Mekuru - Japanese Reader

Mekuru is a Japanese reader for EPUB novels and manga. Tap any word for an instant dictionary definition — fully offline, no switching apps. Built for learning Japanese by reading: furigana, pitch accents, kanji info, and Anki flashcard export in one reader.

◆ READ JAPANESE NOVELS & LIGHT NOVELS (EPUB)

• Vertical text (tategaki) or horizontal layout, right-to-left or left-to-right page flow

• Furigana display over kanji

• Bookmarks and automatic reading-progress restore

• Per-book settings: fonts, margins, sepia and dark themes

◆ READ MANGA WITH TAP-TO-LOOKUP (MOKURO SUPPORT)

• Full mokuro support: open your mokuro-processed manga and tap words right in the speech bubbles for instant dictionary lookups

• CBZ support

• Single page, two-page spread, and vertical scroll reading modes

• Auto-crop and custom OCR server support (Pro)

◆ INSTANT OFFLINE JAPANESE DICTIONARY

• Smart word detection recognizes compound words and conjugated verbs

• Download built-in dictionaries: JMdict, KANJIDIC, kanji stroke order (KanjiVG), and JPDB frequency data

• Import your own Yomitan-compatible dictionaries (ZIP)

• Pitch accent and word frequency at a glance

• Works fully offline — read anywhere, no internet needed

◆ BUILD VOCABULARY & LEARN JAPANESE

• Save words while you read, together with the sentence they appeared in

• Export flashcards to Anki: send cards directly to AnkiDroid or export CSV

• Sentence mining from real books, not textbook examples

• Review your saved vocabulary anytime

◆ MADE FOR JAPANESE LEARNERS

Mekuru is built for extensive reading (tadoku) and immersion learning. Reading real Japanese books is one of the best ways to learn kanji, grammar, and vocabulary in context — from JLPT N5 beginners with graded readers to advanced learners enjoying light novels without a paper dictionary.

Already using mokuro and Yomitan? Your manga library and dictionaries work in Mekuru as-is.

Native Japanese readers get a clean, customizable vertical-text EPUB reader, too.

◆ FREE & OPEN SOURCE

Mekuru is free and open source (AGPL). An optional one-time Pro upgrade unlocks book highlights, manga auto-crop, and custom-server OCR.

App interface available in English, Spanish, Indonesian, and Simplified Chinese.

Mekuru (めくる) means "to turn the page" — less time fumbling with dictionaries, more time reading Japanese.