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DictShelf

DictShelf

A dictionary application for your own machine. DictShelf indexes the dictionaries you already own and searches them locally: no account, no upload, nothing sent anywhere.

  • Dictionary groups — keep your dictionaries in named groups, and search one group, one dictionary, or all of them at once.
  • Mask search — ? stands for one character, * for any number of them, across the whole headword list.
  • Every match, no ceiling — a search reports what it found and how much there is in all, and the whole list is there to page through; nothing is cut off at a fixed number.
  • Full text — search the bodies of the articles, not only their headwords, with phrase and proximity readings when the exact wording is not what you remember.
  • Supported formats — MDict (.mdx), StarDict (.ifo), AARD2 (.slob), Babylon (.bgl), ZIM (.zim), Lingvo (.lsd/.dsl/.dsl.dz/.dsl.dz2), Wudict Markdown (.wudict.md).
  • OS — Android, Windows.