Read real Chinese books.
Remember every word.
Tap any word while you read — Insperium tracks it, drills it, and brings it back right before you’d forget it. 64 graded readers, six difficulty levels per story, one spaced-repetition engine under it all.
Free to start: the A1 Core — the 400 words that unlock your first Chinese book. No card needed.
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This is the actual reader — tap the dotted words.
Other apps hand you a graded text and hope.
We get you there.
Most reading apps work the same way: pick a level, open a story, struggle through, look everything up. The app has no idea what you know — so it can’t help you. Insperium tracks every word you learn and turns “I hope I can read this” into a number you can trust.
Ready before you open it
The free A1 Core teaches the exact 400 words that unlock ~92% of every A1 book. And every book in the shop shows how readable it is for you — a real percentage computed from your own progress, not a guess.
Supported while you read
Tap any word for meaning and audio. Names are marked so you never waste effort studying them. Karaoke audio reads along at your speed. Struggling through is optional — the support is built into the page.
Remembered after you close it
Every word you meet goes into spaced repetition, timed to come back right before you’d forget it. Each finished book makes the next one easier — and the app tells you which one you’re closest to reading.
You never have to hope you’re ready. The number tells you.
Not sure where to start?
Take the free 2-minute reading test — real words from our frequency corpus — and find the book level where you know almost every word on the page.
Read the story. Learn every word in it.
Each book is a full course. Read it freely with pinyin and karaoke audio, then drill its vocabulary chapter by chapter — backed by the same spaced repetition engine that powers the rest of Insperium.
- Reading-coverage trackingWatch your “you can read X% of this book” climb as the frequent words lock in.
- Spaced-repetition reviewsEvery word enters a Leitner schedule and resurfaces exactly when you’re about to forget it.
- Karaoke audio + book examplesNative audio that highlights as you read, and example sentences pulled straight from the book.
Legend of the White Snake
5409 字312 / 345 words known
Long, long ago, there was a white snake.
She lived on a very big mountain.
See the whole thing in 100 seconds.
A narrated tour of one book — the reader, the toggles, the drill, the reviews — with the real narration and the real screens.
100 seconds · the real book, the real screens · Insperium Chinese
Learn the language. Inherit the stories.
Fast, frequency-first language learning comes first — but these aren’t throwaway textbook dialogues. You’re reading the stories every educated Chinese speaker grew up on, and the world’s great classics beside them — graded to exactly your level.
Journey to the West西游记
Classic of Mountains and Seas山海经
Legend of the White Snake白蛇传
The Butterfly Lovers梁山伯与祝英台
Moby Dick白鲸
A Christmas Carol圣诞颂歌Language first, always
Frequency-ranked vocabulary, spaced repetition, and text written for your exact level — the fastest honest route from your first words to real reading.
A cultural education, at your level
The Three Kingdoms, the Monkey King, the White Snake — the stories behind a thousand idioms and references — plus Dickens, Verne and Homer to read a world you already love, in Chinese.
Fully illustrated, cover to cover
Every chapter of every book carries original artwork. Reading in a new language is hard work — the pages shouldn’t feel like it. Immersion starts with wanting to turn the page.
Own the classics.
The numbered Insperium collection — buy a book once and get all six graded versions, from your first A1 read to the full C1 text.
Master the characters, in the order that pays off fastest.
A standalone character-only course built on real corpus frequency. Learn the characters that unlock the most text first, and set a coverage goal — the top 1,000 characters already cover ~89% of everyday Chinese.
Explore Character Mastery- Frequency-ranked, goal-drivenPick a target (1,000 → 89%, 2,500 → 98%…) and the course paces you toward it.
- Lookalike disambiguationConfusable characters (己 / 已 / 巳) are grouped so you learn the differences, not the mix-ups.
- Automatic leech detectionThe characters that keep tripping you up get flagged and given extra attention.
Try it — these are the app’s real screens: the learning drill and the review room.
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Learn the words for the life you actually live.
Eighteen topic courses — Work, Travel, Food, Health, Daily Life and more — each one a frequency-ranked deck of the words that domain really uses. Pick the topics that matter to you, set your level from A1 to C1, then tune the deck word by word: mark what you already know, ignore what you’ll never need, and drill only what’s left.
It’s the same spaced-repetition engine that powers the rest of Insperium — pointed exactly where you want it, so every minute goes to vocabulary you’ll actually use.
- Focus the topics you care aboutZoom in on one domain or several — your dashboard tracks where you are in each.
- Most-common words firstEvery topic is frequency-ranked and split A1–C1, so you start small and build up.
- Mark known, ignore the restAlready know a word? Mark it. Don’t need it? Ignore it. The course adapts to you.
Try it — switch levels, mark a word Known, ignore another. The counts and your study list update live.
Nature & Environment
+ 17 more topics10 to learn · 0 known · 0 ignored
Eighteen topics in all — focus one, or focus them all.
How it works
Three steps from “I know nothing” to reading your first book.
Take a 2-minute placement
A quick diagnostic finds your level so you start exactly where you should — no slogging through words you already know.
Get a daily plan
Your AI Study Coach blends new words and due reviews into a session sized to the time you have.
Read & drill — it sticks
Open a book or a character set, learn the words, and let spaced repetition keep them in long-term memory.
Simple pricing
Start free for 7 days. Books and Character Mastery are both included in Pro.
Free trial
- Try the Study Coach
- Sample the first book
- Up to ~100 words
- No commitment
Pro Monthly
- Everything in Insperium
- All interactive books
- Character Mastery course
- Unlimited words & reviews
- Karaoke audio
Pro Annual
Save 33%- Everything in Pro Monthly
- Two months free
- Best value for serious learners
We also do Dutch
39 world classics rewritten in simple Dutch at six levels, plus 1,200 graded stories and dialogs. Read your way to your inburgering level.
Questions
Do I need to know any Chinese to start?
No. A quick placement test finds your level so you begin exactly where you should — beginners start from the very first words.
Is everything included in one subscription?
Pro includes everything — Interactive Books, Character Mastery, and the Topic courses. Prefer not to subscribe? Any book can be bought on its own for $4.99 (all six levels, yours forever), and the First 500 Characters course is a one-time purchase too.
How is this different from flashcard apps?
Insperium is frequency-first and context-rich: you learn the words that unlock the most Chinese, in real sentences and stories, with spaced repetition scheduling each review for right before you’d forget.
Can I cancel any time?
Any time, from your settings. The 7-day trial lets you try the whole thing first.