Japan runs on websites, forms and fees that assume you read Japanese and already know how things work. We build browser extensions and web apps that close that gap for English speakers who live in, move to or travel around Japan.
Tools that sit on the Japanese sites you already use and explain them in place, without asking you to switch to something new.
Focused apps for the jobs that are hardest to do from outside the language: comparing, deciding, booking.
The context behind the forms and fees, written for people who weren't raised with it, alongside the tools that use it.
Japanese rental listings, in plain English.
Smoovin reads rental listings on SUUMO, LIFULL HOME'S, at home and GaijinPot Apartments and lays them out in English on one comparable basis: rent and fees, the commute to a major hub, and what's nearby.
Visit smoovin.appAnother everyday task in Japan, made clear.
We're working on our next tool for one of the places where English speakers in Japan get stuck. More when it's ready.
Tell us about the site, form or process that slowed you down. It's how we choose what to build next.
hello@ojamaapps.com