20 languages · graded books · first book free
Learn a language by reading books you'll actually love.
Graded stories carry you from your very first word to real literature. Tap any word for an instant translation, listen to native-quality narration, and watch your vocabulary grow — automatically.
Free to start. No account required to read your first book.
This is the real reader — tap a word, hover a sentence, press play.
A real library, graded for learners
ხევისბერი გოჩა
Georgian
Don Quijote
Spanish
Le Tour du monde en 80 jours
French
Hänsel und Gretel
German
Pinocchio
Italian
O Alienista
Brazilian Portuguese
桃太郎
Japanese
홍길동전
Korean
西游记
Mandarin Chinese
Капитанская дочка
Russian
كليلة ودمنة
Arabic
Սասունցի Դավիթ
Armenian
Məlikməmməd
Azerbaijani
رستم و سهراب
Persian
สังข์ทอง
Thai
Lục Vân Tiên
Vietnamese
Котигорошко
Ukrainian
Баш Челик
Serbian
Ο Αίσωπος
Greek
יונה
Hebrew
ვეფხისტყაოსანი
Georgian
კვაჭი კვაჭანტირაძე
Georgian
მე, ბებია, ილიკო და ილარიონი
Georgian
How it works
Reading is the method.
No drills, no streak guilt, no cartoon owl. You read real stories, and the app quietly removes everything that used to make that hard.
Tap any word
An instant gloss with romanization for every script — no dictionary detour, no losing your place in the story.
Tap a sentence
See the full translation only when you want it. Understanding stays a choice, not a crutch.
Listen along
Every catalog book is also an audiobook. Native narration highlights each word as it's spoken — karaoke for reading.
Read-along audio
Every book is also an audiobook.
- Native-quality narration for every catalog book, chapter by chapter — included, not an add-on.
- Karaoke highlighting. The word being spoken lights up as you read, so your ear and eye learn together.
- Your pace. Slow it to 0.5× while you're starting out, push past 1× when you're flying. Tap any sentence to replay it.
- Offline too. Download the audio with the book and listen anywhere.
The graded ladder
From your first word to real literature.
- Start at absolute zero. The first book assumes nothing — it opens with sentences a first-week beginner can read.
- Climb one notch per chapter. Each book is slightly harder than the last, so you're always reading at the edge of what you know — the comprehensible-input sweet spot.
- Finish with the classics. The top of every ladder is real, unabridged literature in the original language.
- Know your progress. A word counts as known after you've met it three times without looking it up — honest numbers from real reading.
Twenty languages
Pick your language. The first book is free.
Every language gets the same treatment: a graded ladder of real books, tap-to-translate, audio narration and vocabulary tracking.
Everything else you'd want
Serious tools, invisible until you need them.
Vocabulary that tracks itself
Every word you meet is remembered. Watch your “words known” count climb per language as you read — no flashcard sessions required.
Every book is an audiobook
Read-along narration with word-by-word highlighting, speed control, and seek-by-sentence.
One-tap Anki export
Looked a word up? Send it — with its sentence, translation and romanization — straight to an Anki deck.
Import your own books
Bring any EPUB. ReadNative turns it into the same tappable, glossed reading experience, chapter by chapter.
Offline everything
Download catalog books — text, translations and audio — and read on a plane, in the metro, anywhere.
Every script, romanized
Georgian, Armenian, Thai, Arabic, Hebrew, CJK — tap glosses include romanization until you don’t need it anymore.
Questions
Fair questions, straight answers.
Is it free?
The first book in every language is completely free — no account, no card. A Pro subscription later unlocks the rest of each library.
How is this different from flashcards?
Flashcards teach words in isolation; stories teach them in context, with grammar and collocations attached. ReadNative tracks your vocabulary automatically while you read, so you get the measurable progress of an SRS without the grind. And if you love Anki, every book exports a ready-made deck.
Do I need to study grammar separately?
You can, but you don't have to start there. Graded stories introduce structures gradually and tap-to-translate shows you the meaning of whole sentences, so grammar patterns emerge from reading — the way they did in your first language.
What does “words known” actually measure?
A word counts as known once you've met it three times without looking it up. It's a conservative, honest measure based on your real reading — not on multiple-choice guesses.
Your first book is free. Start it tonight.
Download ReadNative, pick your language, and read your first chapter in the next ten minutes. Pro unlocks the whole library — every book, every language, one subscription.
