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Language REACTOR logo
Language REACTOR
✓ verifiedFreemium

Browser extension that adds dual subtitles and click-to-lookup to Netflix and YouTube for learning languages.

1.7M visits/mo
Talkpal logo
Talkpal
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI language coach offering conversational practice with real-time feedback across 130+ languages.

1.5M visits/mo9.9K saves
InterSub logo
InterSub
✓ verifiedFreemium

Browser extension offering interactive dual subtitles and instant word translations for language learning while streaming.

100K visits/mo
Semantic Scholar logo
Semantic Scholar
✓ verifiedFree

Free AI-powered academic search engine indexing 236M+ papers, for researchers wanting semantic literature discovery and an augmented reader.

7.9M visits/mo13K saves
ParakeetAI logo
ParakeetAI
✓ verifiedFreemium

Real-time AI interview assistant that transcribes questions and generates answers, marketed as undetectable on screen share.

1.2M visits/mo5.4K saves
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Free: $0/mo
Pay-as-you-go: from $1.50
Premium: from $6/mo

Free trial available

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Core features
  • Dual subtitles on Netflix and YouTube
  • Click-to-lookup word translations
  • Saveable vocabulary items
  • Playback controls for language study
  • Works as a browser extension
  • Conversational practice with AI tutors
  • Real-time personalized feedback and corrections
  • Dialogue, sentence, word, call, photo, and debate modes
  • Voice interaction with natural AI voices
  • Grammar courses and language certificates
  • 130+ languages on web, iOS, and Android
  • Interactive dual subtitles
  • Instant hover word translations
  • On-the-fly subtitle translation
  • Personal wordbook with Anki sync
  • Multi-platform (YouTube, Netflix, Coursera, etc.)
  • Phrase/idiom collocation detection
  • AI-powered semantic search across 236M+ papers
  • Semantic Reader for augmented, contextual paper reading
  • Free public API for paper search and metadata
  • Author and topic discovery
  • Citation graph exploration
  • Beta program for new features
  • real-time question transcription
  • AI answers with a choice of GPT or Claude models
  • coding interview support
  • resume-based personalization
  • knowledge base uploads
  • invisible during screen share
  • AI meeting notes
Use cases
  • Learn a language while watching shows
  • Look up and save new words from video
  • Study with dual subtitles
  • Self-learners practicing conversational fluency
  • Business teams training employees in new languages
  • Students supplementing classroom language education
  • Learning a language via shows and courses
  • Looking up words while watching
  • Building and reviewing vocabulary
  • Researchers searching scientific literature across disciplines
  • Developers building applications on top of scholarly data via the API
  • Students exploring citation networks for a topic
  • Librarians and academics needing free literature discovery tools
  • getting live answers during job interviews
  • coding interview assistance
  • meeting note-taking
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