iRead vs FlowLingua

iRead is a calm reader for people learning a language through real texts. Bring in a book, an article or a PDF 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 — with the author, italics and bold preserved - Articles and notes in Markdown - PDFs: select text right on the page and translate it. Each PDF remembers its language pair, the page and the zoom you left it at - 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 YOUR READING DAY - The Library opens with your day: how long you read and how many words you saved - A reading diary: each day shows the time you spent, the books you read and the words you kept - Reading rhythm: a gentle plan for each language — say, English on weekdays, 20 minutes. See it fill up in Today and across the week, with an optional reminder that opens the book you're reading. No streaks A PERSONAL VOCABULARY, WITH REVIEW - Save words and phrases together with the sentence you found them in - Categories, favorites and search - Review that goes through your whole vocabulary: every word comes up in turn, and the ones you missed come back a little sooner - Short sessions of up to ten words for each language — you only ever answer "Knew it" or "Didn't know" - Fresh words: what you saved in the last few days gets its own short session, all your languages together - An optional reminder the morning after you save words, at a time you choose - Hard words show how many times you didn't remember each one - Quiet statistics, no streaks - Saved words are gently underlined as you read, so what you've learned shows up in the text itself - Word hints: the translation of words you're still learning can appear right above them in the text, and disappears once you know the word COMFORTABLE READING - Book-style typesetting: justified text, chapter headings, and hyphenation that follows the language of the book - Page breaks: a quiet line about once a screen gives long chapters a rhythm - Six themes: four warm paper tones, a clean White, and E-reader — a calm gray screen with its own book typeface, Literata — plus 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 - Reading Now keeps started books close at hand - In the PDF reader the page lies on paper, and one tap hides the panels ON IPAD - Translation appears in a small popover right next to the word, so the page stays readable around it - Your library, vocabulary and settings sit in a comfortable reading column on a large screen - PDFs in landscape fill the width of the screen and stay sharp; turning the iPad keeps your place 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 - No accounts, no ads, no tracking

Other apps make you click. We let you read. FlowLingua is a bilingual reader that turns any foreign-language book into a bilingual book. Import your own books, articles, videos and audio — or start with the ready-made content in the library. Read and listen to foreign-language content as if it were your native language. Every word and every sentence is already translated — synced to the audio, with no clicking at all. No dictionary, no vocabulary drills, no loss of flow. It is the digital heir of the interlinear tradition — the bilingual books and parallel-text editions of Ilya Frank, but without the page flipping, and for any book you choose. ▸ WHAT FLOWLINGUA DOES • Automatic bilingual reading — the Birkenbihl method in its purest form: every word of your book sits right under the original, including grammatical structure. • Translated sentence by sentence — plus the natural sentence translation, so nothing stays unclear. • Synced to the audio — text and original audio run word by word together (karaoke principle). You train pronunciation, rhythm and listening comprehension. • Import your own content — EPUB, PDF, DOCX, YouTube videos and audio files are decoded and translated automatically. • Easy reading — a dedicated Birkenbihl mode for relaxed, uninterrupted reading. • Vocabulary tracking — unknown words come pre-marked; you remove the mark once you know them. • Shadowing & speaking practice — repeat sentences right after native speakers, with sentence repeat. • Learn offline — download content and keep learning anywhere. Progress syncs automatically. • 20 languages — from English, Spanish and French to less common languages. • Listening-Reading (L-R) without the three-window setup — one screen. ▸ HOW IT WORKS 1. Import — bring your own book, video or audio, or pick ready-made content. 2. Understand — everything is already translated, word by word and sentence by sentence. 3. Stay in flow — press play and let the audio guide you. The translation is there when you need it. ▸ WHO IS THIS FOR? • You want the books you actually care about as bilingual books — without flipping pages or clicking every word. • You want to read foreign-language books and understand them right away. • You know the Birkenbihl method and finally want a tool that decodes automatically. • You come from a reader where you have to click every single word — and you're done with the clicking. • You've drilled vocabulary and still never understood a real book. ▸ WHY FLOWLINGUA EXISTS I wanted to learn languages — but memorizing vocabulary and grammar put me off. So I researched how polyglots really do it: understand, don't memorize. That's why I built FlowLingua as an app. FlowLingua combines three proven input methods: the Birkenbihl method (decoding), Listening-Reading (listening and reading at the same time) and Comprehensible Input by Stephen Krashen (understandable content that interests you). ▸ SUPPORTED FORMATS EPUB · PDF · DOCX · YouTube · MP3 & audio files ▸ FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Can I use FlowLingua as a bilingual book reader? Yes — import any EPUB, PDF, video or audio file and FlowLingua turns it into a bilingual book: original and translation together, word by word and sentence by sentence, synced to the audio. The library also has ready-made content to start with. Do I need prior knowledge? No. The word-for-word translation makes texts understandable even if you don't know a single word yet. How is this different from vocabulary apps? You learn with real books, videos and audio — not quiz exercises. Understanding comes first. Does it work offline? Yes, content can be downloaded. Stay in flow. Not in the dictionary. 7-day free trial. ▸ ATTRIBUTION Sample content “Daily Routine”: work by SpeakSmart Academy, licensed under CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Translated and presented in FlowLingua. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/