About Tapread

Built so a dictionary never interrupts a good sentence

Our mission

Reading in another language should feel like reading. Tapread removes the pause between an unfamiliar word and the rest of the sentence, so you stay inside the story instead of inside a dictionary.

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What we care about

Reading comes first: help shows up only when you ask for it and goes away when you keep reading.

No tracking: there are no ads or analytics in the app, and the privacy policy says exactly what leaves your device.

Your books stay yours: we don’t sell or host books. You bring your own files.

Why we built Tapread

Our story

A note from the team

Dear reader,

Reading a book in another language usually goes like this: a good sentence, an unfamiliar word, a trip to a dictionary. By the time you come back, the scene has gone cold.

We built Tapread to cut out that trip. You tap the word, see what it means in this sentence and keep going.

Everything else grew from that idea: your own books, proper typography, a light and a dark theme, and a voice that reads the book to you when your eyes are tired.

We hope it helps you finish the book you’ve been meaning to read.

The Tapread team

Tapread in numbers

What you get when you open the app.

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Translation languages24

Meaning shown in the language you think in.

Narration languages5

English, Spanish, French, Italian and Japanese.

Taps to a meaning1

The meaning shows up on the page you’re reading.

Book formats6

EPUB, PDF, Word, FB2, Kindle and TXT, opened from Files.

Hours of narration15

A month with Premium, shared by all your devices.

Trackers in the app0

No analytics and no advertising identifiers.

What leaves your device is written down

Only the word you tap and the sentence around it, plus the chapters you choose to have narrated. Your book files stay on your device.

Read the Privacy Policy