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

super reliable! (other than sometimes the robot pronounces words wrong so I have to double check if that's how they're actually spoken)) but yes! flashcard system, I can review whenever I want!. I'm N3 listening but N5 reading unfortunately, but I think if I blow through all your N5 content I'll be good. 🐣 edit: if you're wondering what I mean, some words like "旅行し" had audio that pronounced it as 'びょこうし" instead of "りょこうし" and "働く/き" pronounced as "わたらく/き" instead of "はたらく/ き" I hope thishelps

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.

Holy cow, this app was AMAZING. I totally recommend this for beginners since I use this, and wow, my reading skills became much better under 3 days. Though, I wish there was an option to only hear the audio instead of reading it, even without the Hiragana + Kanji, so I really know if I understand most words of that level and to know that I'm upgrading even more, so not only i can READ, but also hear, like hearing conversations lol.

What’s new

Bug fixes and performance improvements.