--- title: "Learn Japanese: Manabi Reader - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads in United States | Apple App Store" description: "Expand your Japanese vocabulary and kanji comprehension by getting in the habit of reading short, native content daily. Manabi Reader makes it easy to jump into interesting material without having to" --- # Learn Japanese: Manabi Reader — United States > Blogs, news, EPUB + flashcards ![Learn Japanese App Icon](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple211/v4/e3/7d/8e/e37d8efb-c7cd-167e-2ed5-3f32b0f5365b/AppIcon-0-0-1x_U007epad-0-1-0-0-85-220.png/400x400bb.png) **Developer:** [John A Ehlke](https://apptail.io/developer/john-a-ehlke-VyBb) **Category:** Education **Rating:** 4.5/5 (196 ratings) **Price:** Free **Bundle ID:** io.manabi.ManabiReader **Store:** Apple App Store **Country:** United States **Version:** 3.11 (released 2025-06-19) **Original Release:** 2017-07-04 **App Store Link:** [Download on Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/app/id1247286380) **AppTail Page:** [https://apptail.io/app/learn-japanese-manabi-reader-ROTc/united-states](https://apptail.io/app/learn-japanese-manabi-reader-ROTc/united-states) ## Learn Japanese Description Expand your Japanese vocabulary and kanji comprehension by getting in the habit of reading short, native content daily. Manabi Reader makes it easy to jump into interesting material without having to worry about your level: just one tap on any word you don't know to see its reading and definition. Tap again to add flashcards into Manabi or Anki. Don't waste time trying to find engaging reading material—a curated selection of news feeds, online magazines, blogs, folktales and ebooks are collected here for you. You can of course also open any webpage or RSS feed in Manabi Reader to help you through it. Make a habit out of getting your news in Japanese and you'll find your skills multiply. With even a few minutes each day, reading is essential to picking up Japanese. Memory is one of those things where it sticks best when you're having fun, so dive in! • Read native texts. • One-tap word lookups (with audio!). • Word tracking: you'll see how much of an article's vocabulary is already familiar. New words are highlighted for you. • Kanji tracking: we'll also track the kanji you're familiar with as you read articles. Check your progress within JLPT levels. • One-tap flashcard creation: memorize the words you look up. • Review flashcards from an article once you're done reading it. • Automatic furigana. • BYOC (bring your own content) via URL or copy/paste; or, choose from our curated selection of reading materials. • EPUB ebooks. • 3rd-party dictionary apps are supported. • Offline-friendly. • Respects your privacy like a web browser. ========================= The core app is fully functional without payment. Word tracking behaviors are limited to a subset as a preview. The companion Manabi flashcard app is limited to 10 flashcard reviews per day. Full word tracking functionality as well as unlimited flashcard reviews in the companion app may be purchased as a subscription. You may purchase a subscription, which will be charged to your iTunes Account upon purchase and will auto-renew within 24 hours prior to the end of the purchasing period. You can manage this in your Account Settings after purchase. Manabi Reader subscriptions are offered on a monthly or annual basis, with free trials—the annual subscriptions offer a discounted rate. This purchase supports the ongoing development of Manabi. We offer a substantial discount for students, educators, and parents. 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Whenever I see a word that I don’t know, with two taps I can get a nicely formatted Anki card added to a deck. The developer promptly fixes issues too. -- SecondSerenity, 2024-08-05 ### *---- "New update is unusable" Used to really like this app but the latest update constantly crashes when trying to mark anything as known. I'll change my rating if this is fixed. -- Angry consumet, 2024-07-31 ### ***** "Incredible learning app with tons of utility" This app is one of the best for reading practice in Japanese and it does so much for helping you read while tuning the difficulty to your level. The app also gets a lot of dev support, responses to bugs and feature requests is there if you navigate to the discord server for the app and they're quick to respond. 1000% recommend. -- HacoCat, 2024-07-04 ### ***** "Absolutely recommend!" Using Manabi Reader lets me read way more efficiently and I’m seeing a huge improvement in the Japanese I’m picking up, + I’m learning faster than my classmates because of it. It’s free/cheap, easily usable, the cross compatibility between Manabi Reader and Manabi Flashcards/Anki is great, the dev is actively updating it, etc. I like to use it to read NHK’s easy news and make flashcards from new words. Definitely check it out! -- elainemai, 2024-06-13 ### *---- "Good App but WAY TOO GLITCHY" While I love the functionality of the app and would definitely like to support the author, it’s just way to glitchy and buggy. It cannot handle moderate long text without lags and/or glitches. Edit: Reduced to 1 star… WAY TOO MANY BUGS. I was planning to only use the dictionary to add card to AnkiMobile… Even that doesn’t work either.. Each time you click the dictionary search bar and the app glitches out and get rid of the cursor… -- charlieh.no7, 2023-12-13 ### ****- "Great app, but" Since the most recent update, it crashes on launch. I can only get the flash card half of this app to open :/ when it did work, I really enjoyed having the option of so many different things to read and having them ranked by difficulty. Very helpful study tool! -- galenkun, 2023-07-29 ### ***** "3.0 update is excellent" Anki integration is a huge game changer and is what brought me over from the reader app I had been using previously. I just tested adding an Anki card and everything worked smoothly and intuitively— it’s a really big deal that I can finally one-tap add cards to Anki from my smartphone, since no other reader app on the iOS store does this to my knowledge. I’m glad the price is so reasonable, too— will definitely be recommending to friends! My one request to the developer: Is it possible to add a “hiragana only” option for adding to a field in Anki? For example, say I want to add the phrase 仮眠をとる to my anki deck. The only options right now are expression (仮眠をとる) and expression with reading (仮か眠みんをとる). It’d be nice to have an option for かみんをとる because of the odd way my Anki card template is set up. Just a little nitpick. Congrats and many thanks for getting 3.0 released! -- kiriegou, 2023-07-11 ### *---- "App not working" I’m having the same problems as others with the app just not working. At first I couldn’t log on so I made another account. That worked for a few days but now I get an error when trying to save words to the flash card app. Normally the app is very good, especially for advanced learners of Japanese, but at the moment it is not being properly maintained so I can’t recommend it. -- 日本語読解中毒, 2022-08-13 ### *---- "News sources don’t update" The app currently does not work properly. Many of the news sources haven’t been updated in 7 days or more, and some just display an error and won’t load anything. If money is being charged for a service, it needs to be properly maintained. I love this app and would love to give it 5 stars because it really is that good, but I just can’t do that in its current state. Fix this app ASAP. -- Grog J., 2022-08-07 ### ***** "great for immersion learning/studying" im currently learning japanese through immersion and this app is really amazing for reading practice and vocabulary !! highly recommend -- MelanieTheCrybaby, 2022-08-03 [View all Learn Japanese reviews and detailed analytics on AppTail](https://app.apptail.io/signup?utm_campaign=ai-crawl&utm_content=reviews) ## Learn Japanese In-App Purchases | Item | Price | |------|-------| | Monthly | $3.99 | | Annual Subscription | $39.99 | | Annual Subscription (Student) | $9.99 | | Monthly Subscription (Student) | $0.99 | ## Learn Japanese Discovered Keywords - japanese news - satori reader - japanese reading - japanese books - read japanese - japanese stories - japan reader - japanese reader - reading japanese - manabi ## Learn Japanese Available In - [United States](https://apptail.io/app/learn-japanese-manabi-reader-ROTc/united-states) - [Japan](https://apptail.io/app/learn-japanese-manabi-reader-ROTc/japan) - 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