Anata vs NihonGO Dominos

Anata extracts texts and voices from video files, audio files and articles from web and local files. You can learn to speak the texts by following the original voices with different emotion from video and audio files, or Text-to-Speech synthesis for articles. After all there is always a story behind these voices that you love, it makes easier for you to remember them. Important features: 1. Support 3 modes of text extraction: - Subtitle - Transcription - Online Article, local PDF/EPUB file & Share Extension 2. Link to online language learning tools - You can study the texts sentence by sentence and word by word with your favourite online tools - Easy access to romanization for Japanese and pinyin for Chinese that can allow you to quickly learn how to pronounce each word - Easy access to Accent guidance for Japanese to help you grasp the rhythm - Easy access to grammatical breakdown to help you identify each part of speech - You can highlight individual word and phrase of the texts to find out their meaning and usage - Online tools are grouped by language so you have different sets of tools for learning different languages at the same time - Anata comes with recommended online tools. You can use them out of the box or add your own - Anata sends predefined prompts to chatbots (currently support ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek, Perplexity, Grok, Qwen, Vibe, Z.ai and Kimi) to analyse sentences/keywords and make sentences/stories. You can design your own prompts and let AI help you learn foreign languages 3. Search - Once you have a few titles in Anata, you can start searching them for words and phrases and learn how to use them in different contexts - Even when you come across a new word outside Anata, you can also search it in the App to see if it is used in your favourite dramas and movies - If a word does appear in your library of dramas & movies, you can add it to Keyword for further study 4. Keyword - You can collect new words and phrases as Keyword to enrich your vocabulary, which is important to become proficient in a language - As in Search, each keyword will link to the titles in which it appears - Keyword is also linked to online tools so you can perform in-depth study 5. Favourite - If you like a particular “tile” (a term used to refer to a collection of text, image and audio clips for a subtitle text), you can add it to Favourite for future review - You can add a small segment of the story that consists of multiple tiles to Favourite to preserve its entirety 6. Notes - Notes taking enhances understanding and internalisation of what you have learned - You can take notes for both Keyword and Tile - You can study notes separately in the Notes section without navigating all the keywords and tiles, providing a quick way to refresh your memory of the key learning 7. Explain - Anata provides a handy Explain section for you to send any ad hoc words and phrases to any online tools - You can also add these ad hoc words / phrases to Keyword, no matter they are used in your library of titles or not - You can access Explain from other Apps by highlighting and sharing text via Share Sheet 8. Multiple Languages Supported - Japanese, Chinese (both Traditional and Simplified), Korean, German, French , Spanish, and English 9. In-App Purchase - Anata is free for use for a limited number of titles and keywords that you can add; all functionalities of the App are available though - Anata Unlimited is available for purchase in the In-App Purchase section 10. Non English App User Interface Language - Currently support Chinese (both Traditional and Simplified) and Japanese as alternative user interface languages Anata is meant to be a supplementary tool to your language learning need. It does not replace standard learning courses and textbooks. You are advised to acquire a basic knowledge of a language before you can reap the benefit of using Anata to improve your proficiency.

NihonGO Dominos is built for the intermediate phase of Japanese — the long climb from finishing a beginner course to reading everyday text on your own. A stretch where progress feels slow, and what helps most is rapid, repeated exposure to the building blocks of the language. —— ONE MECHANIC —— The whole loop is a domino tile. Tap to peek the back. Hold or double-tap to retire it. One thumb, on the train, every day. Tiles glow bone → amber → orange → vermilion as you cycle through them, and items you actually struggle with land in a Challenge Box for spaced repetition — only where it pays off. —— THREE PILLARS —— 語彙 Goi (Vocabulary) — 6,363 tiles across eight frequency tiers. Verbs, adjectives, adverbs, nouns, conjunctions, number paradigms. Every entry validated against JMdict. ~98% coverage of everyday text at the top of the pool. 6,926 example sentences, individually composed — every sentence built from words already in the corpus, and every one of them read aloud in a natural Japanese voice. A further 1,373 vocabulary entries ship as lookup cards, each with its own spoken example, so a tapped word in any sentence lands on a real card instead of nothing. 文法 Bunpou (Grammar) — 611 grammar patterns spanning JLPT N5 through N1, hand-curated under sensei supervision. One specific surface form per tile. Cross-checked against established grammar references. ~94–96% coverage in general texts. 漢字 Kanji (Characters) — 2,228 kanji from the JLPT pool unioned with the Kyōiku elementary set, ranked by a blended newspaper-and-encyclopedia frequency score. Each card has the glyph with colored radicals, kun and on readings, English gloss, a hand-written mnemonic, KanjiVG stroke-order animation, and compound examples that link back into Goi. ~95% coverage of everyday reading. —— TWO REFERENCE SETS —— 部首 Bushu (Radicals) — All 214 Kangxi radicals. Tap any radical to see the kanji that contain it. 仮名 Kana — 232 hiragana, katakana, and extended foreign-sound katakana, organized by row, vowel, and modifier. —— TILES THAT LINK —— Over 46,000 tap-to-jump links run through the corpus. In example sentences, follow any tappable word straight to its own card. In Kanji cards, the compound examples link back into Goi. The app is an integrated reading environment, not a stack of separate flashcards. —— WHAT WE DON'T DO —— No invented "Lesson 1, Lesson 2" curriculum — order is frequency. Tier 1 is what you'll meet first in real Japanese; Tier 8 is what you'll meet last. (If you'd rather browse by JLPT level, there's a toggle in Settings — same pool, re-bucketed: kanji from N5 all the way to N1 plus a beyond-JLPT set, grammar N5 to N2 with the N1 patterns in the frequency tiers.) No drowning in SRS queues. The main loop is rapid, repeated exposure by flipping tiles. The Challenge Box is a Leitner-style safety net for items you've genuinely struggled with — not the front door. No production drills. Recognition is the skill; production follows from input. No accounts. No tracking. No analytics. No ads. No data collected. No internet required after install. —— iCLOUD SYNC —— Your Challenge Box and study progress sync between your iPhone and iPad through your own iCloud account, so you can switch devices and pick up where you left off. The sync runs through Apple. We never see your data. —— FOR WHOM —— Built for serious intermediate learners. You can read hiragana and katakana, you've worked through a beginner course, and you want to push from "I can read simple sentences" to "I can read newspapers, novels, blogs, manga." If you're a true beginner, finish a beginner course first and come back. If you're already comfortable with monolingual Japanese dictionaries, you're past us. Everyone else — this is the tool we built because we couldn't find it.