Capsule Tracks Tokyo vs OpenKoto
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Capsule Tracks Tokyo
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An app for music lovers learning Japanese. Every track is an original composition, written specifically for learners — not covers, not pop translations. Genre-crossing, experimental, alt-leaning. Japanese as it actually sounds: contractions, emotional particles, dropped subjects. HOW IT WORKS Tap any line for synced lyrics, translations, kanji readings, and grammar notes. Songs are tagged across a 75-function classification covering how Japanese expresses thoughts, manages dialogue, and describes the world. An interactive 3D Music Sphere maps every song across these dimensions. Hybrid Loop pairs each track with English and bilingual versions.
OpenKoto
Learn languages using your favorite content like articles, books, and videos. Understand sentences in context, collect vocabulary, and review it on a schedule. This privacy-first app offers on-device subtitle generation and reading aids.
- Import text, books, and web content
- On-device subtitle generation for videos
- Contextual sentence understanding
- Spaced-repetition vocabulary review
- Search imported content
- Progress statistics
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OpenKoto is an open-source, privacy-first language-learning app. Turn the articles, books, and videos you genuinely care about into study material, understand sentences in context, collect vocabulary, and review it on a schedule. Key features: • Paste text or import TXT, Markdown, and web content • Import TXT and EPUB books with automatic chapter splitting, in either a sentence-by-sentence view or the book's original layout • Import video and audio with SRT / VTT subtitles — or generate subtitles on device when you have none (requires iOS 26) • Subtitles follow playback sentence by sentence; tap a line to jump to it, loop a single sentence, change speed without changing pitch, and hide the text to shadow by ear • Read sentence by sentence, resume where you left off, and add bookmarks and highlights • Show word-level readings above Japanese and Chinese text (furigana / pinyin), generated entirely on device • Search the full text of everything you have imported — articles, book chapters, and media transcripts — and jump straight to the sentence • Save vocabulary, organize word packs, and use spaced-repetition review; jump from any card back to the sentence it came from • View reading and review statistics • Use the app in English, Simplified Chinese, or Japanese • Choose light, dark, and multiple visual themes • Send web pages or selected text to OpenKoto from the iOS share sheet Optional AI features use a bring-your-own-key model. Configure a compatible provider of your choice for translations and sentence explanations. API keys are stored in the iOS Keychain, while learning content and progress stay on your device. AI requests go directly from your device to your selected provider and do not pass through an OpenKoto app server. No account is required. Sample articles are included, so reading, vocabulary, and review features work without configuring an AI provider. OpenKoto is free and open source.
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Verdict
Capsule Tracks Tokyo and OpenKoto are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Capsule Tracks Tokyo | OpenKoto |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Masahiko Hattori | 倍铭 刘 |
In-app purchases
Capsule Tracks Tokyo
No in-app purchases
OpenKoto
No in-app purchases
Questions
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