Courses & workbooks
Organise material into courses, then build as many workbooks as you need — each with reorderable sections and its own language pair.
Learn a language from the content you actually care about.
Bring your PDFs, video, and audio to one workbench — translate side by side, capture vocabulary as you read, and shape it all into your own course.
Translate, define & hear in 8 languages:EnglishItalianGermanSpanishFrenchJapanesePortugueseKorean
- PDFs with text recognition
- Audio transcripts
- Translation in context
- Any device with a browser
One bench, every tool
Close all the tabs.
Studying from real content usually means a translator in one tab, a video in another, flashcards in a third, a PDF somewhere, and notes that never meet. Glotsmith puts every tool on the same bench, attached to the text you're actually studying.
Your desk today
- Online translator
- Video site
- Flashcard app
- PDF reader
- Notes app
Your desk with Glotsmith
One workbook — text, translations, audio, and vocabulary together.
From raw material to your own course
No prescribed lessons. You bring the content; the bench gives you the tools.
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Bring your material
A scanned grammar book, a video, a podcast clip, an article — upload it to a course and set your language pair once.
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Shape your workbooks
Build each workbook from the sections you need: side-by-side translation, documents, video with timestamped notes, vocabulary, tables. Everything auto-saves.
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Sharpen a little every day
Highlight any word to translate it or hear it read aloud. Your vocabulary grows by itself and stays reviewable across the whole course.
Built-in vocabulary
Every word you learn, in one place
Add a word from any document, translation, or note and it joins your course vocabulary automatically — one growing list you can review across every workbook.
- Collected automatically as you translate
- Synced across every workbook in a course
- Hear the correct pronunciation on tap
A full bench of tools
Each one is within reach of the text you're studying — no copying, no switching.
Translation in context
Highlight any word or phrase for an instant translation, and add it straight to your vocabulary — without leaving the page.
Read-aloud
Tap the speaker icon on any selected text to hear it read aloud in the correct language with natural neural voices.
Course-wide search
Search across every workbook in a course — your translations, notes, vocabulary, and tables — and find that phrase you wrote down two weeks ago in seconds.
Pinned sections
Pin any section from any workbook for instant access. Reorder your pins, preview content at a glance, and jump straight to what matters.
Share workbooks
Generate a read-only public link for any workbook — perfect for sharing notes with a study partner. Revoke access any time.
Audio transcripts
Generate a time-aligned transcript of an audio clip on demand — then highlight any line to translate it or hear it, like the rest of your notes.
Read any PDF
Digital PDFs are read instantly and free — highlight any word to translate it, hear it, or save it. Scanned pages and images use text recognition (OCR).
Every device
Pick up where you left off — phone on the commute, laptop at your desk. It runs in the browser, so there's nothing to install.
See it in action
A real workbook, not a demo reel
Every screen is the actual editor — free to start.
Your bench, your rules
Everything you build stays yours — it follows you to any device, exports in a click, and is gone for good the moment you decide.
Goes where you go
Phone on the commute, tablet on the couch, laptop at your desk — any device with a browser, always on the right page.
Export anytime
Download everything you've made — notes, vocabulary, and files — as a single archive whenever you want.
Delete on your terms
Remove your account and all of its data permanently, no questions asked.
No ads, ever
We don't run ads or sell your data. Glotsmith is funded entirely by its subscriptions.
Private by design — we never use your files to train AI. We only send the snippet you select to translate or read aloud, and only the audio you choose to transcribe is sent to our speech provider. Read our Privacy Policy
Your files stay private to your account — only you and anyone you share a link with can open them. They're stored on secure US infrastructure, encrypted in transit, and never used to train AI.
Built in the open
An independent tool, made by someone who studies this way
Glotsmith is built and run by one person, independently. No investors, no ads — just the workbench we wanted for our own studying, now shared with you. Questions or ideas? Email contact@glotsmith.com — a real person reads every message.
Simple plans that grow with you
Start free and unlock more translation, read-aloud, transcription, text recognition, and storage as your study deepens.
Free
Free
Your first course, a few workbooks, and a monthly taste of every tool on the bench.
Start for freeMost popular
Scholar
$12 / mo
Unlimited courses and workbooks, audio transcripts, and much higher monthly limits.
Choose planMaster
$24 / mo
Our highest limits on every tool plus the most storage — for daily, serious study.
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How is Glotsmith different from apps like Duolingo or LingQ?
Apps like Duolingo teach you from their own lessons, and reading platforms like LingQ give you their library and reader. Glotsmith is a workbench for your own content: you bring the PDFs, videos, audio, and notes you care about and build your own course around them, with translation, read-aloud, transcripts, and vocabulary attached directly to your material.
Can I read my own PDFs?
Yes. Reading born-digital PDFs — where the text is already embedded — is free and unlimited on every plan, including Free. Glotsmith reads the text directly, with no page scanning needed, so you can translate, listen, and save vocabulary right on the page.
What about scanned documents or images?
Glotsmith recognizes the text in scanned pages and photos so you can study from photographed or scanned material. Text recognition draws on your monthly page allowance, and it counts only true scans and images — born-digital PDF text is always free.
Which languages does Glotsmith support?
Eight today — English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, and Korean — in any source-to-target combination among them, for translation, vocabulary, and read-aloud.
Is Glotsmith free?
Yes — you can start for free, no credit card required. The Free plan lets you read your own born-digital PDFs, translate, build vocabulary, take notes, and more, with monthly limits on the metered features. Paid plans raise those limits — see the Pricing page.
Is my content private?
Yes. Your uploads and workbooks are private to your account, and we process them only to deliver the features you ask for, such as translation, transcription, and text recognition. A shared workbook is viewable only by someone with its link, and it is kept out of search engines unless you choose to publish it. We don't sell your data or use it to build advertising profiles. See the Privacy Policy for details.
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