Polyglot Reader
Anton Ivanov Education iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Polyglot Reader is a free Education app for iPhone and iPad by Anton Ivanov. Rated 4.4/5 from 74 ratings. Requires iOS 16.0. Updated September 19, 2026.
- Rating
- 4.4
- 74 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 120 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Sep 19
- 2026 · v5.0.3
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About Polyglot Reader
Read books in any foreign language and turn every unknown word into a flashcard you'll actually remember. Version 5.0 brings a complete redesign — a calmer reader, a smarter library and a new way to study. Polyglot Reader is your pocket library, dictionary and flashcard trainer in one app. Tap any word or phrase in a book, get an instant translation with transcription, hear the pronunciation, and save it to a deck to review later. Built for iPhone, iPad and Mac, with a refined dark theme. — READ — • Completely redesigned reader, bookmarks, translation popup and settings • New System theme that follows iOS automatically, plus refined Light and Dark • Open books in PDF, EPUB, FB2, RTF and TXT • Import from Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive or any file app • Scan a paper page — the app recognizes the text and saves it as a book • Highlights words you don't know yet, right inside the page • Vertical scrolling, comfortable type settings, picture zoom — LIBRARY — • Thousands of free classic books in 38+ languages, sorted into sections like Classics, Sherlock Holmes, Shakespeare, Horror & Mystery, Children's Books, Philosophy, Adventure • Adapted A2–B1 readers for German learners, plus original literature in English, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Latin, Greek and many more • New sorting, new sections and search inside every shelf • Filter to show only recent books • Difficulty level and tags shown right on each cover • Drag and drop to reorganize your shelves • New "Added manually" section for everything you imported yourself • Smoother search, scroll and sharing on iPad — LEARN — • Redesigned cards and study screens • Ready-made flashcard sets for English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese and Japanese — verbs, nouns and themed categories • Smart virtual decks: All cards, Recent, Unknown — see progress at a glance • Quick preview and actions inside every deck • Pick a default deck for new words you save while reading • Per-card knowledge level with a colored progress bar (red → green as you master each word) • Three study modes: foreign only, foreign + native, native only • Hands-free mode — keep learning without touching the screen • Long-press context menu: mark as known or unknown in one tap • Optional shuffled order during study • Filter to show only words you haven't learned yet • Pronunciation for both the word and its translation • Knowledge tests for every deck • Export and import cards in CSV — TRANSLATE — • 111 offline dictionaries — no internet, no quota • On-the-fly transcription for all popular languages • Speech-to-text: just say the word, get the translation • Translate your own phrases and add them to any deck • Edit translations when you want a better wording • 90+ languages supported, including Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese and many more — AND ALSO — • System, Light and Dark themes • Choose Google or Yandex as default online translator • Compact mode on iPhone, expanded card view on iPad • Notifications to bring you back to recent cards Whether you're reading Sherlock Holmes in English, Kafka in German, Don Quijote in Spanish or Dostoevsky in Russian — Polyglot Reader turns reading into vocabulary, one tap at a time. Questions or feedback: [email protected]
Ratings & reviews
4.4
74 ratings
What’s new
Version 5.0.3 · Updated September 19, 2026
Version 5.0.3 • Improved the user feedback system
App privacy
The developer, Anton Ivanov, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Usage Data: Product Interaction, Advertising Data, Other Usage Data
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data, Other Diagnostic Data
Used for: Third-Party Advertising, Analytics
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| App | Rating | Price | Last updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polyglot Reader | 4.4 / 5 (74 ratings) | Free | September 19, 2026 |
| Russian Reading & Audio Books | 4.2 / 5 (39) | Free | Sep 13, 2026 |
| duoBooks: Language Learning | 4.7 / 5 (48) | Free | Sep 14, 2026 |
| Duoreader - Bilingual Reading | 4.1 / 5 (18) | Free | Sep 10, 2026 |
| AnyLang: Read, watch & learn | 4.7 / 5 (337) | Free | Dec 14, 2025 |
| Tembo - Bilingual Stories | 4.6 / 5 (32) | Free | Jul 25, 2025 |
| LinguaRead: Language Reader | – | Free | Aug 1, 2026 |