Reading Cat

Read real English. Understand every sentence.

An English reading app for learners.

Read graded books and your own articles. Tap a word to see what it means, tap a sentence to get a translation and a short explanation of its key phrases. Your place is saved automatically.

Coming soon to the App Store.

What you can do

Read books at your level

Open books from the library, add the ones you like to your desk, and pick up exactly where you stopped. Chapter illustrations open full screen.

Tap any word

See meanings, phonetics and the base form of a word, and hear it read aloud. Entries are shown in your own language.

Understand whole sentences

Get a translation and a short explanation of the phrases that matter, listed in the order they appear in the sentence.

Bring your own text

Paste an article, a message or a page of a novel and read it with the same tools. Archive texts you are done with and search them later.

Made for long reading

Light and dark styles, a serif typeface and clean pages that stay out of the way. Progress is saved and synced to your account.

Your language

The interface, translations and dictionary entries are available in Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English.

Works on iPhone and iPad

Requires iOS 17.6 or later. Sign in with Apple keeps account setup to a single tap.