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  • Is Fushi free?
  • Which platforms are supported?
  • How is Fushi different from asbplayer, Language Reactor, Migaku, Yomitan and Anki? Can I use them together?
  • Is it only for Japanese?
  • Glossary: what do the words in these articles mean?
  • What is the recommended pack? Do I have to install it?
  • How do I install Fushi on Windows? Installer or portable version?
  • How do I install Fushi on Android? arm64 APK or universal?
  • How do I install Fushi on macOS? Does it run on Intel Macs?
  • How do I install Fushi on iOS? Why is there no Discover or online sources on iPhone?
  • Does Fushi run on Linux? Is there a Linux package?
  • Stable vs. debug builds: which one gets the newest features?
  • I closed the onboarding wizard halfway. How do I reopen it?
  • How do I import dictionaries (Yomitan / MDX)? Which kinds do I need for Japanese?
  • How do I connect my phone and PC with Fushi interconnect?
  • What is the Fushi server (fushi_server), and how do I deploy it on a NAS or Linux server?
  • Does Fushi support keyboard shortcuts and gamepads? What are the default keys?
  • What is Anki? Which one do I install? What does a card look like and how do I review?
  • Can I review without Anki? What is Fushi review?
  • How do I connect Anki?
  • It's installed — how do I mine cards while watching anime?
  • How do I use Anki? FSRS, the four buttons, and audio on the front
  • What is the Lapis card template? What goes into each field when Fushi mines a card, and how do I change it?
  • How do audiobooks, books and subtitles fit together? How do I use audiobooks?
  • How do I read EPUB light novels in Fushi, look up words with a tap and mine cards?
  • Paginated, scroll or visual novel (VN): what's the difference between Fushi's reading modes, and which should I use?
  • How do I set vertical / horizontal text, fonts, font size, line spacing and furigana in Fushi's reader?
  • How do I read web novels online in Fushi with LNReader plugins, and download them as EPUB to my bookshelf?
  • Which book formats can Fushi import? How do I get EPUB, PDF and TXT into my bookshelf?
  • How do I read manga online and OCR the text for mining?
  • How do I import local manga (CBZ / ZIP / PDF / image folders) into Fushi and look up words and mine cards?
  • What is mokuro, and how does Fushi read manga in the .mokuro format?
  • Fushi's manga OCR gets text wrong or misses it — what can I do? How do vertical/horizontal text, models and engines work?
  • How do I stream anime through a video source?
  • I can't follow yet — how do I use a secondary (bilingual) subtitle, and when do I turn it off?
  • How do I play anime from a Jellyfin / Emby / Plex server in Fushi?
  • My anime / video has no Japanese subtitles — can speech recognition generate them?
  • How do I find Japanese subtitles for anime? Can Fushi search and download subtitles?
  • What is scraping, and how does Fushi's scraping work?
  • Can I look up words in image subtitles like Blu-ray PGS or DVD VobSub?
  • What are the most efficient controls and shortcuts for learning Japanese with videos in Fushi?
  • Can I learn Japanese from YouTube with Fushi? Can I look up words in online videos?
  • How do I hook a galgame into Fushi?
  • Can I play the galgames on my PC from a phone or iPad, and look up words and mine cards while I play?
  • Which engines does Fushi's galgame text hook support? How does it work, and how does the lookup card appear on the game screen?
  • Stream anime or download it? Which of the two should I pick?
  • What is AI download? Do I need my own AI?
  • What is BitTorrent, and how is it wired into Fushi?
  • Can't find an anime or manga? Search in romaji or Japanese
  • What are Mihon / Aniyomi extensions? How do I add repositories and install sources?
  • How do I look words up in the browser? What is Shift lookup?
  • How does Fushi's lookup popup work? Tap to look up, hover lookup, lookups inside the popup, mining with the plus
  • How does Fushi show Japanese pitch accent? Which dictionary do I need?
  • What is a frequency dictionary, and how does it tell me whether a word is worth learning?
  • How do I install word audio in Fushi? How do I hear it in lookups and put it on Anki cards?
  • Can I look words up in any app on my computer? Fushi's global lookup, floating ball and clipboard lookup
  • External, embedded, burned-in subtitles: which ones can Fushi look up?
  • SRT, ASS, VTT — what's the difference between subtitle formats?
  • MKV, MP4, H.264, HEVC, 1080p… what do these video terms mean?
  • Raw, subbed, BDRip, WEB-DL… how do I read an anime release name?
  • Subtitles don't line up with the picture (early or late) — what do I do?
  • What are Jellyfin, Emby and Plex, and how do they relate to Fushi?
  • Where is my data stored? Is anything uploaded?
  • How do I back up Fushi? How do I move to a new phone or computer?
  • The download is slow or won't open — what now?
  • Found a bug or have a suggestion — where do I report it?
  • What is sentence mining? Why should Anki cards include the original sentence, picture and audio?
  • Can you learn Japanese from anime? How do I start from zero?
  • Japanese subtitles, native-language subtitles, dual subtitles, or none when learning from anime?
  • How many new Anki cards a day? How long should I review? What do I do about a backlog?
  • What is comprehensible input (i+1)? How do I pick anime and books at the right difficulty?
  • How do Fushi's study statistics work? How are reading time, characters read, lookups and cards counted?

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The download is slow or won't open — what now?

Updated September 19, 2026

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