Let's Read vs BookSmart by Worldreader

Enjoy reading fun and colorful storybooks with the children in your life for free with the Let’s Read app. With thousands of books from local authors and illustrators in a wide variety of underrepresented languages and English, help your children fall in love with reading and learning! All books on the Let’s Read app are 100% free to read. Your favorite books are also free to download and save for reading anytime, online or offline. Multilingual readers can switch between languages within the storybooks with a quick tap, accessing the many languages available on the Let’s Read app, including English. New books are being added to the Let’s Read library all the time through our wide network of local authors, illustrators, and translators. Let’s Read is an initiative of The Asia Foundation’s Books for Asia program that fosters young readers in Asia. We focus on underserved languages and original content developed through community-based workshops that produce culturally relevant stories. Learn more about the Let’s Read initiative: www.letsreadasia.org/about

BookSmart, powered by Worldreader, is a free digital app that helps parents and caregivers build simple, daily reading routines with children ages 0 to 8. Through thousands of culturally relevant books, playful activities, and practical tips, BookSmart supports shared reading experiences that strengthen early learning and family connection. Designed around Worldreader's research and experience and backed by brain science, BookSmart meets families where they are, on the devices they already use, making it easy to read together anytime, anywhere. BookSmart features books in five languages, including Arabic, English, French, Hindi, Kiswahili, and Spanish, along with monthly Reading Challenges that encourage consistent engagement and fun parenting tips and activities. No paywalls. No subscriptions. Always free. From bedtime stories to early literacy skills, BookSmart's multilingual library of kids' books and children's stories helps families build a reading habit they can keep coming back to. About Worldreader: Worldreader is a global tech nonprofit on a mission to get families reading. By supporting parents and caregivers with free and accessible digital tools and resources, we build reading routines that improve the learning outcomes and social-emotional skills of children in underserved communities around the globe. With more than 15 years of experience designing, testing, and scaling evidence-based, adaptive approaches to family reading, Worldreader understands what it takes to address the global literacy crisis. Our work is grounded in research, shaped by local context, and delivered through trusted partnerships and platforms. BookSmart is trusted by families, educators, and organizations in over 100 countries.