Free English reading tools
Five working tools for learners, teachers and editors. No account, no upload, no limits.
These tools exist because the questions they answer come up constantly: is this article too hard for my class, what level am I actually at, how many English words do I know, and how fast do I have to read to finish the IELTS reading paper on time.
All five run entirely inside your browser. Nothing you paste is sent to a server, nothing is stored, and there is no request limit because there is no request. That also means they keep working offline once the page has loaded.
They are honest about their own limits. A level estimate from a paragraph of text is not the same thing as a placement exam, and every tool tells you when it does not have enough data to be sure.
CEFR text checker
Paste any English text and get an estimated CEFR band from A1 to C2, with the vocabulary, sentence-length and readability signals that produced it.
Open the toolReadability checker
Flesch Reading Ease, Flesch-Kincaid Grade, Gunning Fog, SMOG and ARI in one pass - plus an estimated CEFR band for English learners.
Open the toolVocabulary size test
A yes/no lexical decision test with pseudowords mixed in, so over-claiming is corrected instead of rewarded. Roughly three minutes.
Open the toolIELTS reading timer
Turn a word count and a target time into the words-per-minute you need, a per-passage plan, and a countdown you can practise against.
Open the toolGoethe B1 Lesen model test
A timed practice run of the Goethe-Zertifikat B1 reading module: five parts, 30 items, 65 minutes, with every answer explained. The texts are in German.
Open the toolThen practise on text at your level
Knowing your level is the easy half. LingoRead generates reading passages at a CEFR level you choose, pulls the vocabulary out of them, and asks comprehension questions - so the reading you do next is aimed at the gap the tools just found.
Start reading at your levelThis tool is free. Learning in the app requires an active trial or subscription.