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 luckily found a story I really like and I'm completely hooked. Being able to tap the characters I don't know to get a pop up dictionary is absolutely wonderful and lets me read a bit above my actual level and learn some new characters. The trick is finding a story you like. The blurbs are only sometimes helpful and stories often show up multiple times. I read a ton in English, and now that Readibu helps me read in Chinese, I'm quite optimistic about improving my Chinese.

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 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!

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