Use cases

What people bring Lector to.

Lector is one reading workspace, and it serves more than one job. These pages cover the jobs that need their own answer.
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Offline and remote work

Read and translate with no connection. The reader, the on-device dictionary, and cloze practice all run on your own laptop. Add a local model for sentence translation and grammar help. Built for field translators, missionaries, aid workers, and anybody a long way from a tower.

Read the offline guide
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Heritage speakers

You grew up hearing the language and never learned to read it. Lector starts from the vocabulary your ear already holds, and handles the scripts that stopped you: characters, unvocalized Arabic, Cyrillic. One install serves a whole family, with a library each.

Read the heritage guide
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Anki users

Keep the review habit you built. Lector mines vocabulary while you read, pushes it to your own collection, and takes your Anki grades back as mastery. Your existing decks and note types are never touched. The two-way sync is in beta.

See the two-way sync
In development

Greek and Hebrew

Keep the biblical languages you studied, by reading the text. The Koine Greek pack is in development, and a founding cohort shapes it now. Lector answers questions about language, and never about theology.

Join the founding cohort

Is your job not here?

Tell us what you read, and tell us what gets in the way. We write these pages from the questions people send us. A language pack, a feature, or a guide can start with one email.

Or write to us directly at [email protected].