Learn Swedish by reading real texts.
Minnen is a reading app for people who already know some Swedish and want to get better by reading, not by drilling flashcards. Many of our readers live in Sweden and are learning the language for work, study or everyday life. You read short articles, stories and retold classics written for learners from A1 to C1, or you bring your own: a news article, a web page, a PDF. Tap any word to see what it means in that sentence, with an offline Swedish dictionary. Ask for a sentence translation or notes when you need them, and save the words you want to keep. Saved words come back in short daily reviews, always together with the sentence you found them in, so you remember them in context. A daily word puzzle, Word Play, keeps practice light. Minnen is built around a simple idea: understanding comes before memorising. The goal is not to collect more words in isolation, but to understand what you read and gradually need less help. Minnen is free to use, with a daily allowance of AI help. The interface is available in English and Chinese. Minnen is currently in Early Access.
Minnen's offline Swedish and Spanish dictionaries are built primarily from Wiktionary, the collaborative dictionary written by its volunteer contributors. The entries were extracted by Kaikki.org using Wiktextract, and Minnen has converted and filtered them for use in the app. The Chinese meanings shown to Chinese readers come from the Chinese edition of Wiktionary, extracted the same way, with Traditional characters converted to Simplified.
Wiktionary text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-SA 4.0) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). Wiktionary-derived dictionary data used in Minnen remains under those terms.
When that data has no meaning for a Swedish word, English word help can show a translation from Folkets Lexikon, a Swedish-English dictionary, instead. Folkets Lexikon is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Generic licence (CC BY-SA 2.5), and the Folkets Lexikon translations used in Minnen remain under those terms. For Chinese readers, Chinese meanings that the Chinese Wiktionary does not give are machine-translated (by DeepL or an AI model) from the English meanings in Folkets Lexikon, under the same terms.
Swedish word forms are recognised with SALDO's morphology from Språkbanken Text, University of Gothenburg (DOI 10.23695/agcm-ny22), which Minnen converts into its own lookup database. SALDO's morphology is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0).
The word levels in the Word Guide (A1 to C2) come from the Swedish Kelly list and SweLLex, both from Språkbanken Text, University of Gothenburg, and available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0). Kelly's levels are frequency bands: they say how common a word is, so roughly how early a learner meets it, not whether you know it.
These licences apply only to the third-party dictionary data. They do not apply to the Minnen application, its design, or its other content, which are © 2026 Minnen.