Speedready: Speed Read

Read faster, and read in the language you are learning. Speedready is a speed reader and a bilingual reader in one, for any book you own.

READ FASTER
• A highlight sweeps through the text at your pace, or words flash one at a time in the center of the screen, so your eyes stop jumping around
• Set your speed anywhere from 40 to 1,500 words per minute
• Natural pauses at commas, sentence ends and paragraphs keep it readable at speed
• See how many minutes are left in the chapter and the book

LEARN A LANGUAGE BY READING
• Ten languages, in any combination: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Russian and Swedish
• Above every word you do not know yet sits its translation in your own language
• Tap the translation once you know a word: it disappears from the whole book, and the page gets cleaner as your vocabulary grows
• Hold a word you are still learning: it is underlined everywhere and the pace slows for it
• Sentences are read aloud by your device's voice, with the text following along
• Export everything you look up as an Anki deck
• Reading German? Nouns are colored by gender: blue for der, red for die, green for das

YOUR OWN BOOKS, CLEANLY
Open any EPUB or text file; the app recognizes its language. Page numbers and headers left over from print are removed, sentences broken by a page are joined again, and every book opens at chapter one. A German storybook is built in so you can start right away.

YOUR LIBRARY
• Add several books at once, or let Speedready find the EPUB and text files in a folder you choose, then tick the ones you want
• Every book reopens right where you left it
• The app speaks your language too: English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Russian or Swedish

PRIVATE
No account, no tracking, no ads. A language pair's dictionary downloads once (about 2 MB) and then works offline. Your books and your progress never leave your device.

IN SAFARI TOO
Turn on the Speedready extension in Settings, Safari, Extensions, and read any web page or selected paragraph in the same pacer, with translations.

The reader is free, open-source software. Dictionaries use Wiktionary data under CC BY-SA 4.0.