Hoshi Reader
Hoshi Reader is #180 in Books Free in Indonesia and charting in 1 of 24 countries we track.
Updated 27 Sep 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperManh-Hao Steffen Pham
CategoryBooks
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 0.0 (0)
Version1.4.0
Age rating4+
First seen by us
26 Sep 2026
Installs (est.)1k+ worldwide
Rating
0.0 ★
0 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#180
Measured
Hoshi Reader on the App Store
App details
App ID
6758244332
Publisher
Manh-Hao Steffen Pham
Minimum OS
iOS 18.0+
Content rating
4+
Languages
2
EN ZH
Size
10 MB
Hoshi Reader downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. iPhone downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where Hoshi Reader's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 24 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| BooksFree | #180 |
Apps near Hoshi Reader on the chart
Books Free, around #180.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
0.0 ★
0 ratings
Measured
Ratings
0
Measured
About Hoshi Reader
Hoshi Reader is a lightweight Japanese EPUB reader with a built-in pop-up dictionary and Anki mining support, made for immersion learning.
Main Features:
- Vertical (縦書き) and horizontal (横書き) reading modes
- Yomitan-like pop-up dictionary with proper deinflection support
- Support for all Yomitan term, frequency and pitch dictionaries
- Dictionary audio support
- AnkiMobile mining support
- Fully configurable Anki card format, with most handlebars targeting Lapis implemented
- Sasayaki (Audiobooks): Sync audiobooks to book text to read along
- Reading statistics
- ッツ Reader sync
- Bookshelves to organize your library
- Customizable theme, font and layout
Main Features:
- Vertical (縦書き) and horizontal (横書き) reading modes
- Yomitan-like pop-up dictionary with proper deinflection support
- Support for all Yomitan term, frequency and pitch dictionaries
- Dictionary audio support
- AnkiMobile mining support
- Fully configurable Anki card format, with most handlebars targeting Lapis implemented
- Sasayaki (Audiobooks): Sync audiobooks to book text to read along
- Reading statistics
- ッツ Reader sync
- Bookshelves to organize your library
- Customizable theme, font and layout
Latest updates
1.4.0
Statistics:
- Added a new statistics tab
- See an overview of your reading time or set a daily goal and build up a streak
- Book statistics can be edited from the overview at the bottom
- Statistics are archived when a book is deleted and still count towards statistics unless manually deleted
- Daily reset time can be configured
Sasayaki:
- New control bar for playback, which can be placed on the right or left side
- On new matches, playback can now pause on images for a configurable amount of time
- Increased speed and delay ranges
- Fixed issues with matching and auto scroll
Dictionary and Anki:
- Added support for kanji dictionaries
- Added support for more pitch accent dictionaries
- Added the option to create more than one card format
- Added a button to search for the card in the card browser
- Added the ability to categorize dictionaries into bilingual or monolingual and mine those into dedicated handlebars
- You can choose a specific frequency dictionary to sort entries by now
- In the dictionary tab, the entire search text is now shown so you can quickly look up a different part of e.g. a sentence
- Long pressing the speaker icon now enables you to choose the audio source
- Handlebars can also work in the tags field now
General:
- Added a gallery overview to quickly scroll through the images of a book
- Chapters, highlights and gallery are now grouped into a new "Contents" option to reduce clutter
- Added book search to find text in a book
- Added the option to show separate chapter progress
- Fixed the chapter overview for some books and fixed related chapter finish time calculation
- Furigana can now be set to toggle and dimmed in addition to hide option
- Book covers in the library can be blurred or hidden entirely now
- Highlights now keep their furigana
- Newly imported dictionaries can now be up to 50% smaller
- Fixed an issue where text couldn't be selected in some cases
- Fixed several crashes and issues, and improved general performance and stability