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Errant Ant

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Store status
Coming soon
Scheduled release
9 November 2026
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Release date
9 November 2026
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Release date9 November 2026Scheduled by Steam
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Game information

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App ID
5507590
App type
Game
Supported systems
Windows · Linux
Genres
Education, Utilities, Early Access
Release date
9 November 2026
Last player update
Awaiting first sample
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System requirements

Supplied by the developer on Steam

Windows

Minimum
OS
Windows 10 64-bit (version 2004 or later) or Windows 11
Processor
64-bit dual-core processor
Memory
4 GB RAM
Graphics
Any graphics card with DirectX 11 support
DirectX
Version 11
Storage
1 GB available space
Additional Notes
Keyboard and mouse required. An internet connection is needed only to download free books and dictionaries; reading works offline. Your books and downloaded dictionaries need extra space
Recommended
OS
Windows 11 64-bit
Processor
64-bit dual-core processor
Memory
8 GB RAM
Graphics
Any graphics card with DirectX 11 support
DirectX
Version 11
Network
Broadband Internet connection
Storage
2 GB available space
Additional Notes
Keyboard and mouse required. An internet connection is needed only to download free books and dictionaries; reading works offline. Your books and downloaded dictionaries need extra space

Linux

Minimum
OS
64-bit Linux (Ubuntu 22.04 or later, or equivalent) or SteamOS 3
Processor
64-bit dual-core processor
Memory
4 GB RAM
Graphics
Graphics with OpenGL 3 drivers
Storage
1 GB available space
Additional Notes
Keyboard and mouse required. An internet connection is needed only to download free books and dictionaries; reading works offline. Your books and downloaded dictionaries need extra space
Recommended
OS
Ubuntu 24.04 64-bit or later, or SteamOS 3
Processor
64-bit dual-core processor
Memory
8 GB RAM
Graphics
Graphics with OpenGL 3 drivers
Network
Broadband Internet connection
Storage
2 GB available space
Additional Notes
Keyboard and mouse required. An internet connection is needed only to download free books and dictionaries; reading works offline. Your books and downloaded dictionaries need extra space
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About this game

Description

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Errant Ant is a reader for people learning a language through real books. Import your own EPUB, PDF and TXT books or download free classics, then simply read. Every page you turn and every word you look up is counted, and words are colored by how well you actually know them. No flashcards to review and no ratings to keep: the colors fade as the words become yours.

Read your own books

Import EPUB, text-based PDF and TXT files, or download free public-domain books from Project Gutenberg.

A clean, paged reader with your choice of font, text size, line spacing, column width and page-turn style.

Twelve learning languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Korean, Japanese and Chinese (Simplified and Traditional).

Words that color themselves

Each page you turn records the words on it, and each word you click records a lookup.

Words are colored by how often you understood them without help: new and difficult words stand out, familiar ones fade away.

Mark a word Mastered and it never colors again. Give any word a color of its own and it keeps that color everywhere.

A panel for every word

Click a word, or drag across a phrase, to see:

how well you know it, from your own reading

your own meaning or note

entries from free offline dictionaries you choose to download: Wiktionary in many languages, Open English WordNet, JMdict and CC-CEDICT

every sentence you met it in, with a jump back to that page

Your vocabulary, laid out

Vocabulary and Phrases list every word and phrase you have met, sorted by how well you know them. You can import word lists too.

Pin words and books to your start page as live tiles.

The Map: lay out words, notes, pictures and drawings on endless boards, connect related words, and share a board as a file.

Private by design

No account, no sign-in, no ads.

Your books and your learning stay on your computer. The internet is used only to download the books and dictionaries you pick, and they work offline afterwards.

Interface in 12 languages, with light and dark color schemes and an adjustable interface size.

Early Access

Errant Ant is complete for everyday reading and grows with its readers. Coming next: word-by-word splitting for Chinese and Japanese (today they are counted one character at a time), more dictionaries, a macOS version, and syncing between devices.

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