Learn Japanese the way every beginner starts: with hiragana and katakana, the two kana scripts often called the Japanese alphabet. MyKana teaches you to read and write every kana, a few characters at a time, and its spaced repetition reviews bring each one back just before you would forget it.

LEARN IN SMALL STEPS
• Made for beginners: no Japanese needed to start
• Short lessons of about five characters, each with its sound, stroke order, a memory hint and an example word
• Every character in both scripts: the basics, dakuten (が, ざ…) and handakuten (ぱ…), combinations like きゃ and しゅ, small っ and long vowels, and extended katakana for loanwords (ファ, ティ, ヴ…)
• About 60 common practice words such as きって, コーヒー and シャツ
• Already know some kana? A placement test lets you skip the lessons you don't need, and it can't be passed by luck

CLIMB THE MOUNTAIN
Every character climbs from Base to Trail, Ridge, Peak and the Summit. Each correct review sends it up a stage and the wait before the next review grows, from 2 hours up to 2 weeks. Mistakes send it back down, so reviews stay focused on what you actually find hard. With no mistakes, a character reaches the Summit in about six weeks.

READ, LISTEN AND WRITE
• Type the reading of a character on a simple romaji keypad
• Pick the right kana from a grid of real look-alikes, never random filler
• Listening questions in a clear female or male voice, built into the app so they work offline
• Hiragana and katakana writing practice: draw each character from memory, and MyKana checks the number of strokes, their order and their direction, and shows you exactly which stroke went wrong
• Practice on paper too: write a kana by hand, then check it against its stroke order
• Reading and writing are tracked separately, so you always know which one needs work

A KANA CHART TO KEEP
Every hiragana and katakana in one chart: tap a character to hear it, or hold it to watch its stroke order.

FIX YOUR MIX-UPS
MyKana notices which characters you confuse (シ and ツ, ソ and ン, ぬ and め…) and turns them into quick contrast drills. Trouble spots and characters you keep missing are listed on the home screen, and a free-form quiz lets you practice any time.

PLAY WITH WHAT YOU KNOW
Four quick kana games use only the characters you have learned: Kana Rain, Kana Match, Kana Snap and Kana Slice. Games are just for fun and never change your reviews.

YOUR PROGRESS, YOUR WAY
• Works fully offline, with no account needed
• Sign in with Google to sync your progress between phones
• Back up your progress to a file and restore it any time
• Review reminders, light and dark themes, three kana fonts (textbook, handwritten and rounded) and a reduce-motion option
• No ads

FREE AND PREMIUM
Everything for reading is free: every lesson, review, quiz and drill, the placement test, writing lessons for the first group of each script, and three games a day. A one-time Premium purchase, with no subscription, adds every writing lesson and the writing placement test, unlimited games, and quizzes built from the exact characters you pick.

Stroke data comes from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).