Bookmark words and kanji into named lists
Save words and kanji without leaving the line you’re on, into lists you name yourself: by song, by book, by whatever you’re working through. Nothing gets filed away for you.
Gakuji
Your Japanese text, made accessible.
Paste in any Japanese text, then tap a word for its full breakdown. Take what you learn straight into Anki.
Every word, taken apart
Tap any word in the lines below. This is the breakdown Gakuji gives you for every word in whatever you paste in.
浜辺: 浜辺, はまべ. beach, foreshore.
From 浜辺の歌, words by Hayashi Kokei. Entries are taken from the app, a few trimmed for length.
Stay inside the text
Five things Gakuji does, each built so you keep reading instead of switching over to a study queue.
Tap a word for its full reading and kanji breakdown
Click any word and the sidebar fills in with its reading, part of speech, and meaning, plus every kanji inside it, on’yomi and kun’yomi included. Click the next word and it simply updates; there is nothing to close.
Annotate like margin notes
Select a phrase and write against it like a note in the margin, in one of five colors for grammar, imagery, or a translation you’re unsure of. Notes stay anchored to those exact words.
Filter by part of speech and JLPT difficulty
Every word carries its part of speech and JLPT level, N5 through N1. Narrow a text to just its verbs, or just what sits above N3, and the same filters carry through to export.
Export straight to Anki, filtered exactly the way you want
Send the words and kanji you picked to Anki as review-ready cards, through the free AnkiConnect add-on. Gakuji doesn’t reinvent spaced repetition; it just stops being in the way of it.
Free, and it stays on your machine.
Download, paste something in, and start reading. No account to make, no sync to wait on, and nothing leaves your computer.
Opening it for the first time
Gakuji isn’t code-signed yet, so your computer will warn you once before it opens. Here’s how to get past it.
- Run the installer you downloaded.
- If Windows shows
Windows protected your PC
, click More info, then Run anyway. - After that, Gakuji opens normally and updates itself in the background.
Exporting to Anki? Keep Anki open with the free AnkiConnect add-on installed. Gakuji talks to it on your own computer.
Built by one person, for one stubborn problem.
I listened to a lot of Japanese music without understanding a word of it. Even as a Japanese student, I found the friction between seeing the lyrics and processing them to be a constraint. So I made the thing I wanted: a reading tool that lets me answer the questions I had about the text.
Gakuji runs entirely on your machine. It is designed, built, and maintained by me, and the releases are free and open on GitHub.