WHAT'S INSIDE · 中身

Everything in the app, sketched from the real screens.

Everything here ships in the app today. No premium sensei, and no account to study. Download the voices once, then no internet needed. Only Discover, the short videos, wants a connection.

01 · READING 読む

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

  • Short stories at your level, N5 through N1. Easy is five lines, Hard is eight, each one built around a handful of kanji.
  • Tap a highlighted word for its reading, romaji and meaning, and hear it. Tap the あ and the readings appear 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 English puts the whole story in English under it, line for line. Hide it when you're not stuck.
  • 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, its meaning and where it belonged. Every word has a recorded voice.

03 · SPEAKING 話す

Say it out loud. The phone is listening.

  • Say It. Hear an anime line in a recorded voice, tap the mic and say it back. It's on Today, under Anytime.
  • Graded sound by sound on the phone itself. Nail it, or it's gomi.
  • Three stages of ten lines: Gomi Vol 1 and Vol 2, card-game inspired, and Gomi Vol 3, fighting inspired.
  • Pitch accent on every line and a best score for each stage. Your voice never leaves the phone.

04 · 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. Words you missed come first, then the most common ones.
  • 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 gomi bin. Plans and tests deal it back first, and every right answer knocks it down until it's gone.

05 · KANJI 漢字

See it written. Then write it.

  • Every N5 kanji and every kana has 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, or do it from memory.
  • Every stroke is checked as you draw it: where it starts, which way it goes, where it ends, whether the shape is close. In Trace, start at the dot.
  • Hiragana and katakana too, with a recorded voice for every sound.

AND THE REST · ほかにも

The smaller things that make it yours.

The Gomi tab
Every word you missed, with its miss count. Drill one, clear it, or quiz the whole bin.
A Beginner course
Can't read kana yet? Today becomes Learn Hiragana and Learn Katakana, with a kana chart.
Six levels open
Beginner, then N5 to N1. N0, Useless Anime Japanese, is still locked.
Pitch accent
Drawn over every N5 to N2 word. On by default, off in Settings.
Practice exams
Timed papers built like the real JLPT, N5 to N1, with every answer explained. Beginner gets a graduation exam.
Fixes without an update
Words, stories and exams refresh on their own, or tap Resync study content in Settings.
Build a test
Pick the word types and how many, deal in the bin first, add listening questions.
Gomi of the Day
One slang phrase a day on Today, with Sensei's notes.
Streaks and badges
A day streak, stats, and badges for the things you actually did.
Six languages
The app itself in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese and Chinese.

FREE · OFFLINE · ONLINE ONLY FOR DISCOVER

All of it, free.

iPhone and Android. Same bin.

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Stroke data from KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.