PageEcho 1.5.7 is on the App Store. It has no new features. Every change in it is a fix for something we found while using the app on a real iPhone the day after 1.5.6 shipped. Here is what changed.

AI chat answers in the language you ask in

A question typed in Korean, Japanese or another non-Latin script was sometimes answered in English, and the answer could repeat the source labels the app attaches to excerpts instead of using them as citations. The chat now tells the on-device model which language to answer in, so a Korean question gets a Korean answer, including when your library does not contain the answer.

Two related fixes came with it:

  • An answer about your books could stop after a single citation mark such as [1]. Those cut-off answers are no longer shown as a reply, and chats about your own books are less likely to be cut short.
  • A question in Korean searches your Korean documents with the Korean index. Before, an index built for another script could push unrelated English passages to the top.

"Summarize what I'm reading" uses the chapter you are in

In the library chat, the suggestion Summarize what I'm reading used to search the whole library for the phrase, and often summarized a license or source page. It now takes the chapter you last had open in your most recent book and summarizes that. The source shown under the answer names the book and the chapter.

How good the summary is still depends on the on-device model, Apple Intelligence or a downloaded Gemma model. A long chapter is cut to fit what the model can read at once.

Smaller fixes

  • A new install no longer says the voice model "needs an update". It now says that the voice model has not been downloaded yet.
  • Korean text in the onboarding pages and the What's New sheet no longer breaks in the middle of a word.
  • Language names in the voice model settings are written the same way throughout.

What stays the same

Everything still happens on your device. Voices, translation, summaries and answers run on the iPhone, there is no account and no PageEcho server, and the Network Transparency screen lists every place the app can connect to. This update adds no new network destination.

The full list is in the App Store release notes. If something in this update does not behave as described here, write to us; the guides on this site are checked against each release and this one was checked against 1.5.7 on November 14, 2026.