Readibu

Read Chinese web novels and your own EPUBs with pop-up pinyin and dictionary.

AppsToolsFreemiumIntermediateAdvancedB1–C1

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What it actually is

Aimed squarely at the hardest transition in Chinese — from graded readers to native text — by making any Chinese webpage or imported file tappable for pinyin, definitions and text-to-speech, with difficulty estimates for novels. Reading itself is free; premium adds sync, offline and sentence translation. Best once you have roughly HSK 4 vocabulary; below that even with lookups the novels are a slog.

What it covers

  • Reading
  • Vocabulary

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