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title: "Features: tap any word, news, PDFs, Ask, Listen, Cards | ContextCat"
description: "What ContextCat does: explains any word you tap in its sentence, brings real news daily, reads your PDFs and links aloud, answers questions and reviews your words."
url: https://contextcat.app/features
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[ContextCat](https://contextcat.app/)[Features](https://contextcat.app/features)

# Everything ContextCat does

One idea runs through all of it: you read real text in the language it was written in, and help appears exactly where you get stuck.

-   [Tap any word](https://contextcat.app/features/tap-any-word): Tap a word in anything you read and ContextCat explains what it means in that sentence, in your own language, right under the line you are reading.
-   [Today's news](https://contextcat.app/features/news): Every day ContextCat collects headlines from real outlets in the language you read. Open one, read it in the app and tap any word you do not know.
-   [PDFs, links and books](https://contextcat.app/features/pdfs-and-books): Import a PDF, save a link to any web article or paste text, then read it in ContextCat and tap any word for its meaning in that sentence, in your language.
-   [Ask](https://contextcat.app/features/ask): Ask a question about a page, a paragraph or your whole document and get an answer from the text, or ask ContextCat to quiz you on what you just read.
-   [Listen](https://contextcat.app/features/listen): ContextCat reads your book, PDF or article aloud in a natural voice, sentence by sentence, highlighting the words as they are spoken, with speed and repeat controls.
-   [Cards](https://contextcat.app/features/cards): Every word you tap in ContextCat is saved with its sentence and comes back as a card just before you would forget it, using spaced repetition.
-   [Stories (coming in 1.1)](https://contextcat.app/features/stories): Coming in ContextCat 1.1: short stories written at your level, and a daily serial for English learners, two minutes an episode. What exists today and what is next.

[Download on the App Store](https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6737737343?pt=122713589&ct=site_features&mt=8)