Which languages? At launch: books in English with dictionaries for Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Spanish, plus an English–English dictionary. Voices for English and Vietnamese first; Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, French and Italian follow, each downloading on demand.
Where do the books come from? You bring your own: EPUB, TXT, Markdown and text-based PDF, imported from Files, the share sheet or WebDAV. There is no store, and we never touch DRM-locked books.
Does it work offline? Entirely. Voice, translation and dictionary all run on the device. You need the network once, to download a voice and a dictionary; after that, a plane is a reading room.
What does it cost? Reading is free forever: full reader, one voice, a hundred saved words. Premium at $39.99 a year covers every voice and language, unlimited spaced review, bilingual pages, sync and Anki export. That's a third of what the big TTS apps charge, because our voices cost us nothing to run.
What about my privacy? Your books never leave your phone. Nothing you read, tap or save is uploaded; the pipeline that pronounces and translates runs on the device. Cloud features exist, off by default, and use your own key if you ever turn them on.
Android? iOS first: iPhone and iPad in one app. Android will be considered seriously once the iOS version is loved.
When can I try it? The iPhone beta opens soon; the waitlist below goes in first, in order, and keeps the lifetime launch deal.
Who makes this? Santaris, a small team that reads slowly and believes a language is learned one page at a time.
