# Kiratoru — Scan. Learn. Master Japanese. > Scan. Learn. Master Japanese. (iPhone/iPad app by Papa Momar Dieng.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kiratoru/id6749094784 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Papa Momar Dieng](https://appshunter.io/developer/1618767508) - Category: Education, Reference - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 18.0 · 629 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2025-10-28 - Data updated: 2026-08-29 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kiratoru/id6749094784/reviews.md ## What is Kiratoru? Kiratoru - Japanese Text Recognition & Dictionary Transform your Japanese learning with real-time text recognition and comprehensive dictionary lookups Kiratoru is the ultimate Japanese learning companion that captures and analyzes Japanese text wherever you find it. On Mac, grab text from any app on your screen; on iPhone and iPad, point your camera at the real world. Whether you're reading manga, playing video games, browsing websites, studying documents, or out in Japan, Kiratoru makes Japanese comprehension effortless and engaging. KEY FEATURES Live Text Recognition - On Mac: instantly capture Japanese text from any application on screen - On iPhone/iPad: recognize Japanese text through your camera - Advanced OCR technology for accurate character recognition - Real-time lookup as you read Furigana Overlay (Mac) - Reading furigana drawn right over the source text, so your eyes never leave the page - Tap any word in the overlay to pull up its full dictionary entry - Perfect for fast reading of games, manga, and dynamic content Comprehensive Dictionary - Extensive Japanese-English dictionary with detailed definitions - Complete kanji information including readings, meanings, and stroke counts - Word examples and usage contexts for better understanding - Pitch-accent information for natural pronunciation Decks & Spaced Repetition - Build study decks from the words and kanji you save - Review on a proven spaced-repetition schedule that times each card for you - Stash words while exploring a kanji and carry them straight into your cards - Home-screen widgets for your daily word, daily kanji, and one-tap reviews Intelligent Features - AI-powered translation with context, on supported devices - Automatic text tokenization for precise word identification - Clickable kanji and words for deep exploration - Multiple reading formats (hiragana, katakana, romaji) HOW IT WORKS 1. Capture - Pick any app on your Mac, or aim your iPhone camera at Japanese text 2. Read - Enable live lookup, open the Furigana Overlay, or use manual refresh 3. Explore - Tap words and kanji for detailed information 4. Save & Review - Build decks and study them with spaced repetition Free Features - Manual and live (auto-refresh) text lookup - Unlimited saved words and kanji - Core dictionary definitions - Build decks and add cards Pro Features - Furigana Overlay - reading furigana over your source text (Mac) - AI-powered translation with context - Full word and kanji details - clickable kanji, clickable examples, no blur - Spaced-repetition review and study widgets - Home-screen widgets - word of the day, kanji of the day, and reviews - No restrictions on any feature PERFECT FOR - Japanese language students at any level - Manga/anime/game enthusiasts - Business professionals working with Japanese content - Travelers and culture enthusiasts - Anyone curious about Japanese text WHY CHOOSE KIRATORU? Seamless Capture - From any app on your Mac or your iPhone camera Accurate Recognition - Advanced OCR technology for reliable results Comprehensive Learning - From beginner-friendly lookups to full spaced-repetition study Privacy Focused - Text recognition happens locally on your device Regular Updates - Continuous improvements and new features PRO TIPS - On Mac, open the Furigana Overlay for immersive, eyes-on-the-page reading - Use live lookup for fast-moving games and dynamic content - Stash interesting words as you explore a kanji, then turn them into a deck - Add a widget to keep a word and kanji of the day on your home screen Download now and discover how easy Japanese text comprehension can be. —————————————————————————————————————————— Kiratoru - Making Japanese accessible to everyone, one character at a time. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **Subscriptions** | Subscription | Price | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | Pro - Monthly | $0.99 | per month | | Pro - Yearly | $9.99 | per year | **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | Pro - Lifetime | $22.99 | one-time | ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 3.6.0 — 2026-08-22 Thank you for using Kiratoru! Here's what we shipped this time: Related Words, Rebuilt - Transitive/intransitive pairs finally show up for the verbs you actually meet - 消える/消す, 入る/入れる, 出る/出す and hundreds more, sourced from a curated list instead of a hopeful guess. The guess has been thanked for its service. - No more ghost pairs - 終わる no longer claims 卒す as its partner, because 卒す is not a word anyone has said since the Heian period. - Related words are proper rows now: word, reading, meaning - so "see also" tells you what you're seeing before you tap it. - Pair first, antonym next, see-also ranked by how common the word is, with the long tail tucked behind "Show more". Fourteen unranked chips was a test of faith, not a feature. - Tapping a related word opens the right entry even for look-alikes - 開く (あく) no longer teleports you to ひらく. New: Lists Beyond JLPT - Jōyō kanji by school grade, Kanken 10級-2級, and frequency tiers from Top 1,000 down to 9,001-10,000 - all browsable next to JLPT. Your study plan can now be as ambitious as your guilt. - Every list builds a one-tap preset deck, kanji lists included, in list order. Deck building is now a reflex, not a weekend. - Filter any word list by study status - All, Not known, Known, In a deck - so you stop rediscovering words you already own. - Sort list detail by list order, stroke count, or reading, and come back from a word without losing your place. Scrolling to row 412 twice is character-building; we've spared you the character. Word Frequency, For Real - Word commonness now comes from a corpus of contemporary spoken Japanese instead of dictionary tags from the dial-up era. Words your friends say now rank above words your textbook says. - Stars in kanji details reflect the written form you're looking at - rare spellings lose theirs, and search-only spellings stop showing up uninvited. Kanji Details - New Components section listing every part of a kanji, each tappable into radical search with that part pre-selected. Building 議 from pieces feels like IKEA, minus the leftover screw. - Readings now understand rendaku and sokuon - 仕事 counts for ごと, 学校 counts for がっ - so hundreds of common words stopped hiding in "unknown". - The jōyō glyph variants of 剥 填 頬 叱 now find their words instead of staring at an empty page. Four kanji, one very long overdue apology. - Long-press an example word in a kanji page to stash it for a card, same as sentences. Hoarding, still productive. - Dictionary index numbers moved to a labelled footer at the end of the page, where reference codes belong and nobody will read them. Fixes - Radical search cells on iOS no longer gray out at random - a string was being freed mid-query, which is not the kind of freedom anyone asked for. ### 3.5.0 — 2026-08-18 Thank you for using Kiratoru! Here's what we shipped this time: Kanji Readings, Redesigned - Readings are now tappable chips — tap セイ and the word list below instantly shows only words using that reading. The old filter menu retired; nobody attended the farewell party. - Common readings first — Rare readings and name readings now wait politely behind "Show all readings" instead of ambushing you with eighteen ways to read 生. - Okurigana finally styled like okurigana — いきる with the ending dimmed, instead of dictionary-file punctuation from 1991. - New setting: choose whether kanji cards are prefilled with common readings only (recommended) or everything. Your cards, your clutter. New: JLPT Everywhere - Every kanji and word now wears its JLPT level, N5–N1 — so you know whether you're reading beginner material or accidentally studying for a test you didn't sign up for. - Browse full JLPT lists, level by level, with progress percentages that update as you learn. Watching N5 hit 100% is cheaper than therapy. - One-tap JLPT preset decks — an instant, ready-to-study deck per level. Deck building for people who'd rather be studying. - Items already in your decks get marked in the lists, so you stop re-adding 食べる for the fourth time. New: Search by Radicals - Build a kanji from its parts — pick radicals, watch the candidates narrow. For all those "I can see it but I can't type it" kanji. New: Share Extension (iOS) - Send text or images to Kiratoru from any app's share sheet — lookup or OCR without the copy-paste gymnastics. Safari, photos, that one chat app, all of it. New: Known Words - Mark words as known — or let the app figure it out from your review history. Known words dim in search results, so new vocabulary actually stands out. - Type romaji, get results — "tabemono" finds 食べ物 now. Your keyboard's kana layout can take the day off. Decks & Review - Review prep got an overhaul — reliable session launches, smarter daily limits, cross-deck preparation, and an end-of-session results screen that shows what actually moved. - Study ahead when you feel like it, without wrecking tomorrow's schedule. The algorithm forgives, and now it also forgets to punish. - Adding a duplicate card now asks first, because "the same card five times" is a memorization strategy, not a good one. - Long-press an example sentence to stash it for your next card. Hoarding, but productive. Fixes - Chips no longer inflate row heights while secretly growing 44pt tap targets. Small thumbs rejoice; layouts stay calm. ### 3.2.5 — 2026-07-02 Thank you for using Kiratoru! Here's what we shipped this time: A Whole New Look - Redesigned basically everything — Capture, lookup, decks, review, and saved were all rebuilt around a calmer Japanese-stationery palette (indigo, vermilion, washi paper). It finally looks like an app that respects kanji. - Brand-new app icon — A fresh face on your home screen. You can stop squinting to find us between the other 200 apps. - Tidier card lists and saved screens — Cleaner layouts, less clutter, far fewer "why is that there" moments. - A sidebar that color-codes itself — Due counts now wear their own deck's color, Review All borrows your accent, and the settings gear has stopped playing hide-and-seek. New: Furigana Overlay (Mac) Readings, right on top of the source — Open the Furigana Overlay and furigana appear over the actual text in the window you're reading, so your eyes never make the round trip to a dictionary pane and back. Tap any word to look it up. Especially good for games and anything else that refuses to hold still. New: Home-screen widgets Your daily Japanese, at a glance — Word of the day and kanji of the day live on your home screen, and a review widget lets you grade cards without even opening the app. Your home screen finally does something more useful than counting your unread notifications. New: Stash Reading a kanji's page and find words worth keeping? Stash them. When you add that kanji to a deck, every stashed word come — and then the stash clears itself, because cleanup is nobody's idea of a good time. Live Lookup is now free We ungated it — Live, a be a Pro perk. It isn't anymore. Everyone gets it now: no catch, no asterisk, no "well, actually." Decks & Review - Smoother review animations that actually feel like motion, instead of a slideshow having second thoughts. - Polished review scree reviewing feels less like a chore and more like a slightly nicer chore. Fixes - Fixed frequency indicuency badge no longer wraps in ways that made it look personally offended. - The no longer assumes you've been quietly demoted to Free when you launch it. Pro stays Pro until the App Store says otherwise. Under the Hood - Faster "words using this kanji" — Optimized that lookup so the list of words containing a kanj waiting and fewer spinners to stare at. ### 3.1.2 — 2026-06-27 Thank you for using Kiratoru! Here's what we shipped this time: A Whole New Look - Redesigned basically everything — Capture, lookup, decks, review, and saved were all rebuilt around a calmer Japanese-stationery palette (indigo, vermilion, washi paper). It finally looks like an app that respects kanji. - Brand-new app icon — A fresh face on your home screen. You can stop squinting to find us between the other 200 apps. - Tidier card lists and saved screens — Cleaner layouts, less clutter, far fewer "why is that there" moments. - A sidebar that color-codes itself — Due counts now wear their own deck's color, Review All borrows your accent, and the settings gear has stopped playing hide-and-seek. New: Furigana Overlay (Mac) Readings, right on top of the source — Open the Furigana Overlay and furigana appear over the actual text in the window you're reading, so your eyes never make the round trip to a dictionary pane and back. Tap any word to look it up. Especially good for games and anything else that refuses to hold still. New: Home-screen widgets Your daily Japanese, at a glance — Word of the day and kanji of the day live on your home screen, and a review widget lets you grade cards without even opening the app. Your home screen finally does something more useful than counting your unread notifications. New: Stash Reading a kanji's page and find words worth keeping? Stash them. When you add that kanji to a deck, every stashed word come — and then the stash clears itself, because cleanup is nobody's idea of a good time. Live Lookup is now free We ungated it — Live, a be a Pro perk. It isn't anymore. Everyone gets it now: no catch, no asterisk, no "well, actually." Decks & Review - Smoother review animations that actually feel like motion, instead of a slideshow having second thoughts. - Polished review scree reviewing feels less like a chore and more like a slightly nicer chore. Fixes - Fixed frequency indicuency badge no longer wraps in ways that made it look personally offended. - The no longer assumes you've been quietly demoted to Free when you launch it. Pro stays Pro until the App Store says otherwise. Under the Hood - Faster "words using this kanji" — Optimized that lookup so the list of words containing a kanj waiting and fewer spinners to stare at. ### 3.0 — 2026-06-25 Thank you for using Kiratoru! Here's what we shipped this time: A Whole New Look - Redesigned basically everything — Capture, lookup, decks, review, and saved were all rebuilt around a calmer Japanese-stationery palette (indigo, vermilion, washi paper). It finally looks like an app that respects kanji. - Brand-new app icon — A fresh face on your home screen. You can stop squinting to find us between the other 200 apps. - Tidier card lists and saved screens — Cleaner layouts, less clutter, far fewer "why is that there" moments. New: Stash Stash words while you explore a kanji — Digging through a kanji's page and find words worth keeping? Stash them. When you add that kanji to a deck, every stashed word comes along into the card's notes — and then the stash clears itself, because cleanup is nobody's idea of a good time. Decks & Review - Smoother review animations — New entrance and swipe animations that actually feel like motion, instead of a slideshow having second thoughts. - Polished review screens — Lots of small touches so reviewing feels less like a chore and more like a slightly nicer chore. Fixes Fixed frequency indicator text wrapping — The frequency badge no longer wraps in ways that made it look personally offended. Under the Hood - Faster "words using this kanji" — Optimized that lookup so the list of words containing a kanji shows up quicker, with less waiting and fewer spinners to stare at. ## Apps similar to Kiratoru | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [IELTS Practice : Mock Tests](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ielts-practice-mock-tests/id6760140698) | — | Free | Education | | [KanjiSnap: Japanese OCR](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kanjisnap-japanese-ocr/id6749803401) | — | Free | Education | | [Haisai - Okinawan Dictionary](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/haisai-okinawan-dictionary/id6762583670) | — | Free | Education | | [Estonian \| Estonian Dictionary](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/estonian-estonian-dictionary/id6738840694) | — | Free | Education | | [MieOCR](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mieocr/id6447437303) | — | Free | Education | | [Fast - Speak Soninke Language](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fast-speak-soninke-language/id6737729575) | — | Free | Education | ## More apps by Papa Momar Dieng - [Flurdle](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/flurdle/id1618767506) All apps by Papa Momar Dieng: https://appshunter.io/developer/1618767508 ## Related topics [papa momar dieng](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/papa-momar-dieng) · [papa nduom](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/papa-nduom) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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