Using SnapVerbo

SnapVerbo helps you understand and remember real-world text you encounter while reading — books, restaurant menus, apps, kindle, web pages, and more.

Looking for step-by-step instructions for a specific feature? Browse the How-to guides — categorized, searchable, with short video tutorials where available.

How it works - the core loop

1. Capture text
   Take a photo, a screenshot or import an image that contains text.

2. Tap to translate or define
   Tap a word, select a phrase or a sentence to see its meaning.

3. Save vocabulary
   Save words or phrases you want to revisit later.

4. Review vocabulary
   Organize vocabulary into wordbooks that you can review with flashcards.

Capturing text

You can capture text in a few ways:

• Camera: Open SnapVerbo and point your camera at printed or on-screen text.
• Select from Gallery Import an existing image from your gallery.
• Screenshot to Share Take a screenshot and share it to the SnapVerbo.
• Share text from another app: Select text in Chrome, Safari, Kindle, Messages, or any app and share it directly to SnapVerbo.
• Type or paste text: Enter a word or phrase directly in SnapVerbo — no photo needed.
• Share a web link: Share an article from your browser to SnapVerbo to read it in parallel with its translation.
• Chrome extension (computer): Install the browser extension to select text on any webpage and save it to SnapVerbo without switching to your phone.

For the camera, gallery, and screenshot methods, text recognition runs on-device and results appear directly on top of the image so you can tap naturally. Shared, typed, and browser-captured text skip that step and go straight to lookup.

Translating and understanding

• Tap, swipe, draw a box to select a word, a phrase, a sentence or a paragraph.
• See translation or definition pop up next to but not over the selection.
• Listen to the original text read out loud.
• Parallel read a whole page with SnapPara: the original and its translation, sentence by sentence. Works on photos, screenshots, web articles and pasted text. See Parallel read a page with SnapPara.
• See how a word is built with Word Parts: its prefix, stem and compound parts, what they literally mean, and a hook to remember it. See See how a word is built.

Depending on your configuration, SnapVerbo may offer:

• On-device translation
• Optional cloud translation/definition
• Optional AI explanations and contextual information

Cloud features are clearly labeled and described in the privacy policy.

Saving vocabulary

When you save a vocab entry, SnapVerbo keeps:

• The original text
• The translation and/or definition
• The image of the original context
• The sentence and its translation, when saved from SnapPara
• Any tags you may add to it
• Any wordbooks you may add it to

Vocab entries are stored locally on your device but if you want to protect your vocabulary from loss and to be always available across devices, we can sync it to the cloud.

Reviewing vocabulary

• Flashcards with spaced repetition: Review any wordbook — or your full library in the All Words deck — with cards that come back at the right interval.
• Export: Turn a wordbook into a PDF of printable flashcards, an Anki deck, or a Quizlet-importable file.
• Share and back up: Send a wordbook to someone as a SnapVerbo file, back up everything, and import files back in.

Languages and scripts

Works best

• Latin-alphabet languages (English, Spanish, French, German, etc.)
• Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Japanese and Korean, written across the page
• Russian and Ukrainian: pasted or shared text and web pages; on iPhone, photos and screenshots too

Limited support

• Russian and Ukrainian photos on Android, vertical Japanese and Korean, Arabic, and other non-Latin scripts may produce partial or unreliable results.

If you are learning these scripts, we are working on making them available.

App language

The SnapVerbo interface is currently English-only.

We will work on the app’s internationalization.

Known limitations

• Some advanced features require network access.
• There is currently no web or desktop version.

Getting help

The fastest way to get help is inside the app:

Settings → Contact & feedback or by using the contact form.

Privacy

SnapVerbo is designed to minimize data collection.

• Analytics are optional
• No captured text is used for advertising
• Cloud features are opt-in

Read the full policy at the privacy policy page.

Support SnapVerbo

If SnapVerbo helps you read more or learn faster, you can optionally support its development with a one-time tip on the Support page.