Kana no Michi: Learn Hiragana

Stop reading subtitles. Start reading Japanese. Kana no Michi teaches you to read the Japanese alphabet, hiragana and katakana, a few minutes a day. All 208 kana, five at a time, in real gojūon order. It's made for complete beginners, travellers and anyone starting JLPT N5. HOW IT WORKS Learn a row. Five characters at a time, each with a memory hook, audio and stroke order. Drill it. Recognise it, reverse it, hear it, type it. Miss one and the hook comes straight back. A row only unlocks the next one when you get it all right. Keep it. Spaced repetition brings each character back right before you'd forget it, and the mastery map fills in as you go. Think flashcards, except each one comes back at the right time. THE LOOKALIKES シ and ツ. ソ and ン. ぬ and め. There's a whole mode just for the pairs everyone mixes up. TEN WAYS TO PRACTISE Recognise, Reverse, Listening, Type, Lookalike duels, Blitz, Endless, Numbers, Word builder and Trace. Trace is writing practice: you draw every stroke and it checks the shape and the direction. DAILY REVIEW Tap Review and the right characters are already picked, weakest first. Coaching shows which kana you mix up and which ones are slow. The streak forgives one missed day a week, because life happens. FREE FOREVER All 104 hiragana, every row, including the dakuten versions and combinations like きゃ. Recognise, Reverse, Listening and Type. Daily review, streaks and the full mastery map. ONE UNLOCK, NEVER A SUBSCRIPTION Pay once and you get all 104 katakana plus the other six modes. No subscription, no ads, no trial that runs out. NO ACCOUNT NEEDED Your progress stays on your phone. Sign in only if you want it on more than one device, and you can delete your account and your data from inside the app whenever you like. If you've been staring at a hiragana chart trying to make it stick, this is the bit that comes after the chart.