Open, like a book.
Your language on the facing page. Tap a sentence and its pair lights up. Scroll one page and the other follows.
New Made for iPhone Duo
Stories that open
like a book.
The language you’re learning on one page, your own on the other, matched sentence by sentence across the fold.
Tap any sentence. Its partner lights up across the fold.
01 iPhone Duo
A book has always opened in two. Now your phone does too.
Facing Pages was built for iPhone Duo from the first page. The story divides exactly at the fold, no word ever lands in the crease, and every story’s photograph runs across both screens like the plate at the start of a chapter.
Close it a little and the shadow along the fold deepens, the way a real book’s does.
Made for iPhone Duo from day one.
Upright, the pages stack.
Turn your Duo on its side and the story sits above the fold, your language below it.
Closed, a pocket book.
Fold it shut and read one page. Tap any sentence and its translation slides up.
02 Try it
Tap a sentence. Then tap a word.
This is the reader, with a real story. Every sentence is paired with its translation, and every word knows what it means in that sentence: in Emma’s first line, perdida is “lost”, not a list of dictionary guesses.
Each sentence on the Spanish or French page is a button. Press it to see the sentence in English in the panel after the reader, with every word explained.
Tap any sentence on the left page.
03 Any iPhone
No Duo? It reads beautifully on any iPhone.
On iPhone you get one page in the language you’re learning, set like a good paperback. Tap a sentence and its translation slides up, with every word ready to look up, save or hear.
- Hold it sideways for a wide, photo-led page
- On iPad, the full two-page spread
- Your words, bookmarks and place follow you between stories
04 The library
228 original stories, set in real places.
Written for learners, edited by hand, and each one opening on a photograph: a first day lost on the Mexico City metro, lavender season in Provence, a violin maker’s winter in Quebec.
- 228
- stories
- 36
- series told in episodes
- 3
- levels, beginner to advanced
- ∞
- new stories, added regularly
« La lettre arriva le troisième soir. »
“The letter arrived on the third evening.”
Quatre saisons à Québec · Photo: Véronique Trudel / Unsplash
05 Learn as you read
Everything a reader needs. Nothing to get in the way.
Meaning in context
Tap a word for what it means in that sentence, with its dictionary form beside it.
Your word list
Save words with the sentence you found them in, ready to review.
Listen as you read
Every sentence read aloud by a natural voice, highlighted as it goes.
A ribbon bookmark
Mark a sentence, or just close the book. It opens where you stopped.
Made for night
A warm dark mode, gentle on your eyes when you read in bed.
Private by design
No account, no ads, no tracking. Translations are made on your device.
06 Languages
Learn English, Spanish or French. Read it beside your own.
The facing page can be in any of twenty languages, translated on your iPhone and kept there. Spanish and French stories also come with our own English, checked by hand.
- English
- Español
- Français
- Deutsch
- Italiano
- Português
- 日本語
- 한국어
- 简体中文
- 繁體中文
- العربية
- हिन्दी
- Nederlands
- Polski
- Русский
- ไทย
- Türkçe
- Українська
- Tiếng Việt
- Bahasa Indonesia
07 Coming soon
Start reading free.
The first episode of every series, and a shelf of stories at every level, are free to read. Facing Pages Premium opens the whole library for $5.99 a month.
For iPhone Duo, iPhone and iPad. Android to follow on Google Play.