| Hi HN, I built Circle2Search because I’ve been learning Swedish by watching shows with Swedish audio and subtitles, and I kept running into the same problem: whenever I missed a word or phrase, I had to pause, type it into Google Translate manually, and completely break the flow of watching. So I made a macOS app to make that much faster. Right now, Circle2Search helps translate text directly from the screen. The longer-term goal is to make it feel more like a true desktop “circle to search” experience, where interacting with text on screen is much more direct and seamless. It’s open source, but the current setup is still early: you need to run the backend yourself and provide your own Google Translate API key. I’d especially love feedback on: - whether this is a problem other people run into
- whether the current UX feels useful enough in practice
- what would make this worth keeping installed on macOS a quick demo: https://vimeo.com/1182792629?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci |