MagicBooks

Learn by ReadingFirst Edition

Read a real novel on day one.

Most language apps give you sentences about a red apple. MagicBooks gives you Alice, Pinocchio and the Brothers Grimm — the actual books, rewritten to the level you can read today, and slowly handed back to you in the original as you improve.

Coming soon to the App Store

Free to download · iPhone · Three chapters a day, free forever

61public-domain books
6reading languages
A1–C2every level
3free chapters a day

Learn ⇄ Flow

Your own language, woven through the page — then gradually taken away. Drag the slider to see the same sentence at five different levels.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · Chapter I

Alice was beginning to get very tired de estar sentada con su hermana a la orilla del río, y de no tener nada que hacer.

LearnFlow

B1Half and half — you can still lean on English.

Rewritten to your level

Every chapter is rewritten the moment you open it — always readable, always a little challenging. Move a step up or down mid-chapter.

Learn ⇄ Flow

Start with your own language woven through the page. As your vocabulary grows, the blend shifts and the book is handed back to you closer to the original.

Tap any word

Meaning, pronunciation and an example sentence, in context. Tapped words come back tomorrow, just before you were going to forget them.

Talk to Maya

Call your tutor and discuss the chapter you just read — she read it too, at your level, with your vocabulary in mind.

How it works

  1. Pick the language you speak and the one you're learning. Two minutes of setup — your level and why you're learning.
  2. Open a book, then a chapter. It's rewritten to your exact level while you wait, then cached so it reopens instantly.
  3. Read, tap, talk. Tap any word for an explanation, move the blend when it's too hard or too easy, then call Maya to talk the chapter through.

61 books, six languages

  • English
  • German
  • French
  • Spanish
  • Italian
  • Portuguese

Fairy tales, adventure, mystery and classics — all free and in the public domain. Most chapters take five to ten minutes.

The book you couldn't read yet, in the language you're learning. Get in touch if you need a hand.