Kanji Max

This is the best way to learn Kanji.

Point your iPhone at printed Japanese and the reading of every kanji appears right above it, live, on the camera picture. Menus, signs, books, labels: if it's printed, Kanji Max reads it with you.

The readings stay on the page as you move, tilt with the paper and follow the dictionary word by word, so 日曜日 reads にちようび and 一本 reads いっぽん. Freeze the picture, tap a word, and hear it, see its meaning or save it. Everything runs on your device, offline.

LIVE FURIGANA OVER THE CAMERA Hiragana readings appear in the live picture above each kanji word, on a backing that matches the paper, so they look printed. They glide with the text, tilt with the page and never flicker. Not reading kana yet? Show every reading in romaji.

READINGS A LEARNER CAN TRUST Each word gets the reading its context needs: 今日 is きょう, 大阪 is おおさか. Counters are read the way they are said: 一本 いっぽん, 三本 さんぼん, 二日 ふつか.

FREEZE, MAGNIFY, TAP Freeze the picture to read at your own pace, or pinch to magnify small print. Tap a word to hear it, see its meaning or save it. Tap 食べました and Kanji Max finds 食べる and tells you it is the polite past form.

A FULL DICTIONARY ENTRY FOR EVERY WORD Over 200,000 words and 13,000 kanji, offline: meanings, JLPT level N5–N1, each kanji with its on and kun readings, related words such as 開く ⇄ 開ける, and the sound changes that make 一本 いっぽん.

PITCH ACCENT AND AUDIO See the Tokyo pitch accent drawn over each reading, conjugated verbs and compounds included. Hear about 23,000 common words with their accent in a synthesized voice, slowed to a quarter speed when you need it.

SAVED WORDS Keep the words you look up. They sort themselves into nouns, verbs, adjectives and more. Filter them by JLPT level.

PHOTOS AND SCREENSHOTS Take a photo and read it whole. With Plus, open any picture from your library: a screenshot of a chat, a game or a web page.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything runs on your device. No account, no ads. Nothing you scan leaves your phone, so it works abroad, underground and in flight mode.

FREE AND PLUS The live readings are free and unlimited, in kana or romaji, with 5 new word look-ups a day and 30 saved words. Kanji Max Plus adds: • Look up every word you tap, without a daily limit • The full dictionary entry for every word • Pitch accent over every reading • Save every word, in folders of your own • Read photos and screenshots from your library • Words colored with their readings

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