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Tools & Resources

A compiled list of tools and resources that improve your Yomitan experience.

Media players

Media players load and play media and enable Yomitan lookups.

Asbplayer

A browser-based media player and Chrome extension that can add text-selectable and Yomitan-scannable subtitles onto video sources (e.g. Netflix, Youtube, and video files).

AnimeCards Guide for MPV

A guide for adding text-selectable subtitles and mining from the MPV video player

Readers

Readers allow reading books and text on your browser which makes the text you read Yomitan-compatible.

Ttsu Reader

A minimal e-book reader that loads HTMLZ, Plain Text and EPUB files. Supports offline mode that makes this ideal for mobile and e-readers. This is the recommendation for Japanese learners.

Koodo Reader

An ebook manager and reader with wider support of file formats. No support on mobile.

Yomitan PDF Reader

A tool to read and scan PDFs in your browser with Yomitan.

Tooling

These are not made nor maintained by Yomitan developers, and it may break Yomitan's functionalities.

Japanese Mining Note

Generate beautiful Anki notes straight from Yomitan. Although it is built for Japanese, it should work for virtually all languages.

Textractor

Allows for Yomitan features when playing visual novels, video games or more with ease. To use Yomitan with Textractor, refer to one of the community guides such as Animecards to set up.

Animecards Mining Template

Animecards Anki note type which doesn't require any editing of Yomitan templates (handlebars).

Yomichan Forvo Server

Anki Addon which allows for additional custom audio sources from Forvo.

Generate Batch Audio

Anki Addon which allows for generating audio in bulk from a list of URLs.