Kanji lookup for Android 書き込み
Draw any kanji. Keep reading.
Kakikomi floats a small seal over whatever you are reading. Tap it, draw the character you are stuck on, and its readings, meaning and example words appear — your book stays open right behind it.
Free. Android 12 and newer. Made for tablets, works on phones.
You can't type what you can't read.
An unfamiliar kanji has no reading you know — and without the reading, no keyboard will produce it. So you draw it instead, right where you met it.
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Tap the seal
It floats over your e-reader, PDF, browser or chat. Move it wherever it is out of the way.
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Draw the character
With a finger or a stylus. Candidates appear while you write, often before the last stroke.
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Read on
Readings, meaning, example words and the verbs it appears in. Close the panel and you are exactly where you were.
Everything happens on your device.
No account, no network needed for looking things up, no waiting.
Handwriting recognition
Runs on the device and updates with every stroke. Works for single kanji and for whole words.
A complete dictionary, offline
12,633 kanji and 218,830 words from KANJIDIC2 and JMdict. On and kun readings, stroke count, school grade.
Whole sentences, too
Select text in any app and send it to Kakikomi from the selection menu. Into English or German, with furigana.
Flashcards from your reading
Save any character, word or sentence. Review with spaced repetition — swipe right if you knew it.
Anki, if you use it
Export your decks in the Kaishi 1.5k note format and drop them straight into your collection.
Hear it
Words and readings read aloud by your device's own speech engine.
It reads nothing from the app beneath it.
The bubble draws its own window and has no access to what is behind it. That is not a setting — Android simply does not give it that access.
- Your strokes never leave the device.
- Lookups and flashcards stay on the device.
- No account, no analytics, no advertising, no tracking.
- Text leaves the device only when you ask for it: online translation, or a Sensei explanation. Privacy policy
Free to read with. Pro to study with.
Everything you need while reading is free, for good. Pro is for learning in earnest.
Free
No ads, no time limit.
- The floating bubble
- Handwriting recognition
- The complete dictionary
- Sentence translation
- Up to 50 flashcards
Kakikomi Pro
A single purchase. No subscription.
- Unlimited flashcards
- Your own decks
- Anki export
Next: Sensei In the works
Most of the time it is not the word you are stuck on, but the grammar around it. Sensei will name the pattern in the sentence you are reading, explain it in three lines, and turn it into a card — so the next time you meet it, you know it.
Questions
Why does it need “Display over other apps”?
Because floating over what you read is what the app does. Android grants this only in system settings; Kakikomi explains why before sending you there, and you can stop the bubble any time from its menu or the notification.
Does it work without internet?
Yes. Handwriting recognition, the dictionary, furigana and flashcards all work offline. Translation works offline too, once the language model has been downloaded.
Which devices?
Android 12 and newer. Kakikomi was designed on a tablet with a stylus — that is where it shines — but it works on phones as well.
Is it only for kanji?
No. You can write whole words by hand, paste or select full sentences, and save all of it as flashcards.