Hey PH! Ovid is a bilingual reader I built because I couldn't get along with the usual "paragraph-original / paragraph-translation" bilingual books — my attention kept slipping.
Most of the time I just want to read. Big gulps. Stay inside the story. Only occasionally do I want to see how a sentence actually reads in my native language.
So: upload an EPUB, Ovid translates it in the background, and while reading you tap a paragraph to flip its language. That's it. No split view, no hover popups, no reading-mode switch — just one tap.
Would love your feedback — especially from folks who read foreign-language books regularly. 🙏
About Ovid on Product Hunt
“Two languages, one tap.”
Ovid was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #160 on the daily leaderboard. Import any EPUB or mobi, click a paragraph to toggle between original and translation. No split screens, no popups — just tap and read.
On the analytics side, Ovid competes within eBook Reader, Languages and Books — topics that collectively have 141.9k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Ovid performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Ovid?
Ovid was hunted by Jared Su. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Ovid including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
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