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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Great app, but
Please add the option to copy a word. At the moment the dictionary blocks the copy function. I often need to copy words into Anki to check whether I have a mnemonic card for the certain Kanji used but I’m unable to without a cumbersome workaround of searching in Japanese and then copying from there.
Please also add the option to highlight known words. I find it strange that there’s no option to have the app distinguish between words I know and ones I’ve simply looked up maybe just once in the app. There a huge difference between these two. It’d be great to have an indication of this when I’m reading so that I know when to pause a little longer and recall the word or whether to just press to look at the definition as I may have only encountered it maybe the once in passing.
Also really needs a feature to import a known words list as a simple txt file. Many people already have these lists from apps like the Morphman add on for Anki.
One of the best apps I’ve come across
Well built and gives a great variety of content with tools to help you tackle them
Server issues
I would give this five stars as it’s a great learning resource and easy to look up readings and meanings as you go. Big issue is it is not connecting to the flash cards app often. Also the NHK news easy and others often not connect. Too many network errors.
