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Makoto+ Lifetime Membership
Pay once. Get the magazine, the platform, the app, and everything we build next — forever.
$399 once. The magazine alone makes the math work in under 3.5 years.
A new issue of Makoto magazine is $9.99 on Amazon — that's $119.88/year if you're buying every issue. Lifetime breaks even on the magazine alone in under three and a half years. After that, every future issue is free, for life.
And the magazine is just one piece of what's included.
What you get, in plain English
Every Makoto magazine issue, forever.
Every new issue downloaded to your devices the day it drops — PDF, ePub, Anki decks, sound files, and full Sentence Explorer integration. Plus the web version of every back issue, searchable on any device. You can read every single issue we've published online and download every new issue from now on.
The full Makoto+ platform.
Weekly sentence breakdowns, grammar deep-dives, bonus lessons, Frank story episodes, podcast extras, and the Makoto+ Chatbot for live Japanese practice. Several new pieces of content posted every week.
Every course — current and future.
Every course on Makoto+ is included, plus every course we add going forward. We're working on more.
The mobile app.
Makoto Japanese Explorer for iPhone, iPad, and Android. Sentence Explorer, Word Bank, your reading progress synced across devices. Lifetime members get unlimited access — and we're adding new content regularly. The magazine is coming to the app next.
A 20% reusable discount at TheJapanShop.com.
Reusable. Forever. If you buy from us regularly, this alone tends to pay for itself within a year or two.
Monthly freebies.
A new download every month — graded readers, vocabulary sheets, cultural deep-dives, printable PDFs, Anki decks, sound files. Yours to keep.
And whatever we build next.
We're not done. The Sentence Explorer integration is rolling out across more content. The app is getting features. New courses, more interactive quizzes, more ways to connect the magazine to the lessons to the books to the tools. Lifetime means you get all of it, automatically, forever.
Why we are offering this.
When we started Makoto in April 2018, a few subscribers asked for a lifetime option right away. I said no. It didn't feel right offering "lifetime" when I didn't yet know if we'd still be doing this in a year, much less ten.
Eight years and ninety-nine issues later, it feels like we can. Makoto isn't going anywhere. Yumi and I are still here, still putting each issue together by hand, and the platform around it has grown into something I'm genuinely proud of.
— Clay & Yumi
Three ways to pay
Same lifetime access either way — pick the option that fits your budget.
Common questions
What's the difference between Lifetime and Shogun?
Functionally, none. Lifetime gives you everything in our top Shogun tier — but you pay once instead of every month. You also get any new features we add forever, including future Makoto magazine issues.
What if I miss this offer?
We may bring Lifetime back during Black Friday and occasionally throughout the year, but we don't promise the price will stay the same (We will promise it will never be cheaper!). In the meantime, our regular monthly and yearly plans are always available — Makoto+ isn't going anywhere.
I'm already paying through the iPhone or Android app — what happens?
If you have a paid membership through the mobile app, you'll need to cancel that manually in the App Store or Google Play after upgrading to Lifetime. We can't cancel app-store subscriptions on your behalf — Apple and Google control those. Memberships purchased directly on the website are cancelled automatically when you upgrade.
Can I get a refund if I change my mind?
Yes — within 14 days, no questions asked. After that, the lifetime offer is final.
Is the price ever going to be lower than this?
No. It will never be cheaper than $399, but we may raise it in future. Lock it in now and you're locked in forever, regardless of what we do later.
If Makoto has been useful to you over the years — if you read it, look forward to it, learn from it — the math is the math.
This is the moment.
PAY ONCE — ENJOY MAKOTO FOREVER