Kanaria: Hiragana & Katakana

Trace every kana stroke by stroke, then watch your chart fill with ink. All 230 kana are free. No account, no ads, works offline. Pro: one payment, no subscription.

Learn hiragana and katakana by writing each kana, stroke by stroke. Watch your chart fill with ink. All 230 kana are free: no account, no ads, works offline. Pro is one payment, never a subscription.

Kanaria teaches you to read and write Japanese kana the way a good teacher would: you hear it, you write it, and you see it get easier.

LEARN BY WRITING

• Trace each kana with your finger or Apple Pencil
• Stroke order and direction follow standard Japanese handwriting
• Fair checks: dakuten (the ゛ mark), small tsu and lifting your finger mid-stroke are handled
• Every kana has audio from a computer voice, checked against its reading

WATCH THE CHART FILL WITH INK

• Progress is the kana chart itself: a kana you know turns from faint gray to full black
• Weak kana stay marked until you fix them
• Hiragana, katakana, dakuten, yōon (combined sounds) and extended katakana
• Days practiced never resets to zero, and streak freezes are automatic

SMART REVIEWS

• Spaced reviews bring each kana back just before you would forget it (FSRS)
• Look-alike practice for pairs such as shi and tsu, so and n
• Just two buttons: Again and Good. Time never counts against you

READ REAL WORDS

• Free every day: 5 reading words. Pro unlocks the rest
• Reading practice uses real words built only from kana you already know
• Katakana loanword packs: 20 food words free, the rest in Pro (food, countries, technology, sports, everyday words)
• Type the answer in romaji (English letters) or read aloud, then see which words you read easily
• Pro: dictation, stats and your own custom lists

FREE, FAIR AND PRIVATE

• All 230 kana, lessons, spaced reviews, writing, the kana grid and widgets are free forever
• Pro is a one-time payment, never a subscription, never taken away. The price is shown in the app before you buy
• No account. No ads. No tracking. Works offline
• Export your progress to a file and import it on a new phone
• Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets show what to review today
• Light and dark mode. iPhone and iPad
• Languages: English, Korean, Traditional Chinese

Kanaria is made by one independent developer. Questions or ideas: support@getkanaria.com

Audio: VOICEVOX:雀松朱司 (computer-made voice). Stroke data adapted from KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.