# Naninani: Japanese Reader — Kana, kanji & everyday phrases > Kana, kanji & everyday phrases (iPhone/iPad app by Luciano Adonis.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/naninani-japanese-reader/id6823867428 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Luciano Adonis](https://appshunter.io/developer/6823867430) - Category: Education, Reference - Price: Free - Age rating: 12+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 245 MB - Languages: American English, European Spanish - Released: 2026-11-06 - Data updated: 2026-11-10 ## What is Naninani? Read the Japanese you meet, one word at a time. Paste a message, a sentence from a book or a line you want to understand. Naninani adds furigana, readings and word meanings, with explanations for the sounds and grammar in your text. Analysis updates when you pause typing or paste. UNDERSTAND EACH WORD Open a word for its meaning, dictionary form, kanji, sound breakdown and available example sentences. Tap marked sounds to learn how combinations such as き + ゃ become きゃ. Show romaji when it helps, or switch it off. LEARN KANA BY PLAYING Explore hiragana and katakana tables and their sounds. Play short reading, listening and similar-shape games: Naninani notices the kana you miss or answer slowly and drills them. A quick review turns 10, 20 or 30 cards in a couple of minutes, Kana snacks have you read real words written only in kana, from café menus to animal names, and a sound rule drill goes through small kana, long vowels and the rest one rule at a time, each said as it appears. KANJI THAT STICK Browse school grades or unofficial JLPT N5–N1 study groups. Each kanji shows its readings with recordings, the words you met it in and common words written with it. Turn glowing kanji cards, pick a word's kanji in Kana to kanji, and learn stroke order for every kana and kanji with a tracing pad, then race the clock in timed writing. JLPT groupings are study guides, not official exam lists. HEAR WORDS AND EVERYDAY PHRASES Browse searchable expressions, conversations, idioms and proverbs. Word-by-word playback uses bundled recordings where available, with one recorded voice per passage; missing words use device speech. New recordings are not generated for arbitrary pasted sentences. SAVE A LINE AND RETURN TO IT Save your own readings in Phrases > Saved and find them by text, reading or meaning; saving a reading can save its kanji too, and each kanji leads back to the reading you last saw it in. Save words, each with the sentence it came from, and kanji for scheduled review, and choose furigana for all kanji, only those outside your saved collection, or none. REHEARSE A CONVERSATION In Story practice, choose a café role, listen, repeat and pick your route. This is self-guided practice: Naninani does not record your microphone or score pronunciation. HOHO, WIDGETS AND APPLE WATCH Hoho the owl greets you with real phrases and their recordings. Widgets show the kanji of the day and your reviews, and the Apple Watch app brings glowing kanji cards to your wrist. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS Text analysis, dictionaries, study data, games and bundled recordings work offline. No account, advertising or tracking is built into the app. Back up your kanji, words, readings and practice to a file, or keep a copy in your own iCloud, so a reinstall picks up where you left off. On iOS 17.4 and later, Translate opens Apple's system translation interface. Language availability, downloads and processing are managed by Apple. Naninani is built on Yomu and credits JMdict, JMnedict, KANJIDIC, KanjiVG, Tatoeba, Jonathan Waller and other sources in More > About. Names and ambiguous Japanese can have more than one reading; dictionary meanings are not a full contextual translation. English and Spanish interface, with Spanish meanings for kanji and most words. Requires iOS 17 or later. ## Is Naninani safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Naninani. ## Is Naninani legit? Naninani: Japanese Reader has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Naninani is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 2 releases) ### 1.2.0 — 2026-11-09 Naninani now speaks Spanish, with Spanish meanings for kanji and most words, and Learn has grown. • Kana games drill the kana you miss or answer slowly, and a quick review turns 10, 20 or 30 cards. • Kana snacks, Kana to kanji and glowing kanji cards. • Stroke order for every kana and kanji, with a tracing pad and timed writing. • Hoho the owl, widgets for the kanji of the day and your reviews, and an Apple Watch app. • A sound rule drill, one rule at a time with its sound. • Saving a reading saves its kanji too, and a saved word keeps its sentence. • Back up your data to a file or keep a copy in your iCloud. ### 1.1.3 — 2026-11-06 No release notes. ## Related topics [sicai](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/sicai) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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