Movies, YouTube, Netflix, even torrents — oscar turns every subtitle into your dictionary, your flashcards and your course.
Free during beta · Windows, macOS, iPhone & Android · six languages
↑ hover a word. that's the whole idea.
Nothing changed but you.
Paste a YouTube link, drop in a file, open Netflix, even stream a torrent. oscar reads the subtitles and colour-codes every word you don't know yet.
One click pauses the scene and opens the dictionary — meaning, stress, forms, an AI explanation of this exact sentence. No tabs, no flow broken.
One key turns the moment into a flashcard — screenshot, audio, sentence and all. The built-in spaced-repetition system brings it back right before you'd forget it.
Hover any card — every one of them is a tiny film. Tap any card — every one of them is a tiny film.
YouTube, local files, MKV with embedded subs, RuTube, magnet links — and a Chrome extension that mines straight from Netflix.
oscar scans every video for sentences with exactly one word you don't know — the proven sweet spot for acquisition — and queues them up for mining.
A full spaced-repetition system with the modern FSRS scheduler. Cards carry the screenshot, the audio, the sentence. Anki optional, never required.
Starting from zero? A game-based path through the first thousand words — hearts, combos, eleven kinds of mini-game — themed around your life: your job, your hobbies, your people.
A voice coach who knows exactly which words you know — and speaks to you just one step above them. Push to talk, get gently corrected.
Paste any text or drop in a PDF and study it exactly like subtitles — hover for the meaning, mine a card, mark a word known, page by page.
Mine a word on the laptop, review it on the bus. Cards, known words and streaks move between your computers and your phone by themselves.
Meaning, stress or pitch, and the full table of forms — plus an AI read on the exact sentence you found the word in.
A year-long heatmap of everything you've learned, a streak worth protecting, and oscar's own honest read on how the week went.
Six today. The plan: every language on earth — until there are no language barriers left to break.
The same loop, the same six languages, the same words — on the train, in a queue, in bed. The dictionaries live on the phone itself, so all of it works with no signal at all.
oscar is in beta on Windows, macOS and phones — six languages, and free. Leave an email and he'll write to you the moment it opens up.