Polyglot Reader

Read books in any foreign language and turn every unknown word into a flashcard you'll actually remember. Version 5.0 brings a complete redesign — a calmer reader, a smarter library and a new way to study.

Polyglot Reader is your pocket library, dictionary and flashcard trainer in one app. Tap any word or phrase in a book, get an instant translation with transcription, hear the pronunciation, and save it to a deck to review later. Built for iPhone, iPad and Mac, with a refined dark theme.

— READ —
• Completely redesigned reader, bookmarks, translation popup and settings
• New System theme that follows iOS automatically, plus refined Light and Dark
• Open books in PDF, EPUB, FB2, RTF and TXT
• Import from Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive or any file app
• Scan a paper page — the app recognizes the text and saves it as a book
• Highlights words you don't know yet, right inside the page
• Vertical scrolling, comfortable type settings, picture zoom

— LIBRARY —
• Thousands of free classic books in 38+ languages, sorted into sections like Classics, Sherlock Holmes, Shakespeare, Horror & Mystery, Children's Books, Philosophy, Adventure
• Adapted A2–B1 readers for German learners, plus original literature in English, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Latin, Greek and many more
• New sorting, new sections and search inside every shelf
• Filter to show only recent books
• Difficulty level and tags shown right on each cover
• Drag and drop to reorganize your shelves
• New "Added manually" section for everything you imported yourself
• Smoother search, scroll and sharing on iPad

— LEARN —
• Redesigned cards and study screens
• Ready-made flashcard sets for English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese and Japanese — verbs, nouns and themed categories
• Smart virtual decks: All cards, Recent, Unknown — see progress at a glance
• Quick preview and actions inside every deck
• Pick a default deck for new words you save while reading
• Per-card knowledge level with a colored progress bar (red → green as you master each word)
• Three study modes: foreign only, foreign + native, native only
• Hands-free mode — keep learning without touching the screen
• Long-press context menu: mark as known or unknown in one tap
• Optional shuffled order during study
• Filter to show only words you haven't learned yet
• Pronunciation for both the word and its translation
• Knowledge tests for every deck
• Export and import cards in CSV

— TRANSLATE —
• 111 offline dictionaries — no internet, no quota
• On-the-fly transcription for all popular languages
• Speech-to-text: just say the word, get the translation
• Translate your own phrases and add them to any deck
• Edit translations when you want a better wording
• 90+ languages supported, including Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese and many more

— AND ALSO —
• System, Light and Dark themes
• Choose Google or Yandex as default online translator
• Compact mode on iPhone, expanded card view on iPad
• Notifications to bring you back to recent cards

Whether you're reading Sherlock Holmes in English, Kafka in German, Don Quijote in Spanish or Dostoevsky in Russian — Polyglot Reader turns reading into vocabulary, one tap at a time.

Questions or feedback: support@readandlearnapp.com