Voxel Tokyo
Shares rank 4 of 12 language learning apps by recommenders
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.
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.
14 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 9
- criticize it
- 5
- approval share
- 64%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 9 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 1.8 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Seen as useful and promising
“This could be a really useful tool.”
Comment from 13 Jul 2026 in “A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese” “This looks good and I like the idea”
Comment from 13 Jul 2026 in “A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese” “I think she'll love that site”
Comment from 13 Jul 2026 in “A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Laggy and heavy on CPU
“it's been laggy on my device, it's visually distracting, and the UX doesn't seem particularly well-suited for practicing Japanese”
Comment from 13 Jul 2026 in “A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese” “The computer fan ran at maximum and it was hard to get enough CPU to close the browser tab.”
Comment from 13 Jul 2026 in “A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese” Audio keeps playing after closing
“It somehow continues playing after the page is closed and after the application I'm using is closed.”
Comment from 13 Jul 2026 in “A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese” “This site caused my iPhone to start playing music and wouldn’t stop until I rebooted.”
Comment from 13 Jul 2026 in “A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese”
Other language learning apps people recommend
The four most recommended other language learning apps, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duolingo | 39 | 111 | 26% | 12 | 3 yrs4 owners | — |
| 9M Mandarin tone speech model | 14 | 5 | 74% | 1 | — | — |
| Language Transfer | 13 | 0 | 100% | 6 | — | Approved |
| Voxel TokyoThis page | 9 | 5 | 64% | 1 | — | — |
| Pimsleur | 9 | 4 | 69% | 6 | — | — |
What people said
14 of the 15 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“captures for me the simple, clean, engineered beauty of being in a Japanese city”
“the experience for attempting to record my voice during practices is atrocious”
“it just showed me floating by a large city landscape”
“voice is a bit loud and i couldn't find anything to turn it down”
“good for listening practice, but also good for adding new words/phrases into your vocabulary”
“runs pretty nicely on my 2019 mac mini”
“it's been laggy on my device, it's visually distracting, and the UX doesn't seem particularly well-suited for practicing Japanese”
“It somehow continues playing after the page is closed and after the application I'm using is closed.”
“I think she'll love that site”
“This looks good and I like the idea”
“The computer fan ran at maximum and it was hard to get enough CPU to close the browser tab.”
“This could be a really useful tool.”
“This site caused my iPhone to start playing music and wouldn’t stop until I rebooted.”
“I find it very hard to read the text against the moving background.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.