Yomitai

Yomitai is a reading companion for people learning Japanese who are tired of looking up every other word. Its distinguishing trick is that it can read Japanese text inside images — manga panels, book pages photographed with a phone, screenshots — which ordinary popup-dictionary browser extensions cannot touch. Once text is captured, you highlight the passage you care about and the AI explains the meaning of its words in the context of that specific sentence, instead of dumping a twenty-entry dictionary list at you.\n\nBeyond definitions, Yomitai can read the text aloud with an AI voice so you can hear how a passage sounds before tackling it yourself, and it keeps an annotated record of everything you have read. Boards, notes and generated audio all stay on your device. Words you pin while reading can be exported to Anki, so study material comes straight from the media you are already enjoying.\n\nYomitai runs on a simple points model rather than a subscription: you get a free trial balance, buy point packs when you need them, and spend points on image scans and AI audio one line at a time. AI meanings are free of charge. The service is operated by Judi Systems, a small independent dev shop in Tokyo, so it is best thought of as a focused, indie-built tool rather than a large corporate language platform.