LOVE this app
Response from developer
Thank you — reading before bed is exactly how a lot of people use Eppika, and it's good to hear it works for you. Fair point on the self-help titles. A novel can be retold scene by scene; a non-fiction book has no plot, so we retell its ideas through short scenes instead, and that reads differently from the original. If one of them felt like it was describing the book rather than teaching from it, email support@eppika.com with the title and we'll look at that one specifically.
Love it
Response from developer
Thanks for this. Glad it's working for you. Happy reading.
Amazing app but…
Response from developer
Showing the base form of a verb next to the in-context translation is a good idea. I've passed it to the team. Glad the stories are helping your reading, and thanks for writing the idea up properly.
No Free Trial - Not Worth It
Then, although the concept sounds appealing, my foreign language level is elementary .. so you’d think I’d start out reading elementary-level books?
No - I started out on Sherlock Holmes.
I don’t think this app will really help my foreign language comprehension.
Buns
False cancellation
Bad
My first time reading a story en Español - I loved it.
Learning and fun
So far, I’ve read a Grimm fairytale and a story taken from Alice in Wonderland.
I’ve read in many places that listening to Spanish text while reading the text is a great learning technique and even better if you say the words along with the reader. This app is designed for all of those things and it’s fun!
For now, I must go. Alicia is waiting for me al País de las Maravillas
Response from developer
Glad you found both of them on your own — tapping a word for the definition and opening the whole sentence. Most people find one and not the other. If Alice landed well, the library also has Tom Sawyer, Dracula and The Wizard of Oz, each at three difficulty levels, so you can re-read one a level up when the current one starts feeling easy. Around 230 Spanish titles in total. Que disfrutes el País de las Maravillas. Nick, Eppika
Support is responsive
Frankstein
Response from developer
Obrigado pelo 8 — e por escolher justamente o Frankenstein. Me conta o que faltou para virar 10: escreve em support@eppika.com que eu leio. Se ajudar enquanto isso, o livro tem áudio para acompanhar a leitura e mais de um nível de dificuldade, então dá para reler num nível acima quando o atual ficar fácil. Nick, Eppika
Highly Recommended
Charged me during trial period
Blocks on page 5
Response from developer
That prompt is the free-tier limit, which means the app isn't seeing your payment. It's treating your account as free, stopping you at the preview limit and offering you the discount screen. This is almost always a sign-in mismatch: your subscription sits on the email you paid with, and the app is signed in under a different one. Apple sign-in makes it easy to hit, because it can hide your real address behind a relay address. Sign out, then sign back in using the exact email you paid with, and the block should lift. If it doesn't, email support@eppika.com from that address and I'll link the accounts myself. You paid, and you should be reading. Nick, Eppika
Gracias
Response from developer
Vielen Dank! Das freut uns sehr, gerade das Lob für den Support. Weiterhin viel Spaß beim Lesen. Nick, Eppika
Best Language App ever
Response from developer
Thank you, this is the best kind of feedback to get. Reading and listening together is exactly what the audio is for, and hearing that your comprehension and pronunciation both moved is why it was built that way. Enjoy the next book. Nick, Eppika
Terrible app
If you are serious about language learning, there are plenty of other resources out there that are not scammy.
Great idea. Doesn’t work well
The play button only played audio first time I used it. After that I only saw an endless activity indicator!
Come on devs! Just use it to learn Spanish and you’ll see it’s buggy!!!!! Then I will change my review - when you make the feature of playing audio more stable
Response from developer
You're right, and it isn't your device. We've found a fault where the audio fails to load and hangs on the spinner instead of starting. It's logged, it's affecting a lot of people, and we're working on it. I won't give you a date I can't keep. Two things that sometimes get it moving meanwhile: force-close and reopen the app, and try on a different network. Some of these failures are the audio file never fetching at all. You said you'd revisit the review once audio is stable. That's fair, and I'd rather earn that than ask for it. Nick, Eppika
Decent
Response from developer
Really glad it's clicking for Italian. That's the whole idea: real stories at your level instead of textbook-flat graded readers. We add new Italian titles regularly, so there should always be something next. Happy reading! Nick from Eppika
