About

Who we are, why we build, and what we ship.

Mission

Build products that maximize how efficiently you work and learn, grounded in scientific evidence.

mibuki is not a personal label. It is a brand built around that one sentence. The lineup will grow; the standard will not. Whatever the domain, we only implement methods whose evidence we have checked.


Why we build

A day is 24 hours, and nobody gets more.

If the problem is “I want to, but I have no time,” the only move left is to raise the result you get per hour. So we do not invest in ways to try harder. We invest in the science of efficiency.

What we adopt and what we refuse is decided by three principles: choose by effect size, remove friction, and measure it, then publish it. Those criteria, and the list of things we will not do, are written out on Approach.

Read our approach →

Who builds it

mibuki was started by one person. Here is who is accountable for it.

Ibuki Matsubara

Founder / mibuki

Founder of mibuki. Plans, designs and builds the products, and is accountable for the principles — and the refusals — written on this site.

GitHub →

History

When each thing started.

WhenWhat
December 2024Work begins on LangDict. This is where mibuki starts.
March 2025mibuki.dev goes up. Work begins on kikeruka.
October 2025Work begins on Lofi Station.
May 2026Work begins on Atom.

Each date is the month of the first commit in that product's own repository — taken from the history, not from memory.


Products

Four products today, all built to the same standard.

LangDict

Hyper-efficient language learning, powered by AI.

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Lofi Station

Into deep flow.

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Atom.

Tiny habits, big results. A habit app designed from behavioural research.

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kikeruka

Accelerate your reading backlog.

Learn more →

Contact

Questions and bug reports go through the form on our support page.

Go to support

Last updated: July 2026