AniSpeak: Learn Japanese
FORPAX LLC Education iPhoneiPadiPod touch
AniSpeak: Learn Japanese is a free Education app for iPhone and iPad by FORPAX LLC. Rated 5.0/5 from 1 ratings. Requires iOS 16.4.
- Rating
- 5.0
- 1 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 197 MB
- Age 12+
- Updated
- Sep 14
- 2026 · v1.1.0
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About AniSpeak: Learn Japanese
You've memorized flashcards. You've protected a streak. And you still can't read a line of the Japanese in your favorite show. AniSpeak starts from the other side: an original anime-style story you watch one line at a time, fully voiced — with a translation that waits until you ask for it. No tests. No hearts to lose. No speaking into your phone. Just a story that makes you want tomorrow's episode. Meet Noa — a quiet companion who keeps a small gate between worlds. Noa doesn't flirt, doesn't call you nicknames, and doesn't ask for your name. They just sit beside you, point at a line of Japanese, and ask if you'd like to read it together. HOW IT WORKS • Watch, don't study — every line is voiced, furigana always on, and the translation is one tap away when you want it • While a line is playing, tap a word you think you recognize. Catch it and it lights up. Miss it and nothing happens — there is no score to lose • The sounds anime already taught you — arigatou, daijoubu, ganbare — land a beat before the translation. That “wait, I understood that” is the whole method • Words you meet in the story light up in your collection, and they stay • Trace all 46 hiragana to light them up — then meet them again inside lines you actually want to read • Finished an episode? Play it again with the help switched off, and find out how much you caught WHAT'S INSIDE • Five story worlds: a rooftop senpai, a childhood friend, a forest guardian, a rival at sunset, a night-time partner • 78 main-story episodes, including two complete second seasons of 24 episodes each, plus 14 short side stories • Twelve main-story episodes are free — one whole season among them: all six episodes of the forest-guardian story, right through to its ending ONE PRICE, FOREVER $19.99 once. Every story we have made, every story we make next, no ads, no subscription, no upsells. That is the whole business model. FOR PARENTS One-time purchase. No chat with strangers, no ads, no subscription to forget about. All-ages content. AniSpeak is a beginning, not a curriculum. When you outgrow us and want serious study tools, we will point you to them — honestly. Ages 13+. Full UI in English, Simplified & Traditional Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, and Indonesian.
What’s new
Version 1.1.0 · Updated September 14, 2026
Story scenes now move with a gentle sense of depth, and the mist forest has its own quiet sound. Screens across the app are simpler, too.
App privacy
The developer, FORPAX LLC, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Purchases: Purchase History
- Identifiers: Device ID
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
Used for: Analytics, App Functionality
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