Work in multiple languages
If you’re learning more than one language, or you bounce between source materials in different languages, SnapVerbo handles it without ceremony — every entry remembers what language it came from, and you can filter your vocabulary list by language whenever you want to focus on one.
Capture in a different language
When you take or import a photo, OCR auto-detects the source language. If it guesses wrong (e.g., reads Italian as Spanish), override it:
- On the OCR result screen, look at the AppBar — the title shows the current source language.
- Tap the globe icon (
🌐) in the AppBar. The tooltip reads “Source: …”. - Pick the right language. Recently-used languages appear at the top of the list.
Translation re-runs immediately. See Fix a wrong language detection for the full set of language overrides (source, target, rotation).
If you regularly capture from a particular non-English source language, leaving the source on Auto is usually fine — detection is reliable for the major languages.
Filter your vocabulary by language
When your vocab list mixes languages and you want to study only one:
- Open the Vocabulary tab.
- In the toolbar, tap the language filter button (globe icon, tooltip “Filter by language”).
- Pick a language from the dropdown. Each option shows a count, e.g. “Spanish (47)”.
- The list now shows only entries captured in that language.
To go back to seeing everything, open the same menu and pick All Languages.
The filter sticks until you change it, so you can capture a few new entries in another language and come back to your filtered view without losing it.
What “language” means here
The language filter is based on the source language of the entry — i.e., the language of the original text you captured, not the language you translated it into. A French → English translation lives in the French bucket; a Spanish → English translation lives in Spanish. This matches how most people study: by source.