Manabi Reader – Read Japanese
Learn to read. Review in Anki.
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Expand your Japanese vocabulary and comprehension by getting in the habit of reading short, native content daily. Manabi Reader makes it easy to jump into interesting native reading material without having to worry about your level: just one tap on any word you don't know to see its reading and definition.

Don't waste time trying to find engaging reading material—a curated selection of news feeds, online magazines, blogs, even folktales are collected here for you. You can of course also open any webpage 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.
• Reddit category with aggregated Japanese articles and discussions.
• 3rd-party dictionary apps are supported.

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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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In-Apps

Monthly
¥600
Annual Subscription
¥6,000
Annual Subscription (Student)
¥1,050
Monthly Subscription (Student)
¥100

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User Rating

4.39 out of 5

49 ratings in Japan

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Reviews

Good but needs more work

Keigo 221 on

Good reading for those who learn Japanese! Can you please check if International folktales have the reading mode? Somehow it’s not always possible! Great app though!

Integration with Anki makes this an amazing tool

Isthisnametakenplsno on

Being able to create Anki cards with one click from my phone and have them immediately in my deck is a game changer. The only thing that keeps me from spending the entirety of my time on this app is the lack of an epub reader.

Reader mode gone?

Matsumoto33 on

Really useful app but the reader mode seems to have disappeared after the latest update.

Great app, but slowly falling apart

Garyrobert2 on

I love this app, simple and easy to use and a great way to learn Japanese. Sadly it seems that it’s just no being updated, and it’s seems slowly to be falling apart, losing more and more functions. I’ve given up on it and moved to similar (though less user friendly) apps. Shame. I hope they can revive it soon!

It’s good

Kidkismet on

It’s good but it’s broken at some times. Can’t save vocabulary, update articles or can’t access certain articles. It’s a shame because it has potential

It’s awesome, but lacking

ToKini Andy on

This is a great app which I plan on reviewing on my YouTube channel. I’m giving it 3 stars because there are a few no brainer features that it should really include, AND because the summary button after reading something doesn’t work on iPad Pro 11 right now (it pops up and disappears immediately). Speaking of the summary feature, why is there nowhere in the app where we can get an overall summary of what we have read over time? It’s possible to track all the words you’ve read in a single article, and show a summary of words read afterwards, but no summary page at all. This seems like an obvious feature, especially for the paid version.

So good appreciate your development

Stardust220 on

Really nice app

mark as readを押せない

taa_kayuki on

bug?のせいで mark as readのボタンを押せないです。アプリを立ち上げ直したりしても直ってないです。

Good app for Japanese learning.

Leobinglan2003 on

This app is good for Japanese learning, it has FURIGANA attached, which helps KANJI Pronunciation learning effectively.

The best app for learning through immersion

weeabooinjapan on

I have been using immersion as my main method of studying Japanese for some time now. Manabi is the best app to assist with this. There is content pulled automatically from popular Japanese websites like 2ch and rocket news, I can simply tap a word to see it's definition or how to read it and to create a flashcard for it. You can even use pages that are not included in the app or pull content from the clipboard. I have been using Manabi to assist me in reading a web version of my favorite light novel series and it has been a big help to quickly learn the words that I don't already know. It would be really great if there were more content sources included in the app like animeanime (Japanese anime news site) or syosetu (web novel site) but since content can be added from a URL or from the clipboard it's not such a big deal however it would be more convenient. I love this app and I definitely recommend it for anyone learning Japanese through immersion.

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App Info

Category
Education
Publisher
John A Ehlke
Languages
English
Recent version
3.4.2 (3 weeks ago )
Released on
Jul 4, 2017 (7 years ago )
Last updated
4 weeks ago