Kanji Encounter
Meet kanji in conversation
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Chapter one is free: 10 kanji, 10 conversations. Meet a character inside a scene, review it the next day, and watch its reading change when it comes back.
Kanji Encounter teaches the first fifty kanji the way you actually meet them: inside a conversation.
Mia has just arrived at her host grandmother's house in Japan. Sora the cat is asleep in a basket. Every lesson is a short exchange between the three of them, and somewhere in it sits a character you have not met before — with furigana above it, an English line below, and romaji if you want it.
Then it comes back. Days later, the same kanji turns up inside a different word, and its reading has changed. "日" becomes "日曜日". "時" and "間" become "時間". The app stops and shows you what just happened, because that moment makes kanji feel like meaning rather than shapes.
WHAT A DAY LOOKS LIKE
- Learning 3 new kanji is your daily goal — once you hit it, you can keep learning a few more at a time.
- Reviews return on their own schedule, spacing out as you get them right.
- A short guess after a lesson — can you read this? It never counts against you.
- Every character you have met grows a tree of the words it appears in.
FIFTY KANJI, FIFTY PICTURES
Each character has its own watercolour illustration, drawn for this app.
WHAT IS NOT HERE
- No account. Nothing to sign up for, nothing to remember.
- No ads, no tracking.
- No backend of ours. The only network traffic is the subscription check.
FREE AND PAID
Chapter one — ten kanji, ten conversations — is free. Chapters two to four unlock with Full Access.
SUBSCRIPTION
Full Access, USD 2.99 per month, auto-renewing until cancelled. Cancel anytime in the App Store.
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://asab0o.github.io/learning-kanji-mobile-app/privacy
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What's new:
- Easier-to-read translations and quiz feedback
- Daily kanji goal is now a gentle nudge, not a hard cutoff — keep going once you've met it
- Small visual fixes and polish
The developer, Asaka Ouchi, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Purchases
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Information
- Seller
- Asaka Ouchi
- Size
- 63.6 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 16.4 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 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
- Full Access $2.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Asaka Ouchi