Manabi Reader – Read Japanese

Imported epubs are not displayed properly. I tried to import four books and couldn’t read any of them. I only see first page at max and than text is shifting and disappears. But the idea for the app is excellent, will definitely use after bug fixing

Paid for all app functions but the function “I want to learn this” doesn’t work - everytime I try to add a meaning I want to learn it shows me an error. And that function is the most useful one for me in the app, without it it’s really hard to trek progress.

This is an excellent way to get into immersion & reading. Having definitions, readings & audio of a word available with a touch as you’re reading, then being able to simply add said word to a deck of flash cards, not only takes the pain out of looking things up, but also makes whatever you’re reading instantly more accessible & comprehensible. Being someone who often spends more time on my phone than my computer, this app is exactly what I‘ve been looking for.

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!

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…

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!

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!

Just downloaded this app recently and really like it but unfortunately it’s very glitchy. Often when I want to read something, it’ll say “Loading failure. Please try again” or “Unable to verify subscription”. I’m also unable to login to the account I made.

I love that you can look at new words and it tells you about them, the issue is that you cannot make flash cards and it says that it will fix it but it has been like this for a couple of days Without flash cards the app is still a major help it is just a downside

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.