mimitori Open Mimitori

Read and watch real Japanese.

Manga, PDFs, shows and plain text. Tap any word for its reading and meaning, and keep the good ones for later.

Open Mimitori Source on GitHub

Free. Runs in your browser on a phone or a computer. No account.

のに新しいができました。

A new café opened near the station.

3喫茶店きっさてん

noun

  1. coffee shop, tearoom, coffee lounge
  2. kissaten, a traditional coffee shop with a retro feel
喫
consume, eat, drink キツ・の(む)
茶
tea チャ、サ
店
store, shop テン・みせ、たな
Tap a word, or press 1–3. This is how a line looks in Mimitori.

Read

Paste a news story, a game script or a message from a mate. Mimitori puts furigana over the words you might not know, and tapping one brings up its meaning, its pitch and the kanji it's built from.

Up top it shows how much of the page you already know. Handy for picking things that are hard, but not too hard.

Got manga or a PDF? Open it, draw a box round a speech bubble, and Mimitori reads the line for you.

The Read tab on a phone: a Japanese message with furigana, and a word card for 土曜日, Saturday, showing its kanji parts.

Watch

Load a video with its Japanese subtitles and the line sits under the picture, words marked. Each word in the line gets a small number, so 1 to 9 on the keyboard opens it without hunting. R replays the line, or set it to pause after each one.

No subtitles? Mimitori can make them on your computer. The speech model is a big download the first time, then it's saved for next time.

The Watch tab on a computer: a video, the line 駅の近くに新しい喫茶店ができました with numbered words, a word card for 喫茶店, and the transcript.

Review

Words you save come back right around when you'd forget them. Each card shows the word in the sentence you found it in, with the video frame too if it came from Watch.

Again, Hard, Good or Easy. That's the lot.

A review card on a phone: 昨日, yesterday, with a still from the video and the sentence it came from, and Again, Hard, Good and Easy buttons.

Words

Everything you've saved, in one list. Search it, filter it by JLPT level, or send them all to Anki.

The Words tab on a phone: saved words 昨日, 雨, 駅 and 来週 with readings, meanings and JLPT levels.

The fine print

Your words stay with you
No account and no tracking. Your saved words live in your browser on your device, and you can back them up to a file whenever you like. More on the privacy page.
Free and open source
MIT licence. The code's all on GitHub, so you can see exactly what it does.
Gets on with Anki
Export your words as a CSV, or use the Mimitori add-on to send cards straight to Anki on your computer. How to set it up.

Give it a go.

It's free, and there's nothing to sign up for.

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