Easydict vs Microsoft SharePoint
Easydict and Microsoft SharePoint are both document management software. Easydict is open source under GPL-3.0, with 15k GitHub stars. Microsoft SharePoint is a commercial product from Microsoft.
Which to pick
- Pick Easydict when
- You read or write in several languages on a Mac and want quick lookups.
- Pick Microsoft SharePoint when
- An organisation on Microsoft 365 wants document storage, intranet and records management with no extra licence.
Side by side
A macOS dictionary and translation app that looks up selected text or OCR'd screen text across Apple, DeepL, Google, OpenAI and Chinese translation services.
Microsoft 365's document libraries, intranet sites and lists, with versioning, permissions, retention and the storage behind Teams and OneDrive sharing.
Several services need your own API keys, and docs lean Chinese.
Permissions and site structure sprawl quickly without governance.
Production-ready (both)
Desktop app
Cloud service and self-hosted server
Swift, Objective-C and Python
Not published
Open source, GPL-3.0 (strong copyleft)
Closed source, sold by Microsoft
Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
15k GitHub stars
2.7k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
Established: started 4 years ago, latest release 2.25.0.
Not known
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.