Novli - Learn Chinese

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3.9
169 reviews
10K+
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

HOW TO USE NOVLI:

1. Snap a photo of a mandarin chinese text you want to read.

2. Tap on words to instantly translate them and see pinyn.

3. Explore the other features: add to Anki style flashcards in a single tap, ask AI questions about the text, listen to your text.

Novli works for images of textbooks, novels, social media posts, uploaded lecture notes, or any other Chinese text input you need.

We built Novli because when we were learning to read Chinese, it would always take ages to look up words in Pleco, find their pinyin, and add to our Anki flashcards. Now we can do this all from Novli in a few taps.

If you have feedback or questions, please feel free to email us at alexsimpson96@aol.com. This directly contacts the founder, and he will read every email :)

We hope you enjoy our language learning tool!

(Note, we recently renamed from Readly to Novli. Same app, subscriptions and lesson history, just a new name)

Privacy Policy: https://novli.app/privacy-policy.html
Terms of Service: https://novli.app/terms.html
Updated on
Nov 8, 2025

Data safety

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Committed to follow the Play Families Policy

Ratings and reviews

4.1
159 reviews
GERMAN GUERRERO
November 3, 2025
This Novli app is so annoying! It doesn't allow proper multitasking. I can't have two apps open at the same time using split-screen,It takes forever to play the audio, and the text translation is a mess. In the folders where you save your texts, you can't even create subfolders! And it's too expensive to have these kinds of basic errors. I really hope you fix this, because you could be the best app for studying Chinese, but right now you're not even close.
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sal
November 5, 2025
Really great app if you're learning Chinese! I can understand my university texts really easily with it; it really helps me understand the characters very well!
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Rangana Bora
October 27, 2025
it's very good app but since I'm just a child so I can't get premium and my parents also won't allow money for an app and I really want to learn Chinese, but I wished I could use it for free but other than that it's a very good app I highly recommend you don't doubt my words download this app you will love this
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Alex Viola Apps
October 29, 2025
hi, if you send me an email at alexsimpson96@aol.com with your Novli ID (on settings page of app), I would be happy to give you a month of premium for free so you can learn some Chinese with it :)

What’s new

Minor bug fixes.