Faster lookups · Cleaner research · Less friction

Select a term. Press one hotkey. Every dictionary opens.

Term Butler works anywhere on your Mac — select in your CAT tool, a PDF, or an email, and your term opens in all your dictionaries, termbases and reference sites at once. A lightweight menu bar app for translators, editors, and localization professionals.

Download free — 14-day trial Buy — 29 €/year ▶ Watch the demo No payment details needed · Full version, 14 days

⌨ One hotkey, many dictionaries 📚 Collects segments while you translate 📄 Spell-check privately in Word 🔒 Everything stays on your Mac

Term Butler — an android butler holding a tray of translation tools

How it works

Three steps, in any app

That's the core of Term Butler. Everything else — snippet collection, offline QA in Word, text expansion — builds on the same idea: fewer clicks for the steps you repeat all day.

Select

Highlight any term — in your CAT tool, browser, PDF, email, anywhere on your Mac.

Press your hotkey

The one you chose for that bundle of sources — for example ⌘⌃D for your German dictionaries.

Read

All your dictionaries open at once — in tabs, a new window, or side by side in a split view.

One hotkey — and the selected term opens in every source of your bundle, side by side.

Term Butler Settings

⌘,

🌐 Providers

📂 Bundles

⌨ Hotkeys

📥 Collector

📤 Import/Export

ℹ About

dict.cc

https://www.dict.cc/?s={query}

Linguee

https://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&query={query}

LEO

https://dict.leo.org/englisch-deutsch/{query}

Duden

https://www.duden.de/suchen/dudenonline/{query}

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search={query}

Perplexity

https://www.perplexity.ai/search?q={query}

Configure any search-based website as a provider. Add dictionaries, glossaries, termbases, or AI research tools — whatever your projects need.

Plays well with memoQ Trados Phrase Across Wordfast XTM Smartcat Cafetran Microsoft Word any browser

Core capabilities

Built around the workflows language professionals actually repeat

Instead of juggling browser tabs, manual copy-paste, and unreliable CAT tool spell checkers, Term Butler brings the recurring parts of terminology research and language QA into one focused macOS utility.

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Open multiple sources with one shortcut

Create providers and bundles for dictionaries, search tools, termbases, and project-specific resources, then launch them instantly from a global hotkey.

Bundle several sources into one lookup
Choose tabs, new window, or split-view opening
Reorder providers to shape the lookup flow

Term Butler Settings

🌐 Providers

📂 Bundles

⌨ Hotkeys

Translate DE–EN

dict.cc, Linguee, LEO, Wikipedia

4 providers

Duden Only

Duden

1 provider

Client A Lookup

Client Termbase, dict.cc, Linguee

3 providers

📚

Collect segments for offline spell & grammar check

Many CAT tools lack a reliable spell and grammar checker, and cloud-based alternatives are off-limits when client data must stay private. The Snippet Collector silently gathers each translated segment as you work, then pastes everything into Microsoft Word with one hotkey — where you get a proven, effective, fully offline language check.

Collector preview and item count in the menu bar
One-hotkey paste into Word when you're ready
No data leaves your machine — 100% offline

Collector (3 items)

1. Translation memory

2. Lokalisierung

3. User interface string

Copy All to Clipboard

Paste into Word

Remove Last

Clear All

Quick Lookup ▸

Hotkeys: Active

Settings... ⌘,

Quit Term Butler ⌘Q

⌨

Fly through segments with Collect & Advance

One hotkey selects the current segment, adds it to the Collector, and confirms the segment to jump to the next one. Walk through an entire file in seconds, then paste everything into Word for a thorough offline review.

Select, collect, and advance in a single keystroke
Configurable confirm-segment keystroke per CAT tool
Works with memoQ, Trados, Phrase, XTM, and more

① Select all⌘A in segment

→

② CollectSave to Collector

→

③ AdvanceNext segment

🔢

Check length instantly

For localization work with UI constraints, a dedicated floating counter shows words, characters, and width-oriented reference metrics in a lightweight overlay.

Quick access from a hotkey
Useful for UI strings and length-sensitive content
Includes W and A equivalents for width estimation

Text Statistics

Words:2 Characters:19 W equivalents:10 A equivalents:15

📚

Start with ~290 ready-made sources

No URL editing required to get going: browse the built-in Resource Library — curated dictionaries, encyclopedias and reference sites in 17 languages — and add them to your setup with a click.

Search and filter by language and type
Select whole groups at once
Your own custom providers work side by side with them

Resource Library

Cambridge Dictionary

English · Dictionary

Add

Duden

German · Dictionary

Add

Larousse French

French · Dictionary

Add

RAE Diccionario de la lengua española

Spanish · Dictionary

Add

Also included

Small helpers for the rest of the day

Beyond lookups and collection, Term Butler quietly covers a set of recurring micro-tasks — each one optional, each one a keystroke away.

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SmartText

Type btw, get “by the way” — text expansion that works in any app, with per-snippet switches and a pause hotkey.

📏

Unit Converter

Select “5 km” or “100 °F”, press a hotkey, read the conversions — length, mass, volume, temperature, speed, area, pressure.

🕑

Search History

Re-run any recent lookup straight from the menu bar. Stored only on your Mac, never uploaded.

📋

Clipboard History

An optional, text-only history of your copies — off by default. Entries you reuse often can become SmartText snippets.

🖱️

Right-click lookups

“Look up with Term Butler” in the macOS Services menu — the zero-hotkey path for quick lookups.

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Websites

Your ten most-used pages, one keystroke away via a popup with number-key speed dial.

📄

Paste to Word

All collected segments land in Microsoft Word with one hotkey — Word launches if needed, your clipboard is restored.

🌎

Browser preference

Open lookups in your system default browser, Safari, or Google Chrome — independent of your system setting.

📚

Local Glossaries

Turn any Excel glossary into a hotkey-searchable source with the free Glossary Converter — then add it with one click. Client terminology stays on your Mac.

Why it exists

Designed to reduce repetitive friction without becoming a heavy platform

Terminology work often involves the same small steps again and again: look up terms across several dictionaries, collect translated segments for quality review, paste them into Word for a proper offline spell and grammar check, verify text length, move on.

Term Butler was built to make those steps calmer, faster, and more deliberate — with keyboard-first interactions and practical configuration, not complexity for its own sake.

Coming from Windows? Term Butler brings an IntelliWebSearch-style workflow to macOS. IntelliWebSearch is an independent product; Term Butler is not affiliated with it.

Global Shortcuts work across CAT tools, Word, PDFs, browsers, and more.

Configurable Providers, bundles, browsers, and settings adapt to project needs.

Private Your texts never leave your Mac — no cloud services, no tracking.

Who it's for

A focused tool for people who work with language all day

Term Butler is aimed at professionals who rely on recurring lookups, offline language QA, and browser-based reference work — and who want those steps to feel more intentional on macOS.

✍️

Translators & term researchers

Dictionary lookups across project-specific source bundles, faster term research, fewer browser tabs.

🔎

Reviewers & QA specialists

Collect translated segments as you work and run them through Word's offline spell and grammar check — privately and reliably.

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Localization specialists & terminology managers

Length checks for UI strings, consistent shared lookup setups via import/export, and recurring browser tasks made keyboard-first.

Demo video

See Term Butler in action

A 5-minute walkthrough showing how to set up providers, create bundles, assign hotkeys, collect snippets, and paste them into Microsoft Word for offline QA.

A closer look

See the full Settings window

Providers, bundles, hotkeys, collector, import/export — browse annotated screenshots with descriptions of every feature.

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Get started

Try it free for 14 days

Download Term Butler and use the full app free for 14 days — no payment details, no sign-up. If it earns a place in your workflow, a license is 29 € per year, including all updates during the subscription period. And if you buy and change your mind within 14 days, contact me and I’ll issue a full refund — no questions asked.

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Term Butler is built and used daily by a working localization professional. It exists because macOS had no tool like IntelliWebSearch — and because the many small, repeated steps in a linguist’s day deserved to be easier.