Novli - Learn Chinese

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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
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Updated on
Aug 14, 2026

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  • Committed to follow the Play Families Policy

Ratings and reviews

359 reviews
任梅霞
August 21, 2026
not even a day of using the free trial since my one free scan was used up, the app was more infuriating to use because all the characters were scanned incorrectly and i spent more time fixing the errors than actually reading the book, which i hoped to do. i had to use another app, Pleco, to fix the characters and im atp of just using pleco just to do the intended functions of this app. plus its a one time purchase with the dictionary app than this app that scans incorrectly:(
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Alex Viola Apps
August 23, 2026
Hi, sorry to hear about the scan issue. Would it be possible to email me more details to alexsimpson96@aol.com? I will investigate and make sure that is fixed asap. Also, I would be happy to extend your premium membership for free once I get it solved for you, as an apology from me :)
Sharanya Ranjan
July 19, 2026
Okay so Im going to be honest, a lot of features are hidden behind a paywall but it makes sense because running an app loke this isnt cheap here are the pros 1. Easy to read hsk 6 level texts for a learner 2. one tap gives you the meaning AND context (this is missing in various apps) 3. you can basically make it an audio book (cdrama lover here) 4. there's unlimited flashcards even without the premium version cons 1. no option to upload epubs yet (if they are then i dunno) thanks to dev tho
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Hafida Hamzah
July 27, 2026
This apps help me learn much easier. with one tap it can explains how the word is use in the sentence. not only just give the translation.
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What’s new

Minor bug fixes and improvements