PENNWALD
Read real Italian. Understand every word.
Click any word in real Italian and see what it means there — its gender, its plural, an example. In your own library of books and articles, and, with the browser extension, on any website you visit. Keep the words you want and practise them. Write Italian yourself and get it back corrected, with every change explained.
Free to start: ten lookups a day with the extension, no card. Tens of thousands of free books when you want more — or bring your own EPUB, PDF, link, or ask for something written at your level.
Not for everyone. Exactly for you — if.
You want to read, not do exercises
A novel, the news, a paper in your field. You have had enough of invented dialogues about booking hotel rooms — you want the real thing, with the friction of looking words up taken out of it.
You want to understand why, not just what
Every word is one click from its gender, plural and an example. Every correction names the rule behind it. And when that isn't enough, select the sentence and ask — in plain English — for a straight answer.
You don't want another app to maintain
No streaks, no daily quota, no pile of overdue cards waiting to scold you. You save words because you want them and practise when you feel like it — and you decide whether you knew one, not an algorithm.
If you want five-minute microlessons and cheerful streaks, Duolingo is genuinely great for that. Pennwald is for the moment you have to actually produce the language.
No charge until day 8 · cancel any time
And beyond your library
Read the whole web the same way.
The Pennwald browser extension puts the same click-a-word reading on any page you visit — a news article, a blog, a newsletter, documentation. Click a word and the panel opens beside it with the meaning it has there, its gender and plural, and an example. Save it and it joins the words you practise here.
- It leaves the page alone. Nothing is rewritten, links keep navigating, buttons keep working.
- It reads the word, not your browsing. Only what you click and the sentence around it — never the pages you visit.
- It reaches what a server cannot. Articles behind a login you already have are invisible to tools that fetch pages remotely.
One price. Every language.
Start free with the extension — ten word lookups a day, no card. Everything else is 5,99 € / month: every language, every feature, no tiers.
Start with a 7-day free trial
- ◈A library of Italian texts that remembers your page
- ◈Tens of thousands of free books, searchable in Italian
- ◈Bring your own: EPUB, PDF, a photo of a page, or any link
- ◈Click any word: meaning, gender, plural, example sentence
- ◈Save words and practise them — you grade yourself, nothing nags you
- ◈Ask anything about any passage, in plain English
- ◈Write Italian and get it corrected, every change explained
- ◈Around 80 languages included — add any other Latin-alphabet one
- ◈A browser extension that does all of this on any website you visit
Card required to start. Cancel before day 8 and you won't be charged.
Or use the extension free — ten lookups a day, no card, for as long as you like.