Learn German by reading
Learn German the way it actually sticks — by reading.
Halm gives you a fresh short story every day at your exact level, plus real news rewritten so you can read it. Tap any word to translate it, and the words you save come back right before you’d forget them — all on your iPhone, fully private.
Why reading beats drilling
The fastest way into a language is to spend time in it — understanding messages, not memorising rules. Researchers call the sweet spot comprehensible input: material that’s mostly clear, with just enough new language to stretch you.
Reading is the most practical way to get hours of it. You move at your own pace, you can stop and translate, and you meet the same useful words again and again in real contexts — which is exactly how vocabulary becomes permanent. Halm is built around that loop: read something worth reading, and let the German come along with it.
What you get
- A fresh short story every day, written to your exact CEFR level
- Real German news, rewritten so you can actually read it
- Tap any word or sentence to translate it — on-device
- Saved words flow into FSRS spaced repetition automatically
- Read-aloud with word-by-word highlighting
- Full VoiceOver, Dynamic Type, and accessibility support
Want the longer version? Read why reading the news at your level works on the blog.
Start reading German today.
iPhone · iOS 26 · free to start