I've been using the NHK Easy Japanese News app daily for a while now, and apart from crashing periodically it works great. However, recently I've been wanting to read the unsimplified versions of the same articles, and unfortunately the app doesn't include the links.

The web version provides a link to the original article, but on mobile I don't see any way to access the pop-up word definitions on the Easy News articles.

Other apps are made for reading the normal news, but it's surprisingly difficult to find the corresponding articles from the Easy News without a link, since they are often from different days (also the titles are different, and I'm not fast enough at kanji recognition to skim quickly).

Is there an app that people use that is good for both viewing NHK Easy News articles and their original articles?
Actually even one for viewing Easy News that provides web links to the originals would be fine, as the only thing I need the app for is the pop-up definitions.

NHK Easy Japanese News is a great resource. I did not know about the app. It looks like it is Android only.

Maybe you should contact the app developers and request this feature?

I've done so

I was in a kind of frustrated mood when I wrote the OP, so it's making a bit of a mountain out of a molehill.  After thinking about it a bit, my workflow is now:

1. Read an article in the app.
   
2. Find the same article on the NHK Easy News website (not hard if it's from the same day).
   
3. Follow the link to the original article and read that.
   

It would be nice to remove the middle step, but it's not so bad.

[Zgarbas]

Did NHK Easy change its format? I found it quite useful to just go to the site directly, open up a tab/article (and another one with the original article), and just take the time to read all 10 tabs, closing each one as I finish. It was a good system, and there is a certain odd sense of satisfaction in seeing the tabs slowly decrease one by one =)

If I was studying on desktop, that would totally work. On Android/Chrome, however, I can't see any of the pop-up definitions or furigana on NHK Easy.

You can use this app on your Android device: a Japanese Popup dictionary. Check it out on Google Play
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I don't use Chrome as my main browser for my phone (Dolphin is what I use).

Here are screenshots of my phone using the popup dict app in Dolphin browser using this article.

How the app works is by copying the selected text (you can change the visual settings of your popup)


Then a popup will show up.


Even works outside of a browser. This is the same article I clipped into Onenote from my desktop which I can view in my Android app.


Maybe what you can do is copy both the easy article and original/hard article into one source, e.g. One note, Evernote, etc. and just read off of there. This is actually what I plan to do now and your thread gave me the idea hope this helps.