Japanese Reading

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About this app

「Reading Japanese」helps you practice your hiragana, katakana and Kanji reading skills.

- In-app dictionary, one-click definitions
- Completely free
- Original articles almost daily
- Real-life news from NHK
- Save and go back to previously read articles
- Easily toggle furigana off and on to practice reading
- Easy Japanese language
- N3-N4 level, for intermediate Japanese learners
- Hiragana, Katakana
- Kanji, all with furigana

Get into the habit of practising reading Japanese daily. It's just a small step to start.
Practice reading Japanese with original articles and furigana.
Updated on
Oct 23, 2025

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Ratings and reviews

428 reviews
Dead Girl
December 22, 2021
^-^ Yep! Everything seems to be working just fine now and faster than before! Fantastic! I have just one suggestion. Add an option for the romanji above or below the characters if that's not too much trouble, please. I'm still memorizing characters, and I'm sure it would be good training wheels for others as well. Only a suggestion though. Thank you for working so hard!
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Greycastle
December 11, 2021
Hi! I would like to update again that since this was raised I have done many updates and I think this issue might be fixed. It would help a lot if you would try it again!
Pranav Badrinathan
August 21, 2023
It's such a great and simple resource for just reading. A lot of other apps try to add too many different features, and make themselves bloated. That said, I think a good feature would be notes on selected text. You could select text, write notes, and review them later. This would help with translating phrases and understanding hiragana words. Like on paper, you could underline and write the meaning/grammar.
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Greycastle
August 21, 2023
Thank you so much for the feedback and review! I'm working on a rebuild of the app that will further simplify it but also hopefully address this in one way, supporting hiragana words. If you're interested to help out and test it early I'd love to hear your thoughts. Email me on david@greycastle.se if you are interested.
Christopher Baker
April 24, 2022
Just jumping in, but looks to cover a gap I was having in my learning. Just a few quick things I noticed: needs a dark mode very bad. It is binding at night. I would also love to see some clickable grammar explanations. And when clicking on a kanji, bring the current usage to the top. Right now if it's a verb, often have to scroll to find the correct definition. But overall it looks promising and will see what more it has to offer. Thanks for the app and material.
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Updated packages to support latest store requirements.