flwr.app – bilingual books 4+

Honestly what I’ve been looking for. First off, there’s notable titles like Harry Potter, Perks of being a Wallflower, The Little Prince, The Alchemist, and a bit more. You get to read the WHOLE books with NO subscription basically all for free. It’s hard to find things like this. There’s PDFs but this could save the trouble and has everything put together simply. The translations are true to the physical book versions. It lets you read piece by piece so before you know if you’ve read pages and pages, especially good when you’re on the go or waiting to help pass time. It’s good at saving where you left off and has a clean interface. Also has a dictionary for you to come back to words you didn’t know/understand to study later. Love this app and can’t wait for more books and languages to be added!

I’m currently learning French (and planning on learning Russian as well) and searched for French reading in the App Store to see if I could find something that would help me with language input. This app is exactly what I wanted. I love that you can read full texts in translation for free, and have the ability to check more complicated parts of the text in English as I read along. The dictionary feature is also great—when I run into something totally unfamiliar, I can click on the word to see what it means before I check the English text. I’ve only been using this app for a few days but it’s already an invaluable part of my study routine. Thank you very much for making it!

This is a brilliant app. I love the clean interface, built-in dictionary, snackable font size, and that there are books you’d actually want to read. Some features I’d like to see:

- Swap the reading hierarchy: I think it’s more helpful to immerse oneself in the language you are learning and then look to your native language for a translation if needed. Language you are learning at the top, native language at the bottom.

- Move dots at the bottom of pages to a corner: I didn’t realize they opened up to include night and advanced mode options! I thought they were a carousel to turn pages.

- Categorize books by reading level

- Ability to skip to chapters and pages

- Formatted for tablet: I read on my iPad often and having that larger screen space is helpful.

- Synchronization across devices: Being able to pick up where I left off whether I’m on my phone or tablet so I don’t lose my place.

Thank you for creating something that brings languages together for free!