Read your way to fluency
Real news, automatically adapted to your Spanish level. Built for comprehensible input learners who want to read more, and actually keep track of it.
Free to start · No credit card required
A genuine world news story, selected and written fresh each morning. Not textbook sentences. Not synthetic examples. Real events, real language.
The same story across five reading levels, from 80 words at A1 to 500+ words at native. Drop a level when you're struggling. Move up when you're ready.
Words read is the metric the CI community tracks. Leelo counts every word: articles in the app, books you read outside it. One number. Your whole reading journey.
An offline 92,000-word Spanish-English dictionary, built in. Tap a word, see the translation instantly. Conjugations resolved automatically. Type "tenían" and it takes you straight to "tener".
From Súper Principiante to Lector Experto. Your words read total feeds directly into a progression system that turns a daily habit into a measurable journey.
No points. No leagues. No penalties for missing a day. Leelo is built for readers, not for dopamine loops. Calm, focused, and built to last.
Present tense only. Very short sentences. The 500 most common Spanish words.
Mostly present tense, some past. Simple connectors. Common vocabulary only.
Mix of tenses. More varied vocabulary. Natural sentence rhythm.
Full range of tenses and grammar. Rich vocabulary. Reads like a quality newspaper.
Original journalistic prose. No simplification. Reads like El País or BBC Mundo.
The philosophy
"Real reading, grounded in actual news rather than textbook sentences, is the fastest path to fluency."
Comprehensible input is the idea that language is acquired through exposure to content you can mostly understand, not through drilling grammar rules or memorising vocab lists. You learn Spanish by reading Spanish, at the right level, every day.
Leelo is built entirely around this. Every design decision, from five levels to no gamification to the word count tracker, comes from the same place. Give learners more comprehensible reading, and make it as frictionless as possible to do it daily.
Free
forever
Standard
/ month · first 20 subscribers
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