Learn Japanese! - Kanji Way
Japanese stroke order, JLPT
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Now in English, Arabic and Turkish. Trace all 1,750 characters in real
stroke order — four to a lesson, about five minutes a day.
You can read 日 on a sign and still freeze with a pen in your hand.
Recognising a character and being able to produce one are separate
skills. Almost every app trains only the first. This one trains
the second.
Each character is drawn from real stroke-order data. When the
turn comes, the app watches the whole motion: where the pen goes
down, which direction it travels, the shape, whether it finished.
Begin a line at the wrong end and it says which end was right,
because "wrong" on its own teaches nobody.
HOW A LESSON GOES
Four characters, three short rounds, about five minutes.
学 Meet them — each draws itself, beside a word it appears in
書 Write them — trace the guide, green dot to gold
読 Prove it — reading and meaning from memory, two options
Only a run with nothing missed earns 皆伝.
INSIDE
• 1,750 characters across 439 lessons, N5 through N1
• 8,131 words, so nothing is studied in isolation
• On'yomi and kun'yomi in kana, not romaji
• Spoken readings, using the Japanese voice on your device
• Every level unlocked at launch — begin where you actually are
A HABIT, NOT A COURSE
Four characters is small enough to manage on a Tuesday. The app
keeps a streak, fills a week strip readable at a glance, and sends
one reminder at an hour you pick — scheduled locally by the phone
itself.
QUIET BY DESIGN
No account, no sign-up, no analytics, no advertising, no trackers,
no third-party code. Everything works in aeroplane mode and stays
on the device. The privacy label reads Data Not Collected, and
that is accurate.
Interface in English, العربية and Türkçe, right-to-left included.
FREE AND PAID
The opening three lessons of every level cost nothing — N1
included, so you can try the one you care about rather than the
easiest. A subscription opens the remaining 424, weekly or yearly.
CREDITS
Stroke data: KanjiVG by Ulrich Apel (CC BY-SA 3.0). Readings and
meanings: KANJIDIC2, Electronic Dictionary Research and
Development Group (CC BY-SA 4.0). Word lists: open-anki-jlpt-decks
(MIT). All practice material is original here; no past JLPT paper
is reproduced.
Kanji Way is independent. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by,
or approved by the Japan Foundation, Japan Educational Exchanges
and Services, or any body administering the Japanese-Language
Proficiency Test.
Terms of Use:
https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Information
- Seller
- Muhammed Nur WALI
- Size
- 4 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Kanji Way Pro Weekly $3.99
- Kanji Way Pro Yearly $29.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Muhammed Wali. All rights reserved.