Readlang pricing in 2026: Free, Premium and Premium Plus, row by row

Readlang plans at a glance

Everything in the table comes from readlang.com/pricing on the check date, in US dollars. It is deliberately long: the useful part of a pricing table is the list of what each plan leaves out.

Source: readlang.com/pricing, checked 14 September 2026, prices in USD. One subscription covers every language you learn; there is no per-language fee.

Two rows need a sentence of explanation. "Readlang voices" are the higher-quality text-to-speech voices on the paid plans; on the free plan, Read Aloud uses whatever voices your browser has, and quality varies. "Audio storage" is space for audio you upload to go with a text, with transcription for around sixty languages; ten hours is roughly one audiobook, 200 hours is a shelf of them.

What the table does not list, because the pricing page does not tie them to a plan: uploaded texts, the shared library, the flashcards, the Web Reader extension and the video player. You do not pay to read; you pay to remove the daily counters and to add audio.

Where the free plan actually stops

The free plan is not a trial. There is no clock on it, no card to enter, and the single-word translation at the heart of the product stays unlimited for as long as you use the account. Many people searching for a free alternative to Readlang are already covered by this.

The line that matters is the phrase limit: ten phrase translations a day, each up to six words long. In a news article that is plenty, because most of what you do not know is single nouns. In a novel it is not, because the meaning sits in multi-word verbs, idioms and collocations, and a reader who selects two of them per page has spent the day before the chapter is over. After the tenth phrase, phrases stop translating until the next day; single words keep working.

The second line is the AI explanation counter, also ten a day. Explanations are the "why is it this tense" and "is this idiom rude" answers, and ten is enough for many readers but not for someone using them as a grammar tutor. The third, smaller line is word highlighting, capped at 200 words in total on the free plan.

Then there are the things missing from every plan, which no upgrade fixes: there is no offline mode, and there is no native phone app. On an iPhone, Readlang is the website added to the home screen, on any plan. The Readlang on iPhone page goes through what that feels like in practice.

Premium vs Premium Plus: who needs Plus

Premium and Premium Plus share every core feature: unlimited phrases up to twelve words, unlimited explanations, per-book flashcard practice and export, two streak repairs a month. Plus costs $9 a month more, or $72 a year more, and buys exactly three things.

• Audio hours: 10 against 200. If you upload audiobooks or podcasts to read along with, ten hours fills up after one long book. Two hundred is enough for a year of listening. If you never upload audio, this row is worth nothing to you.
• Voices for whole texts. Premium gives you Readlang voices for individual words and phrases; Plus reads the whole text aloud in the same voices. This is the row for people who want a text read to them from beginning to end without relying on the browser voices, which are free on every plan but uneven.
• GPT-4o instead of GPT-4o mini. The AI explanations on Plus come from the larger model. The site does not publish a comparison of the two on Readlang explanations specifically, so treat this as somewhat better answers to hard questions rather than a different product.

Who needs Plus, then: learners who read with a lot of their own audio, and learners who want full-text read-aloud in good voices. Who does not: everyone else. The default recommendation is Premium; move to Plus when the ten-hour audio limit is the thing stopping you, the one row where the difference is a hard number rather than a matter of taste.

Is Readlang Premium worth it?

The arithmetic first. Premium is $6 a month, which is $72 over a year, or $48 paid once a year, which is $4 a month. The yearly plan therefore saves $24, a third of the monthly price, and it is the only discount Readlang offers. Premium Plus is $15 a month ($180 a year) or $120 a year ($10 a month), with the same one-third saving.

What $4 a month buys is not features so much as the absence of a counter: reading a novel without rationing which phrases you look up. Against the field, $48 a year is at the cheap end of assisted-reading tools; our Readlang vs LingQ comparison puts it next to a tool that costs a good deal more per month.

It is worth it if at least one of these is true: you read fiction or anything where multi-word expressions carry the meaning; you use the AI explanations as a grammar tutor and burn through ten by lunchtime; you upload audio and want to read along; you like drilling flashcards from one specific book at a time.

It is not worth it if you read short texts and click single words, if you use Readlang a few days a month, or if the thing frustrating you is the phone experience or the missing offline mode, because Premium changes neither. In the few-days-a-month case, the monthly plan exists precisely so you can pay $6 for a heavy month and cancel.

The sensible order: free for a month, monthly Premium the first time the phrase limit stops you twice in a week, yearly after three months of staying subscribed. Our Readlang review covers what the paid plan feels like day to day.

Discounts, coupons, student pricing, lifetime, Black Friday

As of 14 September 2026, the Readlang pricing page offers none of these. There is no coupon code to enter, no student or education discount, no lifetime purchase and no seasonal sale. The only price reduction on the site is the yearly plan, which is a third cheaper than paying monthly.

That is not unusual for a one-founder product, and it has an upside: the listed price is the price everyone pays, so you are not missing a deal by signing up today rather than in November. If a promotion ever appears, it will be on readlang.com or forum.readlang.com; anywhere else claiming to have a Readlang coupon is guessing.

A warning about a specific kind of search result. Pages offering "Readlang Premium APK", "Readlang mod" or "Readlang Premium unlocked" are not Readlang. Readlang has no Android app and no iOS app at all; it is a website with browser extensions. Any installable file carrying the name is someone else's software wearing the name, and installing it gets you nothing from Readlang. Skip them.

How billing and cancellation work

You pay on readlang.com itself with a card; there is no app store in the loop because there is no app. You choose monthly or yearly at checkout. One subscription covers every language on the service, so a learner reading Spanish and Japanese in parallel pays once, and adding a third language later costs nothing.

Cancellation is from your account on the site, at any time, which is the wording on the pricing page. The pricing page does not spell out a refund policy, so if you are unsure whether to commit to a year, start monthly. Billing questions get answered on the forum by the founder, which is a faster route than most support desks.

After cancelling, you are back on the Free column of the table above: single words still unlimited, ten phrases and ten explanations a day. The pricing page does not describe any loss of texts or saved words on downgrade, and the free plan allows unlimited texts and flashcards, so expect the Free column rather than an empty account. If that matters to you, ask on the forum before you cancel.

If you read on an iPhone: what Readlang Mobile costs

Readlang Mobile is our app, so read this section as the maker talking. It is an independent native iOS app for iPhone and iPad, not affiliated with Readlang, built around the same tap-a-word habit.

Readlang Mobile prices are shown in the currency of your App Store; the dollar figures are the US ones.

At the yearly price the two are within a dollar of each other, and the introductory first year on Readlang Mobile is half of it. The difference is the shape, not the price. Readlang has more than a hundred languages, the extension, YouTube transcripts and audio upload, and is a website on a phone. Readlang Mobile has around twenty languages, a graded library with audiobooks, a native app, and the option of Apple Translate on the device, which works offline once the language pack is downloaded; no extension, no video. At a desk, Readlang is the better buy; on the train, the native app is. The Readlang vs Readlang Mobile page has the feature-by-feature version.

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