Manabi Reader receives full-time attention and devotion from its developer, Alex (hi 👋). Updates contain a balance of quality improvements plus new features. To provide visibility into both the day-to-day work as well as longer-term vision, this roadmap outlines my work: in progress, next up, and scheduled for later in the year.

Your feedback is essential for aligning the roadmap with your needs. If you run into issues or you have feature requests, please reach out directly! The best way to file bug reports or give any kind of product feedback is via the Manabi Discord server. I’m continuously reevaluating plans based on input from Manabi users in addition to my own research.

🐇 Short term

Summary: I’ve been busy on a big quality-focused update. It fixes many issues, improves performance across the app, and ambitiously redesigns the entire navigation along with an iOS 26 UI refresh. It’s taken me longer than I’d like to finish this update because it reworks many foundational elements. I will return to more incremental and frequent releases after this update is complete.

☑️ Recently released

• ✅ Pitch accents in Manabi Reader dictionary
• ✅ Pitch accents for Anki flashcards
• ✅ Example sentences for Anki flashcards

👨‍💻 In progress

• 🔄 iOS 26 / macOS 26 redesigns with faster and easier navigation UI
• 🔄 Anki flashcard field mapping redesign
• 🔄 Various bug fixes: incorrect or missing word lookups, iCloud sync, etc.
• 🔄 Faster performance

👀 Up next

• 🔜️ Manga reader via Mokuro integration
• 🔜️ Monolingual and bilingual Yomitan dictionaries
• 🔜️ Anki import & export
• 🔜️ WaniKani import & export
• 🔜️ JPDB import & export
• 🔜️ Flashcard audio

🐢 Later on

🗓️ 2026

• ⏩️ Streaming video and file player with auto-captions
• ⏩️ Podcasts and audiobooks
• ⏩️ Text-to-speech
• ⏩ Grammar database
• ⏩ Kanji resources
• ⏩ Kanji learning progress grid
• ⏩ Game emulators
• ⏩ HDMI input on iPad for games and media
• ⏩ PDF viewer
• ⏩ Beginner-friendly features for learning from zero
• ⏩ Online and downloadable textbook integrations
• ⏩ More native and target languages

🗓️ To be decided…

• ⏩ FSRS
• ⏩ Social reading lists, reading groups, leaderboards
• ⏩ Manabi TV and WatchJapanese.com: companion app and website with 24/7 channels of video and audio content
• ⏩ Manabi Chat: optional companion app for listening and speaking progress with prerecorded and AI-augmented travel content. Uses the grammar and textbook database features to provide validated citations
• ⏩ Android

What do you want?

Got a suggestion? Need something sooner than later? Want to influence what I build next?

I’m always taking your ideas and feedback into account as I reevaluate this roadmap. My plans are in constant flux as I build and learn.

Let me know on Discord!

I often see and respond to your messages immediately. If I’m away from the keyboard, I’ll usually get back to you within the next day. –Alex