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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47758513

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