Bilingual Reader: Side by Side

Read articles, papers and PDFs in another language with your own language right beside them.

Bilingual Reader translates what you import paragraph by paragraph and lays the original and the translation side by side. On a wide screen (iPad, landscape, or the inner display of a foldable) the two languages sit in two columns and scroll together. On a narrow screen, switch between them or read one above the other.

• Tap a paragraph to highlight its partner
• Tap a word to mark the matching word in the translation, and save it to your word list
• Words for This Text: a list of the words you need to read it, with their meanings and the sentences they appear in, at three levels
• Mix mode: read some sentences in each language and set the ratio yourself
• Import web pages, PDFs and pasted text, or share from Safari, Files and Mail
• Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

PRICING
• Free: translate up to 10,000 characters to try
• Pro (one-time purchase): up to 300,000 characters in total, with no time limit. It is not a subscription and not unlimited.
• If you run out, you can add 300,000 more characters.
300,000 characters is about 60 news articles or 6 long papers. Long texts show how many characters they will use before translating.

PRIVACY
Your documents and translations stay on your device. Text is sent to our server only to be translated and is not stored. No ads and no tracking.

Import only material you have the right to read. Translations are made by AI (Claude by Anthropic); check important details against the original.