questions
Common questions.
The questions that come up most. If yours isn’t here, write to support@yunit.app.
What is yunit?
A browser extension that reads alongside you. On pages in the language you are learning, it picks a small handful of words you may not know yet and sets a tiny translation above each one, the way a student pencils a note in a margin. The sentence stays intact and reading stays the priority. Words you choose to keep return later, on a schedule the extension works out for each one.
Does yunit translate whole pages?
No. Browsers already do that well. yunit is for the opposite moment, when you want to stay inside the original language and be helped a little, in place. It adds small notes above a few words and leaves everything else exactly as the author wrote it.
Which browsers does it run in?
Chrome, Edge, and Firefox, on a computer. The install links are on the front page. With a free account, your words and settings can follow you between browsers.
Can I use it on my phone?
Today yunit is a desktop tool. Phones are on the roadmap, Android first through Firefox for Android, then a mobile reading surface on yunit.app. The reading room already opens in a phone browser, though it is designed desktop-first.
Do I need an account?
No. Everything apart from the live features runs locally in your browser, signed out, free. A free account adds settings sync between devices and a daily backup of your vocabulary. Signing in stays optional.
What does Premium add?
Live translated captions on YouTube, live sync between devices, sharper translations where standard machine translation misses the meaning, and a highlights library on yunit.app. Nine dollars a month or seventy-two a year, with thirty days money back, no questions asked. There is no trial that quietly becomes a charge.
Which languages does it support?
You choose the language you are learning and your own, and the pair works in both directions. Most major languages are covered, and the full list is in the extension’s settings. If yours is missing, write to support@yunit.app and it moves up the list.
How does yunit choose which words to annotate?
It reads only the part of the page you can see, skips words you already know or have kept, and prefers words near the edge of your vocabulary, judged by how common they are in the language. You set the density yourself, from a single annotation per screen up to a dense reading aid, or off entirely for any site.
What happens to my data?
yunit is local first. Your vocabulary, review history, and settings live in your browser, and pages you visit are never tracked. When a word is translated, the extension first tries an on-device translator that runs entirely on your machine; if that is unavailable, only the text being translated goes to a translation service, with no identity attached. The full notice is on the privacy page.
What are live translated captions?
A Premium feature for YouTube videos with no usable subtitles. One click, and the spoken audio becomes two caption lines over the video, the original language above and yours beneath, following the speaker in real time, while a timestamped transcript builds beside the video. They run on Chrome and Edge on a computer, the only browsers that allow capturing a tab’s audio. Premium includes fifteen hours a month, and any free signed-in account has a thirty-minute monthly preview.
How do kept words come back?
Mostly by appearing again in your ordinary reading, translated, a quiet second meeting. Now and then one returns as a small question mark that asks you to remember it before showing the answer, a few of these a day at most. The lexicon page also offers a short review session built from the very sentences you met each word in.
Is yunit finished?
No. yunit is in public beta, which means everything on this page works today and all of it is still changing. Features, limits, and prices may move while we learn what readers actually need. If something is rough or missing, write to support@yunit.app. A person reads every message.
The longer versions live on the privacy page and the pricing page, and yunit can be tried without installing anything in the reading room.
← Back to yunit