Japanese Flashcards – Manabi
Learn Japanese vocab and kanji
Free
More coming in 2025: stay tuned on Discord for beta access and news.
Intelligent flashcards, purpose-built for Japanese. Join an online community of 日本語 learners!
OPTIMIZE
Manabi optimizes what and when you learn to make the most of your time. With its state-of-the-art spaced repetition algorithm called FSRS (the same exact implementation used by Anki), it'll remind you to review cards right as you're likely to forget them to maximize efficiency. If you fall behind, Manabi prioritizes the highest-impact cards rather than guilt-trip you about it.
BEYOND ROTE
Learn more than just "the answers". Example sentences from Weblio are pulled in automatically, as well as relevant StackExchange Q&A. Just scroll down on a card to learn more and make those memories more vivid so that they stick! You can also practice your kanji skills by drawing kanji right inside the app with vivid stroke animations to help you remember the answers.
COMMUNITY
Users can share decks for others to subscribe to, with automatically-synced updates. Manabi is a community of Japanese learners, and comes with handy pre-built decks out-of-the-box.
READER INTEGRATION
One of the best ways to learn Japanese is by reading native materials. Use our companion app, Manabi Reader, for one-touch dictionary look-ups that let you seamlessly add flashcards into Manabi for the words you come across.
Privacy Policy: https://manabi.io/privacy-policy/
Terms of Service: https://manabi.io/terms-of-service/
- Now uses FSRS for the flashcard algorithm, the same exact implementation as Anki
- Fixes various bugs
2.9.2:
- Fixes various bugs
2.9.1:
- Restores missing example sentences
- UI refinements
2.9:
- Adds kanji drawing for writing practice
- Updates UI for iOS 26 / macOS 26
- Improves flashcard text rendering
The developer, John A Ehlke, 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 Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- John A Ehlke
- Size
- 147 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Infrequent
Profanity or Crude Humor
Mature or Suggestive Themes
Alcohol, Tobacco, Drug Use or References
- Copyright
- © 2025 John A Ehlke