Read novels in Japanese, Chinese, French and other languages — and understand every line. Hard words are translated right above the text, a tap on any word explains it in context, and every book can be listened to as well as read.Australia sits on Asia's doorstep: Japanese is widely taught in Australian schools, manga and anime have raised a generation curious about the words behind the panels, and a working holiday through South-East Asia is close to a rite of passage.
BOOKS THAT SPEAK. AUDIOBOOKS YOU CAN READ.
Focus mode turns any book into a listening lesson — no separate audio edition needed. It reads any e-book aloud sentence by sentence and highlights each word as it's spoken. For supported language pairs on compatible devices, it shows full-sentence subtitles; otherwise, word translations remain available. Tap any word for the dictionary without stopping the audio.
On compatible devices and systems, where the book's language and speech model are supported, on-device transcription turns audiobook speech into word-synced text with translated subtitles; otherwise, the audiobook still plays normally. Listening time counts towards shared time, streak and goal totals.
YOUR BOOKS, MANY FORMATS
No locked-in catalogue that runs dry — bring in your own books from email, cloud storage, messaging apps or the browser:
- Books: EPUB, FB2, MOBI, AZW3, TXT, Markdown and more
- Comics: CBZ, including manga read right to left, exactly as printed
- Research & scans: PDF and DjVu, scanned pages via on-device text recognition
- Audiobooks: m4b, mp3 and more
TRANSLATIONS ABOVE THE LINE — ONLY WHERE YOU NEED THEM
Tell Reader IQ your level, or take a two-minute test, and it translates only the words you don't know yet, right above the line. You read for meaning, not decoding, and the hints thin out as you improve.
A DICTIONARY THAT UNDERSTANDS CONTEXT
Tap any word and an on-device model reads the sentence around it to select the most likely meaning — German "Schloss" is a castle in one line, a lock in the next. Pronunciation, word forms, examples, conjugation tables for eight languages, kanji and hanzi breakdowns with stroke order. Once downloaded, dictionaries live on your device and work offline — handy from the outback to thirty thousand feet.
A GRADED PATH FROM YOUR FIRST 10 WORDS
Adapted books and a graded path of short stories take you from your first words to longer texts, each step adding just a handful of new words. Read-along speech, quizzes and spaced re-reads lock it in.
SPACED REPETITION, STRAIGHT FROM YOUR BOOKS
Every word you tap is saved with the sentence it came from, and that sentence becomes the flashcard. Four modes — recognition, fill-in-the-blank from your own books, listening, typed recall — on a spaced-repetition schedule with honest review dates. Meet a saved word again while reading and it advances itself; reading is the revision. Track each level, A1 to C2, met so far; export your words anytime.
GOALS, STREAKS AND 40 AWARD LADDERS
Set a daily goal; a weekly ring and heat-map keep the streak visible. Set a mastery goal and watch it close in. Around forty awards celebrate first book, longest run, biggest day, and coming back after letting it slide.
10 READING LANGUAGES
English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Chinese, Thai. Pinyin with tone colours, furigana and vertical Japanese, Thai tone marks, and beginner modes if you don't know the script yet. Translations into 30+ languages.
Reading in the original is still the most natural way to learn a language. Reader IQ clears away the dictionary detours, books too easy or miles too hard, and words you meet once and never see again. Open your first page tonight — Tokyo, Shanghai, Bangkok and Paris are closer than they look.
