Parallel Texts Reader vs Read & Learn Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Parallel Texts Reader
Read books with instant, sentence-by-sentence translations in multiple languages. Listen to translations and tap words for more options like transcription and pronunciation. Features a growing library of over 370 books across various language pairs.
- Parallel text translation
- Listen to sentence translations
- Tap for word details
- Extensive book library
- Multiple language pairs
- Reverse translation mode
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Application for reading books with parallel translation. Allows you to listen and see the translation of any sentence while reading. Constantly updated library of books - we are adding books every month. Now the library has more then 370 books: - English - Russian - English - French - English - German - English - Italian - English - Spanish - English - Ukrainian - English - Polish - English - Chinese - Russian - English - Russian - French - French - Russian - French - English - French - Ukrainian - French - Polish - Spanish - Russian - Spanish - English - Spanish - Ukrainian - German - Russian - German - Ukrainian - German - English - Danish - English - Norwegian - English - Hebrew - Russian - Estonian - Russian Touch any part of the text to see the translation. To memorize, transcribe, translate or listen the word, tap and hold your finger on it. Reverse mode allows you to change the primary language into the translated language, that is, for example from English-Spanish to Spanish-English.
Read & Learn Pro
Read books in foreign languages and learn new vocabulary. Instantly translate unknown words or phrases, save them to flashcards, and test your knowledge with built-in quizzes. Supports numerous file formats and over 40 languages.
- Read books in multiple foreign languages
- Instant word and phrase translation
- Create custom flashcards for learning
- Vocabulary knowledge tests
- Supports PDF, EPUB, TXT, and more
- Offline dictionary support
- Speech-to-text translation
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A convenient application for reading books in foreign languages and learning new words and phrases. Just touch an unknown word or a phrase, get its translation and add a card to learn it later. READ - support of popular formats like pdf, epub, rtf, fb2 and txt - a huge amount of free classic books in most common languages - support of archives in zip, gz, rar, bz2, tar, tgz and tbz formats - scan documents on foreign language, recognize text on it and save as book inside app for read and learn - flexible settings LEARN - intuitive control over the sets of words - ready-made card sets for the most popular languages (English, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese) - pronunciation support for words and phrases in foreign languages - knowledge tests for each set of words - export/import cards into csv format TRANSLATE - translate your own phrases and add them to the words sets - transcription for the most popular languages - speech to text function - just say unknown words and app will translate it - edit translations when needed - support over 50 off-line dictionaries (in professional version) - support of 40 languages (Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chichewa, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian, Myanmar (Burmese), Nepali, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sesotho, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zulu) AND ALSO - synchronization between all iOS devices via iCloud - support of iPhone, iPad and Mac DEVELOPERS LINK support@readandlearnapp.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Read & Learn Pro at 100% against Parallel Texts Reader's 54%. Read & Learn Pro also leads on rating (4.3 vs 4.0). Parallel Texts Reader's advantage is price (Free vs $49.99) and ads (none vs shown). On ratings volume, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Parallel Texts Reader is free to download; Read & Learn Pro costs $49.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Read & Learn Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 54% of Parallel Texts Reader's written reviews are positive against 100% of Read & Learn Pro's.
Parallel Texts Reader ships an update every 6 weeks, Read & Learn Pro every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 1, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Parallel Texts Reader | Read & Learn Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $49.99 |
| Rating | 4.0 (10 ratings) | 4.3 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 54.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 108 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ivan Savchenko | Anton Ivanov |
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Parallel Texts Reader
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In-app purchases
Parallel Texts Reader
No in-app purchases
Read & Learn Pro
No in-app purchases
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