

An interactive branching story where you generate the world, read in Japanese, tap for help, save words, and they return later in natural context—so they actually stick.
Every saved word returns later—inside branching scenes you helped shape—so recall becomes recognition, not guesswork.
Add new words to your vocabulary in a few taps so they start showing up more often in the stories you read.
Build your character and customize their stats so each adventure feels tailored to the kind of role-playing experience you want.
Engaging adventures use dice rolls and stat-based checks to create a complete role-playing loop instead of passive reading.
Review saved vocabulary right inside the flow and adjust whether each word should appear more or less often in future text.
Real reactions from native speakers and learners at every level.
“Incredible tool at my N4/N3 level—already subscribed to support it!”
“Feels like a visual novel but better—engaging enough to use every day!”
“Only minutes in and I love it—finally using my Japanese for something real!”
“Interactive stories help me actually use vocab—concept feels super promising!”
“Great app—the dev is incredibly responsive and ships ideas fast!”
Choose the level of writing, listening, and voice support that fits how you want to play through KotobaTales.
For text-first play.
Write your way through interactive stories with light voice narration and short voice input when you want extra support.
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For writing + listening.
Everything in Scribe, plus more voice narration and more voice input for hands-free drafting.
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For deeper immersion.
Everything in Bard, with higher limits for longer narrated sessions and frequent voice input.
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