A reader’s companion
Reading,
in another language.
At dusk, the lighthouse on the cliff blinks, and the village folds itself into the slow rhythm of the bay.
Al atardecer, el faro del acantilado parpadea, y el pueblo se entrega al lento ritmo de la bahía.
Glide across the paragraph to read it in Spanish.
Free, and no account needed. Or read a passage in the reading room first, with nothing to install.
A line copied by hand, a page in El País, a song on YouTube. The extension, recorded live.
What it does
yunit picks a few words you might not know on every page you read and pencils a small translation above each one, the way a reader notes a margin. The sentence stays intact, the line below stays open, and reading remains the priority.
Select any word or phrase to translate it where you are, and click a word to keep it.
On YouTube, songs carry their lyrics translated line by line as they play. Premium adds live captions for videos that have no subtitles at all, two lines over the footage, the speaker’s language above and yours beneath, following in real time.
On keeping what mattered
Kept words return in later reading, a little at a time, until they stay. Most days that means meeting them again on ordinary pages. Now and then one arrives as a small question mark, so you can check yourself, a few of these a day at most. For the words that stop appearing on their own, the lexicon holds a short review session built from the sentences you met them in.
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…pencils a small translation above each one, the way a reader notes a margin.yunit.app, a moment ago
The quiet parts
Your words stay on your device. yunit does not track the pages you visit, and only the exact text you click or select ever reaches a translation service. Your lexicon exports to a single file whenever you ask. The privacy page is short and written to be read.
Cost
The extension is free for everyone, on every device, with no account required. A free account adds settings sync and a daily backup of your lexicon. Premium, at nine dollars a month or seventy-two a year, adds live translated captions on YouTube, live multi-device sync, sharper translations on hard idiomatic phrases and lyrics, and the web reader and mobile app as they arrive.
See the full pricing