AniSpeak: Learn Japanese
Hiragana for anime fans
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
You've memorized flashcards. You've protected a streak. And you still can't read a line of the Japanese in your favorite show.
AniSpeak starts from the other side: an original anime-style story you watch one line at a time, fully voiced — with a translation that waits until you ask for it. No tests. No hearts to lose. No speaking into your phone. Just a story that makes you want tomorrow's episode.
Meet Noa — a quiet companion who keeps a small gate between worlds. Noa doesn't flirt, doesn't call you nicknames, and doesn't ask for your name. They just sit beside you, point at a line of Japanese, and ask if you'd like to read it together.
HOW IT WORKS
• Watch, don't study — every line is voiced, furigana always on, and the translation is one tap away when you want it
• While a line is playing, tap a word you think you recognize. Catch it and it lights up. Miss it and nothing happens — there is no score to lose
• The sounds anime already taught you — arigatou, daijoubu, ganbare — land a beat before the translation. That “wait, I understood that” is the whole method
• Words you meet in the story light up in your collection, and they stay
• Trace all 46 hiragana to light them up — then meet them again inside lines you actually want to read
• Finished an episode? Play it again with the help switched off, and find out how much you caught
WHAT'S INSIDE
• Five story worlds: a rooftop senpai, a childhood friend, a forest guardian, a rival at sunset, a night-time partner
• 78 main-story episodes, including two complete second seasons of 24 episodes each, plus 14 short side stories
• Twelve main-story episodes are free — one whole season among them: all six episodes of the forest-guardian story, right through to its ending
ONE PRICE, FOREVER
$19.99 once. Every story we have made, every story we make next, no ads, no subscription, no upsells. That is the whole business model.
FOR PARENTS
One-time purchase. No chat with strangers, no ads, no subscription to forget about. All-ages content.
AniSpeak is a beginning, not a curriculum. When you outgrow us and want serious study tools, we will point you to them — honestly.
Ages 13+. Full UI in English, Simplified & Traditional Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, and Indonesian.
Story scenes now move with a gentle sense of depth, and the mist forest has its own quiet sound. Screens across the app are simpler, too.
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Information
- Seller
- FORPAX LLC
- Size
- 206.6 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 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 9 more
- English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- AniSpeak Plus $19.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 FORPAX, LLC