
iKana Nōto - Kana Notepad 4+
Practice Writing Japanese
ThinkMac Software
Designed for iPad
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- $1.99
iPad Screenshots
Description
iKana Nōto transforms your fingertip or Apple Pencil® into a virtual marker, mechanical pencil or expressive brush and lets you use your iPad® to practice writing Japanese characters with a number of beautifully designed templates.
Whether you are a novice or an expert at Japanese, iKana Nōto is a great way to improve your handwriting and reinforce your memory.
iKana Nōto is designed to let you write even complicated kanji with ease, using a large drawing area that can be positioned on different sides of the screen to suit your needs. Choose the writing tool that suits your mood or the template, customise the stroke width and write – or draw, what ever you like. Easily correct mistakes using the eraser tool or undo that stroke you got wrong. Lookup kana and kanji you can’t remember how to write, see stroke animations to make sure you are writing them correctly or even trace over them!
iKana Nōto has 19 great templates to work from that allow for a mixture of vertical and horizontal writing styles. There are even a number of fun templates including traditional style scrolls, an ema board, sudoku puzzle and more.
You are not limited to using iKana Nōto only to practice writing though, we’ve made it easy to email your creations and share them on social networks. So why not send a lovely handwritten postcard to your sensei or write notes to your Japanese friends? Everyone will appreciate the personal touch that comes from using your own handwriting.
You will find that iKana Nōto is also ideal to write in other languages such as Chinese and Korean too.
What’s New
Version 1.6.1
Fixes a crash when using the eraser tool.
Ratings and Reviews
Great practice
This is almost exactly what I needed, genkouyoushi paper with kana and kanji tracing. You’ll need a Japanese keyboard installed and a basic understanding of hiragana and katakana before you’ll understand how to search for kanji, but you’ll be learning that anyway if you’re reading this. The only thing that could make this app better is a bit of intelligence able to evaluate the accuracy of your characters, but don’t let that dissuade you. It’s just a wish for me. If you’re learning to write in Japanese, this is what you need, and it is easily worth a couple dollars.
Needs better accuracy.
I'm using a second generation iPad Pro 12.9", and this program writes like 3 millimeters below the point you touch. This is using either the Apple Pencil or just your finger. It isn't enough to make this program unusable, but it irritates me enough to not want to use it.
Great and unique app
iKana Noto is a great app to practice Japanese without paper. It can't speak, but has everything for writing. Even kanji dictionary, kana tables and shadow characters to trace.
You can use it to study Japanese or to write in Japanese. iKana Noto can replace many other apps or can accompany them. You still need something to learn phonetics and grammar, since this app cover writing only.
I would like iKana Noto to check your exercise as well. As for now, it's just Japanese notebook.
App Privacy
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Data Not Collected
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Information
- Seller
- Rory Prior
- Size
- 44.5 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.6 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 13.5 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Japanese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2024, ThinkMac Software
- Price
- $1.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.