NihonGO Dokusho

A story reader for intermediate Japanese. Real stories — every word, kanji or grammar, one tap from its card, read aloud in a natural voice. Offline, free, no accounts.

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.

—— TAP —— Every underlined word is a card. 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 scene is read aloud in a clear, natural-sounding Japanese 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, released as a free, multi-part study series, with new parts added as they're finished. Each part 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.

From the maker of NihonGO Dominos — the same frequency-built learning data, now turned into stories you can actually read.