Soya: Graded Reading
Chinese, Japanese & Korean
Only for iPhone
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Turn any article into reading practice at your level — with a tap-anything dictionary, readings over every word, and five games that cost nothing to play.
Soya turns the things you already want to read into reading practice at exactly your level.
Paste a link, share an article from Safari, or name a book — Soya rewrites it in Chinese, Japanese or Korean pitched at the level you choose, and hands it back as something you can actually read.
AT YOUR LEVEL, NOT SOMEONE ELSE'S
Pick HSK 1–6, JLPT N5–N1 or TOPIK 1–6. The same article at HSK 2 and HSK 5 is genuinely two different texts, not the same text with a glossary bolted on. Change your mind halfway and re-translate it at another level.
FOUR LANGUAGES, INCLUDING BOTH CHINESE SCRIPTS
Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Traditional is a first-class choice, not a conversion pass over Simplified.
TAP ANY WORD
Every word carries its reading — pinyin, hiragana or the pronounced hangul — and a tap gives you the definition, the word in that exact sentence, and examples. Tap "Break it down" and the sentence is walked through part by part.
PRACTICE THAT COSTS NOTHING
Five games built from the words you have actually looked up: fill the gap, pair match, sentence order, listening and a mixed session. They never call a model, so they work on a plane, on the underground, and on no signal at all. A bundled vocabulary catalogue means there is something to practise from the first minute.
READ ALOUD
Any sentence, any article, at your pace.
NEWS, ALREADY TRANSLATED
A daily corpus of short news stories, translated ahead of time, so browsing them costs nothing and opening one is instant.
YOUR READING STAYS YOURS
Your library, your words, your practice history and your reading positions live on your phone. There is no account to make. Sign in only if you want your library on a second device — it is off by default and always optional.
FREE, OR YOUR OWN KEY
Soya works out of the box with a monthly free allowance and no account. If you would rather use your own model provider — Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint — add your key in Settings and it goes straight from your phone to them. Your key stays in the keychain and is never uploaded.
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Quizzes: every Korean lesson can now be answered too — the last of the four languages, 620 questions in all, graded as you go with your score kept on the lesson list
• Three further examples on every Korean word as well — all 10,260, free and offline
• A few dozen missing HSK and JLPT words are in the catalogue now, and every level of every language reports its coverage correctly
• Play resumes with sound after you pause it, and a listening session no longer ends early
• A deep link to an article that's gone no longer gets stuck loading
The developer, James Gwee, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- James Gwee
- Size
- 88.1 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 16.4 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Soya