Lingualeo Language Translator Chrome Extension Analysis
AI & Writing AssistantsChrome extension ID: nglbhlefjhcjockellmeclkcijildjhi
A Chrome extension that provides instant translations, pronunciation, and common expressions for words on any webpage. Users can save these words to a personal dictionary on the Lingualeo platform for interactive study.
Overview
Installs
100K+
Rating
★ 3.8
2,223 reviews
Languages
16 locales
Includes English, Indonesia, Tiếng Việt, Türkçe...
Market analysis
Review-backed positioning, friction, and market signals for this Chrome extension.
Macro category
AI & Writing Assistants
Pricing friction
Low review signal
Complaint intensity
High review signal
Listing positioning
The product is positioned as a seamless bridge between web browsing and language acquisition. It emphasizes speed through double-click translations and long-term retention by integrating saved words into the Lingualeo learning ecosystem.
Inferred product pattern
Companion utility for a centralized EdTech SaaS platform designed to drive user retention and content creation for the main site.
Review-backed pain points
Users report extreme frustration with a specific update that replaced comprehensive idiom/phrase translations with basic word-for-word translations. Additionally, the translation window often appears partially outside the browser viewport.
Observed feature gaps
Loss of multi-word phrase translation, lack of manual word entry within the extension, and missing support for other browsers like Firefox and Safari.
- Language learners
- Students
- Multilingual professionals
- Foreign language researchers
- Quick translation of unfamiliar words during browsing
- Building a personal vocabulary list from real-world content
- Learning pronunciation of foreign terms
- Syncing web-discovered words with a study platform
- Efficiency of the double-click translation mechanism
- Strong integration with the overall Lingualeo learning platform
- General usefulness for vocabulary expansion
- Significant UX regression following updates
- Loss of phrase and idiom translation capabilities
- UI bugs including off-screen pop-ups and slow animations
- Technical instability and login failures
- Performance complaints detected
- Privacy complaints detected
- No direct pricing complaints found in reviews; pricing is managed via the main Lingualeo platform.
Support
Users report login issues and redirects to 'undefined' URLs, though some mention that support helped resolve specific installation errors.
Reliability
High volume of complaints regarding the extension 'breaking' after updates, including failures to translate in 80% of cases for some users and high background CPU usage.
Privacy
At least one user reported that the extension attempted to connect to a domain flagged as malicious by antivirus software.
- Free entry with paid features
- Account required for core usage
- Limited free usage observed
Store listing facts
- Screenshots: 4
- Videos: 0
- Languages: 16
- Privacy policy
- Developer contact
- Official website
- Version: 3.1.2
- Size: 1.07MiB
- Last updated:
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Links
Website: lingualeo.com
Privacy policy: https://lingualeo.com/ru/blog/polozhenie-o-zashhite-personalnyih-dannyih/
