iOS · for Russian speakers learning Spanish
The Russian meaning arrives first, so comprehension is free — and all your attention lands on the Spanish itself.
Жил-был не так давно в некоем селе Ла-Манчи, имя которого я не хочу вспоминать, один идальго из тех, что держат копьё на подставке, старый щит, тощую клячу и борзую собаку.
·ру En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no ha mucho tiempo que vivía un hidalgo de los de lanza en astillero, adarga antigua, rocín flaco y galgo corredor.
Each phrase comes in Russian; a tap reveals the Spanish original. An unclear word? Touch it — a small Russian hint appears right above the line.
The same passage comes back with the languages swapped: Spanish leads, Russian waits one tap away in the margin.
By the third return you are reading Cervantes nearly unaided. Finished passages settle on your Shelf; the phrases that still needed hints keep returning as short encounters — always as living lines from the book.
The library starts with the opening of Don Quixote, Part I — and it is growing.
Molino is local-first by design. No accounts, no ads, no analytics, no network calls — the app cannot phone home because there is nothing in it that does. Everything you read stays in a database on your device. The whole privacy policy fits on one page.
