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Readlang Alternatives: What to Use Instead (2026)

Readlang is cheap and good at what it does. People leave for two reasons: they want a real vocabulary system, or they want books, not web pages.

LingQ and Readlang look similar and are built on opposite bets: a vocabulary system that contains text, versus a translation layer over the web.

People leave LingQ for three reasons: the price, the interface, or the hunt for content. The alternatives that address each, and when to stay.

An honest comparison of the apps that let you read real books in another language: LingQ, Readlang, Beelinguapp, Kindle, Eppika and Simply Fluent.