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.

Best alternative for Yomitan for iOS users. Offers Anki integration and can create flashcards (unlike 10ten reader).

A great app! Has variety of options and very fun to use. My only recommendation is to have (at least some) translations of the articles so we can check if what we understood is correct.

Manabi is my one stop app for quick Japanese reading at my level. The built in dictionary is a godsend! You can’t lose with this app; if you’re learning Japanese, you MUST have this and Duolingo and Anki. ♥️

Absolutely great app if you want to improving your reading comprehension. The app also allows you to hover over words you don't know and provide a definition so you don't have to go through the trouble of consulting a dictionary. Moreover, there are a variety of topics you can choose from: news, games, cultures etc depending on your interest. Could not recommend enough.

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!