Chrome extension · 7-day free trial

Every kanji you look up
should stay with you.

Kana Lens reads Japanese straight off your screen — then keeps what you read. Save the kanji you meet, review them on your new tab, and watch your recall climb.
No card charged for 7 days·Then $5.99/mo·Cancel in one click
reader.example.jp
CAPTURED FROM THE PAGE
突然の雨で試合が中止になった。
The match was cancelled because of the sudden rain.
0 apps
No second tool to open — it lives in the tab you already have
2 ways
Kanji to meaning and meaning to kanji, shuffled
Per kanji
Times seen on pages and times recalled correctly
$5.99
Per month, or $3.99 billed yearly. 7 days free
HOW IT WORKS
Three steps, and none of them is “open another app”.
1
⌘ + Shift + K
Capture what you're reading
Drag over any Japanese on screen — an image, a video subtitle, a PDF. Kana Lens reads it and breaks the sentence into words and particles.
2
One tap
Save the ones that matter
Every word in the breakdown has a Save button, with the sentence you found it in. That context comes back later when you're reviewing.
3
New tab
Review without deciding to
Your queue is already there when you open a tab. Answer a few, and the grid updates with what you actually recall.
YOUR NEW TAB
The study room opens itself.
Kana Lens takes over the Chrome home page. Every new tab is a nudge: what's due, what's shaky, what you've mastered — colour-coded by how well you actually recall it.
Weakest first
The queue leads with the kanji you keep missing, not the ones you added last.
Colour is memory
Green is mastered, violet solid, amber shaky, grey untouched — legible at a glance.
Counts you can trust
Times seen on pages sits next to times recalled correctly, per kanji.
28 kanji in your list
6 mastered · 12 solid · 7 shaky · 3 never reviewed
Start review
18/20
15/17
9/12
13/15
10/14
16/18
7/11
21/22
8/9
5/7
6/6
3/4
19/20
9/10
5/9
3/6
10/13
8/11
14/16
6/10
11/12
4/7
5/8
new
1/2
2/3
4/5
12/14
Mastered
Solid
Shaky
New
WHICH KANJI IS THIS?
quiet; calm
REVIEW
Quizzed both ways, so you can't fake it.
Kanji to meaning tests recognition. Meaning to kanji tests recall — the harder direction, and the one that tells you whether you really know it. Kana Lens shuffles both across your whole list.
Every kanji in your list is fair game — no scheduling to babysit, no cards piling up.
Wrong answers show the reading and the sentence you captured it from.
Each session updates the recall percentage behind every tile.
Try it — the card on the left is live.
PRICING
One price. Everything unlocked.
Reading and translating are free forever. Saving, reviewing and tracking recall are Pro.
7 days free, then $47.88 per year. Cancel in one click from the extension.
FREE
PRO
Screen reading and translation
Unlimited
Unlimited
Kanji saved to your list
10
Unlimited
Review sessions
Unlimited
Per-kanji seen / recall stats
Included
Captured sentence history
Last 3
Forever
Sync across devices
Included
FAQ
Before you install
Stop looking up the same kanji twice.
Install it, read something Japanese, and save the first word you don't know.
Add to Chrome