About Ruby Hibi

Early preview — Ruby Hibi is an early preview under active development — features and details may change. If you spot a problem or have an idea, please tell us using the feedback form below.

Ruby Hibi is made by Max — alienist.org.

Ruby Hibi is a language-learning reader with spaced repetition. You read stories, click words, review them, write a little, and keep a streak. Your texts, words and keys stay in your account on this server.

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Android app

Download the Android app (0.04 MB)

Allow installing from this source when Android asks. Sign in with your Ruby Hibi account and server address; it keeps your streak, your learning words and your unfinished stories on the phone for a couple of weeks without a connection and syncs when you are back online. SHA-256: a5dcb09f747f3fe5fdd1aadf601073f94693c4c5988040877967b4ce292c236f

iPhone

There is no App Store app. Add this website to your Home Screen and it opens like an app:

Open Ruby Hibi in Safari.
Tap Share, then Add to Home Screen.
Open it from the new icon and sign in with the same account.

This is a shortcut to the website, not a separate iPhone product.

Data & software credits

Third-party data keeps its own licences; these are the attributions they require.

Open Multilingual Wordnet and Princeton WordNet (bilingual word lists for 11 languages; individual wordnets under CC BY, CC BY-SA, MIT and similar licences, see omwn.org) and, when a language pair needs one and the server downloaded it, WikDict (CC BY-SA, wikdict.com) or FreeDict (GPL, freedict.org) dictionaries.
JMdict / KANJIDIC / KRADFILE © Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, CC BY-SA 4.0 (via the jamdict-data package and the jmdict-simplified JSON release).
Word frequency (Japanese) derived from the wordfreq project data (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Chinese vocabulary, HSK levels, frequency and meanings from complete-hsk-vocabulary (MIT; meanings derived from CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0).
Chinese character decomposition from Make Me a Hanzi (dictionary data: CC BY-SA 3.0 / Unihan).
UniDic (unidic-lite, BSD) with fugashi; jieba and pypinyin (MIT); OpenCC (Apache 2.0); genanki (MIT); HTMX (BSD-2).
The bundled sample texts were written for Ruby Hibi.