Toku Japanese & Chinese Reader

Tap any word in a real Japanese podcast, video, website or book — its reading and meaning appear right there, without leaving the page. Chinese too. Offline dictionary.

Tap any word in real Japanese or Chinese — a podcast, a news article, a novel, a website, your own audio file — and get its reading and its meaning instantly, without leaving the page.

The dictionaries live inside the app. Every word is worked out on your device and you never have to sign in, so anything already on your phone can be read and looked up with the plane in the air. Finding podcasts, opening websites and the AI need an internet connection.

LISTEN Find shows by search, from the trending charts in Japan, mainland China and Taiwan, or from a hand-picked list for learners. Every episode gets a transcript — either supplied by the show or generated privately on your device — and the current line follows along as you listen. Tap any word and the audio pauses so you can read its meaning; press play and it picks up where you left off. Shadowing mode loops a sentence so you can repeat after the speaker, and you can record yourself to compare.

READ ANYTHING Browse Japanese and Chinese websites with furigana or pinyin added in place. Paste a link and get the clean article without the clutter. Import your own EPUB, PDF, text, or subtitle files. Scan a printed page with the camera. Books are laid out like books, with proper Japanese and Chinese line-breaking and real chapters.

TAP TO UNDERSTAND Two purpose-built engines — one Japanese, one Chinese — work out how each word is actually read in the sentence in front of you, not just what a dictionary lists. Japanese gets furigana, pitch accent, and conjugation breakdowns. Chinese gets pinyin with tone changes applied. Traditional characters are a first-class choice throughout, not an afterthought.

LOOK ANYTHING UP Search from Japanese, Chinese, or English. Draw a character you can't type. See stroke-order animations, radical breakdowns, word frequency, and example sentences from real usage.

REMEMBER IT Save a word and it keeps the sentence you first met it in, and where it came from, so you can jump straight back. Spaced repetition returns it just before you'd forget. A home-screen and lock-screen widget keeps a word in front of you, and an optional once-a-day reminder tells you when reviews are ready. Export to Anki at any time.

ON IPHONE AND IPAD Toku Reader is built for both. On iPad the transcript, the reader, the dictionary and your word list use the full screen rather than a stretched phone layout.

OFFLINE, AND NO ACCOUNT The dictionaries ship inside the app and every word is worked out on your device, with no internet connection. You never have to sign in. Your library is copied to your own iCloud so it follows you between your iPhone and iPad, and you can switch that off, and delete the copy, in Settings. Beyond that, text leaves your device only when you send it: a sentence you ask the AI about (only after you switch that feature on), a problem report you choose to send, or a podcast or video search.

WHAT'S FREE Listening, reading, browsing, shadowing, and reviewing are free and unlimited. Word lookups are free up to 15 a day. Toku Premium removes that limit, monthly or yearly.

Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel any time in Settings → Subscriptions.

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