A free Migaku alternative for reading (2026)

Migaku is a paid language product. Its pricing page lists a browser extension, iOS and Android apps, and Migaku Memory for the web. There is no ongoing free plan. People looking for a Migaku alternative for reading usually want to look words up in a text they already have, without paying before the first page.

Free plans compared

Checked on migaku.com/pricing on 9 November 2026. Standard is $10 a month or $96 a year. Early Access is $15 a month. Lifetime is listed at $499 and was shown at $290, marked 42% off. The page offers a 10-day money-back guarantee. These are USD amounts. The page can show a different figure by country.

taihaa, if the job is reading

• Free, no card. No cap on saved words or text imports (paste, file, or URL).
• YouTube link with subtitles, 3 new video lessons a week free. Paste a transcript if the video has no subtitles.
• Mandarin and Cantonese: Split (Fix word split) on the free plan.
• Pinyin for Mandarin, Jyutping for Cantonese, romanization for Korean, furigana and romaji for Japanese.
• Nine languages, listed on Languages: Cantonese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Portuguese (Brazil), and Spanish.
• New AI word translations when the dictionary has no entry: 8 a day free.

Where they differ

• Migaku’s pricing page lists Japanese, Mandarin, Korean, Spanish, Cantonese, English, German, Portuguese, Vietnamese, Italian, and French. taihaa does not offer English or Vietnamese.
• Migaku’s pricing page sells a browser extension and phone apps. taihaa is a reader for texts you import, plus a levelled library and a News tab.
• Migaku has no free plan. taihaa’s reading loop, saved words, and text imports stay on the free plan.

Other reading tools

• LingQ: free plan allows 20 saved words and 5 imported lessons, as of October 2026. Premium is listed at $14.99 a month.
• Readlang: free plan allows 200 highlighted words and 10 phrase translations a day. Premium is $6 a month or $48 a year.
• LanguageCrush: free plan for lookups and uploads. Supporter is $6.99 a month or $60 a year, as of November 2026.
• Japanese reading with furigana is on the free Japanese reading app. A longer price table of reading apps is on best apps for learning by reading.

How to choose

1. Put one page you already care about into the app. A tour is not the test.
2. Save more than a handful of words and see whether the free plan stops you.
3. For what Migaku’s browser extension covers on other sites, use Migaku’s own product pages. The reading test here is one text you already have.
4. If the job is a text, a PDF, or a YouTube link with subtitles, try taihaa on that one item.