iRead: Translate & Learn

iRead is a calm reader for people learning a language through real texts. Bring in a book, an article or a PDF in the language you're learning, read at your own pace, translate unfamiliar words with a tap, and keep them in a personal vocabulary.

READ ANYTHING
- Books in FB2 (including fb2.zip), EPUB and TXT — with the author, italics and bold preserved
- Articles and notes in Markdown
- PDFs: select text right on the page and translate it. Each PDF remembers its language pair, the page and the zoom you left it at
- Pages of paper books: take a photo and the text is recognized automatically
- Pasted text and anything shared from other apps

TRANSLATION WITHOUT THE INTERNET
- Translation runs on your device — fast and private
- Any pair of system-supported languages: you choose what you read and what you translate into
- Language packs download once; after that everything works offline

YOUR READING DAY
- The Library opens with your day: how long you read and how many words you saved
- A reading diary: each day shows the time you spent, the books you read and the words you kept
- Reading rhythm: a gentle plan for each language — say, English on weekdays, 20 minutes. See it fill up in Today and across the week, with an optional reminder that opens the book you're reading. No streaks

A PERSONAL VOCABULARY, WITH REVIEW
- Save words and phrases together with the sentence you found them in
- Categories, favorites and search
- Review that goes through your whole vocabulary: every word comes up in turn, and the ones you missed come back a little sooner
- Short sessions of up to ten words for each language — you only ever answer "Knew it" or "Didn't know"
- Fresh words: what you saved in the last few days gets its own short session, all your languages together
- An optional reminder the morning after you save words, at a time you choose
- Hard words show how many times you didn't remember each one
- Quiet statistics, no streaks
- Saved words are gently underlined as you read, so what you've learned shows up in the text itself

COMFORTABLE READING
- Book-style typesetting: justified text, chapter headings, and hyphenation that follows the language of the book
- Page breaks: a quiet line about once a screen gives long chapters a rhythm
- Six themes: four warm paper tones, a clean White, and E-reader — a calm gray screen with its own book typeface, Literata — plus a dark mode
- Seven text sizes on top of the system setting
- Tapping a book picks up right where you left off — straight to your last chapter, with the contents one swipe back
- Reading Now keeps started books close at hand
- In the PDF reader the page lies on paper, and one tap hides the panels

ON IPAD
- Translation appears in a small popover right next to the word, so the page stays readable around it
- Your library, vocabulary and settings sit in a comfortable reading column on a large screen
- PDFs in landscape fill the width of the screen and stay sharp; turning the iPad keeps your place

SYNC AND PRIVACY
- Your library and vocabulary sync across your devices through iCloud
- Data lives in your private iCloud database; translation never leaves the device
- No accounts, no ads, no tracking