Questions, answered.

No. PolyRead runs in any modern browser on a laptop, tablet or phone, and everything lives with your account, so signing in on another device picks up mid-sentence.

Seven: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish and French. These are the languages whose library is deep enough to actually learn from, which is why we’d rather do seven properly than list thirty. More are on the way, and requests genuinely do influence the order.

Whichever you pick as your native language when you sign up. You can change it later in Account, and lookups will switch over.

Yes, but start with the graded material rather than the news. You choose a level from A1 to C2 when you sign up, and the lessons and series are written to it. Authentic articles and podcasts are worth reaching for once you can get through a graded story without stopping every line.

Yes, and that’s rather the point of the name. Each language keeps its own level, its own saved words and its own review queue, and you switch between them with one tap. No second account, no second app.

With Google, with Apple, or with an email address and password.

Yes. Paste a link to an article or a YouTube video, upload a file, or paste raw text. It lands in your library and behaves like anything else: tappable, saveable, reviewable.

PDF, EPUB, plain text (.txt) and HTML (.html, .htm). EPUB is the one to prefer for books, since it keeps chapters and reflows properly at any type size.

No. Files you import are yours alone. Nobody else sees them and they don’t go into the shared library.

Often. Podcasts come with their original audio, songs with the recording, and many lessons and series carry narration. Where a piece has audio, the sentence being spoken is highlighted as it goes, so your eyes and ears stay together. Dialogues are cast with a different voice per speaker.

For Japanese you get furigana over kanji, for Mandarin pinyin over hanzi, and for Cantonese jyutping. It sits directly on top of the character rather than beside it. You can change its size, and you can have it disappear on words you’ve already learned, so the page gets cleaner as you improve.

Yes. Type size, weight, line height and where the progress bar sits are all yours to set. Close a document mid-paragraph and it reopens exactly there.

Yes. Drag across a run of words and you get a translation of the phrase rather than of the word under your finger.

It joins your review queue, and it stays highlighted wherever it turns up again while you read. Each saved word keeps the sentence you met it in, so you review meaning in context instead of on a bare flashcard.

A scheduling trick: a word comes back just before you’d have forgotten it, and each time it sticks, the gap before the next review gets longer. It’s a good deal more efficient than reviewing everything at the same rate, and it’s why a few minutes a day goes a long way.

No, each language has its own. Learning three at once won’t have Spanish words surfacing in the middle of a Japanese session.

Yes. The review tab shows what’s due now, what’s coming, and charts of what you’ve learned over time.

Fifty messages a day, included with Premium.

Mostly, and it’s very good on grammar questions of the sort above. It is still a language model, so treat a confident answer about a rare idiom or a regional usage as a strong hint rather than the last word.

The whole catalogue rather than just what’s new, daily news articles in every language, importing your own links, files and text, and the AI tutor.

Premium is $12.99 a month or $99.00 a year in USD, and both come with a 7-day free trial. The annual plan works out at $8.25 a month. See the pricing page for the full comparison.

Whenever you like, and you keep Premium until the end of the period you’ve paid for. If you subscribed on the web, cancel from your account settings. If you subscribed through the App Store, cancel through your Apple subscriptions, since Apple handles the billing in that case.

App Store purchases are refunded by Apple under their policy, and we can’t process those ourselves. For anything bought on the web, email support@polyread.io and we’ll sort it out.

Not at the moment. Content, lookups and audio are all fetched as you go, so you’ll want a connection.

No, PolyRead does not currently offer end-to-end encryption. Our focus is on delivering a smooth user experience, rather than providing enterprise-level security features. If you’re handling sensitive or classified information that requires the highest level of security, we recommend using specialized tools designed for that purpose, rather than storing such content in PolyRead (or any cloud-based service). However, for everyday use, your personal content is kept private. For example, if you upload a PDF, only you will have access to it.

Yes, from the Account tab in the app. If you’d like the content you uploaded removed as well, email support@polyread.io and we’ll take care of it. The privacy policy has the detail on what we store and why.

Please tell us at support@polyread.io. Requests for a language, a book or a podcast are genuinely welcome, and they do get read.