perapera, japanese vocabulary

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a word crammed once is a word forgotten. a word reviewed at the right moment sticks. perapera has you review 12,756 japanese words from N5 to N1, with english translations. you type your answers on the keyboard, in kana or kanji: no forgiving multiple choice where you can recognize a word without being able to produce it. AN ORGANIZED MEMORY spaced repetition brings each word back right before you'd forget it. ten stages, from 4 hours to four months, from apprentice to the final rank, 永, engraved. every word moves at its own pace: the one you keep missing comes back sooner, the one you've got spaces out. TWO PILLARS, NOT ONE knowing 食べる without knowing 食べなかった means knowing a word you can't actually use. so perapera trains conjugation too: seventeen forms, from polite forms to the causative-passive, across 3,916 verbs and adjectives. nine of these forms, the polite ones, the plain ones, and て, are free. every verb class is checked against the source, because 帰る, 走る, and 入る look like ichidan verbs without being one, and an app that gets this wrong is worse than no app at all. NINE WAYS TO REVIEW かるた, the word is read aloud, grab the right card before time runs out. 神経衰弱, japanese memory, word against meaning. しりとり, chain a word onto the last syllable of the one before. 紛らわしい, lookalike words face to face, which of the six さす is it? 語順, put the japanese sentence back in order. plus: fill-in-the-blank, tile puzzles, a 60-second blitz, a daily boss fight. A PATH, NOT A LIST 登竜門, the carp that swims up the river and becomes a dragon. twenty stations from the river mouth to the sky, a companion that transforms through twelve forms as you progress, and a daily path that decides for you: review, learn, conjugate, play. WHAT TEXTBOOKS DON'T TELL YOU 48 illustrated onomatopoeia: ぺこぺこ doesn't mean "hungry," it's the hollow feeling in your stomach used as an adjective. 27 proverbs, one a day, with the gap between the literal words and the actual meaning. 643 pairs of words that sound identical and get mixed up constantly, put face to face instead of reviewed separately. the pitch accent of every word, its kanji breakdown, its real frequency of use. AND ALSO timed mock exams, from N5 to N1. twelve color palettes, from game boy green to red on black lacquer. stats, review forecasts, a history of your sessions. iCloud sync across all your devices. a bilingual french and english app, everything works offline. PERAPERA PLUS the 786 words of N5 are free forever, plus 150 more words wherever you want them, enough to start at whatever level you're at, at a pace of ten new words a day. the remaining words, a slider up to fifty a day, the eight advanced conjugation forms, and mock exams from N4 to N1 are part of perapera Plus: a monthly or yearly subscription, with a free trial. staying free, and staying free for good: the nine games, the companion, the river, the N5 mock exam, stats, and iCloud sync. what the free tier gave you stays yours: N5 and your 150 words are reviewable for life, subscribed or not. what the subscription unlocked pauses if it ends, never deleted, and handed back exactly as it was, srs level included, if you come back. perapera is built by one person. no studio, no investors, your subscription directly funds the next words and the next features. thank you for supporting it. ペラペラ, may it eventually come out on its own. terms of use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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a big update, after a long time without a new version. what's new the whole app has been redrawn to finally look like what it says it is: a real pixel font on titles, tabs and counters, raised windows instead of flat ones, sunken input fields, the active tab pressed in like a button, and a light panel effect over the screen, like a liquid crystal handheld. the screen effect can be turned off in settings if you prefer a perfectly clean image. japanese particles now have their own learning path, on a new cartridge switch screen: one tap to go from vocabulary to grammar. the rakugaki bridge: words made entirely of kanji you already know how to write are surfaced first, to learn the vocabulary for what you can already write. your own words, including bulk import from a CSV file (perapera Plus), sorted into your own categories. in the mini-games, you can now choose which words to play with: new ones, your most missed, or random. fixes an old bug badly merged words that exist in two forms, with and without する (like 勉強 and 勉強する): the broken entries this left behind are now repaired. missing a word you already knew well now drops it two tiers instead of one, to stay true to spaced repetition. the daily streak counted wrong around midnight, fixed. duplicate entries created by syncing between devices now merge automatically, keeping the more advanced progress of the two. "i already know this" now sends a word straight to the last tier instead of a middle one. over a hundred french translations reviewed, including several outright wrong ones. the entire dictionary was checked against a japanese reference: あちら said "this way" instead of "over there", すれちがい promised a chance meeting when the word means the exact opposite, そこら was given as "everywhere". a truncated duplicate and a typo were removed, and around twenty entries whose english translation was cut in the middle of a parenthesis are repaired. this word-by-word review is now complete for the N5, N4 and N3 levels: 157 corrections across the 783 N5 words, 151 across the 718 N4 words, and 222 across the 2507 N3 words. the N2 and N1 levels will get the same treatment in an upcoming update. reported issues now actually leave the phone instead of staying stuck locally.

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    Seller
    Zoe GALBOIS
    Size
    27.5 MB
    Category
    Education
    Compatibility
    Requires iOS 26.5 or later.
    • iPhone
      Requires iOS 26.5 or later.
    • iPad
      Requires iPadOS 26.5 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 26.5 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
    • Apple Vision
      Requires visionOS 26.5 or later.
    Languages
    English
    Age Rating
    4+
    In-App Purchases
    Yes
    • perapera plus — yearly $24.99
    • perapera plus - monthly $3.99
    Copyright
    © 2026 sappy