Toku ReaderDownload on the App StoreToku Reader · iOS
Read Japanese and Chinese without stopping.
Paste a page, open a book, point the camera at a sign. Toku puts the reading above every kanji — per character, not per word — and one tap gives you the meaning without taking you out of the sentence.
Free to try. No account needed to read.
吾輩は猫である。名前はまだ無い。 どこで生れたかとんと見当がつかぬ。何でも薄暗い じめじめした所でニャーニャー泣いていた事だけは記憶している。
夏目漱石『吾輩は猫である』· public domain
01 · The engine
One character. Five readings.
生 is read at least five different ways, and which one is correct depends entirely on the word it happens to be sitting in. A dictionary can’t tell you. Toku decides from the sentence around it, then puts the answer above the character.
02 · What it reads
Bring your own text.
Toku isn’t a course with a syllabus. It’s the layer you put over whatever you were already trying to read.
Books, the way they were set
Open an EPUB and it stays vertical, right to left, with the author’s own ruby intact. Turning readings off doesn’t reflow a single line.
Any page on the web
Read the news in the built-in browser and the furigana appears in place. The page keeps working — links, video, everything.
Chinese, with the same care
Pinyin over hanzi, Simplified and Traditional both first-class. Not an afterthought bolted onto a Japanese app.
Podcasts you can read along to
Transcribed on your device, line by line, so you can follow a real conversation at the speed it’s actually spoken.
03 · Damo
One name, two readings.
A monk remembered as Bodhidharma carried Buddhist teaching from India to China. His name is written 達磨 in Japanese and 达摩 in Chinese — read Daruma in one language, Dámó in the other. In Japan the story settled into a weighted papier-mâché doll that rights itself whenever it’s tipped over. It’s sold with both eyes blank: you paint the first when you set a goal, and the second when you keep it. Damo is that doll — the oldest bridge between the two languages this app teaches.
Reading is free. Forever.
Read, listen, and watch without limits, with 50 free word lookups a day.
Premium makes lookups unlimited. That's the entire difference.
That number is read live from the same configuration the app enforces — this page and the app cannot disagree.
Well read.
Start with one page of something you actually wanted to read. That’s the whole idea.
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