Read the texts that changed the world
Learn Latin, Ancient Greek, Arabic, French, and German by studying the foundational texts of our civilization.
How it works
Read the original, one passage at a time
Famous texts have been broken down into accessible passages you can learn to read in one sitting.
Guided Reading
Swipe through a passage chunk by chunk. Tap a chunk for its translation, tap a word for its gloss — you assemble the sense yourself.
Passage by Passage
Long works are laid out in passages you can finish. Each one you read is marked, and the book fills in behind you.
Why CodexTutor
Built for serious learners
Every text is analyzed in advance — each word glossed, each line’s grammar prepared.
Tap Any Word
Tap a word for its dictionary form, part of speech, and meaning — then assemble the sense yourself, the way you read with a lexicon. The grammar’s there when you want it, tucked away when you don’t.
بِسۡمِ ٱللَّهِ
بِ
with
اسْمِ
name
ٱللَّهِ
God
Real Texts, Not Textbooks
You're not learning from fabricated examples. Every line and every phrase comes directly from literature that people actually read.
Watch the Book Fill In
Every passage you finish is marked. Watch a whole text fill in behind you, passage by passage, until you have read the thing entire.
Every Language, Done Right
5 traditions, each done properly. The same engine adapts to every language’s native grammar — Arabic root morphology, Greek and Latin cases, French liaison, German separable verbs.
The Library
Texts worth a lifetime of study
Read iconic texts in history, science, liturgy, and fiction in their original languages.
Aeneis
The Aeneid
Virgil’s epic of Rome’s founding — the canonical Latin poem, line by hexameter line.
Latin
Ὀδύσσεια
The Odyssey
‘Tell me of the man of many turns’ — the whole of Homer’s tale of homecoming, hexameter by hexameter.
Ancient Greek
القرآن الكريم
The Noble Qur’an
All 114 sūras, from Al-Fātiḥa to An-Nās — the complete text, every word glossed.
Arabic
الأربعون النووية
Forty Hadith of Nawawi
The thirteenth-century imam’s curated forty sayings of the Prophet — the entry point to the hadith tradition.
Arabic
Magna Carta Libertatum
Magna Carta
The 1215 charter the barons forced on King John — the document every constitution since has been written against.
Latin
Déclaration de 1789
Declaration of the Rights of Man
The 17 articles drafted by the National Constituent Assembly — the political constitution of the Enlightenment.
French
الجبر والمقابلة
The Algebra of al-Khwārizmī
The ninth-century treatise that gave algebra its name — the book that taught Europe how to do math with letters.
Arabic
Fables choisies
Fables of La Fontaine
The verse fables every French schoolchild memorizes — animal morality tales as polished as anything in the language.
French
La Parure
The Necklace
Maupassant’s clerk’s wife borrows a diamond necklace, loses it, and pays for ten years — the most perfect short story in French.
French
Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους
Plato’s Apology
Socrates’s defense at his trial — the founding text of Western philosophy and the unexamined life.
Ancient Greek
Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν, Α
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius’s private Stoic notebook — an emperor writing in Greek on how to live.
Ancient Greek
Der Erlkönig
Erlkönig
Goethe’s ballad of a father riding through the night as death whispers to his child — the most famous poem in German.
German
Every text, fully prepared
A selection from the launch library. Every text comes with chunked translations, tap-to-gloss on every word, and audio for living languages.
Voices across the canon
Arma virumque cano
“I sing of arms and the man”
Virgil, Aeneid · Latin
Wer reitet so spät durch Nacht und Wind?
“Who rides so late through night and wind?”
Goethe, Erlkönig · German
اقْرَأْ بِاسْمِ رَبِّكَ
“Recite in the name of your Lord”
Quran 96:1 · Arabic
Les hommes naissent libres
“Men are born free”
Declaration of 1789, Art. I · French
ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, μοῦσα
“Tell me, Muse, of the man”
Homer, Odyssey · Ancient Greek
إِنَّمَا الأَعْمَالُ بِالنِّيَّاتِ
“Actions are but by intentions”
Nawawi, Hadith 1 · Arabic
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