Readibu - Chinese novel reader

Eva Chen

In-app purchases

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

Honestly amazing. The app is basically a pop up dictionary for reading, and it doesn't really have any bugs from what I've seen. Some stuff is preselected and categorized by genre and reading level. if you want to read a book that isn't on the app, you can search for it on baidu or Google. there's also a flash card feature that i don't use much but seems to be functional. i would love to see this app for other languages. That would be exceptional.

I love how you can tap on any word and it translates it right away. Best feature is that it translates compound words and phrases, since Chinese is a language where a word's meaning depends on what it's combined with. The free features are sufficient to enable you to read an entire novel and not paying for it isn't an obstacle to using the app. There are no intrusive ads - it pops up briefly when the book is loading but then disappears and does not interfere with the reading. Excellent!

Customer support is helpful and prompt! Update: best learning app! Good for acquiring vocabulary, grammar, and practice all at once!! The premium version, imo, is worth it for the quiz mode alone but the translation mode is also super helpful.

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