# Voxel Tokyo

9 Hacker News commenters recommended Voxel Tokyo and 5 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended for listening practice and vocabulary building while riding a voxel Tokyo. Most common caveat: it is often laggy and the moving background makes text hard to read.

## Why people recommend it

- Seen as useful and promising (3 comments): "This could be a really useful tool." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48892205)) "This looks good and I like the idea" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48892536)) "I think she'll love that site" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48893545))

## What people warn about

- Laggy and heavy on CPU (2 comments): "it's been laggy on my device, it's visually distracting, and the UX doesn't seem particularly well-suited for practicing Japanese" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48895019)) "The computer fan ran at maximum and it was hard to get enough CPU to close the browser tab." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48892211))
- Audio keeps playing after closing (2 comments): "It somehow continues playing after the page is closed and after the application I'm using is closed." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48894316)) "This site caused my iPhone to start playing music and wouldn’t stop until I rebooted." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48891945))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Duolingo](https://hackerapproved.com/p/duolingo.md): 39 recommend
- [9M Mandarin tone speech model](https://hackerapproved.com/p/9m-speech-model-for-mandarin-tones.md): 14 recommend
- [Language Transfer](https://hackerapproved.com/p/language-transfer.md): 13 recommend
- [Pimsleur](https://hackerapproved.com/p/pimsleur.md): 9 recommend
- [italki](https://hackerapproved.com/p/italki.md): 8 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Voxel Tokyo", https://hackerapproved.com/p/voxel-tokyo/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).