Type what you feel like watching, in your own words. Popglot finds real YouTube videos with subtitles at your level, plays them with two subtitle lines, and lets you tap any word to understand it right there.
Android phones, tablets and Android TV. Free to use; Pro from about $4.99 a month or $29.99 a year (prices vary by country).
“Funny street interviews about dating, 10 minutes.” Popglot turns it into searches in the language you learn and keeps only videos with subtitles.
The video plays in YouTube's own player. Below it: the original line, word by word as it's spoken, and your translation.
Tap a word for its meaning in that sentence. Saved words come back as flashcards that can replay the exact moment you heard them.
Every card shows an estimated level and how much you'll probably understand, based on speaking speed, vocabulary and feedback from other learners.
Street interviews, food, travel, gaming, science: curated channels in 12 languages, plus any video you share from the YouTube app.
Replay a line, jump between lines, slow down to 0.5×, or pause automatically after every sentence.
Point your phone at a TV, a lecture or a conversation and get live subtitles with a translation. Nothing is recorded.
On Android TV, large dual subtitles under the video, controlled with the remote: replay, next line, subtitle modes.
Spaced review with FSRS, flexible goals, and honest progress: time watched and time practised are counted separately.
Curated feeds: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Russian, Polish and Turkish. Dual subtitles and word help also work for most other languages YouTube has subtitles in. The app itself speaks 16 languages.
| Free | Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Watching videos | Always free | Always free |
| Dual subtitles | Unlimited, machine translation | Natural AI translation |
| Word explanations | 15 a day | Unlimited (fair use) |
| AI search on YouTube | 3 a day, library search unlimited | Unlimited (fair use) |
| Saved words | 100 | Unlimited |
| Clip flashcards | – | Included |
| Live Listen | 10 minutes a day | Unlimited |
Pro is a subscription through Google Play. Prices are shown in your currency in the app. Cancel any time in Google Play.
No. Popglot is an independent app. Videos are played by YouTube's official embedded player, with YouTube's ads and branding, and you can open any video in the YouTube app.
Popglot only shows dual subtitles when a video has subtitles in the language you learn (made by the creator or YouTube's automatic ones). Cards and the player always say which kind they are.
No. Levels like “B1 est.” are estimates to help you choose. They are not certificates.
Subtitles are processed on your phone and never stored on our servers. Read the privacy policy.