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 is honestly the best method an app I've found for learning to both speak and read. Pair this with an app dedicated to kanji study, and you're gold. If I could add one thing that could make learning Japanese easier with this app, is a double translation to help distinguish the logic structure of Japanese vs English . The literal translation, and the contextual one. i.e. Contextual: First, I asked, "Do you have any work stress." Literal: First, "Work Stress, is there?" asked.

I really really really recommend this app for any beginner who wanna learn japanese and couldn't find any good resources for shorts stories and texts. It's very helpful for me since the translation of every single word is available, and even the use of it. Of course they are some mistakes in translation and that stuff but it's still the best app that found till now for reading in japanese. (it only contains stories from levels N5 and N4)

What’s new

Bug fixes and performance improvements.