Readibu - Chinese novel reader

Eva Chen

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About this app

Discover new stories and worlds in Chinese!

Ready to move beyond flashcards and graded readers? Readibu is your portal to the world of popular Chinese web novels, short stories and children stories enjoyed by native readers. From historical to sci-fi or romance to horror, there's always something good to read.

Readibu is a Chinese web reader where you can:
1. Explore popular web novels, short stories, and children stories from native Chinese sites
2. Tap on characters for definitions
3. Open web pages in a reader for immersive reading
4. Absorb the language while you're immersed in gripping adventures

Supported features:
• Tap for dictionary
• Text-to-speech
• Simplified and traditional conversion
• Pinyin/zhuyin display over words
• Add custom url to display in reader
• Export saved vocabularies
• Auto-detect next chapter
• Auto-save last page you were on

Ratings and reviews

I love this app but have been very frustrated with a glitch - the past few days I havent been able to get new chapters to open. For example, I'll open the app and see the text for Chapter 13 on Qidian. But as soon as I press the button to open in app format, I go back to Chapter 12. If I try and go forward, it sends me to Chapter 14. I just cannot open certain chapters. This has been going on for a few days now and is incredibly frustrating - I am invested in my web novel now!

Thank you for the multiple viewing options and short stories. I do desire to see more variety of stories in the future and perhaps even audio for at least some stories. I appreciate the character and definition lookup, but I also appreciate the pinyin, which is especially useful for looking up complex characters outside the app for more detailed study. The user interface is friendly for beginners and attractively designed. Altogether, this is a lovely app.

Please add a sync across multiple devices option! I love the fact that I can read Chinese novels while having a pop up dictionary for words I don't know. I do wish there was more variety and I've found multiples of the same novels. I wish for there to be a voice over feature for the dictionary.

What's new

• [Premium] Added Smart Name Recognition for detecting likely names of people, locations and organizations
• Added Page Stats in reader
• Make bookmark title editable
• Updated webview UI
• Fixed various bugs