Tap to translate
Tap any character or phrase for pinyin and English, in a small popup beside the text. Your reading never breaks.
The offline Chinese reader
Read Chinese.
Understand every word.
A fast, offline reader for real Chinese books — novels, graded readers, anything you import.
- Tap any word
- Pinyin & meaning, instantly.
- Fully offline
- The dictionary is built in.
- Your place, saved
- To the exact character.
Tap to translate
Understand every word, right on the page.
Tap a word. Its pinyin and meaning show in a small popup beside the text. Tap inside a phrase and Kaishu looks up the whole phrase — not just the character you hit.
The dictionary is built in, so you stay on the page. Tap the plus to save a word. Tap it again to remove it. Every look-up goes into your history.
No internet. No waiting.
The full CC-CEDICT dictionary — about 125,000 entries — is bundled with the app. Read and look up words anywhere: on a plane, on the subway, with no signal at all.
Always where you left off.
Resize the text, switch fonts, close the app for a week — you come back to the same character. Jumped somewhere by mistake? One tap takes you straight back.
Built for finishing books
Just you and the text.
Kaishu opens quickly, looks clean, and stays out of your way. The features you need to read a whole book — and finish it.
Offline & instant
The complete CC-CEDICT dictionary is built in. Read and look up words anywhere — on a plane, on the subway, no signal at all.
Never lose your place
Your spot is saved to the exact character. Close the app, change the text size, come back the next day — you return to the same word.
Built for long books
Import ePub, plain text, or HTML. The whole book flows in one scroll, with chapters and bookmarks. Odd file encodings just open.
See your habit grow
An automatic timer tracks active reading by day, week, and month. Add a home-screen widget to keep it in view.
Save every word
Pin a word with one tap to study it later. Every word you look up is kept in your history, ready to revisit.
Take a look
A reader designed to disappear.
Make it yours
As refined as a printed page.
Six accent colors. Three reader backgrounds — paper, sepia, and dark. Text size and line spacing tuned per book. The same accent you pick carries through to your home-screen widget.
Six accents
Paper · Sepia · Dark
On your home screen
Your reading, always in view.
Add the widget in three sizes. Pick the books and the time period it shows. Tap a book on the widget to open it right where you left off, and watch your reading time add up at a glance.
Open your first book today.
Start with a free sample story, or import your own. Tap any word, keep your place, and read a real Chinese book from start to finish.
Download on theApp StoreQuestions or feedback? hello@kaishu.app