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Kanji Reader: Scan Japanese
Photo to furigana & meaning
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Scan kanji from any photo: instant furigana, meaning in your language & audio.
Point your camera at Japanese text and read it right away. Kanji Reader is a furigana app for people learning Japanese: scan a textbook page, a manga panel, a sign or a letter, and every kanji reading appears in hiragana above the line.
WHAT IT DOES
• Scan and read — take a photo or pick one from your photo library. OCR pulls out the Japanese text and AI writes furigana over the kanji, like 調(しら)べます.
• Understand the meaning — tap Explain and AI tells you what the passage actually says, in your own language. Grammar, context and background, not just the readings.
• Hear it — tap play and listen to the Japanese out loud while you follow the text.
• Scan several pages at once — do a whole chapter instead of one photo at a time.
• Copy the text — one tap puts the extracted Japanese on your clipboard.
STUDY WITH BOOKS
Anything you scan can be bound into a Book. Pages keep their order, get a table of contents, and turn like a real book so you can read them again tomorrow. Export a Book as a PDF and take it to your tablet or e-reader.
PRACTICE PROBLEMS
Choose chapters from a Book and AI writes short written-answer questions from that exact text. Read the question, think, then turn the page for the answer and the explanation. You practise on the Japanese you actually care about instead of someone else's word list.
GOOD FOR
• Learning Japanese from a textbook or workbook you already own
• Reading manga, novels, games and song lyrics in the original
• Living in Japan: mail, forms, notices, menus, station signs
• Japanese work documents, slides and handouts
• Anyone who speaks some Japanese but gets stuck on kanji
Free every day: 1 scan and 1 explanation. Premium removes the daily limits, lifts the caps on books and practice problems, and unlocks PDF export.
Terms of Service: https://shofj.com/en/apps/furigana-ai/terms-of-service
Privacy Policy: https://shofj.com/en/apps/furigana-ai/privacy-policy
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- The app is now called "Kanji Reader"
- Furigana are now more accurate
- Your 2 free uses a day can now go to scanning or explaining, in any mix
- Supports iOS 27
- Added support for Indonesian, Thai, and Malay
- You can now report AI answers that look wrong
- Improved the layout of problem set pages
- Made reading text from photos more reliable
We keep polishing the features that support your Japanese learning!
The developer, Sho Fujimoto, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Location
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Location
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
The developer indicated that this app supports the following accessibility features. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Sho Fujimoto
- Size
- 72.8 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 16.4 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 16.4 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 15 more
- English, Dutch, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Contains
Advertising
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Premium Plan $3.99
- Copyright
- © fjsh Copyright (c)