Read & listen to native Japanese and Chinese, tap any word
Toku turns native Japanese and Chinese — articles, novels, podcasts, and YouTube videos — into something you can actually read. Tap any word for its reading, meaning, and dictionary, without leaving the page. On audio and video you get a synced, word-tappable transcript: tap to learn, slow it down, replay a line, or pause after each sentence to shadow it back. It runs its own JP/CN engine on-device with offline dictionaries — fast, private, no accounts, no streaks. Just reading.
Hi Product Hunt 👋 I'm Darren, the maker of Toku.
I built it because reading native Japanese and Chinese — a news article, a novel, a podcast — meant constantly stopping to look words up, and that kills the flow. So Toku does the looking-up for you: tap any word and its reading, meaning, and dictionary entry appear right there.
It works on text you paste, web pages, and the part I'm most excited about — real podcasts and YouTube videos. You get a synced, word-tappable transcript: tap a word to learn it, slow the audio down, replay a line, or pause after each sentence to repeat it out loud (shadowing).
Under the hood it runs its own Japanese & Chinese engine on-device with offline dictionaries — fast, private, works on a plane. No accounts, no streaks nagging you. Just reading.
I'd genuinely love your feedback — what's confusing, what's missing, what you'd want next. Thank you for taking a look 🙏
About Toku Reader on Product Hunt
“Read & listen to native Japanese and Chinese, tap any word”
Toku Reader launched on Product Hunt on July 5th, 2026 and earned 80 upvotes and 9 comments, placing #8 on the daily leaderboard. Toku turns native Japanese and Chinese — articles, novels, podcasts, and YouTube videos — into something you can actually read. Tap any word for its reading, meaning, and dictionary, without leaving the page. On audio and video you get a synced, word-tappable transcript: tap to learn, slow it down, replay a line, or pause after each sentence to shadow it back. It runs its own JP/CN engine on-device with offline dictionaries — fast, private, no accounts, no streaks. Just reading.
On the analytics side, Toku Reader competes within Education, Languages and Online Learning — topics that collectively have 96.7k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Toku Reader performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Toku Reader?
Toku Reader was hunted by Darren Nah. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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