TingYue
Reader for English Learners
Free · In-App Purchases
TingYue is a reading and audiobook app designed for foreign language learners and extensive reading enthusiasts. It supports importing EPUB, PDF, TXT, DOCX and MOBI files, automatic full-text translation, and multi-engine text-to-speech (TTS), combined with reading plans, vocabulary study and practice features that turn “finish this book” into something you can do a day at a time.
Core Features
• Reading Plans: Split a book into segments you can finish in a day — set it by total days, daily minutes or a finish date. Your library shows plans in progress, a reminder arrives each day, and finishing a book ends with a recap.
• Vocabulary Study: Pick the word lists you want to learn and the app analyses how many of those words this book contains, highlights them as you read, and keeps your progress one tap away.
• Full-Text Translation: Automatically translates paragraphs or entire pages into the target language. Translations can be displayed below the original text or side-by-side. Supports multiple translation engines (including Apple Translate, DeepL, Google, etc.).
• Smart Reading & TTS: Built-in multiple voice engines, supporting offline and cloud high-quality voices. Suitable for intensive listening and shadowing practice.
• Reading Assistance: Highlights new words, word frequency analysis, sentence parsing, biomimetic reading, speed reading and blurred text exercises, AI dictionary, AI explanations, helping focus and memory.
• Learning Tools: Create study sets, add images and example sentences, dictation exercises, export learning materials, supports custom study set sizes and review plans.
• Practice Modes: Chinese-to-English back translation, blurred text training, split-screen side-by-side reading, and other interactive modes, suitable for translation, speaking, and writing practice.
• Customization & Extensions: Supports custom translation/voice/AI engines (requires API keys), and allows saving custom translations and notes.
• Formats & Sync: Import EPUB, PDF, TXT, DOCX and MOBI. Your books, notes, study sets and custom word lists sync across iPhone, iPad and Mac via iCloud.
Target Users
• English and foreign language learners (beginner to advanced)
• Readers who enjoy extensive and deep reading
• Users preparing for translation or speaking exams
• Users who need high-quality TTS and listening practice
Membership Plans
• Reader Plan, subscription periods: lifetime
• Read Plus Plan, subscription periods: 1 month, 1 year, lifetime
• Listen Plus Plan, subscription periods: 1 month, 1 year, lifetime
• AI Plan, subscription periods: 1 month
Price may vary by location. Subscriptions will be charged to your credit card through your iTunes account. Your subscription will automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage your subscriptions in Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription.
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more This release fixes two problems.
• Fixed a crash for new users right after setting up their profile
• Fixed notifications not opening the book's detail page when the app was closed
8.12.1 1 day ago
This release makes the reader easier to use and fixes several membership and sign-in problems.
• The reader side panel has a new Notes tab. Swipe left or right to move between words, translation and notes
• New "Triple-Tap Sentence to Play" switch in Reading Settings. Turn it off if you trigger it by accident
• Word Wise now shows the meaning of a saved phrase over the whole phrase
• Fixed membership status flipping between active and expired
• Fixed being signed out every few days when the app stays open, most often on Mac
• Fixed word lists that Anki refused to import
• Fixed a translation getting its own reading plan, which showed two identical plans in the library
• Fixed full-page translation with Apple Translation loading forever until you restarted the app
• Fixed books not syncing after switching from a guest to an existing account
• Fixed a zoomed-in PDF page shrinking back to fit when you tapped a blank area or a word in the word list
• The "iCloud storage is full" alert no longer keeps coming back
8.12.0 3 days ago
This release fixes several problems that affected reading and syncing.
• Fixed a blank page that could appear after turning pages
• Fixed books that showed as "Synced" but could not be downloaded on another device
• Fixed imported MDict dictionaries playing no sound when you tap pronunciation
• Fixed lifetime members' AI engine keys being wrongly treated as expired
8.11.7 29 Sept
This release adds a Lock Toolbar setting and fixes several problems that could interrupt your reading.
• New "Lock Toolbar" setting: once it is on, tapping blank space in the text no longer hides the toolbar
• Fixed the vocabulary sidebar flickering constantly during read-aloud
• Fixed EPUB failures: error dialogs stacking one after another, and a half-extracted folder that made a book impossible to open again
• A brief network hiccup no longer signs you out — it retries first
• Fixed a crash when editing a word's name on some devices
8.11.5 20 Sept
This release fixes several problems that could interrupt your reading, and tidies up what the membership page shows once you have bought a plan.
• Fixed the app freezing completely after a long reading session
• Fixed books sitting on a blank screen for 8 to 11 seconds after a cold start
• Fixed the play button sometimes doing nothing at all
• Fixed books in iCloud spinning forever and never finishing their download
• Fixed losing the connection to the server after a network change
• If you own a lifetime membership, the membership page no longer shows a row of cards you cannot tap — it lists the tiers you can move up to by paying the difference
8.11.4 18 Sept
This release is all about iOS 27: the reading toolbars, the top bar and the PDF view line up with the new system again.
• On iOS 27 the bottom toolbar no longer shows just its first button — playback and the rest were being swept into the “…” overflow
• On iOS 27, tapping a blank area to show or hide the toolbars no longer makes the PDF page zoom and jump
• On iPad the outermost buttons in the top bar no longer sit right against the edge of the screen
• “Text Version” now shows its name in the “…” menu instead of a bare icon
8.11.3 16 Sept
This release is mostly about PDFs and vocabulary analysis: page turns in large PDFs are smooth again, and books with illustrated pages can finish their analysis.
• Turning pages in a PDF no longer stutters or needs a second swipe; an occasional crash while browsing PDFs is fixed, and the crop toolbar lines up properly
• On PDFs with full-page illustrations, vocabulary analysis no longer stops at “Analysis failed” part of the way through, and reopening the book no longer rescans it from scratch; Chinese books are no longer analysed as English
• Fixed word highlighting disappearing from the middle of the screen in continuous scrolling mode
• Fixed several crashes in reading, word lookup, word lists, the AI dictionary and translation; devices on the Chinese mainland are no longer switched to the overseas backup server, which could leave them unable to connect for a while
8.11.2 15 Sept
This release fixes PDFs properly: books of several hundred — or a few thousand — pages can now be searched, paged through and looked up without stalling or crashing. The app is also noticeably smaller.
PDF
• Full-text search in a big book no longer crashes the app — even a thousand-page book is searchable
• Scrolling the thumbnail grid through a whole book no longer slows to a crawl
• After the first time you open a book, the table of contents and reading progress come up almost instantly
• Tapping a word now looks up the word you tapped, and taps right after closing the menu no longer do nothing
• Fixed the second page of a large PDF showing as “finished” the first time you open it
READING
• Smaller download, so it installs faster and takes up less space (text recognition in scanned PDFs is unaffected)
• In-book search shows 10 results first, with “Load More” for the rest — hundreds of hits no longer flood the screen at once
• Searching inside EPUB books is much smoother
• The reading font size can be made large again (it was stuck in the last version)
• Cards flip instantly instead of waiting out a one-second animation
ICLOUD SYNC
• Books shown as “uploaded” that never actually reached iCloud — the cloud is now what counts, and anything missing can be uploaded again
• Fixed book files already in iCloud being wiped
• Changing one setting no longer pushes all your settings to the cloud, so your devices stop overwriting each other
• The vocabulary-list intro no longer keeps reappearing on each of your devices
OTHER FIXES
• Blank pages that wouldn't swipe no matter what
• Cancelling a half-finished swipe taking you to the page you'd just decided against
• Crashes when turning the page with the keyboard open
• Dragging a selection across a page break cutting off the end of the sentence, leaving the translation incomplete
• Sentence analysis being cleared as soon as you switched translation engines
• Search results taking you to the wrong spot
• Several crashes while reading
8.11.1 12 Sept
A major update: two new learning flows, plus a full redesign of the reader and settings.
NEW
• Reading plans — split a book into segments you can actually finish in a day. Set it by total days, daily minutes or a finish date; your library shows plans in progress, a reminder arrives each day, and finishing a book ends with a recap
• Vocabulary study flow — pick the word lists you want to learn and the app analyses how many of those words are in this book, highlights them as you read, and keeps your progress one tap away
• Listen button on covers — tap it on an audiobook cover to open the book and start playing in one go
• Your custom word lists now sync via iCloud, so a new device doesn't mean rebuilding them
IMPROVED
• Account, speech engine, dictionary, translation engine and AI engine settings have all been rebuilt — configuring an engine and previewing it now happen in one place
• Redesigned reader top bar, learning rail, side drawer, split view and theme settings
• Vocabulary analysis moved to a compact bar in the top-right corner, and now tells you when no word list is set or when the analysis failed
• Full-text translation can now fall back to Apple Translate when your engine fails; failed paragraphs no longer print a wall of raw error text into the page
• After an iCloud sync you can now tap “Download All” to pull everything from your other devices down again in one go
FIXED
• The full-text translation switch did nothing — and said nothing — when Apple Translate was selected
• Being signed out on a flaky connection, then unable to sign back in because fetching settings timed out (most noticeable outside mainland China)
• Books losing their group after an iCloud restore
• Word menus that wouldn't scroll when the note was long, and swiping up turning the page instead
• Chinese books pinned above groups on the library home screen
• Read-aloud losing the highlight on the current sentence after scrolling or changing chapters
• PDFs with tall pages having their top and bottom cropped; several seconds of freeze when opening a large book
• The magnifier showing nothing but a blank patch in continuous scroll mode
• Cloud icons still showing on books after iCloud sync was turned off
• The vocabulary bar jumping back to the first word when you tapped a word mid-page-turn
• AI dictionary content going missing at random during close reading
• A newly synced data type staying permanently invisible on devices still on an older version — this is how the reading plans from 8.10.26 vanished entirely on Mac. The data is now re-downloaded in full, automatically
8.11.0 30 Aug
• Fixed selected text disappearing on every other selection while reading
• Fixed continuous scroll mode not resuming playback from the paused position on double-tap
• Fixed highlighted words not showing in the sidebar word list for PDF books
• Fixed a crash on Mac when tapping to redeem a coupon
8.10.26 24 Jul
• New vertical continuous scroll reading mode for a smoother reading experience
• Unified blur rendering for sentences and translations with better performance
• Fixed Mac issue where pressing Enter confirmed notes instead of inserting a line break
• Improved WordWise: fixed garbled display for imported HTML dictionaries and enlarged tap target
• Fixed crashes with Azure TTS and CoreText rendering, plus various stability improvements
8.10.25 18 Jul
• New vertical continuous scroll reading mode for a smoother reading experience
• Unified blur rendering for sentences and translations with better performance
• Fixed Mac issue where pressing Enter confirmed notes instead of inserting a line break
• Improved WordWise: fixed garbled display for imported HTML dictionaries and enlarged tap target
• Fixed crashes with Azure TTS and CoreText rendering, plus various stability improvements
8.10.24 16 Jul
• WordWise hints: tap a hint to view its full content, fixed truncation and text overflow
• Fixed word definitions being clipped on iOS 26
• Fixed an occasional crash when using Apple Translation
• Fixed an issue where some local books could not be imported
• Fixed several sentence translation and AI lookup issues
8.10.23 6 Jul
• Fixed audio player to correctly repeat the last sentence when using sentence loop count setting
• Simplified image configuration entry in learning details
• Added quick dictionary selector control in word menu
• Fixed reader members unable to read third-party source book content
• Fixed auto logout when looking up words after AI key expiration
8.10.22 10 Jun
• Fixed image carousel remaining visible after being turned off
• Added select-all for note export
• Fixed incorrect price format on the subscription page
• Fixed translation not working when English is set as the native language
• Fixed crash when exporting study data
• Fixed audio not playing in EPUB books with embedded audio
8.10.21 7 Jun
• Word images: Word definitions now support image illustrations — browse from the gallery or upload custom images, with like/dislike rating
• Expanded translation languages: Added 40+ languages including Polish, Dutch, Thai, Hebrew, and more — non-Chinese native language users now get correct translation targets
• Added nav bar restore button: Easily restore the navigation bar after hiding it
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
8.10.20 1 Jun
• New paging mode: Curl (page-flip) animation added to reader settings — choose between Horizontal, Vertical, or Curl
• Fixed toolbar button icon sizes scaling incorrectly with accessibility text size settings
• Fixed translation list layout and standard translation engine output
• Fixed PDF page position offset when navigating back from a zoomed page
• Notes now support multi-line input
• Fixed multiple other issues and improved stability
8.10.19 14 May
• Improved purchase recovery: if your subscription is linked to another account, the app now shows the associated WeChat or Apple ID name
• Fixed text-to-speech playback failure when third-party TTS engines return JSON errors instead of audio
• Fixed a user permission issue
• Fixed multiple other issues and improved stability
8.10.18 10 May
• Fixed AI key sync issue
• Fixed reading config values not applying correctly when opening a book
• Fixed multiple other issues and improved stability
8.10.17 8 May
• Added CSV export support for learning items
• Improved PDF reading with zoom persistence and edge-scroll page turning
• Optimized subscription page lifetime plan pricing display
• Fixed multiple known issues and improved overall stability
8.10.16 7 May
• Added AI Memory Aid feature with smart memory tips during word lookup
• Added AI Context Analysis feature to interpret word meanings based on current context
• Improved word detail page UI and interaction experience
• Fixed known issues and improved overall stability
8.10.15 29 Apr
• Added support for Apple Translate on Mac for full-text translation
• Improved full-text translation experience
• Added audio playback for example sentences in the dictionary
• Optimized PDF page caching for smoother navigation
• Fixed inconsistent PDF highlight positioning
• Fixed an issue where the “More” button on iPhone reading pages was unresponsive
• Fixed an issue where disabling speed reading did not restore normal reading
• Fixed incomplete sentence display in the review page
• Fixed crashes when selecting text across chapters via long press and drag
• Fixed an issue where lookup did not pause audio when the vocabulary bar was visible
• Fixed transparency issue in the word detail page on Mac
• Improved the “Learning” list in word frequency analysis
• Added support for renaming bookstore books
• Fixed known issues and improved overall stability
8.10.14 22 Apr
• Added AI temperature configuration to control text generation creativity
• Improved full-text translation experience
• Optimized built-in speech engine for faster conversion
• Restored full vocabulary collection to support highlighting all unknown/ignored words
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
8.10.13 3 Apr
• Added AI temperature configuration to control text generation creativity
• Improved full-text translation experience
• Optimized built-in speech engine for faster conversion
• Restored full vocabulary collection to support highlighting all unknown/ignored words
8.10.12 25 Mar
• Share self-made read-aloud books to the bookstore for other users to discover
• New AI membership and AI lifetime plans with 1,000,000 AI tokens per month
• Highlight color settings now sync across devices via iCloud
• Redesigned subscription page with clearer plan benefits
• Audio cache optimization, thread-safety improvements, and performance enhancements
8.10.11 24 Mar
This release fixes two problems.
• Fixed a crash for new users right after setting up their profile
• Fixed notifications not opening the book's detail page when the app was closed
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