Japan Etiquette is now a one-time purchase. One payment (¥600 in Japan) unlocks all 62 manners, all 100 phrase cards, the quiz and the checklists for good — no subscription, no renewals. Bought anything in this app before? Tap Restore purchase — everything opens at no extra cost.

Full Access is here: all 62 manners and all 100 phrase cards, free for the first week, then a monthly subscription (¥480 in Japan). 5 cards and 10 manners stay free for everyone. Already bought the phrase cards? Tap Restore purchase — you keep every card and get Full Access too, at no extra cost.

Each etiquette page now shows the phrase cards for that situation, right under the explanation — read about the onsen, then show the card at the front desk. Tapping a locked card now opens the unlock screen. The first 5 cards stay free, and unlocking all 100 is a one-time purchase with no subscription.

Small improvements to make the guide smoother to use. If the Japanese phrase cards have helped you on your trip, you can now leave a rating from the cards as well. It really helps other travelers find them.

Small improvements to make the guide smoother to use. If it has helped you on your trip, you can now leave a rating from the pages you read, not only after the quiz. It really helps other travelers find it.

The phrase cards go from 44 to 100 — more for eating out, shopping, trains and inns — and they are now grouped by situation so you can find one while somebody is waiting. Read aloud is recorded Japanese now, not your phone's synthesizer, so it sounds the same on every phone and still works with no signal. You can choose a woman's or a man's voice. The first 5 cards stay free. The rest is still one payment, no subscription. The 62 etiquette rules, the quiz and the checklist stay free.

Updated the App Store screenshots so you can see the Japanese Phrase Cards before you download. The app itself is unchanged: 62 etiquette rules, the quiz and the checklist stay free; the first 5 phrase cards are free and the rest is a one-time purchase.

Easier to find. Same 62 etiquette rules, same offline quiz, no signup and no ads.

Show the card, be understood. Phrase Cards are here: 44 Japanese phrases you can hold up to a shop, a bath house or a station clerk, in large type with your own language underneath. Tap to have one read aloud. Everything works offline. The first five cards are free. Unlocking the rest is a single payment — there is no subscription. All 62 etiquette entries, the quiz and the packing checklists stay free, as always.

This version brings no changes to the app itself. The App Store listing is now available in nine languages, so more travellers can find it in their own language. The app remains in English, Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

Share a quiz result. The result card now carries a link back, so whoever you send it to can try the same questions instead of just seeing your score. The app now declares all four of the languages it was already written in. Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Korean are picked up from your device automatically, rather than everyone landing in English. Also in this version: icons that stay sharp on every device, corrected tab labels, and a quiz result screen that no longer clips on smaller phones.