Beautiful reading apps for the world's greatest literature.
We make careful, calm reading apps for the canon — works that deserve more than a study guide and less than a textbook. Our flagship is Fluid Shakespeare: all 37 plays, free to read on the web, with synced read-along narration in the app.
Original
Modern English
Our products
Two, today — each built with the care it took years to deserve. More to follow.
Fluid Shakespeare
All 37 plays. Original Early Modern English on one side, plain modern English on the other. Synced read-along narration in the iOS & Android app. Free on the web.
→ knovella.com/shakespeare
LiveHomer's Odyssey
All 24 books of the Odyssey in clear modern prose. Flip any card to the original public-domain translators, and collect the heroes, monsters, and islands as you sail. On iOS & Android.
→ knovella.com/odyssey
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About Knovella
Knovella is an independent studio. We make reading apps that respect the source — works whose language is hard, but worth the climb. We pair the original text with a careful modern translation, so the climb is a little less steep without skipping any of the view.
We don't believe in subscriptions for public-domain literature. We don't pop up modals while you read. We don't gate the text behind a sign-up. The app earns its keep by adding things the web can't — starting with synced read-along narration that highlights every word as it's spoken.