YuzuLingo vs KanjiTomo
YuzuLingo stays in the browser. You cover burned-in subtitles on the video you are already watching, including YouTube, Bilibili, and other web players. There is no desktop app to download. Turn on Interact to read the burned-in line on your device, with furigana or pinyin when the language has them. Show that text always, on hover, or while you hold a hotkey.
KanjiTomo is a Windows program you download from MediaFire and run with Java. Other operating systems are not supported. You point the mouse at Japanese characters in any image on screen, from a file, a program, or a web page, and it looks them up in a dictionary at the same time. Horizontal and vertical text both work, and it can save those words to a list. The latest release is 1.0.4 from August 2020. The OCR code is sakarika’s library kanjitomo-ocr. It does not cover a subtitle line.
Where each one fits
| Feature | YuzuLingo | KanjiTomo |
|---|---|---|
| Install in the browser, no desktop app to download | ||
| Cover burned-in subs on YouTube, Bilibili, and other web players | ||
| Read that line while the video plays, on your device | ||
| Furigana or pinyin on that line | ||
| Show that text always, on hover, or while you hold a hotkey | ||
| English and Spanish hardsubs | ||
| Japanese and Chinese | ||
| Korean | ||
| Point at characters on any image on screen | ||
| Horizontal and vertical text | ||
| Look up characters in a dictionary | ||
| Save those words to a list and export them | ||
| Add the line to an Anki deck |