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

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.

For people who want to try reading chinese not in a textbook, this is THE app. Pinyin can be on or off, and if you need to learn a new word you can just tap on it. Right now this is my go-to app for self-studying. Would recommend for those who have passed HSK4- most of the content requires a fairly broad vocabulary to read coherently.

Great for reading online novels and news the underlined word are very useful. The simplified to traditional character convertion should have the options that functions like in Calibre application with the sim<->trad extension which convert all first instead of sections. Some of them uses the character that are just isn't correct. Common characters like 裡，為. Recommend adding custom font like Edukai font for example, If possible local media files like epub if can import will be really nice.

What’s new

Novel/story titles in Discover now come with English translations. Thanks for using Readibu!