Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Read in Romaji
Read Japanese websites with romaji guides in your browser
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Hi HN, Just wanted to share a tool i've been working on to help with my own study routine. It’s a browser extension called Lingoku. The idea is simple: we spend hours browsing the web in English every day. This tool replaces some of the english words with Japanese vocabulary based on your japanese level (Similar to Toucan, but with a better user experience). It’s basically an attempt to make the "i+1" method actually passive, you understand the sentence because it's mostly english, but you pick up Japanese words naturally from the context. It uses an LLM in the backend to make sure the…
Dec 2025 · lingoku.ai · its alternatives →
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KanjiLens▲120Kanji Lens is a Japanese manga translator and learning tool.
Jan 2026 · kanjilens.com · its alternatives →
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Created MangaRenshuu to make Japanese manga reading more effective for learners - click speech bubbles to see extracted text, toggle romaji button if you want to romaji under the extracted text. Key features: - Pre-processed speech bubble text extraction using OCR - Click bubbles to see Japanese text - Toggle romaji button to see romaji text under extracted text - Currently has some chapters of Yotsuba&! and Takagi-san Technical process: I used OCR tools to extract and clean text from manga pages offline, then built a web interface that overlays the text on original images. Started as a…
2025 · mangarenshuu.online · its alternatives →
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Jiffy Reader▲509Read anything on the internet faster and more clearly
2022 · jiffyreader.com · its alternatives →
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Can neural networks transliterate Romaji into Japanese correctly? - GitHub - Kyubyong/neural_japanese_transliterator: Can neural networks transliterate Romaji into Japanese correctly?
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Free furigana converter: Add hiragana, katakana, or romaji to Japanese text, PDFs, images & ebooks. No signup required. Try it instantly.
May 2026 · ezfurigana.com · its alternatives →
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JapaneseTab▲144Learn Japanese with every new tab
2019 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Turn any webpage into a Japanese reading lesson
Jul 2026 · its alternatives →
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MojiMori ▲13Learn Kanji by breaking them down to first principles
May 2026 · mojimori.app · its alternatives →
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Read Bean▲310Learn Chinese with real-world content, at your level
2025 · readbean.app · its alternatives →
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Add emojis 😲 as you type ⌨ on the web 🌐
2017 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Japanese dictionary app for iPhone and iPad with kanji lookup, example sentences, flashcards, OCR photo lookup, and a Safari extension for reading Japanese.
2015 · nihongo-app.com · its alternatives →
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Learn any language by reading what you love. Click words to translate, build vocabulary with smart flashcards, and read articles, books, and web pages in 100+ languages. Free to start.
2015 · readlang.com · its alternatives →
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RomanizeMe▲14Browser Extension for Romanizing Non-Latin Scripts
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Ziyo▲112A powerful Japanese Kanji dictionary & search engine
2025 · ziyo.nourman.com · its alternatives →
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I quit my job last year and worked mostly on this full SwiftUI rewrite of my Japanese reading app, Manabi Reader. The rewrite gave me the opportunity to expand to macOS (and without Catalyst so it feels extra native) and redo the data layer to be offline-first via Realm with iCloud sync. The biggest differentiators compared with other language study apps are that it tracks every word/kanji you read so that you can see how much of a given webpage/article you're already familiar with and other features/analytics built on that foundation; it automatically builds a personal corpus…
2023 · reader.manabi.io · its alternatives →
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