NoaLingua About
Who builds this, and why it works the way it does
NoaLingua is made by Nemanja Pejić at NoaSolutions, a single-person project rather than a company with a support desk. That constraint shapes the product: almost nothing runs on our side, so no subscription is needed to fund it, and there is no marketing team to smooth the limits away.
Who
NoaLingua is built by Nemanja Pejić, trading as NoaSolutions. One person, writing the extension, this website and the documentation.
It began from an ordinary problem: watching video in a language you are learning feels productive and frequently teaches nothing, because reading a translation is not the same act as retrieving a word. The product is built around closing that gap — which is why saving a word keeps the sentence it came from, and why the review schedule exists at all.
Why local-first
Every dictionary lookup, grammar table and example sentence could have been a request to a server. That would have been easier to build, and it would have created a permanent running cost, which turns into a subscription you cannot leave without losing your work.
Downloading the data to your machine instead has a real cost: the English dictionary pack is 475 MB, and there is a wait before everything is instant. In exchange there is no account, nothing to log into, nothing that stops working when a service is switched off, and a lifetime plan that is honest rather than a bet on how long we last.
Why the site publishes its own limits
Partly ethics, partly arithmetic. A limitation you discover yourself after paying feels like being misled. The same limitation stated in advance is a trade-off you accepted.
The site is built so this is enforced rather than merely intended. Every fact is stored with a source and a verification date. A feature page without a limits block fails the build. A comparison without a row where the competitor wins fails too. Those are tests, not good intentions.
The full editorial policy · what NoaLingua cannot do
Where the product honestly is
Version 0.2.17, and early. The Chrome Web Store listing has a handful of users and a single rating. That is precisely why there are no testimonials and no star ratings anywhere on this site — the numbers exist, they are simply too small to mean anything, and dressing them up would have been the first dishonest thing here.
Whose data it uses
The linguistic content is not ours. Definitions come from Wiktionary, examples from Tatoeba, grammar from UniMorph, and the frequency lists from an open dataset — all credited, with their licences, on the data sources page.