Jade Reader (Japanese Reader)

4.4
347 reviews
10K+
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Demo @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNGWuueH7Mo

This is a open source text file reader with a built-in offline Japanese-English dictionary for Japanese learner on the go without an active Internet connection for online dictionary. The algorithm used to search for word is taken from Rikaichan for Firefox.

The Japanese-English dictionary is the EDICT dictionary from WWWJDIC. It was converted to a format suitable for Android devices.

Definitions of a word is displayed/translated on the same activity as the text so that the reader does not lose the context of what they are reading when looking for meanings of words.

Reader can also save word to a file to later review them, or copy the word to clipboard to further investigate in other applications such as Anki.

Features:
- Large dictionary (EDICT from WWWJDIC)
- Does not require Internet connection to search word
- Auto detect file encoding (SHIFT-JIS, UTF8, etc..)
- Easily read HTML/TXT files from AozoraProvider
- Highlight and bookmark functionality
- Save words for future review
- Horizontal/Vertical mode
- Automatically de-inflect verbs, adjectives
- Other application can share text to Jade Reader (this let users easily saves text)


The source code is at https://bitbucket.org/rayzhou/jaderead-restart/overview
Feel free to email me for any problem or put a bug/enhancement request in the above url.
Updated on
Nov 3, 2018

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Ratings and reviews

4.4
295 reviews
Jim Morikuni
August 4, 2020
Great app but since at least Android 8, cannot change the font size. Pressing the 3 dots at the bottom right that appear after long-pressing anywhere on the screen has no effect - the dots just flash. If this app could get refreshed, I would gladly pay for it. I verified that the "3 dots" menu works on Android 6 and 7. I'm wondering if it is a permission issue.
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Miratio mobile
December 20, 2022
I would like the ability to change fonts and add different dictionaries, but still an amazing app. Edit: on my new phone I have also run into the bug where the options menu can't be opened. Needless to say, this is a huge problem. Lowered the review to two stars. Edit2: Still, Jade Reader as been a trusty companion on my journey to mastering Japanese for many years now, and there's nothing better out there.
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A Google user
August 11, 2019
Excellent app, use it everyday. If anything, I just wish it had J-J dictionary support and maybe an option to display text vertically.
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What's new

Fixed a bug in the previous release that prevented Jade Reader from accessing the storage.