# Todaii: Learn Japanese N5-N1 — user reviews > 417 indexed App Store user reviews of Todaii by Ghi Nguyen, rated 4.70/5 from 1,529 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/todaii-learn-japanese-n5-n1/id1107177166/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/todaii-learn-japanese-n5-n1/id1107177166.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,288 · 4★ 128 · 3★ 49 · 2★ 20 · 1★ 44 ## What do users think of Todaii? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Great practice tool - 🚀 Useful for learning Japanese - 👍 Many great features - 👍 Valuable resource - 👍 Helpful in learning Japanese - 👍 Excellent app for learning Japanese - 👍 Best Japanese learning app - 👍 Fantastic app - 👍 Awesome app - 👍 Brilliant app - 👍 Amazing app - 👍 Impressive app - 👍 Excellent app for intermediate learners **Cons** - 🐛 Inconsistent text selection - 🐛 Lots of advertisement notifications - 🐛 Doesn't really work - 🐛 Ruined by ads even with Premium - 🐛 Crashes a lot - 🐛 Restore purchase not working - 🐛 Bug - 🐛 So many bugs! - 🐛 Confusing - 🐛 Insulting push notifs - 🐛 Premium subscription and still have ads **Commonly reported bugs** - JLPT Section Not Working - Audio disappeared - Text gets cut off by notch - Print Article button doesn't work - Definition box reappears when scrolling - Furigana/translation issues - Crashes on iOS 13/13.1 - Notification issues - Saving words/flashcards issues **Most requested features** - Allow offline access - Add option to change font - Sync across devices - Add option to save/favorite videos - Integrate Wanikani progress - Add comprehension questions for articles - Add continuous play feature - Add link to translation on Reddit ## Newest reviews (11 of 417) ### 3/5 — Translating *2026-07-07, version 4.4.4* Better translations would make this app so much better ### 3/5 — Translation is not loading anymore *2026-07-01, version 4.4.4* He still really enjoy using this app in the morning cause I’ll be able to find new words and phrases, but I’m able to enjoy this is not working properly. ### 2/5 — Used to be great, now aggressive AI marketing push *2026-06-23* I bought lifetime a while ago when todaii was a great resource. It still is usable, but plagued by issues (text selection fights IOS system text selection constantly) and there is a very aggressive AI push going on. Floating AI functions buttons everywhere, a new premium+ tier with a regular popup, and for what? Translations and a chatbot. Guess what, *I* want to translate this stuff. Also, the news might now be AI fabricated instead of human curated. **Developer response:** Thank you for your long-time support and honest feedback. We'll pass the text selection issue on iOS and the AI feature visibility concerns to our team. On content quality, we do have a dedicated editorial team curating articles, so that standard hasn't changed. Feel free to reach out at todai.easylife@gmail.com if you'd like to share more. ### 5/5 — 프리미엄 가입했더니 NHK 없어졌어요 *2026-06-18* 몇년 전에 몇만원 주고 영구결제를 했었고 얼마전에 ai채팅을 위해서 프리미엄 결제를 했습니다 그런데 이전에 쓰고 있던 동영상-podcast-NHK 뉴스가 없어졌습니다 매일 시간별로 3-4개씩 들을 수 있었는데 프리미엄 결제 후 아무리 찾아도 안보입니다 내용 너무 좋고 잘 쓰고 있었는데 프리미엄 결제 후 원래 쓰던 기능이 없어지는 건 좀 아니지 않나요? 혹시 오류인건지 확인 부탁드립니다 **Developer response:** Hi! We're sorry for the confusion. The video learning content is still available. You can find it at the bottom of the Learn tab. Please scroll down to the end of the tab and look for the video section there. If you're still unable to find it after checking or have any recommendations for us, please let us know via email todai.easylife@gmail.com and we'll look into it further for you! ### 5/5 — NHK Easy News Delay *2026-06-15, version 4.4.4* I love the app. Tomo no nikki articles are very interesting and super useful for learning all the basic kanji! Please keep them coming more often please. ### 5/5 — Great app *2026-06-04, version 4.4.3* Thank you ### 3/5 — Flawed *2026-05-30, version 4.4.3* I paid to get the tomo chat. It does not teach you how to speak Japanese but more importantly it really does not recognize what you’re saying. It makes up entire sentences. The speech recognition is severely flawed in my version. The lessons also can be hard to follow. You basically have to know Japanese to follow the lessons. ### 4/5 — Nice app *2026-05-30, version 4.4.3* 終於有繁體中文的app可以學啦 ### 5/5 — N3 *2026-05-29, version 4.4.3* Very good ### 5/5 — Excellent layout and content *2026-05-25, version 4.4.3* The content is rich with a clear structure of various level. I like the short reading passages with questions to check understanding and flash cards to consolidate vocabulary. ### 5/5 — 훌륭한 일본어 교재 *2026-05-25* 일본어를 배우기 시작해서 적당한 앱을 찾고 있었는데 이런 훌륭한 앱을 만났네요. 기초적인 것은 무료로도 사용 가능합니다. 조금 더 진도가 나가면 프리미엄으로 사용해 볼 예정입니다. **Developer response:** Thank you so much for your awesome feedback on Todaii Japanese. We’ll keep working hard to bring you even more great and useful features. Please stay tuned and continue supporting us. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — AI *2026-08-05, version 4.4.6* Really sucks that every article seems to be written and/or extended by AI. Used to love this app but I just can’t trust what I’m reading anymore. ### 1/5 — BAD - Now Only AI Articles *2026-07-13, version 4.4.4* Todaii has begun to only use AI articles. The news articles are now useless ### 1/5 — AI Replacing JLPT Listening Practice *2026-06-28, version 4.4.4* I remember the JLPT practice listening test used to have real human voice conversations. It seems like they have all been replaced with AI (even old audios too). And now it’s not a good representation of the real test, cause the AI talks in monotone/clearly pronounced words. Being back the real humans conversations ### 1/5 — Horrible / dissapointing *2026-06-17* Me arrepiento terriblemente de haber pagado esta app de por vida. Un bug detrás de otro, aparentemente nadie le hizo QA a esto. Las palabras de vocabulario están en cualquier idioma menos español, inglés, vietnamita, koreano mezclado, un desastre, cualquier IA cura el vocabulario y lo arregla en 10 minutos. Dice que soporta múltiples dispositivos pero no sincroniza nada de uno a otro por lo cual a menos que sea para que 3 amigos compartan una sola cuenta es inútil, es como si tuviera cuentas diferentes en las compu y el teléfono. No estamos hablando the una app de compras mal traducida, es una app de aprendizaje de lenguaje!! I deeply regret paying for this app. One bug after another; apparently, no one did any QA on it. The vocabulary words are in every language except Spanish, English, Vietnamese, and a mix of Korean and English—a disaster. Any AI could fix the vocabulary in 10 minutes. It says it supports multiple devices, but it doesn't sync anything between them, so unless three friends are sharing a single account, it's useless. It's like having different accounts on my computer and phone. We're not talking about a poorly translated shopping app; it's a language learning app! **Developer response:** Hi! We're sorry to hear about your experience. Please reach out to us at todai.easylife@gmail.com with your account details and photos of issues and we'll get back to you as soon as possible. ### 1/5 — Translate slow or won't load *2026-06-13, version 4.4.4* The free version never had these slow latency issues . Once I purchase paid version this has become painfully slow or won't load at all . App is great but the fact I cannot transalte articles is a bit frustrating. ### 1/5 — Can’t access my premium account from my iPhone! *2026-06-13* I purchased the premium membership from my ipad and now I can’t access to my account in my iPhone, where I need it the most! Tried searching for support but the link on the app store only takes you to their page without any option for support! Please provide me with a solution to this issue! **Developer response:** Please send us a photo of the upgrade invoice and the gmail registered on the app via gmail todai.easylife@gmail.com so we can check and support you. ### 1/5 — Horrible *2026-06-10* The app has a lot of issues and your account doesn’t sync from phone to computer so progress is lost. Totally messed up. I tried to contact support in the Apple store and it just takes you to the web. I sent an email and no one answers. Totally unprofessional. They contacted me after this review and after around 8 emails requesting the same information over and over again, no solving of the issue. Terrible support. Also, I have the app in Spanish and half the things are in English or Vietnamese. Not a real translation of the app. Trying to learn vocabulary when the definition is in a language you don’t understand is quite annoying. It is a language learning app but it doesn’t work as one. **Developer response:** Hi! We sincerely apologize for the delayed response. Our team will follow up with you via email shortly to get this resolved. Thank you for your patience. 🙏 ### 1/5 — Video tab non-existent *2026-06-05, version 4.4.3* After paying for premium, the video tab disappeared, despite that being what convinced me to pay for premium in the first place. I’m also having the same issue on my android phone, so it is clearly not a device issue, but an issue with the app itself. This is very frustrating, to say the least. I payed for premium about 5 minutes ago as of typing this. ### 1/5 — All ai slop *2026-05-26, version 4.4.3* There used to be real articles form NHK and CNN. Now all the articles are from ‘todaii’ and are clearly ai rubbish. I’m hear to learn Japanese not to read ai nonsense. Disappointing because this used to be a good app. ### 1/5 — lừa *2026-01-15, version 4.3.7* chọn đúng rồi xong tự sủa chọn sai ao thật :))) ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Hay *2026-08-20, version 4.4.6* Hay ### 5/5 — Surprised *2026-08-16, version 4.4.6* I didn’t expect to like this so much but it’s wonderful. The N5 articles I’ve read so far are all super short, so not overwhelming even though I’m not a great Japanese reader yet. I love that there is a feature for me to practice translating and that it is so easy to look up the words directly in the app and review them later as flash cards. I work with a tutor and normally we just talk about what we did over the last week. I’m looking forward to being able to talk about something a little more varied like current events :) ### 5/5 — Love it but ... *2026-08-08, version 4.4.6* Can’t get the JLPT to work . ### 5/5 — Great learning tool *2026-08-01, version 4.4.6* Fantastic resource. Wish I had come across it sooner. Highly recommended ### 5/5 — Perfect learning resource *2026-07-23, version 4.4.6* Great stories, all levels ### 5/5 — 为什么朗读声选择了女声，有些新闻朗读却是男声 *2026-07-07, version 4.4.4* 在设置中选择了女声朗读，但今天的两篇新闻朗读声都是男声，而且语速太快，语声细尖，听得很不舒服，为什么朗读不顺着设置的选择呢？ ### 5/5 — Todaii *2026-07-03, version 4.4.4* Good ### 5/5 — Great app for learning Japanese. *2026-07-02, version 4.4.4* Easy to use and straightforward. Great also for the short bursts to study when time is short as well. Would recommend. ### 5/5 — Good *2026-06-26, version 4.4.4* It's helpful for learning Japanese. But whenever I open a news article, my background music stops immediately. It would be great if the app didn’t interrupt music unless audio is actually played. I hope this can be fixed in a future update. Thank you! ### 5/5 — Easy grammar *2026-06-21, version 4.4.4* There is a lot grammar you can learn from highlight your cursor on text you don’t know. Vocabulary all to reading. --- *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 2026-08-27.*