# Hoshi Reader — user reviews

> 10 indexed App Store user reviews of Hoshi Reader by Manh-Hao Steffen Pham, rated 5.00/5 from 19 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hoshi-reader/id6758244332/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hoshi-reader/id6758244332.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 19 · 4★ 0 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 0

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 5/5 — Perfect Reader

*2026-06-08*

Quite literally everything I wanted in an app for reading Japanese. Simple one tap to look up words without having to fiddle with highlighting. Love it.

### 5/5 — Phenomenal App

*2026-05-25*

It has everything you need. The mobile Anki integration is perfect. It's exactly what I would have built for myself, but better - and now I don't have to! Really can't recommend this app enough, seriously impressed. Great job.

### 5/5 — Comfiest Japanese reader

*2026-05-08*

It looks good, it feels good to use, and it has all functionality you could possibly want for reading novels in Japanese! Love this app, thanks for making this. The only thing that could make it even better for me would be manga support, but I understand if you want to keep this app very specific to novels (and it’s already so good at that)

### 5/5 — Gold Standard App

*2026-04-22*

Nothing much to say about this app other than this is how apps should be. This is gold standard when it comes to apps on iOS and it brings back a sort of simplicity and efficient minimalism we all need from apps these days.

### 5/5 — Ultimate reading app

*2026-04-12*

This app is perfect and effortlessly allows us to look up words and add them to anki. Thank you for making this app

### 5/5 — Extremely recommend

*2026-04-07*

Novels are the best way to immerse and gain quickly, and this app makes it extremely easy to do so, not to mention on mobile so you can do it anywhere. I’m developing a Japanese learning app of my own and hope it can be as useful and impactful as this app is

### 5/5 — Amazing reading tool

*2026-04-05*

I’ve long wanted a reading app with fast, accurate real-time word lookups, and finding yours is fantastic. I really admire the work you're doing on GitHub. I’ll be following your updates and will report any issues through GitHub

### 5/5 — 神アプリ

*2026-04-02*

Genuinely one of the best things to come out of TMW. I love you and I love TMW and it’s actually unreal that such an amazing resource is free and downloadable straight from the App Store.

### 5/5 — Crazy powerful immersion tool

*2026-03-30*

I got interested in reading novels because of this app and WOW did it completely blow me away. I don’t even need my computer anymore to read and mine? On iOS? With 99% of the same functionality? And everything still syncs to my computer? Just amazing…

### 5/5 — Woah!

*2026-03-28*

Absolutely amazing. Nothing like this currently exists on iOS, especially for free! A couple of things I’d love to see:
1. TTS support
2. Support for other languages out of the box

Thank you SO much for making this app!

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*Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-22.*