Learn German by watching YouTube & Netflix
Snapwords adds dual-language subtitles to what you already watch. Click any word to save it — with its gender, plural, and the exact sentence — then let built-in flashcards make it stick.
100% free to begin · No credit card needed
4.9/5 on Chrome Web Store
German on top, your language below
Dual subtitles pair every German line with a translation in your language.
How Snapwords works
Watch
Turn on Snapwords on any YouTube video or Netflix show. Dual-language subtitles appear right under the player — German and your language, line by line.
Click
Click any word for an instant card: meaning, gender, plural, pronunciation — and the exact sentence you found it in. One more click saves it to your library.
DIE · F
Entscheidung
decision
Click to add flashcard
Remember
Saved words come back as spaced-repetition flashcards with the sentence they came from — and stay underlined on every website you browse, so you keep meeting them.
Kommentar
Plural: Kommentare
„Er hat einen hilfreichen Kommentar hinterlassen.“
Built for German — not translated to it
Most tools treat German as one more row in a language dropdown. Snapwords goes deep on the things that actually make German hard.
Der Mann gibt der Frau das Buch.
The man gives the woman the book.
Every noun colored by gender
der is blue, die is red, das is green, plurals purple — looked up in a 335,000-form German dictionary, not guessed by AI. Same word, same color, in every video.
Cases can’t fool you
German bends articles with case — “der Frau” is still feminine. The color follows the noun’s true gender, so your instinct learns the right thing from day one.
Separable verbs, reunited
Click “macht … auf” scattered across a sentence and Snapwords hands you aufmachen — the verb you’d actually find in a dictionary.
The exact sentence, remembered
Every saved word keeps the sentence you clicked it in, so Bank the bench never blurs into Bank the bank. Your flashcards quiz you on real context.
Works at every level
Beginner
A1–A2Start with slow, simple videos. Dual subtitles mean you always understand what’s happening — and any word you don’t know is one click away.
Intermediate
B1–B2The sweet spot. Native-speed German with a safety net: instant word cards, gender colors, and sentence breakdowns when a line loses you.
Advanced
C1+Drop the training wheels. Watch anything, mine idioms and native phrasing, and let the gender instinct settle in for good.
Built by a learner who did it this way
Snapwords exists because its founder went from A1 to C1 German in one year — by watching native video every day. The extension is that exact workflow, automated.
No new catalog to sign up for. No licensing ceiling. Your YouTube subscriptions and your Netflix queue become the course — you already know what you like to watch; Snapwords makes it learnable.
+30%
Increase your German vocabulary retention by up to 30% with in-context learning and smart review timing.
Start free. Upgrade if you love it.
Free
€0 forever
- · 2 h / month of AI dual subtitles on YouTube & Netflix
- · Standard subtitles keep going when AI hours run out
- · 5 word cards / day
- · Flashcards & word highlighting included
- · Anki-compatible CSV export
Premium
SAVE 20%€4 / month
billed €12 every 3 months — or €5 month to month
- · 100 h / month of AI dual subtitles
- · 1,000 AI word cards / month
- · Unlimited word saves & sentence breakdowns
Start free — upgrade any time from your dashboard.
Frequently asked questions
What is Snapwords?
Snapwords is a Chrome extension and web dashboard that turns YouTube and Netflix into German lessons: dual-language subtitles with gender color-coded nouns, a dictionary card on any word you click, and built-in spaced-repetition flashcards to review what you saved.
How is this different from just watching with subtitles?
Normal subtitles are passive. Snapwords shows German and your language at the same time, makes every word clickable — gender, plural, pronunciation, and the exact sentence you found it in — and then keeps those words alive: underlined across the whole web and reviewed with flashcards until they stick.
Do I need to know German already?
Nope! Whether you’re A1 or C1, Snapwords adapts to your level. Start wherever you are.
What does the free plan include?
2 hours of AI dual-language subtitles per month — and when that runs out, standard subtitles keep working, so you’re never cut off mid-episode. Plus 5 word cards per day, flashcards, word highlighting as you browse, and Anki-compatible CSV export. No credit card needed.
What devices and browsers does it work on?
Snapwords is a desktop browser extension for Chrome, Brave, Edge, and Opera. You save words on desktop, then review your flashcards from the dashboard on any device, including your phone.
Will it work in my language?
You learn German with translations in your own language: English, Kurdish Sorani, Persian, Arabic, Turkish, French, Spanish, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, and Hungarian are all supported.