Read stories written around your interests, or real books with a translation a tap away. Save the words you don't know. Every day the app turns them into a short lesson: it brings back what you're starting to forget, adds a few new words and a bit of grammar, and at the end asks you to write a couple of sentences or have a short conversation.
Your first lesson opens right away · No signup, no card · Works in the browser
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Mira checked the oxygen gauge twice — the needle was trembling, and the spare tank had vanished from its locker.
The station drifted in silence above the frozen moon. Somewhere under the ice a signal flickered back: three short pulses, then silence.
This is what reading looks like in the app: tap a word for its translation and forms, or move the slider to show the translation of the whole text. Every story can be listened to.
How it works
Every word takes the same path, and it starts with reading.
New words come from what you read: stories on topics you like, written at your level, or real books. The translation is always a tap away.
A few short exercises take you from recognising the word to typing it from memory and using it in a sentence. Each word comes with real example phrases and audio.
The app works out when you're likely to forget each word and brings it back just then. The better you know a word, the less often you see it.
At the end of a lesson you write a few sentences or talk with a companion, then see what went well and what to fix. That's when the word is really yours.
What's inside
Everything here is connected: a word you meet in a story turns up again in your exercises, your reviews and your conversations. See the full tour →
Pick a few interests, like space, detective stories, travel or cooking, and the app writes a story at your level with the words you're learning right now woven in. The translation runs alongside, and any sentence can be broken down for you. So a new word first turns up in a plot you chose, not in a list.
New story
Interests
Signal from Europa
Mira checked the oxygen gauge twice — the spare tank had vanished from its locker…
You choose the topics, and the app writes the words you're learning into the story.
Each word goes through a few short exercises: pick its translation, recognise it by ear, find it among others, type it from memory, use it in a sentence. Along the way you see it in real phrases. Stuck? The hint fills in the next letter, or you can just tap “I don't remember” and move on.
Word practice
Stage 5 of 6 · type from memory
Write the word from its meaning
indicador, medidor
Collocations
Exercise five of six: type the word from memory. The hint fills in the next letter, and “I don't remember” is always there.
Each word comes back to you on its own schedule, just before you'd forget it. The schedule comes from FSRS, the modern spaced-repetition algorithm that's also built into Anki. Every time you remember a word, the gap grows: a day, four days, ten, a month.
Each word has its own schedule: today, in four days, in ten, in a month. The better you know it, the longer the gap.
Every important topic from A1 to C1 has a short lesson in your own language: the pattern, examples, the mistake almost everyone makes, and a few exercises at the end. A map shows the whole way: what you've mastered, what you're working on, what's next. And when you read, the grammar you've studied is highlighted right in the text.
Past · habits and states that are no longer true
used to + verbFor things that were true or happened regularly in the past — and don't anymore.
Practise the topic
He ___ chess every evening — now he prefers long walks.
Topic review · in 6 days
A short explanation, a quick exercise, and then the topic comes back for review, just like your words.
Everything the LangOrbit Reader does is here too: the translation beside the text, a dictionary on every word, books read aloud, your own EPUB and FB2 files, reading offline. Plus one thing the Reader can't do on its own: a word you tap in a book goes straight into your lessons, and the words you're learning stay highlighted in everything you read.
ENGLISH
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
One tap and a word from the book is in your lessons. The words you're learning stay highlighted.
It isn't only exercises that count. Words and grammar you keep meeting while reading are counted on their own. You can see how close you are to the next level, how much of the Oxford 5000 (the 5,000 most useful English words) you already know, and what to learn next: words on topics you like, or grammar at your level.
Your progress
Credited from reading
What you meet while reading counts too, so you can see where your level really is.
Knowing a word when you see it isn't the same as using it. So a lesson ends with you doing something with it: writing a few sentences on today's grammar, a short translation or a diary entry. Every line is checked, and each mistake is marked in your own text with an explanation in your language. Or you have a short conversation with a companion who uses the words you've just learned, and afterwards you see what went well and what to work on.
Write it yourself
A few things to fix
The story holds together and the past simple is right everywhere but one place.
Last week I have visited1 the old harbour with a friend. We walked along the muelle and watched the boats come in.
Words you didn't know
The mistake is marked right in your text, with the fix and the reason. And a word you wrote in your own language becomes a new word to learn.
How we're different
We built the app we couldn't find ourselves: no games, and no flashcards to make by hand.
There are no leaderboards to keep up with, and a missed day isn't a disaster: a streak freeze covers it. The only number we want to see grow is your level, and the better you know your words, the fewer reviews you get.
You get spaced repetition without building decks: example phrases, audio and a review schedule are ready for every word.
Reading is where new words come from, but it's only the start. Then come exercises, reviews on time, writing and conversation, and a clear picture of your level.
App or Reader
Both are free to try. Pick the one that fits how far you want to go.
To learn English
A lesson ready for you every day, stories about what you like, short exercises, reviews right on time, a grammar map from A1 to C1, writing checked by AI and conversations with a companion. The whole Reader is built in. For learning English (or Spanish), not just reading it.
To just read
For when you simply want to read: real English books with the translation alongside, a dictionary on every word, grammar explained right in the sentence, and audio that reads the chapter aloud. Your own EPUB and FB2 files, offline. A complete product on its own, simpler and cheaper than the app.
Both open for free, with no signup. In the app, signing up gives you 14 days of Plus, and the free plan never runs out. Words you save in the Reader move over to the app.
FAQ
The app is for learning: a lesson ready every day, exercises that make words stick, reviews on time, a grammar map, writing checked by AI, conversations and a clear view of your progress, with the whole Reader built in. The Reader is a separate, simpler product for people who just want to read: books with a dictionary on every word, grammar explained in the sentence, audio, your own EPUB and FB2, offline reading. If you move from the Reader to the app, your saved words come with you.
Yes, and it isn't a demo. The app and the Reader both open with no signup and no card. Sign up in the app and you get 14 days of Plus; after that you choose between a subscription and the free plan, which is yours forever: hundreds of stories in themed packs, sample chapters of books and a 15-minute lesson every day. Writing, conversations and the extra practice on repeated mistakes come with Plus. There are no ads on any plan.
Any, including none at all. The course goes from zero to C1, everything is graded by CEFR level, texts come at your level, and the words and grammar adjust to you as you go. If your language is Russian, Spanish, German, French, Italian or Portuguese, complete beginners start with a short primer written for them.
Pick a book at your level, read with the translation beside the text, and save the words you want to keep. LangOrbit turns them into your daily lesson and brings them back for review on time, so the time you spend reading turns into words you remember.
FSRS is a modern spaced-repetition algorithm, the same one used in Anki. It keeps track of how well you remember each word and schedules a review for the day you'd start to forget it. You spend less time reviewing and remember more.
Any modern browser, on a phone, tablet or computer. You can also install it as an app (PWA). There's a Telegram Mini App too, opened from our bot. Your progress syncs everywhere.
Translations and the interface come in eight languages: English, Russian, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and Chinese (simplified or traditional). Spanish as a language to learn is open in all of them except Spanish itself.
Yes, in any of the app's languages: a Spanish course from the very first word, with its own primer, grammar from A1 to B2, more than 200 short stories, 16 books with a translation beside every sentence, and a verb page with every tense on one map. Both courses live on one account, with one streak. Spanish for English speakers
Yes: a free vocabulary test with no signup that takes about three minutes. Mark the words you know out of 144 and you'll get an estimate like “about 2,600 words”, your CEFR level, and the words at your level you don't know yet. From the results page, one tap opens the app with your level set and a first lesson made from those words. Take the test
It opens right in your browser, free and with no signup. Or, if you'd rather just read, open a book in the Reader.
Works on phone, tablet and computer. There's also a Telegram bot and Mini App.
