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About Hoshi Reader

Hoshi Reader is a lightweight Japanese EPUB reader with a built-in pop-up dictionary and Anki mining support, made for immersion learning. Main Features: - Vertical (縦書き) and horizontal (横書き) reading modes - Yomitan-like pop-up dictionary with proper deinflection support - Support for all Yomitan term, frequency and pitch dictionaries - Dictionary audio support - AnkiMobile mining support - Fully configurable Anki card format, with most handlebars targeting Lapis implemented - Sasayaki (Audiobooks): Sync audiobooks to book text to read along - Reading statistics - ッツ Reader sync - Bookshelves to organize your library - Customizable theme, font and layout

Ratings & reviews

5.0

23 ratings

5 ★ 100% 4 ★ 0% 3 ★ 0% 2 ★ 0% 1 ★ 0%

What’s new

Version 1.4.0 · Updated August 22, 2026

Statistics: - Added a new statistics tab - See an overview of your reading time or set a daily goal and build up a streak - Book statistics can be edited from the overview at the bottom - Statistics are archived when a book is deleted and still count towards statistics unless manually deleted - Daily reset time can be configured Sasayaki: - New control bar for playback, which can be placed on the right or left side - On new matches, playback can now pause on images for a configurable amount of time - Increased speed and delay ranges - Fixed issues with matching and auto scroll Dictionary and Anki: - Added support for kanji dictionaries - Added support for more pitch accent dictionaries - Added the option to create more than one card format - Added a button to search for the card in the card browser - Added the ability to categorize dictionaries into bilingual or monolingual and mine those into dedicated handlebars - You can choose a specific frequency dictionary to sort entries by now - In the dictionary tab, the entire search text is now shown so you can quickly look up a different part of e.g. a sentence - Long pressing the speaker icon now enables you to choose the audio source - Handlebars can also work in the tags field now General: - Added a gallery overview to quickly scroll through the images of a book - Chapters, highlights and gallery are now grouped into a new "Contents" option to reduce clutter - Added book search to find text in a book - Added the option to show separate chapter progress - Fixed the chapter overview for some books and fixed related chapter finish time calculation - Furigana can now be set to toggle and dimmed in addition to hide option - Book covers in the library can be blurred or hidden entirely now - Highlights now keep their furigana - Newly imported dictionaries can now be up to 50% smaller - Fixed an issue where text couldn't be selected in some cases - Fixed several crashes and issues, and improved general performance and stability

App privacy

The developer, Manh-Hao Steffen Pham, reported these privacy practices to Apple.

Data Linked to You

The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:

  • User Content: Other User Content

Used for: App Functionality

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