YuzuLingo vs ToriOCR
YuzuLingo stays in the browser. You cover burned-in subtitles on the video you are already watching, including YouTube, Bilibili, and other web players. There is no desktop app to download. Turn on Interact to read the burned-in line on your device, with furigana or pinyin when the language has them, and a transcript of the lines in that session. Show that text always, on hover, or while you hold a hotkey.
ToriOCR is OuterSpaceHobo’s free macOS app, in the repo tori_ocr. You download a DMG. It needs macOS 15 on Apple Silicon. You draw a region over any app, and it reads Japanese, Chinese, or Korean on the device. You can look the characters up, hear them spoken, translate the text, and send a card to Anki.
Where each one fits
| Feature | YuzuLingo | ToriOCR |
|---|---|---|
| Install in the browser, no desktop app to download | ||
| Cover burned-in subs on YouTube, Bilibili, and other web players | ||
| Read that line while the video plays | ||
| More than one zone on the same video | ||
| Furigana or pinyin on that line | ||
| A transcript of the lines in that session | ||
| Show that text always, on hover, or while you hold a hotkey | ||
| English and Spanish hardsubs | ||
| Japanese, Chinese, and Korean | ||
| OCR stays on the device | ||
| OCR any app on a Mac screen | ||
| Look up characters in a dictionary | ||
| Hear the line spoken | ||
| Translate the captured text | ||
| Add the line to an Anki deck |