StepRead · Read English books
Learn the words first. Then read the book.
Start with a book you can barely read. StepRead alternates word previews with the original text, so reading stops being an endless session with the dictionary — until the day you don’t need us anymore.
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Why StepRead
Reading a book shouldn’t mean living in a dictionary
You buy an English book, open the first page full of hope — and almost every sentence has words you don’t know. Look one up, read two or three more, look up another. What you just understood is gone by the next sentence, until you quietly put the book down.
StepRead exists to carry you through this hardest part.
The method
Preview the words, then read the text
Preview the words
Before each section, StepRead shows you the unfamiliar words first — with meanings chosen for the very sentences you’re about to read.
Read the story
By the time you start reading, those words are no longer strangers. Your attention goes to the story, the characters and the ideas — not the dictionary.
Need us less and less
The more you read, the more words you know and the fewer you need to preview. One day, you open an English book and simply read on.
Features
Built for one goal: finishing your English books
A reader built for books
Import your own EPUB books into a smooth, comfortable reader — word pages and the original text alternate, learning and reading woven together.
AI explains words in context
A word can mean many things. Ask AI what it means in this very sentence — not just a dictionary definition — so you truly understand the text.
Dictionaries on tap
Tap any unfamiliar word to look it up in well-known dictionary sites, and ask AI for a clearer explanation whenever you need.
Free classics built in
Browse thousands of free English classics — Pride and Prejudice, Sherlock Holmes, Alice in Wonderland — and start reading in one tap.
Fully offline
Your books, your progress and your words are stored on your device. No account, no tracking, your reading stays yours.
16 languages
Learn English with the interface in your own language — 中文， 日本語, 한국어, Español, Français and more.
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A look inside
Word pages and the original text, alternating.
Our goal
We hope one day you won’t need StepRead
If you can already read English books fluently, you just need a comfortable reader — Kindle, Apple Books, even a paper book. StepRead belongs to the stage where that hasn’t happened yet. We hope to walk this road with you — until the day you pick up an English book and just read. That’s your graduation. And StepRead’s work is done.
Download
Start with a book you can barely read
Finish it — then keep going, on your own.
Free · No ads · No account · v2.0.0