Quick Lookup

Look up words quickly Source

Description

Look up words quickly with Quick Lookup, a dictionary application powered by Wiktionary™.

Features include:

Lookup definitions for words or phrases
Choose language by entering language name or ISO-639-1 code
Open internal links within the app
Go back to previous page with the back button
Look up selected text from any app by setting a keyboard shortcut to launch this app with the “--selection” command line option

Wiktionary is a trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation. This program is not endorsed by or affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation.

Source

Notice

Was GTK3, GTK4/libadwaita since release 2.0.

Project links:

Links to (pages with) screenshots:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/johnfactotum/quick-lookup/master/screenshot.png

Rating

Mobile Fit: 5

Perfect - this app fits your phone screen just fine out of the box and works nicely with touch input!

Project status: released

This project has been developed so far, that its authors felt confident enough to create a release.

The project repository was created on 2019-09-16.

The last known commit happened on 2024-11-03.

Please note: This information is not updated continuously. This particular listing was last updated on 2024-12-01

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Install as flatpak: https://flathub.org/apps/com.github.johnfactotum.QuickLookup.flatpakref

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Licensing and technical details

License: GPL-3.0-or-later Metadata: CC0-1.0

Frameworks: GTK4 libadwaita

Programming languages: JavaScript

Build system: custom

AppStream Metadata URL: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/johnfactotum/quick-lookup/master/com.github.johnfactotum.QuickLookup.appdata.xml