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Everything on this page ships in the app. No account, no internet needed, no premium sensei. The screens below are drawn from the real ones.

01 · Reading 読む

Read a story. Tap what you don't know.

  • Short stories at your level. Easy is five lines, Hard is eight, each one built around a handful of kanji. N5 now, with N4, N3 and N2 coming soon.
  • Tap any word for its reading and a plain English explanation. Tap the あ and the readings sit above every kanji.
  • Read to me reads the story aloud in a recorded voice. Too fast? Slow it to 0.75× or 0.5×.
  • Show the English for the whole line when you are stuck, hide it when you are not.
  • Then a quiz. Three questions on what you just read, in Japanese, with English underneath if you want it.

02 · Games 遊ぶ

A game, for the days you don't feel like studying.

  • Card Matching. Drag each card onto its category. Three strikes and you're out.
  • One board against the clock. Clear it and the next round deals a fresh hand. Best score and fastest time are kept per level.
  • Its own difficulty dial, N5 to N1, separate from your study level. The games bring their own words, so every rung is open.
  • A strike teaches. A wrong drop shows the word, its reading and where it belonged. Every word has a recorded voice.

03 · Daily cards 毎日

Ten cards a day. Or five. Or thirty.

  • Plan your week. Seven days of cards that belong together: one theme a day, the words you will meet most first.
  • Pick the size. Anywhere from 5 to 30 cards a day. Ten is the default.
  • Every card carries the word, its reading, the meaning, an example sentence with furigana, and a recorded voice.
  • Knew it? Swipe. Didn't? It goes in the bin, and Sensei keeps bringing it back until you do.

04 · Kanji 漢字

See it written. Then write it.

  • Any kanji on a card opens its stroke order, drawn one stroke at a time from the standard KanjiVG data, so you learn the order and the direction, not just the shape.
  • Try writing it. Trace the strokes first, then do it from memory.
  • Every stroke is checked as you draw it: where it starts, which way it goes, whether the shape is close. Start at the dot.
  • Hiragana and katakana too, with a recorded voice for every sound.

All of it, free.

iPhone now. Android is next.

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Stroke data from KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.