An immersive reading experience

Read in another language and build your vocabulary naturally.

Tap any word or highlight a phrase for an instant translation — without leaving your book.

Open book with a stack of classic books
Supported formats: PDF • EPUB • DOCX • DOC
Choose how you read

A plan for every kind of reader

Read freely, build your own library, or bring Bakilex into your school or university.

Free

€0

For occasional reading

  • Upload documents up to 500 KB
  • Read instantly
  • Tap words for translation
  • Explore the Bakilex Central Library

Premium

€105 / year

or €9.99 / month

For independent language learners

  • Upload books up to 10 MB
  • Save books to your personal library
  • Resume reading where you stopped
  • Build and manage your Lexicon
  • See your Learning Progress

Institutional

Schools & universities

A shared reading environment for language learning

  • Build an institutional reading library
  • Give teachers their own teaching libraries
  • Assign books directly to classes
  • Student reading with instant translation
  • Teacher learning insights and progress views
How Bakilex works

Stay inside the story

Bakilex keeps language support inside the reading experience, so an unfamiliar word does not have to interrupt the book.

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Read what interests you

Choose from the Bakilex Central Library or upload a book or document you already want to read.

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Translate without leaving the page

Tap a word or highlight a phrase and see its translation immediately, right where you are reading.

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Keep reading naturally

Save books, return to your place and let vocabulary develop through repeated encounters in real texts.

Reading comes first

Language support that does not take over the book

Bakilex is built around reading. Translation is there when you need it, while the book stays at the centre of the experience.

Tap a word for a quick translation, or highlight a phrase when you need the meaning in context, then carry on reading.

Tap a word

Ze opende het oude raam en keek uit over het glinsterende water.

glinsterende shimmering · sparkling
Highlight a phrase

Ze kon haar ogen niet geloven toen ze hem daar zag staan.

kon haar ogen niet geloven couldn't believe her eyes
Learning Progress
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See which vocabulary is still challenging you and what is becoming more familiar.

Learn from your reading

See what keeps coming up as you read

Wondering which words are still giving you trouble, or which ones are starting to feel more familiar? Learning Progress keeps track of the vocabulary you check while you read, so you can come back later and see how things are changing.

No points or streaks, just a clearer picture of what you're learning through reading.

Bakilex Institutional

One reading environment for teachers and students

Schools and universities can build a shared digital reading library while teachers keep control of what reaches each class.

1Build the School Library
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2Teachers choose books
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3Assign to classes
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4Students read with support
See it in action

A quick look at Bakilex

See the reader, translation tools, libraries and learning features working together.

Read across languages

One reading habit. Eight languages.

Read in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, German, Italian, Portuguese or Russian.

EnglishFrenchSpanishDutch GermanItalianPortugueseRussian
Begin with a book

Read more. Understand more. Keep going.

Open a text you care about and let the language become familiar through reading.

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