Nihongo Ride

Type your way across Japan

Free

Nihongo Ride is a calm, focused typing-practice app that actually teaches you Japanese. Most typing games test speed. Nihongo Ride teaches — kana, vocabulary, and real sentences — while you ride your way across Japan, from Tokyo to Kyoto. Type the correct reading and you move forward. Miss a word and it comes back later, exactly when you need it. WHY IT'S DIFFERENT • A built-in mini-IME. Type romaji on your normal keyboard — no system IME, no setup. It accepts every valid spelling (shi or si, tsu or tu, n or nn) and matches your keystrokes to kana in real time. • Learn, don't just race. Every word shows its kana, an optional romaji hint, and its meaning in English and Chinese. • Smart review. Words you mistype flow into a spaced-repetition queue (SM-2), so your practice targets your real weak spots. THREE WAYS TO RIDE • Journey — an immersive ride across Japan; type to keep moving and unlock famous stops. • Time Attack — 60 seconds, as many words as you can. • Practice — a quiet, distraction-free mode for word drills or long passages, with an optional BLIND challenge that hides all romaji hints. CONTENT • 7,000+ words across JLPT N5 to N1, with English and Chinese meanings. • Example sentences and 183 reading passages — from everyday greetings to short literary paragraphs. • Katakana loanwords supported, with foreign-sound digraphs. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Fully offline. No account, no network, no tracking, no ads. • Your progress stays on your Mac. Whether you're starting N5 or polishing N1, Nihongo Ride turns daily typing into real Japanese progress. Hop on and ride.

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• NEW: iPhone support — the whole ride, redesigned for portrait. Everything fits neatly above the on-screen keyboard. • NEW: Ride Log — your typing travel diary. Daily streak, lifetime words and kilometres, a WPM trend drawn as the road you've ridden, upcoming reviews, and your last ten runs. • 720 new example sentences across N3–N1, and 50 new literary practice passages (now 233). • The menu and results screens no longer pop up the keyboard — it appears only where you type.

Version 1.1

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    Information

    Seller
    • Yuhe Ye
    Size
    • 6.8 MB
    Category
    • Education
    Compatibility
    Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
    • iPhone
      Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
    • iPad
      Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
    • Apple Vision
      Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
    Languages
    • English
    Age Rating
    4+
    Copyright
    • © 2026 Yuhe Ye
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