NHK Easy Japanese News - Simple, Fast and Useful

Excellent App! Different speeds of reading, annotations of pronunciation, explanation of words make this App simply the best!

Thanks for recently bug fixed.

It helps me improve my japanese

Great for practicing japanese, I especially love the audio and new words feature.

its a nice apps, i wish have a apps like tis with japanese story too

Superb. Great reading practice tool!

Very useful app to practice Japanese!

Great

This app helps me in my Japanese learning. It's short and pretty simple.

役に立ちまして、使いやすいし、便利なアプリです。

Very good! Is useful for peoples that know a intermediate japanese language.

More helpful if there is a full English translation of each article.

Works ok now

Awesome. ステキ。

Great

Given that this a free app, the amount of content and features is fantastic with lots of behind the scene data connections giving good depth of use. It would be nice if a little more work went into the visuals as it can be a bit cluttered and lacking flow, however that is how a lot of Japanese websites look so count it as part of immersion.

Play Next feature only plays the consequent next story only. After the nexts story it stops playing further. Also some state change issue is there e.g. the pause button after playing a audio track does not change to play icon after track completes. Kindly look into these 2 issues.

App is lightweight and fast. Gives access to all stories for free. Audio quality is great.

Great way to practice reading. Displays hiragana. Dictionary included.

Great for learning japanese

Very useful

Very useful

I like the app but it's certainly not the best out there. I like the layout, the ability to toggle furigana and favourite/download articles. However, as other nhk easy news apps are able to do many of the same things and more, I do not think this app is worth subscribing to. Especially as the paid features are offered by other apps for free. My biggest problem with this app is the 'offline' feature. It's really tedious that you must download articles one by one in advance. Also it doesn't make a lot of sense to me; In order to read an article the content must be downloaded to your phone, right? In which case, that must mean this app is constantly deleting all downloaded content until instructed otherwise. I'd give it 5 stars and perhaps even consider subscribing if you fixed the 'offline' mode and added some of the cool features I've seen like: - an option to turn off furigana for individual words (which is great for learning) - an offline dictionary for all vocabulary (without navigating away from the article/app) - a dark theme (dark background, light text) for night-time reading.

Bought the previous version and glad to be back in normal working condition. Hope it wont happen again, so many ways to improve which i posted few months ago. Not much change from that.

Great for beginers like me. I have been taking japanese at local community college, I have been to Japan before school and also tried self teaching methods. This is so helpful for learning and or keeping up with your skills. No issues so far, I have not paid for anything yet.

Would be better if it waited for me to use it before asking for a rating

Utterly ludicrous. First you try to move to a subscription model, charging monthly for what is a text reading app with completely free equivalents, and upsetting all your regular users who had already paid. Now you've introduced pointless and frequent "use our app" notifications that can't even be disabled? You had a nice app here, why are you ruining it? edit - I don't want a notification every day to tell me to look at an app. It should at least be possible to disable it.

great but I'd like tooltips for words in the app. five star if it had this.

Nice app, but slow. UI could be better

Great for practicing reading Japanese.

I paid for this app as I take the subway to work, I had an issue with the latest subscription model as I had already paid. The developers were responsive and resolved the issue within a day of reporting. Overall this is a wonderful application

Useful app

I find this a handy, simple app for reading the NHK easy news on mobile. I like the easy toggle on/off furigana at the top of page, ability to adjust text size, links to dictionary, and word list at the end. A problem I've had is not being able to go directly back to the article from the dictionary view. Always seems to get stuck on 'loading content" when I try to return. I end up having to go back out to the main list of stories then select the article again, which isn't ideal. Also, it would be great to have a link from the article to go to the 'normal' version on the NHK site (or in the other NHK app). I like to go and try to read that as well after the easy version. Thank you!

すごい. Really fantastic app for improving Japanese language. Thanks for the team for developing such good app and updating contents as well. In recent update, I started facing problem in loading content when navigating to dictionary and click on back button. Please fix this issue

I have previously paid for this app - twice (I had to factory reset my phone and for some reason, it wanted me to pay again - instead of contacting support I just paid for it a second time, because I liked the app and wanted to support the developers). Now I'm forced to choose between seeing ads and paying a subscription. This is disrespectful to the loyal customers who have already supported you. Please take off the ads for customers who have purchased the unblocker.

Its a great app and love using it but when if you tap on a word to check english meaning you can't return to the story. You go back to the home screen

It's error on zenfone 5, please fix it

Enjoyable and useful for both language study and current events...

Great!

Screwing over existing customers is not okay. This is a very basic app that is not worth a subscription. There are other apps for reading NHK that are free.