How it works
Enable the extension on a site you read. It highlights useful words in the article, not a separate lesson window. Hover a highlight to see the meaning. Chrome itself stays in English.
The loop is short on purpose:
- Words that are worth noticing get a highlight.
- Hover (or tap the highlight) for the translation.
- Keep reading. The page does not become a worksheet.
Coverage is a slider, not a promise that every word will change. Identical lookalikes that already match stay unmarked.
German on the page is not German in the workbook
Learners usually stall on three things that show up constantly in real German text: noun gender you cannot hear in English, case endings that look like decoration until they change the meaning, and compounds the dictionary never listed as one chunk. Versicherung is already a mouthful; Berufsunfähigkeitsversicherung is just how a benefits page talks.
Capitalized nouns help you see the furniture of a sentence. Separable verbs (kommt … an, stellt … fest) split across a clause and are easy to miss if you only studied the infinitive. A hover on the piece that is actually on the line is more useful than a flashcard of ankommen in isolation.
If you read Spiegel, a Bundesbehörde page, or a German Wikipedia entry, the page language can flip the pair to German → English so the hard words in that article gloss the other way.
English ↔ German is live
English → German and German → English are both in the language picker. All 12 languages work with English. Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Arabic are bidirectional (EN↔). Hebrew is English → Hebrew.
What this is not
It is not a course, a streak, or a classroom. It does not decline articles for you or replace speaking practice. It is a reading overlay for people who already spend time in the browser and want some of those German words to stick.
Questions
Does it handle long German compound nouns?
It highlights words the engine can gloss. A long compound on a news site (Datenschutz, Krankenversicherung) is often the word you actually needed. It does not promise to split every compound into textbook parts, and it will not mark a word that already looks like English and teaches you nothing.
Can I read a German page and see English?
Yes. English → German and German → English are both in the picker. An English article can show German glosses; a German article can show English.
Will it teach cases and gender?
It shows the word as it appears on the page, with a meaning on hover. You will see der/die/das and case endings in context. It does not open a grammar panel or quiz you on accusative vs. dative.
Price
There is a free week, then $5 a month. Cancel anytime. No user counts or review scores on this page — those belong on the Chrome Web Store listing if they exist.