.
Whole words on Chinese and Japanese photos — A tap selects the word, not the whole line.
Continue reading — Pick up your last SnapPara page from the main screen.
Words keep their sentence — A word saved from a photo keeps the sentence it came from, with its translation.
Flashcards — The back shows the word’s dictionary form and one line of its sentence; tap to see it all.
Downloadable dictionaries — Some languages download a dictionary the first time a word is looked up; a note says so. See them in Settings.

v3.2.0 — October 22, 2026

SnapVerbo now reads Russian and Ukrainian.

Text and web pages — Paste or share Russian or Ukrainian text, or share a link to a web page, then tap words to look them up or read it all in SnapPara.
Photos and screenshots (iPhone) — Take a photo of a Russian or Ukrainian page or import a screenshot, then tap words to look them up or read the page in SnapPara.
Bug fix — Korean and Japanese photos that were sometimes mistaken for English are now recognized.

v3.1.0 — October 21, 2026

SnapVerbo now reads Japanese and Korean, and lets you save whole phrases.

Japanese and Korean — Read Japanese and Korean from photos and screenshots, web article links, and pasted or shared texts, in SnapPara and across the app.
Whole words in Chinese, Japanese and Korean — Tapping a word picks the whole word, not a single character. Use ‹ › on the word card to add or drop a character.
Save phrases — In other languages, ‹ › adds or drops a whole word, so you can save a phrase like zum Beispiel with its sentence.
Bug fix (iOS) — Chinese text in photos is now recognized correctly.

v3.0.1 — October 19, 2026

Choose the languages in SnapPara — Tap the language codes under the title to read a page alongside another language, even one that’s already in your own language.
Bug fixes — Small layout fixes in SnapPara.

v3.0.0 — October 17, 2026

Meet SnapPara: parallel read a whole page in another language, with its translation beside it sentence by sentence, and save the words you need along the way.

SnapPara for photos and screenshots — On a captured page, tap the book icon. The original and its translation scroll together; tap a sentence to highlight it in both.
SnapPara for web articles — Share a link from your browser to SnapVerbo, or paste it into Enter Text. The page opens in SnapVerbo, and Read in SnapPara turns the article into a parallel reading view.
SnapPara for longer text — Paste or share a few paragraphs and tap Read in SnapPara.
Words in context — Tap a word in a highlighted sentence to see its meaning, hear it, and save it. The sentence and its translation are saved with the word.
Flashcards show the sentence — The back of a card now shows the sentence a word came from, with its translation.
Credits — A page usually takes one credit, a long article two or three. Reopening something you’ve already read is free.
Better language detection — Photos of web pages are no longer mistaken for English because of the address bar.
Language pickers — Search now keeps working after the keyboard closes, and source languages list the ones SnapVerbo reads well.
Bug fix — On a page that isn’t in English, tapping a word no longer asks you to watch an ad or uses up a credit for an explanation that was never shown.
Bug fix — On a landscape photo, tapping the empty space above or below it now closes the translation, like tapping an empty spot on the photo.

v2.13.0 — October 2, 2026

Share a wordbook as a file, back up your whole library, and bring words in from a file.

Share a wordbook — Open a wordbook and tap Export wordbook to send it to a friend, student or teacher. Pictures, review schedule and place tags stay with you.
Back up everything — Settings → Backup & transfer → Export everything saves every word, picture and wordbook to one file.
Import from file — Add words from a SnapVerbo file or restore a backup. A preview shows what’s new, and you choose whether to keep or update words you already have.
Sync reliability — One problem entry can no longer hold up the rest of your sync.

v2.12.0 — September 17, 2026

A more visible way to look up words in Enter Text mode, a fix for Quizlet export on iPhone, and a Chrome extension for capturing vocabulary straight from the browser.

Look up button in Enter Text mode — A visible “Look up” button now sits below the text field — no need to know the keyboard’s search-key shortcut.
Quizlet export on iPhone — Export can now copy straight to your clipboard with paste instructions, instead of the email route that silently broke the import.
Chrome extension sync — Words captured with the new SnapVerbo Chrome extension (see below) now sync to your account automatically, typically within a day.
Bug fix — Enter Text mode now locks and hides lookup buttons after save, offers “Enter another word” to continue, and won’t save a mismatched result if you edit text after a lookup.
Bug fix — Shared-text source info no longer disappears from an entry after it syncs to another device.
Bug fix — Inflected word forms (like plurals) now show a real definition instead of a redirect stub.
Bug fix — The “All words” export option now shows and exports your full library, not just today’s due cards.

Chrome Extension v1.0.0 — September 17, 2026

SnapVerbo is now also a Chrome extension — select text on any webpage and save it to your vocabulary without switching to your phone.

Capture from any page — Select text, right-click, and save it — the same way as a mobile app capture.
Definition lookups — Free dictionary lookups out of the box, or bring your own Merriam-Webster API key.
Cross-language translation — Cross-language captures are auto-translated using Chrome’s built-in, on-device translation.
Same account, automatic sync — Sign in with the same account as the mobile app; captures show up there within about a day.
Dark and light themes.

v2.11.0 — August 28, 2026

Review sessions are now as long or as short as you want them.

Choose your session length — Set how many flashcards each review session serves up, anywhere from 1 to 100. Previously fixed at 20.
Keep going when there’s more — Finishing a session that hit the limit now offers to continue with the cards that didn’t fit, instead of saying nothing was left.
Bug fix — The All words deck no longer disappears once everything is reviewed; it stays visible and shows how many words it holds.

v2.10.5 — August 28, 2026

Bug fix — Word lookups no longer stall when the dictionary service is unavailable, and free-dictionary definitions are now credited to Wiktionary.
Bug fix — Definitions for non-English monolingual lookups (for example, looking up a German word in German) no longer come back in English by mistake.

v2.10.4 — August 27, 2026

AI-generated definitions are now labeled — Definitions created by the advanced lookup show “AI-generated,” so it’s clear which entries came from AI versus a dictionary source.
Bug fix — Looking up a definition no longer gets stuck loading or, in rare cases, erases an existing definition when a dictionary service is unavailable.

v2.10.3 — August 5, 2026

Faster app launch — SnapVerbo no longer waits on a network check before opening, so startup is quicker.

v2.10.2 — July 22, 2026

Bug fix — Reviewing flashcards on Android no longer triggers a sound or vibration alert after every card; badge updates now happen silently.

v2.10.1 — June 11, 2026

Maintenance — Behind-the-scenes fixes and stability improvements.

v2.10.0 — May 8, 2026

Export your vocabulary to Quizlet.

Quizlet export — Export any wordbook or your full vocabulary as a Quizlet-importable file. Pick Simple (word → translation) or Detailed (multi-sense definitions grouped by part of speech), then tap Copy in the share sheet and paste into Quizlet → Create → Import.
Bug fix — Due-card notifications no longer disappear when the daily review reminder is rescheduled or disabled.

v2.9.2 — May 1, 2026

Bug fix — Review badge and app icon badge now stay current without needing to reopen the app.

v2.9.1 — April 24, 2026

Bug fix — Enter Text mode no longer triggers a lookup automatically on every keystroke.
Bug fix — Text shared into SnapVerbo from other apps no longer arrives with unwanted quotation marks.

v2.9.0 — April 23, 2026

Type text directly in SnapVerbo for instant vocabulary capture — no photo or share needed.

Enter text in-app — Tap the new keyboard button on the capture screen to type or paste text, run translation or definition lookup, listen to the pronunciation, and save to your vocabulary — the same experience as shared text, now available without leaving the app.
Bug fix — Restored the review reminder badge on the Flashcards tab and app icon for users with cards due.

v2.8.0 — April 14, 2026

Export your vocabulary as printable PDF flashcards.

PDF flashcard export — Export vocabulary into a printable PDF designed for double-sided printing. Cards include translations, definitions, pronunciation, example sentences, tags, user notes, and optional images with highlighted context.

v2.7.0 — April 11, 2026

Export your vocabulary to Anki.

Anki export with images — Export your vocabulary into Anki decks, with optional images and highlighted context so you remember how words were actually used.

v2.6.3 — April 2, 2026

Review reminders, a global review deck, and reliability fixes for flashcards.

Review reminder badges — A red dot badge appears on the Flashcards tab (and on the app icon on iOS and Android) when you have cards due for review, so you never forget a study session.
“All Words” review deck — Review flashcards across your entire vocabulary in one session, not just one wordbook at a time.
Bug fixes — Fixed issues related to flashcards review progress, navigation tab refresh, shared-text entry display after sync restoration, and due card count consistency

v2.5.2 — March 26, 2026

Bug fix for Android text sharing.

Fixed text sharing navigation (Android) — Resolved an issue where sharing text from another app would briefly show the camera preview before displaying the shared text screen.

v2.5.1 — March 25, 2026

Enhanced share context for Android users.

Source context on shared text (Android) — When sharing from Chrome or other apps on Android, SnapVerbo now displays the source app name, page title, and clickable URL in the context section, helping you remember where vocabulary came from.

v2.5.0 — March 21, 2026

Share text directly into SnapVerbo for faster vocabulary capture.

Share text from any app — Select text in Chrome, Safari, Messages, or any app and share it directly to SnapVerbo for instant vocabulary lookup and save.
AI-powered lookup on shared text — Run an advanced lookup on shared text with mode selection and hint support, just like on vocabulary entries.
Listen to shared text — Tap to hear the pronunciation of text you shared into SnapVerbo.

v2.4.0 — March 18, 2026

Ad failure compensation — If ads fail to load three times in a row, users automatically receive free credits for advanced features so their workflow is never blocked.

v2.3.0 — March 13, 2026

Classroom access — Educators can distribute access codes that unlock premium features for students, with no ads shown during classroom use and no sign-in required.

v2.2.0 — March 11, 2026

Personal notes on vocabulary — Add your own notes to any vocabulary entry — mnemonics, example sentences, or anything that helps you remember.
Edit pronunciation — Manually correct or add IPA and phonetic respelling on any vocabulary entry.

v2.1.0 — March 7, 2026

Phonetic respelling — See easy-to-read pronunciation guides (e.g., “kuh-NEKT”) alongside IPA on English vocabulary, powered by AI.
Flexible ad-supported access — Choose between short or longer ads to earn credits for AI-powered lookups, based on your preference.
AI lookups for guest users — Use locally earned credits for AI-powered lookups without needing to sign in.

v2.0.0 — March 2, 2026

AI-powered vocabulary lookup — Get rich definitions, translations, usage context, register, common collocations, and key phrases for any saved word or phrase, powered by AI.
Multiple lookup modes — Switch between translation, definition, and context modes depending on how you want to learn.

v1.0.0 — February 20, 2026

Initial Release: SnapVerbo launched with a complete workflow for learning vocabulary from real-world text, without losing context:

Capture text using your camera or import images
Extract and select words or regions of text directly from images with on-device OCR
See translation/definition alongside the original text without losing context
Listen to the pronunciation of the original text
Save vocabulary with its original image for later review
Organize vocabulary into wordbooks and review them with spaced repetition flashcards
Sync your data across devices (optional Google/Apple SSO sign-in)