--- title: "Lector: Read Aloud Coach · A reading coach that listens. · Kid Secure Games" description: "Lector is a read-aloud coach for kids learning to read in English or Spanish. It listens on the phone itself, so your kid's voice never leaves it. Syllables, words, sentences, stories, and a camera mode for real books. Works offline, no ads, no account, one purchase." canonical: "https://kidsecuregames.com/lector" last_updated: "2026-10-21" --- # Lector: A reading coach that listens. - iPhone and iPad - English, Español - Rated 4+ - Works offline - No network at all Listening on this device. Nothing is recorded or sent. Your kid reads out loud and the words turn green as the phone hears them. Point the camera at a real book and it works on that page too. Coming soon to the App Store App Store: soon Lector next to the book on the table. the reading card ## Words turn green as your kid reads. The phone listens and checks each word against the sentence on the card. The next word is outlined in amber, and the ones already read turn green. There's no score and no timer. Audio stays on this device An animated reading card shows real cards from Lector's decks in English and Spanish: The cat naps., El gato duerme., Rain drips on the roof., Papá lee un cuento., She has a red bushy tail. and Lola come pasto verde. Each word is outlined in amber when it's next and turns green once it's heard, and the microphone bars move while it listens. - grey, not yet - amber, next - green, heard - orange, tapped ### How it matches - Capitals, punctuation and accents don't matter, so *arbol* lights up *árbol*. - A plural, or a word that trails off, still counts if it starts right. - Reading out of order still counts, and saying "the" once lights up just one "the". - The bars move with your kid's voice. They show the mic can hear them, not how well they read. The real card on iPhone, before the microphone starts. ## It never says wrong. If it doesn't hear a word, that word just waits in amber. Your kid can tap it, hear it, and try again with you. Skip is always on screen. The words after it wait in grey. ### Tap a stuck word, hear it in syllables The word fills the screen, split into syllables with dots (ca · sa), and your kid can hear it whole or slowly. Every split in the decks was done by hand, and each one is checked to make sure it still spells the word. Tap the amber word on the card. **The garden**9 of 12 The is tall. sun flow er sun flow er This page makes no sound. On the phone, Hear it says the whole word and Slow says it one syllable at a time. Word help on iPhone: elephant, el · e · phant. ## Read a real book. Point the camera at a page from your own shelf, tap a line, and it turns into a reading card. The photo is never saved and never leaves the phone. Freeno limit Your own books, on the same table. 1. ### Hold the page in the frame. The camera shows the page. No picture yet. 2. ### Snap. The phone finds the lines of text itself, offline. 3. ### Tap a line to read it. The picture waits behind the lines, dimmed. 4. ### It becomes a reading card. Same green words, and a stuck word still opens its help. Spanish words from a book still get split into syllables. 5. ### Take another picture. The last one is thrown away. It was never saved or sent. If there are no words in the picture, the app just says so: No words found on this picture. Try closer, with more light. ## Your kid's voice stays on the phone. The listening happens on the phone itself, and Lector has no way to send audio anywhere else. The app says so on its first screen, before it even asks for the microphone. > Lector listens on this phone only. Nothing is recorded or sent anywhere. > > Lector's first screen, before any permission prompt This iPhone or iPad 1. ### The microphone Heard live, never recorded. 3. ### Apple's speech model On the device, in the reading language. 5. ### Words on the card Checked against the sentence and lit up green. ### A server Nothing connects to this box. Lector never talks to a server, not even as a backup. ### Never leaves the device Your kid's voice, and the pictures of book pages. Lector has no account, no ads and no tracking, and it never goes online. ### Never kept Nothing your kid says is ever recorded, and I check for that before every update. A book photo stays in memory while its lines are on screen, then it's gone. ### When listening stops When a card is finished, when word help opens, while the phone is talking, when you leave the app, and after twenty seconds of quiet. ### Kept, on the device only Each kid's first name and colour, their deck progress, and for each session the words read, how long it took and which words they tapped. The parent area turns that into words per minute. Your kid never sees that number. ### If a device can't listen on its own Lector tells you, in these words, and keeps working as a reader: tap any word to hear it. It never sends audio off the device as a backup. Connect once to start listening This device needs Apple's speech model for this language, a one time download. After that, listening works offline and audio never leaves this device. Every word can still be tapped to hear it. This device cannot listen offline Offline speech recognition is not available here, and Lector never sends audio anywhere. Every word can still be tapped to hear it. ## 34 decks in each language. Syllables, words, sentences and stories, all written by hand in English and Spanish. The app's menus and the reading language are set separately. ### Syllables6 decks, 120 cards - b, m, p, free - t, d, n, s, free - l, r, c, g, with the unlock - Blends, with the unlock - Digraphs, with the unlock - Endings, with the unlock ### Words8 decks, 160 cards - CVC words, free - Sight words 1, free - Sight words 2, with the unlock - Sight words 3, with the unlock - Long vowels, with the unlock - Digraphs, with the unlock - Animals, with the unlock - At home, with the unlock ### Sentences8 decks, 96 cards - Pets, free - Weather, free - Food, with the unlock - Family routines, with the unlock - The playground, with the unlock - The garden, with the unlock - Bedtime, with the unlock - A walk, with the unlock ### Stories12 decks, 110 cards - The little fox, free - The big storm, free - Soup for lunch, with the unlock - Saturday morning, with the unlock - The tall slide, with the unlock - A rainy day, with the unlock - The lost sock, with the unlock - Baking bread, with the unlock - The birthday, with the unlock - Snowy morning, with the unlock - The picnic, with the unlock - At the beach, with the unlock - Free: the first two decks of every kind, in each language - With the unlock: every other deck and every story ### Syllables6 decks, 120 cards - Primeras sílabas, free - Sílabas con c, g, r, b, free - Sílabas inversas, with the unlock - Sílabas trabadas con l, with the unlock - Sílabas trabadas con r, with the unlock - Sílabas con diptongo, with the unlock ### Words8 decks, 160 cards - Palabras cortas, free - Palabras con m, p, s, free - Palabras con l, t, d, n, with the unlock - Animales, with the unlock - En casa, with the unlock - Comida, with the unlock - Palabras trabadas, with the unlock - Palabras largas, with the unlock ### Sentences8 decks, 96 cards - Mascotas, free - El clima, free - La comida, with the unlock - La familia, with the unlock - El parque, with the unlock - El jardín, with the unlock - La hora de dormir, with the unlock - Un paseo, with the unlock ### Stories12 decks, 106 cards - Los animales de la granja, free - El sol y la nube, free - La sopa de la abuela, with the unlock - Un día en familia, with the unlock - Una tarde en el parque, with the unlock - Un día de lluvia, with the unlock - El calcetín perdido, with the unlock - Hacemos pan, with the unlock - El cumpleaños de Sofía, with the unlock - Una mañana con nieve, with the unlock - El picnic, with the unlock - Un día en la playa, with the unlock - Free: the first two decks of every kind, in each language - With the unlock: every other deck and every story ### Two languages, set separately The menus Follow the phone's language, English or Spanish. The reading Chosen for each kid, Reads in English or Reads in Spanish, and changed in the parent area. ## Free, and one unlock. Read a book is always free, with no limit, and it works with the books you already have. The unlock adds the rest of the decks and the stories. Your kid's progress is never locked. What is free and what the unlock adds Feature Free Unlock Profiles and progress Unlimited Unlimited Read a book (camera mode) Yes Yes Words per minute chart Yes Yes Decks per category, per language First 2 All 34 Stories No All ## Questions. **Does the audio leave the phone?** No. The listening happens on the phone, and the audio stays there. If a phone can't listen offline in the reading language, the app tells you, and every word can still be tapped to hear it. **Which languages?** English and Spanish. The app's menus and the reading language are set separately, so a Spanish-speaking family can practise English, or the other way around. **What happens when it doesn't catch a word?** Nothing bad. The word stays amber until it's heard. Your kid can tap it to hear it split into syllables, and Skip is always there. The app never tells your kid they got it wrong. ## Lector is almost here. Coming soon to the App Store for iPhone and iPad, in English and Spanish. Rated 4+. App Store: soon --- Page: https://kidsecuregames.com/lector The whole studio for agents: https://kidsecuregames.com/llms.txt