Videos
Watch your own videos with interactive subtitles.
Learn moreYour stories. Your language journey.Learn from what
Learn from what
you already love.
Watch and read in your target language. Discover your next story on the web, look up words in the app, and remember them with Manatan Flashcards.
Your language belongs here.
Dictionary lookup in 44 languages.
- Japanese
- English
- Chinese
- Korean
- Spanish
- French
- German
- Italian
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Vietnamese
- Cantonese
See 32 more languages
- Arabic (MSA)
- Arabic (Egyptian)
- Arabic (Levantine)
- Bulgarian
- Czech
- Danish
- Greek
- Estonian
- Persian
- Finnish
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Hungarian
- Indonesian
- Latin
- Lao
- Latvian
- Georgian
- Kannada
- Khmer
- Mongolian
- Maltese
- Dutch
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Romanian
- Swedish
- Thai
- Tagalog
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Welsh
Explore Manatan
Start with what you want to do.
Manga
Read manga and look up words as you go.
Learn moreYouTube
Learn from the videos you already watch.
Learn moreBooks
Read novels and EPUBs in your learning language.
Learn moreAudiobooks
Follow the text while you listen.
Learn morePodcasts
Keep learning while you listen.
Learn moreDesktop screen lookup
Understand text in your games and other apps.
Learn moreAndroid screen lookup
Capture and look up text with touch or a controller.
Learn morePopup dictionary
Look up unfamiliar words without losing your place.
Learn moreFlashcards
Remember the words you meet along the way.
Learn moreBrowser
Look up words while browsing the web.
Learn moreAnki integration
Send words and sentences to your Anki decks.
Learn moreLess tool switching. More immersion.Stay with the story.
Stay with the story.
The tools come to you.
Video, books, manga, and podcastsโbuilt around the content you choose.
Video & YouTube
Pause on a line. Understand it.
Watch your videos with interactive subtitles. Look up words, replay a sentence, and save what you want to remember.
- Local videos & streaming sources
- Interactive subtitles & live video OCR
- YouTube with the official player
Books
Meet a word. Keep the story.
Open an EPUB or web novel. Look up unfamiliar words with your imported dictionaries, without losing your place.
- EPUBs & web novels
- Dictionary lookup & native highlights
- Reading progress across devices
Manga
Read between the lines.
Recognize text on the page, then look up the words you need. Spend more time with the story and less time switching tools.
- On-device manga OCR
- Vertical & horizontal text
- Lookup directly from recognized text
Podcasts
Your podcasts. Your pace.
Add a podcast feed, explore real episodes, and keep your listening progress in one place.
- Import your own RSS feeds
- Browse episodes & download for listening
- Keep track of your listening progress
Find your next story.
Explore anime, manga, novels, and games. Compare vocabulary and difficulty where analysis is available, then keep your lists, scores, and progress together.
Members can also see personalized vocabulary coverage.
Explore the catalogMake todayโs words stick.
Turn words and sentences from your immersion into flashcards, or bring existing Anki decks. RWKV shows the due cards youโre most likely to forget first. FSRS-7 uses your ratings to set review intervals.
Card and review sync are free with your Manatan account.
Open Manatan FlashcardsLess friction. More immersion.
A few words from the people using Manatan.
โLoid ยท Manatan Discord community ยท i think this might be my first time saying anything here but i have been using Manatan for months now and i freaking love it, it made immersion feel a hundred times easier so i just wanted to show my token of appreciation here, thanks a lot for creating this software u guys are the best
Koyomi ยท Manatan Discord community ยท Yes I love manatan, this exactly what i was looking for years. that time i had zero expirence how such things work. I was planning to make something which solves exactly the same problem which Manatan solves but I found Manatan and I feel so happy. @Kolby ML Thank you so much again, for building and maintaining Manatan. ๐ค
+ and Revels ยท Manatan Discord community +: Today i found out you can mine visual novels on a phone with manatan???!!? Revels: Kolby you need to promote screen lookup like it's a holy grail. It's a GSM overlay that works on mobile. Nothing else have it with controller support.
Before you start.
Is Manatan free to use?
Yes. You can read, watch, look up words, and review flashcards for free. The app has no ads.
Optional membership adds AI subtitles and translation, plus extra customization options.
Are books and videos included?
Bring your own files, feeds, or supported sources. The screenshots demonstrate the app with imported content; they donโt mean these titles are bundled with Manatan.
Can I keep using Anki?
Yes. Save cards through Anki, or study with RWKV and FSRS-7 in Manatan Flashcards. Card and review sync are free.