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BeyondRead
Ask AI about any line, without leaving the book
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Ask AI about any line, without leaving the book
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BeyondRead is a reader for iPhone and iPad with nearly 20,000 public-domain classics in over 40 languages, plus your own EPUB, PDF and MOBI files. Select any sentence to have AI translate or explain it in the book's context, or listen in a lifelike voice.
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Hi Product Hunt, I'm Zhang Liu, the solo developer behind BeyondRead.
I built it for one moment: you're reading a classic, in your first language or your second, and one sentence stops you. Copying it into a chatbot breaks the reading and loses your place. In BeyondRead you select the sentence and ask right on the page: Translate, Explain or Chat. The AI sees the title, the author and about 300 characters around your selection, never the whole book.
What it does today:
Nearly 20,000 public-domain classics in over 40 languages to download and keep, plus your own EPUB, PDF and MOBI files
AI Digest turns a whole book into an article you can read in a few minutes
Listening: the system voice reads any book and highlights the sentence being read. Premium Voice (paid) is a lifelike voice in 10 languages, and you can try 5 minutes of any book first. While listening, say "Hey Reader" to stop and ask about the book; the answer is read aloud.
Reading, bookmarks, quotes and search need no account. AI features use Sign in with Apple; the free plan has 30 AI chats and 3 AI Digests a month, and translation doesn't use that allowance (a fair-use monthly limit applies).
Books, notes and AI history stay on your device, and AI can be switched off entirely. Premium Voice sends the text being read to our narration provider to make the audio; the text isn't stored.
Not there yet: Android, sync between devices, and DRM-protected books.
Two questions for you: which book would you open first, and where did the app confuse you in the first five minutes?