Jouzu - Read Japanese Anywhere
Igor Ranieri Education iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Jouzu - Read Japanese Anywhere is a free Education app for iPhone and iPad by Igor Ranieri. Requires iOS 26.0. Updated October 30, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 362 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 30
- 2026 · v1.1.0
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About Jouzu - Read Japanese Anywhere
Jouzu is real-life copy and paste for Japanese. Point your camera at a sign, a manga page, a game screen or a menu, and it becomes text you can look up, translate and learn from. OCR MADE FOR JAPANESE Jouzu's OCR reads Japanese right on the photo. Pull in a single word or drag across a whole line. READ WITH A JAPANESE DICTIONARY Every capture is broken down word by word with a built-in dictionary, so you read the whole sentence instead of piecing it together. Frequency ranks from JPDB and the Innocent Corpus show which words to learn now and which to save for later. TRANSLATE JAPANESE Translate full sentences or passages when the breakdown isn't enough. LEARN JAPANESE WITH ANKI Build a card the moment a word stops you, or save it and keep reading. Each one arrives complete: reading, pitch accent, meaning, the sentence, your photo and audio. Batch a whole reading or gaming session into one deck when you're done. HEAR IT SPOKEN Any word or line read aloud in a natural voice with correct pitch accent. Switch voices whenever you like. OFFLINE OCR No signal needed. OCR, dictionary and even translation can run on your phone. Where you need it, when you need it. PRIVATE No account. No tracking. Nothing sold to advertisers. I don't even know who you are. Made with love in the heart of Switzerland. KIWAMI Kiwami (極) adds pitch accent, Anki export, natural voices, DeepL translation and the Musashi theme. Reading, the dictionary and on-device translation stay free. Monthly: $3.99. Yearly: $39.99. Lifetime: $99.99, paid once. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://jouzu-app.com/privacy.html
What’s new
Version 1.1.0 · Updated October 30, 2026
- Redesigned Anki export: choose the picture and sentence per card, and preview the card as Anki shows it. - Redesigned and improved breakdown view, with grammar and inflections explained. - Improved sentence detection for name plates, menus and speech bubbles. - Improved word breakdown for casual forms and grammar. - Audio in the word popup. - Re-read captures with another OCR engine. - Offer codes on the paywall. - Faster camera and exports. - Updated dictionary and many fixes.
App privacy
The developer, Igor Ranieri, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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