Learn Japanese with furigana on web pages & PDFs. Built-in JMdict dictionary, karaoke TTS, vocabulary tracker & translation.
Users
207
+31 in 30 days
Rating
4.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
3
+1 in 30 days
Store rank
#63K
#53K among extensions
Version
1.9.3
updated 14 Oct 2026
Users
monthly, 7 months
Latest, 15 Oct 2026:207 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month
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monthly, 7 months
Latest, 15 Oct 2026:3 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month
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About Furigana Reader
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.