Furigana Reader

Learn Japanese with furigana on web pages & PDFs. Built-in JMdict dictionary, karaoke TTS, vocabulary tracker & translation.

Furigana Reader - Smart Furigana for Japanese Web Pages Stop breaking your reading flow to check pronunciation and meaning. Furigana Reader combines reading, listening, translation, intelligent reading area detection, and spaced-repetition review in one workflow — with sentence-by-sentence navigation for focused study. Built for academic papers, technical docs, news, and original books. ✨ Key Features: • On-device neural reading model + JMdict — context-aware readings for every kanji, checked against the dictionary • Three reading styles: hiragana, katakana and romaji (modified Hepburn; long vowels as Tōkyō, Tookyoo or Toukyou) • Correct any reading — tap ✎ in the tooltip; your correction is remembered on every page and PDF • Okurigana splitting (送り仮名分割) • Jukujikun (熟字訓) support for multi-kanji compounds • Whole-page furigana mode — show readings for all kanji at once • Hover tooltip with pronunciation and speak button • Pitch accent — Tokyo-standard high/low pitch graph in the hover tooltip • Text-to-speech with karaoke-style word highlighting • Adjustable furigana size (50 %–200 %) for comfortable reading • Built-in PDF Reader with furigana for every kanji — no readings skipped • Anki export — one-click cards via AnkiConnect or a text-file import; furigana, pitch accent and example sentence included • User interface available in 53 languages 🔊 Text-to-Speech: • Karaoke-style word highlighting while reading selections aloud • Japanese voice selection; adjustable speech rate 📖 Reading Area: • Smart detection — auto-detect main content, filtering out navigation, ads, and cookie banners • Sentence mode — tap a sentence to view word-by-word furigana, definitions, frequency, TTS, translation, and save • Sentence navigation — read through the article sentence by sentence • Reading analysis — one-click page scan: word count, readability (FK), difficulty level, frequent/rare words, phrases, and entities • Focus mode — highlight the current word, sentence, or paragraph; dim the rest 📚 Perfect for: • Learners reading Japanese websites • Checking readings of unfamiliar kanji • JLPT preparation and reading practice 🔒 Privacy: No data collection. All processing is local.