Yomitan
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
0warn against
Dec 16, 2025first mention
Oct 18, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I'd really recommend something like Yomitan here”
“I used OCR on manga pages and then Yomitan to hover over and see word definitions”
Show 1 more
“Something similar to https://yomitan.wiki/”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Threads where it came up
- Show HN: Learn Japanese contextually while browsing 2 mentions
- Furifont, a Japanese font that shows furigana 1 mention
- KOReader 1 mention
- VNDB founder Yorhel has died 1 mention
- Show HN: My app just won best iOS Japanese learning tool of 2025 award 1 mention
Data: yomitan.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 6
“I'd really recommend something like Yomitan here”
There's a fork for vertical text: https://github.com/m-tky/koreader-tategumi
“a Yomitan dictionary (by bee) of VNDB using those dumps”
Yes I've also just started adding sub-word lookups for ranges inside of the headword and for words appearing in the definitions. I hope to launch that together with Yomitan dictionary support. There is a lot packed into this next update... Here is a look at the new learning status screen, too: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1209908367821373500/1437155956692746422/simulator_screenshot_D994EE68-1E22-444E-BDB6
“I used OCR on manga pages and then Yomitan to hover over and see word definitions”
“Something similar to https://yomitan.wiki/”