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Hirakata | Japanese Widget
Learn hiragana & katakana fast
$2.99 · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Boost your Hiragana and Katakana!
- Custom Home Screen widgets: decorate your Home Screen while learning to recognize Japanese kanas.
- Daily quiz with streak: sharpen your Hiragana and Katakana reading with the daily quiz, and build the habit by maintaining a streak.
- Learn by drawing: follow the stroke order for each kana to memorize the proper way to write Hiragana and Katakana.
- Word Search game: master reading and identifying Hiragana and Katakana at lightning speed, and learn new vocabulary too.
Add custom widgets to your Home Screen
- Choose from Hiragana and Katakana, or show all characters.
- Craft your widget with your favorite font style, color theme, and background color.
Discover Hiragana and Katakana with the Library
- See and compare all Hiragana and Katakana in one place.
- Watch your learning progress as the characters that you've learned with the quiz turn different colors.
- Tap each character to hear it.
Test yourself with the daily quiz
- Learn by drawing characters following the correct stroke order.
- Put your knowledge to the test with a quick but effective daily quiz.
- Keep a streak alive by taking the quiz every day.
- See which kanas you got wrong, and practice those again until they stick.
Bonus Word Search game
- Unlock the Word Search game by taking the quiz for 5 days.
- Learn new vocabulary with kana, romaji, and translation.
- Train your Japanese reading skills to identify characters faster than ever before.
- Have fun playing while you learn Japanese every day.
Try Hirakata today
- If you're new to Japanese, the library and widgets will help you learn all the characters in no time.
- If you already know hiragana and katakana, use the widgets to remember them regularly, and check the charts whenever you forget one.
- Test your learning and stay sharp with daily exercises and personalized review sessions.
Explore the different syllabaries:
- Basic Hiragana and Katakana (Gojūon)
- Hiragana and Katakana with Diacritics (Dakuten and Handakuten)
- Hiragana and Katakana Digraphs (Yōon)
- Hiragana and Katakana Digraphs with Diacritics (Yōon + Dakuten and Handakuten)
Great new features coming soon, stay tuned!
Now you can practice handwriting for Dakuten and Handakuten.
The developer, Cecile Lebleu, 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 Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
The developer indicated that this app supports the following accessibility features. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Cecile Lebleu
- Size
- 74.8 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 9 more
- English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2023 Cécile Lebleu
