Dokuen Furigana Reader

Dokuen Reader

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Download Dokuen Furigana Reader today and unlock your Japanese reading potential!

About this app

Read any Japanese text instantly. Dokuen adds real-time furigana overlays to kanji in any app—perfect for manga, games, news, and websites. Point your camera at real-world text like menus or books to get instant readings.

Unlike a simple translator, Dokuen is built to help you learn and read the original Japanese. Tap any word for a full definition, confirm your understanding with a sentence-level comprehension helper, and send new vocabulary to your Anki deck with a single tap. It's the ultimate all-in-one reading companion.

MAIN FEATURES

🚀 Instant Screen Overlay Mode
Activate the overlay to get real-time furigana in any app! Perfect for reading news, social media, games, and your favorite e-book or manga apps.

📸 Powerful Camera Mode (OCR)
Point your camera at any physical text—a restaurant menu, a sign, or your Japanese books—and see furigana appear like magic. Perfect for practicing your reading in the real world.

📖 Tap-to-Define Integrated Dictionary
Build your vocabulary as you read. Tap on any word with a furigana overlay to get its definition, reading, and other details from our comprehensive built-in dictionary.

🔍 Comprehension Helper
Need more context? Simply drag-select an entire sentence to view its translation. This tool is designed as a learning aid to confirm your reading, not to replace it.

📇 One-Tap Anki Integration
Supercharge your studies! Found a new word? Add it directly to your Anki flashcard decks from within the app. Learning new vocabulary has never been more streamlined.

📶 Flexible Offline & Online Modes
Read and study anywhere, anytime. The app works perfectly offline for total convenience. For situations requiring the highest possible accuracy, you can enable an optional online mode to enhance text recognition.

⚙️ Highly Customizable
Your reading, your way. Easily adjust the font size and color of the furigana to create the perfect reading experience that’s easy on your eyes.

WHO IS THIS FOR?

🧑‍🎓 Japanese Language Students: This is for you! Accelerate your learning by seeing kanji readings in context. The seamless Anki integration makes creating flashcards from new words effortless, making it a must-have for JLPT study.

📖 Manga & Novel Readers: Tackle that untranslated manga or web novel you've been wanting to read. Use the furigana to read naturally, and the comprehension helper to check your understanding of challenging passages.

🗼 Tourists & Expats in Japan: Read your environment with confidence. Use the camera mode to read menus and signs, and the comprehension tool for clarification on more complex information when you truly need it.

🤔 Curious Minds: Anyone interested in the Japanese language who wants a powerful tool to dive in and start reading, not just translating.

Stop letting difficult kanji slow you down. Break through the reading wall and experience Japanese content like never before.

Download Dokuen Furigana Reader today and unlock your Japanese reading potential!

What’s new

• Improved support for devices with multiple screens.
• Camera mode now locks orientation when showing results.
• Fixed an issue where screen taps were sometimes blocked on certain devices.
• General performance and stability improvements.