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Just stopped working. When I open an epub, it’s just blank.
Shame.
Shame.
Jank
Just a wrapper around the ttsu reader (and not that great to be honest). It’s janky and this especially does not work well on a MacBook.
Best Japanese reader for ios with some minor caveats
This is the best simple reader app for Japanese if you are a more advanced Japanese learner whomdoesn,t want much more than to display a book and have a nice dictionary. The only things I wish it had are continuous scrolling mode like the browser version of the ttsunreader that it uses. And also when you delete a book, the statistics should be deleted. Because when you add a new book ttsunis going tomuse the lowest available ID and then the statistics for multiple books get all garbled up. Similarly, if you skip to another part in a book, maybe because you read a certain amount in another app or debice, it is going to skyrocket the reading speed stat.
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Great! With a couple small gripes
I much prefer this to the bloat and confusion of Manabi reader. It would be absolutely perfect to me if there was iCloud sync for the books you’re reading and where you are in them. There is that one issue where when you swipe out without pressing the bookmark button it doesn’t save your spot, but it doesn’t bother me too much. Haven’t tried the premium browser within, so I can’t speak on that, but I may try it in the near future. Thank you for developing this! So so useful to have these tools on iOS.
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Saving broken
Book position no longer saved and developer is not responding to bug reports via email. Additionally the app overheats easily and saps battery life.
Promising but needs some work
This app does what it advertises — it’s a great tool for Japanese learners to read books and makes learning vocabulary much easier. Crucially, it imported the epub I tested correctly, with vertical text and right-to-left reading. (Surprisingly, some other similar apps failed to do so.)
However, there are a few issues that are quite big to me. When looking up a compound word like 無邪気 the dictionary doesn’t treat the whole word as a single tappable “link”. Meaning, if I tap 無, I get the whole compound word. However, if I tap 邪, I get 邪気. And similarly, 気 gets the single character. The expected behavior, from many other apps, is that tapping on any character of a compound word will give the definition of the whole compound word.
Also annoying: swiping the book does close it, but doesn’t save the page you were on. To do that, you have to tap the exit button. I also couldn’t find a way to go to a specific page (though there is a table of contents).
For more minor issues, the e-reader is just not very refined at this point. It’s not exactly fair to compare this to the pre-installed Apple Books app, but it would be nice to have features like auto day-night mode, tap to flip pages, and page flipping animations.
That all said, I’m very glad this app exists and I’m hoping to see future updates resolve these issues. At it’s core, I think this is a great app.
However, there are a few issues that are quite big to me. When looking up a compound word like 無邪気 the dictionary doesn’t treat the whole word as a single tappable “link”. Meaning, if I tap 無, I get the whole compound word. However, if I tap 邪, I get 邪気. And similarly, 気 gets the single character. The expected behavior, from many other apps, is that tapping on any character of a compound word will give the definition of the whole compound word.
Also annoying: swiping the book does close it, but doesn’t save the page you were on. To do that, you have to tap the exit button. I also couldn’t find a way to go to a specific page (though there is a table of contents).
For more minor issues, the e-reader is just not very refined at this point. It’s not exactly fair to compare this to the pre-installed Apple Books app, but it would be nice to have features like auto day-night mode, tap to flip pages, and page flipping animations.
That all said, I’m very glad this app exists and I’m hoping to see future updates resolve these issues. At it’s core, I think this is a great app.
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Doesn’t work on ipad mini
It used to work on my phone, but now whenever I try to upload epubs on my ipad mini, the screen just goes blank. It’s disappointing because this was my favorite JP reading app.
10/10 recommend
Super useful. That being said, I don't think the font change works.
Almost perfect…
But having to guess/look for the last place I left off at can be quite annoying. It would be nice if the bookmark worked! Doesn’t work on updated iPad or iPhone.
Because of this, I don’t use the app as much as I would like to, even though I would love to. So I hope it’s something that can be fixed in an update soon. An automatic spot-saving feature would be nice and convenient, if that can be done!
Another issue I notice is in the “smoothness” of using the app like having to tap multiple times for the top bar to show up… then after adjusting settings there, it restarts the book and I have to find where I left off at again.
Besides those two things, I think it’s an amazing and super helpful resource for studying/reading Japanese. I love how easy it is to export saved words to the flashcard app I use.
Not only that, but the fact that if you tap on a word in your saved words, you can see the sentence that you first found it in— this is extremely convenient, as well.
Because of this, I don’t use the app as much as I would like to, even though I would love to. So I hope it’s something that can be fixed in an update soon. An automatic spot-saving feature would be nice and convenient, if that can be done!
Another issue I notice is in the “smoothness” of using the app like having to tap multiple times for the top bar to show up… then after adjusting settings there, it restarts the book and I have to find where I left off at again.
Besides those two things, I think it’s an amazing and super helpful resource for studying/reading Japanese. I love how easy it is to export saved words to the flashcard app I use.
Not only that, but the fact that if you tap on a word in your saved words, you can see the sentence that you first found it in— this is extremely convenient, as well.
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Dictionaries Issue
I've downloaded some dictionaries and even though the uploading worked the dictionaries do nothing and won't work.
The standard ones work though.
The standard ones work though.
Fantastic App
Amazing App, incredible for quick reading on the go. I really appreciate the extra features that have been added even though I only use the reader element.
Being able to add your own dictionaries makes this an easy 5⭐️ and even if it turned into a one off payment model, I’d consider it well worth the price.
My only gripe is that despite the design, the app ratio doesn’t fill the whole screen on both iPhone and iPad, leaving a black bar at the top and bottom making it feel like an old app. If the bars were matched to the app top and bottom colours it would solve this issue.
Being able to add your own dictionaries makes this an easy 5⭐️ and even if it turned into a one off payment model, I’d consider it well worth the price.
My only gripe is that despite the design, the app ratio doesn’t fill the whole screen on both iPhone and iPad, leaving a black bar at the top and bottom making it feel like an old app. If the bars were matched to the app top and bottom colours it would solve this issue.
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One of a kind
Really like this app, nothing quite like it on IOS. Would really like to scale the text size of my books though as reading on iPad is really difficult when complex kanji are so small.
Fantastic alternative to yomichan on iOS!
I think it is great that finally ios immersion learners of Japanese are finally getting an app so, that they can learn on the go! However one suggestion I would make is to add a feature to look up words within definitions, especially monolingual ones. It is difficult to keep switching between apps but other than that, keep up the good work!
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