Native mobile app?

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This is a neat idea (the reader) but I really feel it needs a native mobile app (not just a web wrapper) - any plans in the works for that?

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I think it would be great to have a native app, especially to read my books offline when I need to..:sweat_smile:

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I also think that mobile app would be great and I’m making one)
It will also allow you to translate words not only on websites, but any text you can see through your camera)

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Does that service use readlang or is it just a ripoff? Also, why do I feel like it’s just a combination of Google translate’s camera mode and Readlang’s practice mode?

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This is the first I’ve heard about Snapglot. Based on their website it sounds like a cool idea to get reading content and vocab from the real world into Readlang.

I was just thinking about OCR (optical character recognition) the other day as a way to support all the kinds of input that Readlang doesn’t currently support, e.g.:

  • PDFs
  • Movie subtitles
  • The rest of the non-digital world (books, menus, etc..)

I don’t have any short term plans to do this though.

Regarding a mobile app. It makes a ton of sense, but I’ve been holding off on it due to the extra complexity it will add, slowing down development of the web app. If I did add a mobile app, the first version would very likely be a wrapper around the web app, with a couple of extra niceties that aren’t possible with the web app.

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I think it’s better for you to focus on the website itself, I always see incredible new updates, who knows, maybe one day you can turn it into a mobile project too :grin: