Read your way into a language.
Fleuron sets the meaning above the words you don’t know yet, keeps every character straight without spoiling a page, and remembers the words you meet. Read the books you want to read, in the language you’re learning.
Free to download, with one book of your own. A single one-time unlock lifts the limit, permanently — never a subscription.
- English
- 日本語
- 한국어
- 简体中文
- 繁體中文
what she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with cupboardsa small room… and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she passed; it was labelled “ORANGE MARMALADEa preserve…”, but to her great disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar for fear of killing somebody underneath, so managed to put it into one of the cupboardsa small room… as she fell past it.
“Well!” thought Alice to herself, “after such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs!”
The best reading tools don’t pull you out of a book. They meet you inside it.
Hard words, explained.
Lens sets a short meaning above the words most likely to stop you, in the space kept free between the lines, so the page never moves. Tap any word for the whole entry: how it sounds, the sense that fits this sentence, examples, and a button that saves it for later.
Calibrated to youTurn the hints up for a hard book and down for an easy one. Words you mark as known stop being hinted.
The sense that fits the sentenceIf Fleuron isn’t sure what a word means here, it shows nothing. A wrong hint is worse than none.
Built for real languageInflections, phrases, names, furigana, pinyin, particles and character readings.
There was nothing so veryextremely remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, “Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!” (when she thought it over afterwardssubsequently, it occurred to her that she ought to have wonderedbeen surprised at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocketa man’s sleeveless garment…, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashedcame suddenly across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burningeager with curiositya desire to know, she ran across the field after it.
Readings above the hard words.
Fleuron reads Japanese, Korean and Chinese the way they need to be read. Furigana over the kanji you haven’t learned, in vertical text too. Pinyin over the hanzi, in Simplified and Traditional. Korean words found in their dictionary form, with the particles stripped away.
日本語Furigana, deinflection and kanji detail, horizontal or vertical.- 한국어Particles stripped, native dictionary forms, English glosses.
- 中文Pinyin, Simplified and Traditional, character data.
Who’s who, no spoilers.
Compass keeps an index of the people, places and terms in your book, and every page each one appears on. Put a book down for a week, or a year, and know at once who someone is. It only knows what you know: nobody’s later life is shown before you’ve read it.
Drag your place in the book, and watch the cast follow you.
- AAliceFalls down a rabbit-hole after a White RabbitI
- WThe White RabbitPink eyes, a waistcoat, and lateI
- MThe MouseSwims in the pool of tears; dislikes catsII
- CThe CaterpillarSits on a mushroom and asks who you areV
- CThe Cheshire CatGrins, and goes, and leaves the grinVI
- HThe HatterKeeps it always six o’clockVII
- QThe Queen of HeartsHas one way of settling all difficultiesVIII
4 more, once you’ve read that far.
Your books, on a real shelf.
Every book you read has a place, not only the ones you read in Fleuron. Paper books, borrowed books, books from years ago: each spine is drawn at the book’s own thickness, in its own jacket’s colour.
Want to read, Reading and Read come first; your own shelves follow, each with its name on a brass plate.
A carriage clock, a globe, a fern, a bell jar. A bookend stands a leaning row up straight.
Coming from Goodreads or StoryGraph? Every read, every date and every half star comes with you.
Every passage, kept.
Mark a passage, write a note on it, and link it to a word, to someone in Compass, or to another note. When your notes belong somewhere else, export them as a folder of Markdown files, one for every book.
In the morning when thou findest thyself unwilling to rise, consider with thyself presently, it is to go about a man’s work that I am stirred up.
Meditations · Book VEssentially a man arguing with his own alarm clock. “I am stirred up” is doing a great deal of work.
Words you meet, remembered.
Only the words you choose to save become cards, each one with the sentence you met it in. Fleuron decides when a word comes back, and how: the meaning, the word, the reading, listening, or rebuilding the phrase. You never manage a deck.
Tap the card to turn it.
Every look-up, filed away.
Every word you look up is filed like a card in a catalogue drawer, stamped with the time and the line you met it in. Readings, senses, examples, kanji and hanzi, in every language you’ve installed — without leaving the book.
adjutant
12:38 PMan officerWar and Peace — …Borís to him as adjutant…
sovereign
11:01 AMnot controlled by outside forcesWar and Peace — …Our gracious sovereign…
equivocal
9:24 AMopen to two or more interpretations
Every page, counted.
Time read, pages turned, books finished and the streak that keeps you coming back, drawn from the sittings Fleuron measured. Set a goal for the day and for the year. Read on paper? Log the day, and the streak keeps going.
20 minutes a day
14 min in Fleuron · 6 min on paper
Read first. Then scroll.
Block the apps you choose until today’s goal is met. Screen Time does the blocking; turn it off whenever you like.
Eight widgets for the Home Screen, Lock Screen and StandBy, shown here at their true size on iPhone.
Pages that turn like paper.
On iPhone, iPad and the open iPhone Duo, where a book lies open in two pages and the corner curls under your finger.
Private by default
Your books and core reading tools work locally and offline. Sync is a choice, never an assumption.
Stay inside the story.
A quiet place for harder books, new languages, and every thought they leave behind.
Free to download, with one book of your own. A single one-time unlock lifts the limit, permanently — never a subscription.