Read real Chinese, one tap from every word.
Open a book, a comic or a web page. Lamplet marks every word by how well you know it, puts pinyin over the ones you don't know yet, and a tap brings a word's meaning and a way to study it.
Every word marked by how well you know it.
A bar under each word fills as you learn it, so you can see at a glance how much of a page is already yours. Tap a word for its pinyin in tone colour, its meanings, how common it is and its HSK level, and a button to start studying it.
- Pinyin your way: above every word, only above the ones you don't know yet, on tap, or off.
- Meanings under new words, so a hard page still reads.
- Choose a phrase across several words to translate it or save it.
Set it the way it was printed.
Set a book in columns that run right to left and the pages turn the other way, as a book from Taiwan or Hong Kong would. Every mark and every lookup works the same.
- Pages that curl like paper, slide, or one long scroll.
- Simplified or traditional characters, or as the book was written.
- Your typeface, page colour, margins and space between words, kept per book.
Comics and photos, read on the phone.
Lamplet finds the Chinese in a comic page, a PDF or a photo of a printed page, on the device. Tap a speech bubble and its words are laid out with their study marks and short glosses, ready to hear read aloud or look up.
- Point the camera at a menu, a sign or a page and read it live.
- Paste or share text from any app into your library.
Any Chinese web page, marked the same way.
Open a news story, a blog or a wiki page in Lamplet's web reader and its words are marked from your own study, with pinyin over the ones you don't know yet. Save a page and it joins your library.
- Safari on iPhone and iPad: the Lamplet extension marks pages where you already browse.
- On a computer: the browser extension for Chrome, Brave, Edge and Arc does the same.
The same help wherever you read.
Books, comics, web pages and subtitles share one dictionary, one set of marks and your own settings.
- Tones you can see
Tone colour on the pinyin, the characters or both, or a mark under each syllable. A palette for colour-blind readers, and zhuyin if you learned with it.
- Read aloud
Hear the page from any sentence, with the sentence highlighted as it goes, at your own speed, pausing while you look a word up.
- Know before you start
Every book and page in your library shows how much of it you already know, so you can pick something at your level.
- One tap to study
A word you save from a page comes back in your reviews with the sentence you found it in.
Bring the first book you want to read.
A short level check sets your first words, and everything you read after that counts toward them. Your library follows you to every device you sign in on.