Kana - Hiragana and Katakana 4+

Learn Japanese • quiz & draw

Romain Pellen

Designed for iPad

    • 4.8 • 9.9K Ratings
    • Free

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Description

The best app to learn Japanese Hiragana and Katakana. Practice drawing, reading, writing and speaking, then consult your statistics.

Learning Japanese language?
"Kana" will make you memorize, read and write the 2 Japanese alphabets: Hiragana & Katakana, and even track your progress! 
The most popular Kana app on the AppStore.

Features:
• Kana tables (customizable)
• Drawing practice
• Quiz (multiple choice, keyboard and handwriting recognition)
• Progress tracking and statistics
• Lists
• Optional study reminders
• Study mode
• NO ad / NO in-app purchase!

Bonus: configure the quizzes to your preferences and desired scope, consult your training history, progress or individual kana statistics and rankings.

Learn Japanese with ease once you master all the hiragana and katakana.
Kana is simple yet powerful, people love it and you will too.

Give it a try, and let me know what additional feature you want to see. I am continuously improving the app.

What’s New

Version 2.13

Merry Xmas!
Learn Japanese more conveniently with Kana v2.13, here's what's new:

Quizzes (iOS 17 or later)

- Updated and improved user interface (UI)
- New options to sort and filter questions
- Introducing a speed answering chart for better insights
- View related flashcards for deeper understanding
- Redo quizzes with the same scope and settings (hence questions may vary)
- Interrupting a quiz before the end and selecting the saving option will now show the quiz results screen

Flashcards (iOS 17 or later)

- Modernized and improved UI
- Added statistics for better tracking
- New quiz history with a speed matrix chart to view answer times by date

Additional Improvements

- The default app icon adapts to Light, Dark, and Tinted system themes (iOS 18 or later)
- Kana now respects your system text size preferences across more screens, whether you prefer small and compact or large and accessible text
- General UI refinements and performance improvements

If Kana is helping you learn Japanese, we’d love your review!
Enjoy learning!

Ratings and Reviews

4.8 out of 5
9.9K Ratings

9.9K Ratings

Ayamachi tsumi ,

I love it, perfect through

This is probably the best app that I have found so far that allows me to both write, type, and choose out of multichoice questions. I really appreciate the statistics, and the different colors on the charts to tell me what I need to work on. I have been learning easily and will continue using this app. One thing that I wish would be added is the app putting together a quiz/test feom all of our weaknesses so that we can learn from that instead of flashcards, but you can create your own quiz by hand. I’m just lazy, y’all. I like cutting the extra that isn’t needed. Don’t let this filter your lenses. I have no idea what I would do without this app, I used to use duolingo but--no offense to the creator to that app, duolingo is a great app too--- i had ads every second. I could never focus. I might have to put tape over my mouth because I keep mentioning this, but this app allows me to study seamlessly. I can even create my own quizzes. And with the drawing tool, if the app can’t detect if it’s right, it gives you the model and asks you! There’s no confusion. The creator must be a mind reader because this app is completely free! Unbelievable! And the creator has an app for kanji! Just amazing. I wonder why this isn’t viral, because I love it. That’s saying something because I’m extrememly picky.

hudveiviser ,

Great Japanese Language Learning App

The Kana - Hirgana and Katakana app is an incredibly helpful tool for anyone learning hiragana and katakana, offering an engaging and effective way to master the basics of Japanese writing. Its intuitive interface makes it easy to dive into learning, and the use of interactive quizzes and spaced repetition ensures that the characters stick in your memory. The app does an excellent job of breaking down the learning process into manageable steps, keeping it approachable even for complete beginners. The design is clean and distraction-free, allowing you to focus entirely on your progress without feeling overwhelmed.

One of the best features is the ability to track your progress as you move through the lessons. It’s incredibly satisfying to see how far you’ve come, and this feature motivates you to keep going. The app provides clear indicators of which characters you’ve mastered and which ones need more practice.

cilantro1988 ,

Great App - Few Adjustments Needed

The app is really great. However when doing custom quizzes it would be nice if the multiple choice options were only limited to the hiraganas you selected. If you’re trying to learn the vowels for example, it makes it really easy to know what to select if only one of the options is a vowel. That makes it so I need to cover the screen with one hand to actively practice instead of actually using the multiple choice functionality. Another thing I noticed is that regardless of setting 70 questions on a quiz the number of questions on the quiz is limited to the hiraganas you selected. If I’m practicing the first three rows for example, it would be nice if it could just keep cycling through the selected hiraganas for the quiz 70 times instead of having to reset the quiz every time after 15 questions. One last thing, it would be awesome if you could also have a quiz that combines both multiple choice and romaji inputs and not only applies multiple choice when you got it wrong previously.

App Privacy

The developer, Romain Pellen, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Not Linked to You

The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

  • Location
  • Contact Info
  • Identifiers
  • Usage Data
  • Diagnostics

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

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