Kana - Hiragana and Katakana

Wow, I’ve seen/used many apps offering kana practice but this one actually allows custom selections for targeting type of characters or personal choice to focus on. Very cool yet surprisingly lacking on many kana apps. Furthermore several options to practice (ez multiple choice, a type romaji answer and even option to trace strokes free form) Very nice flexibility that isn’t typical. Ofcouse audio samples available too. It includes both katakana & hiragana with all variations. Plus you can’t beat the price. Bravo on fantastic app, elegant in simplicity yet not lacking in features. Thanks much for your efforts. I appreciate & endorse your well crafted software.

I’ve been learning Mandarin Chinese for awhile, and I wanted to pick up Japanese as well. Already knowing Chinese characters, I figured that learning hiragana and katakana wouldn’t be too difficult. I was proven wrong. I couldn’t find any resources that really suited my learning style, I just wanted to practice writing the characters and put them into use by creating sentences. When I found this app, I was extremely glad and happy with the results. This app is user-friendly, I believe, if you’re serious about learning the characters and their stroke order. I love that you can quiz yourself and set up practice for yourself. Absolutely impressed!

I tried this out mostly out of curiosity and to see if I might be able to recommend a better app to my girlfriend to practice kana. I like the study options and that you can manually correct your answers if the handwriting recognition does not grade it correctly. However, I also noticed that the handwriting recognition is only working at all for hiragana right now. I automatically passed plenty of hiragana questions, but always had to grade my katakana answers manually, even when I could see that I was right on top of the stroke guide. I also think the sound clips on the individual kana pages sound a little robotic, but they are at least understandable.

I just finished memorizing all 214 characters and felt it was only right to rate my experience through a review. Super clean UI, very user friendly, a lot of customization options to study in a way that works best for you. Took me about 2-3 months (i'd say around 36-48 hours) of dedicated work to memorize everything. Started with Hiragana and took a break for school and just picked it back up about a month ago to relearn hiragana (which only took about 2 hours of work) then started katakana and i'm now able to read and write it all (albeit very slowly). Now its time to actually start learning the language

I’ve been learning Japanese for a while, and I occasionally like to quiz and review my kana. I’ve used a lot of different apps for this, and I have to say, I’ve deleted them all because this app is all I need. This app gets 4/5 stars because I do have one issue that really bugs me! It’s annoying to select different kana to practice when you want to select more than one of the provided groups. You can only select them by groups, otherwise you need to select the remaining by hand. You should be able to add multiple groups in a kana system easily. Even being able to select by row would be wonderful. Great app! Will continue to use!