Download · Mac · FreeLexpad for Mac.

Install on a Mac

1. Open lexpad-desktop-mac.dmg from your Downloads folder and drag Lexpad onto the Applications folder.
2. Open Lexpad from Applications. If macOS asks whether you want to open an app downloaded from the internet, choose Open.
3. Lexpad opens, and its icon appears in the menu bar at the top of the screen.

Updating from 0.3.6 or older

1. Choose Quit in Lexpad’s panel, then drag the new Lexpad onto Applications and replace the old one.
2. Open Lexpad. 0.3.7 is the first release signed with Lexpad’s Developer ID, so macOS asks once more for the Accessibility permission, even if the switch for Lexpad still looks on.
3. Open System Settings, Privacy & Security, Accessibility. Select Lexpad and remove it with −, then add it again with + from Applications and switch it on.
4. Reopen Lexpad. The card notices within a few seconds that it is allowed. Later updates keep the permission.

Requirements

Check the file

SHA-256 of lexpad-desktop-mac.dmg 4a02253cc96756ff296df4333649298fdf6261f5181319f4d6e9e1501b76ea6d

Optional. In Terminal, run this and compare the result with the SHA-256 above:

shasum -a 256 ~/Downloads/lexpad-desktop-mac.dmg

Every installer’s checksum is also in lexpad-desktop.sha256.

The desktop app’s code is public: read exactly what it does with the text you select and with the Accessibility permission. (Source available; the Lexpad name and logo are ours.)

Updates and removing Lexpad

• There are no automatic updates yet. Download the new version from this page and drag it onto Applications again, replacing the old one. Your words live in your account, so nothing is lost.
• Updating from 0.3.6 or older, macOS asks once more for the Accessibility permission, because 0.3.7 is the first release signed with Lexpad’s Developer ID. The switch may look on while macOS no longer applies it, and Lexpad says so: follow Updating from 0.3.6 or older above. Later updates keep the permission.
• To remove Lexpad: choose Quit in its panel, then move Lexpad from Applications to the Bin. To end its sign-in too, sign out “Desktop app” in Lexpad’s Settings, Account, Signed-in devices.

What 0.3.14 does

• Adds a word from any app with ⌘ ⇧ L: part of speech, level, pronunciation and up to three meanings, with your sentence kept as its first example and a private note such as “Seen in Microsoft Word” (the app’s name, never a window title).
• A menu bar panel: an Add a word box, the last five words added on this computer, and the notebook new words go to.
• The whole Lexpad app in its own window, bundled in the download, so practice works offline.
• Your daily reminder and messages from Lexpad as notifications on this computer.
• New in 0.3.14: the window has the web app of 22 October: the new first-run introduction (three short stories, up to three reasons, your plan in minutes a day, then your first word and its card), a Today that grows with your notebook, an add sheet whose one button is always the next step and which says exactly how many AI cards are left and when they come back, a session summary that leads with its numbers, Settings, Plan with a Free and Pro table, a preview of Lex on Free built from your own words, one row of controls in practice, sign-in that says what is wrong under each field, the daily reminder as a switch, and “Step 2 of 5” instead of box numbers.
• New in 0.3.13: a message from Lexpad can carry a button, to a screen in the app, a short form you answer in the window, or a web page that opens in your browser; a click on its notification opens that page or form. Notes about your plan that are meant to pop up (a declined card, a refund, the end of Pro from the team) now do so on this computer too, whether or not product news is on.
• New in 0.3.12: the window has the web app of 21 October: importing reads Excel workbooks (.xlsx), CSVs Excel saved in an older encoding, Google Translate’s saved phrases, older and non-English Kindle clippings and big Anki decks; a practice card keeps every answer on screen in a short window.
• New in 0.3.11: the window has the web app of 20 October: Lex proposes changes to your notebook as cards you tap to apply, and a word you add from Lex gets its whole card (Lex is part of Pro); an honest wait for an AI card, with its outline taking shape; the question before your words go to the AI names no single provider and links to the privacy policy, and asks once more.
• New in 0.3.10: the window has the web app of 18 October: Fill with AI for every word without a meaning (each meaning it writes is marked and has Report), Anki decks, Quizlet sets with semicolons, a check before an import is added, Undo and Paste a list. The notebook’s filter is cleared when you restart the app.
• New in 0.3.7: the Mac app is signed with Lexpad’s Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so it opens without Open Anyway (coming from 0.3.6 or older, allow Accessibility once more). The window has the web app of 13 October: Settings → Account → Sign-in methods, and “Apple ID (email hidden)” for Hide My Email.
• New in 0.3.6: Report beside everything the AI wrote (cards, Improve with AI, sentence checks, Lex answers), and a Report link on the shortcut card’s AI-written meaning that opens the same form in Lexpad’s window. On a Mac the Accessibility permission carries over.
• New in 0.3.5: the window has the web app of 13 October: Settings → Invite friends (you both get Pro days when a friend you invite starts learning), a steadier sign-in when the app starts, and Anki and Quizlet files whose meanings hold commas import as one card each.
• New in 0.3.4: in practice, after a wrong answer the card waits with a Next button; choose the behaviour in Settings → Practice → After an answer. On a Mac the Accessibility permission you gave 0.3.3 carries over to this update.
• New in 0.3.3: the window has the web app of 12 October: Send feedback in Settings, Did you mean when you add a word, Persian notebooks on the same plans as every other language, a smoother notebook, the Games page, celebrations and the new first screen. On a Mac the Accessibility permission now survives updates; on Windows the desktop shortcut shows the Lexpad icon.
• Since 0.3.0: How words come back for each notebook, the Smart schedule, games and drills, the next 30 days, streak freeze and the first-days screens, the Pro trial, saving a word when the AI is out, and Add to my notebook.

Everything it does is on the desktop app page; every change is in what’s new.