Wonder Arts: Read & Listen

Wonder Arts turns the world's masterpieces into illustrated stories worth reading — most of them narrated aloud, free to read, and working in more than ten languages. YOU ARE NOT JUST READING THIS LIBRARY. YOU ARE BUILDING IT. Most apps ask you for a star rating. This one asks you what to make next — and then makes it. Nothing in this library is ever finished, and that is the point. An illustration you flag can be repainted. A story that is not working can be rewritten. A mistake can be corrected in days, not editions. No printed book and no ordinary app can do that. So we are going to keep asking you things: • Which artist or movement should we cover next? • Which illustration style do you want more of? • Which part of the library do you actually use? • Later: which artists to follow, so we can build a series around them? Always a tap, never a form — you pick an option and get back to reading. To be straight with you: nothing changes because one person said so, and nothing changes overnight. But when the same signal arrives from enough readers, that becomes the plan, and it gets built. Come back in a few weeks and look for the thing you asked for. That is the whole idea. HOW TO GET THE MOST OUT OF IT • Press play once and put the phone down. Narration continues page after page, hands-free, words lighting up as they are spoken — good for commutes, bedtime and reluctant readers. • Switch language any time from the reader. The story and the interface follow. • Tap the download icon before you travel. The text stays readable with no connection. • Flag anything that looks wrong. That is not a complaint box — it is how the next version gets written. • Choose the Kids or Adults shelf. They are separate collections, not the same stories relabelled. A FREE LIBRARY YOU CAN READ WITHOUT PAYING Every story opens without an account and without payment. No ads. No in-app purchases. Sections we add later may be paid. READ IN YOUR OWN LANGUAGE The app works in English, Arabic, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Turkish, Persian and Chinese — so more people can meet the world's art the way they read best. Most stories are narrated, in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian, with more on the way. THE MASTERPIECES AND THE HANDS THAT MADE THEM The Mona Lisa, Van Gogh's Sunflowers, Picasso's Guernica, Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring, Michelangelo's David, Monet's Impression, Sunrise, Degas' The Ballet Class — told as the moment something unforgettable was made, not as museum labels. AND THE WONDERS YOU ALWAYS MEANT TO LOOK UP Nicéphore Niépce's first photograph. The Lumière brothers' first film screening. Gutenberg's printing press. Beethoven's Symphony No. 5. The Eiffel Tower. How the world's most famous works came to be, illustrated page by page, so a curious question turns into a story you finish in one sitting. FOR CLASSROOMS AND HOME LEARNING Read-along narration supports developing and second-language readers. Offline downloads mean a lesson never depends on the connection. No account, no ads, no data harvesting — hand it to a class or a child directly. Reading never requires an account. Sign in only if you want your favourites, streaks and reading progress synced across your devices. SINCE 2016 Wonder Arts sits inside WonderBooks, a library that opened in 2016 as a single reading app — 4.9 stars from 977 readers, and top 10 of about 155 startups pitching at Harvard Arab Weekend that year. It could not be scaled then. Today every subject has its own library, drawn and narrated page by page, in thirteen languages, and readers point the way.

Fixes a crash that could close the app while you were reading, and cuts how much memory the library uses while it loads. Smoother page turns, and fewer freezes on older phones.