Share text, links and images into SnapVerbo
You don’t need to retype anything. If another app can share it, you can send it to SnapVerbo with the system share sheet: a word or passage you selected, a web page’s link, or an image.
Share selected text
- In any app (Chrome, Safari, Kindle, Messages, Notes), select a word, sentence or paragraph the way you normally would: long-press, then drag the handles.
- Tap Share in the selection menu. (In some apps it’s behind the › arrow at the end of the menu.)
- In the share sheet, choose SnapVerbo. If you don’t see it, scroll the row of apps sideways, or tap More.
- SnapVerbo shows the Shared text screen with the text filled in and its translation below. On iPhone, there is one extra step first: see iPhone and Android below.
- Tap the Save to vocabulary icon (bookmark, top right) to keep it.
A few paragraphs or more? Tap Read in SnapPara above the text to read it with its translation beside it. See Parallel read a page with SnapPara.
Share a web page
In your browser, tap Share (in the address bar or the menu) and choose SnapVerbo. The page opens in SnapVerbo, ready to read in SnapPara.
Share an image
Share a photo or screenshot from your gallery, or an image from a web page or a chat, and choose SnapVerbo. It opens with its text recognized, the same as importing a screenshot.
To share an image from a web page in Chrome, long-press it and tap Open image first, then share it from there. Sharing straight from the long-press menu sends the image’s link instead.
iPhone and Android
The share sheet looks a little different on each, and so does what happens after you tap SnapVerbo.
Android: SnapVerbo opens straight away, showing what you shared.
iPhone: a small SnapVerbo panel slides up, showing what you’re about to send. Tap SnapVerbo on it. The panel closes and you’re back in the app you came from; that’s how iOS share extensions work. Now open SnapVerbo yourself (from the Home Screen, or the ◂ app name at the top left if it’s there). What you shared is waiting for you.
Tips
- The source app and, when available, the page’s link are saved with the entry, so you remember where the word came from.
- If the detected language is wrong, tap the Source language picker (under the text field) and pick the right one.
- To translate into a different language than your default, tap the Target language picker next to it.
- Tap the speaker icon to hear the original text read aloud.
- Browser translated the page for you? Switch it back to the original first (in Chrome: the translate icon in the address bar, then Show original), or you’ll share the translation.