Reading app for language learners · iPhone and iPad
Lexico is the language learning app for people who love to read. Open a novel or a classic in the language you're learning, tap any sentence for a translation, and turn the words you meet into flashcards. Built for book lovers, and for students with a reading list.
Lexico is an extensive-reading app: you learn a language by reading whole books in it, with the dictionary work handled for you. Instead of word lists and drills, you read a book you actually want to finish. Every sentence can be translated in a tap, every word explained, and every new word saved for spaced-repetition review.
Choose a novel or classic from the Lexico catalogue, prepared sentence by sentence for learners. Once downloaded, it works fully offline.
The translation slides in underneath. Every word shows its dictionary form and meaning, and verbs open a full conjugation table.
Save a word or expression with one tap. It comes back on a spaced-repetition schedule, right before you would forget it.
Lexico is built for intermediate learners who are ready for real books in a foreign language and tired of stopping every other line to look something up.
The page stays a page. Tap one sentence and Lexico shows its translation and lays the sentence out word by word, so you see exactly which word tripped you up and keep reading in the original.
Vocabulary you review is vocabulary you actually met on the page. Cards follow the same spaced-repetition schedule Anki uses: a new word returns after a minute, then ten, then a day, and the gaps grow every time you remember it.
Set a goal in sentences per day, not minutes. Meet it and your streak grows. Earn freezes to protect it on the days you can't read.
Pick up where you left off, see how far the chapter goes, and keep several books on the go. Your progress, flashcards and streak follow you between devices.
Reading is the most enjoyable form of comprehensible input there is. Lexico makes it work at any level.
You already read for pleasure. Lexico lets you do it in the language you're learning without losing the thread: the story stays in the original, help is one tap away, and the words you look up come back for review later. Finishing a real novel in another language is the milestone that makes everything else click.
Maupassant, Wilde and more: when the set text is a classic, Lexico's catalogue has it prepared sentence by sentence for learners. Read the book for class, tap through the hard passages instead of skimming a summary, and walk into the exam with a flashcard deck of exactly the vocabulary the text uses. Useful for school and university literature courses, DELF and DELE preparation, and book clubs.
Apps got you to intermediate and stopped helping. Real books are how you get further: thousands of sentences of authentic language, at your own pace, with your lookup rate falling week by week. Lexico tracks that curve so you can see yourself improve.
The reading itself gets the same care as the learning.
From paper to night, each tuned so the highlights stay readable.
Adjustable size, line spacing and a handful of fonts, or the publisher's own.
Jump between chapters; your position is remembered on every book.
Once a book is on your device, reading, lookups and review need no connection.
Milestones for your first chapter, first finished book, first month of streak and more.
Your reading data is yours. Analytics can be switched off in a tap.
Lexico is free to download for iPhone and iPad. The first chapters of every book are free.
Download on the App Store