mekuru: iPhone vs Android

Read alone. Not alone—with quiet company for every page.

mekuru is a reading room made for time with paper books. Small reader avatars settle into a warm study, and the gentle sign of a page turning lets you feel that someone else is reading too—without video, a microphone, or chat.

WITH MEKURU, YOU CAN

• Enter as a guest—no sign-up required
• Join an open room and read quietly with others
• Invite someone with a link and read together
• Your reader turns its pages on its own — a faint paper sound is the only sign of presence that travels
• Breaks and time away are sensed and shared softly, on their own
• Keep your reading time and revisit it in your Time Shelf
• Create an account to choose from six reader avatars and unlock book covers as you read
• Become reading companions with the people you share a room with

There are no DMs, likes, comments, follows, or rankings. mekuru is not about competing over pages. It is a place to let the time you spend with books accumulate quietly.

In Korea, a trend called "text hip" has been spreading: enjoying the time spent reading, and sharing it. mekuru is a place to share that time — the middle of the reading itself — quietly, with someone else.

OWNER (SUBSCRIPTION)

The optional Owner plan is an auto-renewing monthly subscription that lets you furnish a room of your own and open it to your companions anytime. Registered accounts can try a one-time 14-day viewing first, no card required. In Japan the price is ¥580/month; pricing for your region is always shown in the App Store before you confirm. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account, and the subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it anytime in your App Store account settings.

Privacy Policy: https://www.mekuru.app/en/privacy
Terms of Use: https://www.mekuru.app/en/terms

Read alone. Not alone—with quiet company for every page.

mekuru is a reading room made for time with paper books. Small reader avatars settle into a warm study, and the gentle sign of a page turning lets you feel that someone else is reading too—without video, a microphone, or chat.

WITH MEKURU, YOU CAN

• Enter as a guest—no sign-up required
• Join an open room and read quietly with others
• Invite someone with a link and read together
• Your reader turns its pages on its own — a faint paper sound is the only sign of presence that travels
• Breaks and time away are sensed and shared softly, on their own
• Keep your reading time and revisit it in your Time Shelf
• Create an account to choose from six reader avatars and unlock book covers as you read
• Become reading companions with the people you share a room with

There are no DMs, likes, comments, follows, or rankings. mekuru is not about competing over pages. It is a place to let the time you spend with books accumulate quietly.

In Korea, a trend called "text hip" has been spreading: enjoying the time spent reading, and sharing it. mekuru is a place to share that time — the middle of the reading itself — quietly, with someone else.

OWNER (SUBSCRIPTION)

The optional Owner plan is an auto-renewing monthly subscription that lets you furnish a room of your own and open it to your companions anytime. Registered accounts can try a one-time 14-day viewing first, no card required. In Japan the price is ¥580/month; pricing for your region is always shown in the App Store before you confirm. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account, and the subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it anytime in your App Store account settings.

Privacy Policy: https://www.mekuru.app/en/privacy
Terms of Use: https://www.mekuru.app/en/terms

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.