# NihonGO Dokusho — Read real Japanese stories > Read real Japanese stories (iPhone/iPad app by JUERGEN WOLFGANG HAMMER.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/nihongo-dokusho/id6778624634 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [JUERGEN WOLFGANG HAMMER](https://appshunter.io/developer/1896550447) - Category: Education - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 15.0 · 669 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-07-01 - Data updated: 2026-09-09 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/nihongo-dokusho/id6778624634/reviews.md ## What is NihonGO Dokusho? Read your way to Japanese fluency. NihonGO Dokusho is a story reader built for intermediate learners: real, natural Japanese — and every word, kanji, or grammar point you don't know is one tap from its card. —— READ —— Original stories in natural Japanese, written for learners who've finished a beginner course. Turn furigana on or off. Turn per-sentence English on or off. Open a word-by-word breakdown behind any sentence. Three text sizes, plus day and night themes. Every chapter and scene is titled in English, so you always know exactly where you are in the story. —— TAP —— Every underlined word is a card, drawn from a library of 7,700 vocabulary words, 2,200 kanji and 600 grammar points. In vocabulary mode, tap a word for its meaning, reading, and example sentences — which link on to their own cards. Switch to kanji mode to open any character with its stroke order, radicals, and a memory hint. Grammar points open from the sentence breakdown. Conjugated words resolve to their dictionary form automatically. —— LISTEN —— Every sentence and every scene is read aloud in a clear, natural-sounding Japanese voice — real recordings that download with each book and play offline, not a robotic device voice. Listening Mode plays hands-free with full controls on your lock screen and Control Center — skip, pause, and play from your headphones like a podcast. —— REMEMBER —— Every vocabulary word you tap is saved to your study notebook — the word, its reading, and its meaning. The notebook shows just the words due for review: clear one you already knew and it spaces out over days; reveal one you'd forgotten and it comes back soon — until it's simply known. —— YOUR LIBRARY —— A complete original novel — 25 chapters across five free parts — plus two companion editions of the same story: a plain Japanese edition with no study aids, and a full English translation. Read the study edition first, graduate to the plain Japanese, or check the English when you must. Each book downloads with a single tap and works fully offline. Your reading position, settings, and notebook sync across your devices through your own iCloud. —— PRIVATE BY DESIGN —— No ads, no accounts, no tracking, no analytics. Nothing leaves your device except the books you choose to download. Part of the NihonGO family, alongside NihonGO Dominos (the vocabulary game) and NihonGO Manabi (the textbook course) — three apps, one shared, frequency-built card library, so what you learn in one is what you meet in the others. ## Version history (last 3 releases) ### 2.1 — 2026-08-26 FIND YOUR PLACE, IN ENGLISH Every chapter and scene now carries its English title. The reading page says exactly where you are — Chapter 12, The Broken Place, Scene 3 of 5 — and a redesigned Contents menu opens any chapter to its scenes, one tap from anywhere in the book. The Japanese titles stay on the page; you just never have to decode one to find your way. A CLEANER READING SCREEN FOR THE PLAIN EDITIONS The Japanese-only and English-only editions of the story now carry a reader's controls and nothing else: day/night and text size sit in the bottom bar, and the study buttons that belong to the study edition no longer appear where they have nothing to do. THE KANJI CARD, EASIER TO READ The whole card now scrolls as one piece, so a long kanji story is never cut off — and in the light theme, a highlighted component now keeps the rest of the character faintly visible around it, as the dark theme always did. TEACHER-CHECKED TEXT AND FRESHER CARDS This build carries the latest card set, with newly recorded example sentences and the corrections that came from a native teacher's reading of all five books. AND THE SMALL THINGS Settings now shows exactly which version and build you are running, and "How to read" explains why some words deliberately carry no underline. ### 2.0 — 2026-08-14 CARDS AND STORIES Hundreds of corrections across the vocabulary, kanji and grammar cards, and the story text they link to — better example sentences, corrected readings, and duplicate cards merged away. YOUR PLACE ON THE PAGE IS KEPT Changing the text size, turning English on or off, or switching between vocabulary and kanji links no longer jumps you somewhere else in the chapter. The sentence you were reading stays exactly where it was. GRAMMAR CARDS, PROPERLY Grammar points now open with furigana over the pattern and the same card layout as vocabulary and kanji, in every place they appear. ### 1.0 — 2026-07-01 No release notes. ## More apps by JUERGEN WOLFGANG HAMMER - [NihonGO Dominos](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/nihongo-dominos/id6768212843) All apps by JUERGEN WOLFGANG HAMMER: https://appshunter.io/developer/1896550447 --- *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 2026-09-09.*