Pagegloss
Coming to the App Store · iPad

Touch a word.
Understand the page.

An iPad reader for PDFs, ebooks and pictures of pages. Touch and hold any word to see its meaning in its own sentence, translated on your iPad.

Coming to the App Store See how it works

PDF · EPUB · AZW3 · photos and scans. No account, no ads, no tracking.

Chapter XIV · Recapitulation and Conclusion There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
grandeur/ˈɡrændʒər/
Page 487 · Recognized text
English → Spanish
On this iPad · ready offline
WordWhole sentence
Translation
Grandeza
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Real books, real PDFsPDF, EPUB and AZW3 without copy protection.
Pictures of pagesPhotos, scans and the camera. The text is read on the iPad.
Offline translationApple's languages, once downloaded.
Your own key, if you wantGoogle, OpenAI, Gemini or DeepSeek.

What a word means here, not everywhere.

The panel shows the meaning of the word in this sentence. Whole sentence translates the sentence; on supported iPads, Apple Intelligence explains it. English words show their pronunciation.

Hold a word, even on a scanned page

Pagegloss reads the line on your iPad first, so a photocopied chapter works like any other PDF.

A scanned page in Pagegloss: the word grandeur is held and the panel rises with its pronunciation and the Traditional Chinese meaning 宏偉.

The whole sentence, explained

A translation of the sentence, and on supported iPads a short explanation written by Apple Intelligence.

The word grandeur is held, then Whole sentence shows the sentence translated into Japanese with a short explanation by Apple Intelligence.

Japanese, Chinese, Korean, with a reading

A held word in Japanese shows its reading in Latin letters next to its meaning. Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Russian, Greek and Hindi work the same way.

A Japanese page with the word 吾輩 held, its reading wagahai and the English translation I.

Mark the page

Highlight, underline, strikethrough, in your colours. Notes typed, or written with Apple Pencil and kept as handwriting.

On a scanned page, a phrase is highlighted, a line underlined and words struck through, then the word reading is written with Apple Pencil.

Saved words come back

A short daily review; each word keeps its sentence and a picture of its line.

The daily review card for grandeur, with the picture of its line and the French meaning.

Translate how you like

On the iPad with Apple's languages, or with your own key. Pagegloss shows what will be sent before anything leaves the iPad.

Apple · on this iPadGoogleOpenAIGeminiDeepSeek

Drag a box around any lines

On a scanned page, draw a box and Pagegloss reads the lines inside it on your iPad. Copy them, or translate them; on supported iPads, Apple Intelligence explains them too.

A box is drawn around a paragraph of a scanned page, the recognized text appears, and Translate shows it in Japanese with a short explanation by Apple Intelligence.

Reads in Apple's languages, offline

Download a language once and translation works without internet. Also: a bilingual page view with the page in your language beside or below it, text recognition for scanned PDFs, and read-aloud.

EnglishSpanishFrenchGermanPortugueseItalianRussianArabicHindiTraditional ChineseSimplified ChineseJapaneseKoreanand the rest of Apple's list

Private by design.

No account, no ads, no analytics, no tracking. Your books and notes never leave the iPad. If you turn on an online service, only the selected text goes to it, straight from the iPad, with your own key.

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  • Your documents stay hereOn the iPad, inside the app. Delete the app and they are gone.
  • Only selected text can leaveAnd only to a service you turned on, directly from the iPad.
  • Keys in the KeychainYour API key is stored by iPadOS and sent only to that service.
  • Nothing to sign up forNo account. No analytics. No server of ours in between.