HelloStory: Japanese Stories

YuSpeak

About this app

HelloStory helps you truly use the Japanese you've learned by reading stories at your level—and it's completely free.

As a graded reading app, HelloStory offers a wide variety of stories tailored to different JLPT levels, helping you apply Japanese effectively while mastering natural expressions.

Our features help you not only read but truly understand each story:

★ Dive into Stories of Your Level
Enjoy engaging tales across a wide range of topics, crafted by experienced native authors to reflect real, natural Japanese.

★ Instant Understanding Made Easy
Access professional, bilingual translations for every word and sentence—no more guessing, just clear meaning in real time.

★ Listen and Learn Naturally
Immerse yourself in audio recordings by native speakers. Sharpen your listening skills and perfect your pronunciation effortlessly.

★ Multiple Display Modes
Toggle between Kanji, Hiragana, or Romaji to help you recognize and read Japanese characters with confidence.

★ Save and Master Challenging Words
Add tricky vocabulary to your personalized wordlist. Our AI-powered flashcards prioritize what you need most, ensuring focused review and long-term retention.

★ Completely Free
All stories and features are available at no cost—no hidden fees, no clickbait.

Start reading to boost your Japanese skills today with HelloStory!

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Ratings and reviews

Have read a few articles, and love the app so far! A lot of the stories are dialogues, and thus include a lot of natural spoken language on everyday topics. This is something I need more exposure to at this stage so I'm using this app a lot at the moment. There are plenty of stories that are 95% N5 vocabulary so it's great for beginners. A couple of requests: please always reveal hiragana when looking up a word. And please make it possible to copy words or sentences to the clipboard - thanks!

This app is literally the reason I feel amazing about supporting this company. Their language learning app YuSpeak is sooooooo user friendly and so intuitive it actually helped me learn so much in terms of grammar structure and vocabulary, and this app is actually 100% fully free with immense quality!! The moment I have proper free time and start learning Japanese at my uni, I'm getting the subscription for their other app again because they seriously deserve the love and support.

So far this app is incredible!! Short stories in many different learning levels and you can adjust what you want displayed in terms of hiragana or kanji. The UI is simple, there's a dark mode, and even audio playback. If you don't know a word in the reading, add it to your word list and then you can review it like anki :D Great app.

What’s new

Bug fixes and performance improvements.