EasyDict is an English–Czech and Czech–English dictionary with more than 150,000 translations. All of it is open: the apps and the website are free software under the GNU GPL 3, and anyone may use and change the dictionary data under the GNU FDL. The dictionary continues the Svobodné slovníky project, and it also finds Czech words typed in other forms: “psa” finds “pes” (dog), “očima” finds “oko” (eye).
- Here on the website: the search is on the right (at the very bottom on a phone).
- The web app: EasyDict in the browser, on a computer or a phone. It searches the same dictionary as this page.
- Apps for Linux, Windows, macOS and Android: they work offline too. On Android, select a word in any app and choose “Look up in EasyDict”; on a computer, EasyDict can also look up text copied to the clipboard. The first release is on its way, on GitHub, Flathub and F-Droid.
EasyDict started in 2020 as a desktop app in Python and GTK 3, which was also on Flathub. A version for GTK 4 and libadwaita followed in 2023–2024. Both live on in the archived easydict-gtk repository. The website went from CherryPy to Django. In 2026 the whole project moved into one repository, jiri-one/easydict. The dictionary data have a new home there, since the svobodneslovniky.cz website is gone, and the app was rewritten in Flutter to run on phones too.
A simple way for users to suggest new translations and corrections. Volunteers will approve the suggestions (for now, my friend Alex from England and I can do it; Alex practises Czech that way and makes sure the English is right), and approved translations will show up on the website and in the web app right away. Later, more dictionaries and, hopefully, a community around them.
Donate to EasyDict!
EasyDict is an open project made by one person in their free time (you will find the name in the footer). I will be glad if you decide to support my work financially in any way. Below are the ways you can do it. If I see that there is interest in the project and its vision, more ways of support may come later (for example Startovač or Patreon).
(If you would like to send another cryptocurrency, just let me know and I will add its address.)