Practice kana and kanji your way. Sync WaniKani, Bunpro, Anki, or follow your own path in Nazoru. Trace, recall, and study at your pace.
Nazoru helps you practice writing Japanese, whether you want to follow your own path inside the app or practice the kana and kanji you are already seeing in your studies and daily life.
Use Nazoru as a companion to tools like WaniKani, Bunpro, Anki, and more, or start directly in Nazoru with the Paths tab. You are not locked into one study system. You can practice from external exposure, follow a path from scratch, or move between both whenever it makes sense for you.
One of Nazoru’s core ideas is Exposed Kanji: the kanji you have actually encountered in other apps, in words, in phrases, or out in the real world. When you sync with supported study tools, Nazoru can organize practice around what you have recently seen, what you may be getting wrong, and what needs attention next.
Start by tracing each character, then gradually rely less on guides as practice becomes more challenging step by step. Practice hiragana, katakana, kanji, words, or complete phrases, and build confidence as your writing memory gets stronger.
Nazoru helps you focus on what needs attention most. Memory strength shows when a character is starting to fade, and fading kanji are shown first so you can review them before they slip away. You can also practice similar and easy-to-confuse kanji together, making it easier to notice small differences and avoid common mix-ups.
There are no forced daily streaks, no overwhelming review piles, and no pressure to keep up with someone else’s schedule. Nazoru is built so you can practice when you want, at your own pace.
Features:
• Practice hiragana, katakana, kanji, words, and full phrases
• Sync with WaniKani, Bunpro, MaruMori, Anki, and more
• Follow your own path inside Nazoru
• Focus on kanji you have already been exposed to
• Learn by tracing, then gradually moving toward recall
• Practice similar and confusing kanji together
• See memory strength and fading kanji at a glance
• Review fading kanji first
• Study without forced streaks or growing review queues
• Get 5 practice sessions per day for free
• Practice on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch
Nazoru is built for Japanese learners who want a calmer, more flexible way to practice writing kana and kanji, with or without external study apps.
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Nazoru now has a dictionary built in: more than 200,000 words and 90,000 Example Phrases.
Words
• Kanji pages list Example Words: words that contain the kanji.
• Every word has its own page with its meanings and Example Phrases, plus new cards:
– Conjugations: the forms it takes, like 行く, 行きます, 行った
– Compounds and Expressions: longer words and set phrases built from it
– Related Words: other words worth seeing beside it
– Pitch accent: where your voice drops when you say it
– Also written: its other spellings
– Word Rank: how common the word is in Nazoru's Example Phrases
• Many kanji and words now have a Summary, labelled Written by AI.
• Words and phrases now show furigana, which you can turn off in Settings.
Search
• Search is much more advanced: find kanji, words and Example Phrases by character, meaning or reading. Romaji works too.
• Type a conjugated form like 行きます and search finds 行く.
• Type or paste a whole sentence, and Nazoru breaks it into words you can open.
• Results come up much faster.
Discover
• You can now browse kanji by radical.
• Components moved here from the Similar tab.
Kana
• You can now follow a Kana Path.
• Kana pages now show romaji.
Practice
• A redesigned practice screen that works better in landscape.
• Stroke checking is more accurate.
• Set a daily reminder to practice at a time you choose.
• You now get 5 free practices a day, up from 2.
Performance and fixes
• Better performance, lower memory use and a more reliable startup.
• Many UI fixes.
Version 1.2.0
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Information
Seller
Elysoft Tecnologia LTDA
Size
56.1 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.