
iRead: Translate & Learn
Vocabulary from real texts
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iRead is a calm reader for people learning a language through real texts. Bring in a book or an article 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
• Articles and notes in Markdown
• PDFs — select text right on the page, and recently opened files stay
one tap away, at the page you stopped on
• 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
A PERSONAL VOCABULARY, WITH REVIEW
- Save words and phrases together with the sentence you found them in
- Categories, favorites, and search
- Simple spaced repetition: short sessions of up to ten words, separate
for each language — you only ever answer "I know it" or "I don't", and
you can keep going if you want another round
- Quiet statistics, no streaks: total words, added this week, learned,
and the words you find hardest
- 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, hyphenation, chapter headings
• Four warm paper themes and 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
• A Reading Now section at the top of your library keeps started books close at hand
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
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What's New in iRead
1.8.5
September 5, 2026
- The reader now gets out of your way: the toolbar and the tab bar slide away as you read down the page, and come back the moment you scroll up. - Footnote markers no longer stick to the word before them. Tapping that word gives you the word, not the word with a number attached — and the same word is now recognised everywhere in your vocabulary. - Fixed: rotating the device could throw you back to the start of the chapter. - Fixed: the panel offering the next chapter sometimes failed to appear at the end of a book. - Various small fixes and improvements.
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