Japanese Deck

Japanese Deck is a complete Japanese vocabulary and kanji deck for iPhone and iPad, built around two things: pictures that make words stick, and voices you can learn from. START FREE, UNLOCK EVERYTHING ONCE • Free: hiragana and katakana (cards, picture memory aids, writing practice and worksheets), 544 illustrated beginner words, the Sound Rush game for those words, study piles and the daily quiz for all of these, with every voice. • One in-app purchase, Full Unlock, opens everything else: all the kanji, compounds, radicals, Write Kanji, word cards, the Top 1000, conversations and stories. Pay once. No subscription. AN ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATION FOR EVERY KANJI • All 2,136 kanji on Japan's official Jōyō list, every one with an original illustration: the 1,026 taught in Japanese elementary schools and the 1,110 more you meet in newspapers. • Every kanji card gives its readings and an example word, and its back shows how the kanji is built and which words use it. • 1,500+ kanji compounds that show how real words are put together: 火 fire + 山 mountain = 火山 volcano. • 98 radicals, the building blocks of kanji, each with a picture and a spoken name. 8,000+ WORD CARDS • 94 everyday categories: greetings, the konbini, trains, the doctor, the izakaya, the ramen shop, sumo, slang and more. • The Top 1000: the most common words, ranked. • More than 5,600 different words in all, and more than 6,800 original illustrations. HEAR EVERY WORD • Hiragana in a real voice: Kimmie, a native Japanese speaker, recorded every hiragana card. • Every word and example sentence is also recorded in two natural-sounding AI voices, a Japanese man and a Japanese woman. • Optional English: an American AI voice reads the meaning on almost every card. You choose who speaks first. • Care for pitch accent: accents follow a pitch-accent dictionary and standard Tokyo rules, so 箸 (chopsticks) and 橋 (bridge) are each said with their own accent. • More than 40,000 recordings, all inside the app. KANA FROM DAY ONE • Hiragana and katakana decks with a picture memory aid for every basic kana, an example word for each, and combinations such as きゃ and ファ. WRITE IT YOURSELF • Finger-writing practice for every kana and all 2,136 kanji. The stroke order is shown, then your writing is traced and graded. • Printable worksheets. PLAY AND QUIZ • A daily quiz that starts where you are: about five minutes, pictures and voices in every question, a few new things a day, and the cards you missed first. • Sound Rush: hear a word, tap its picture, beat the clock. READ AND LISTEN • 60 conversations in 10 everyday scenes: the konbini, the station, the hotel and more. Show furigana, romaji or English, or practise your own part. • 12 short stories, from Tama the Cat to Momotaro, read aloud one sentence at a time. STUDY YOUR WAY • Sort any card red, yellow or green, then drill or quiz just one pile. A card you know comes back for a re-check after a week, a month, three months and six months. • Play: a hands-free mode that flips and speaks the cards. • Search every deck at once, in English, kana, kanji or romaji. • Reading hints you can switch on and off, 16 Japanese card fonts, and light and dark mode. PRIVATE AND OFFLINE • Everything is inside the app and works offline. • No account, no ads, no tracking. Your progress stays on your device. • Because every recording is built in, the app is more than 500 MB. Download it on Wi-Fi. MADE IN HAWAII Japanese Deck started as one learner's own study deck, built card by card. Every picture is an original illustration made for this deck. A question, or a word that sounds wrong to you? Write to hello@japanesedeck.com and a real person will answer. Stroke data and radical shapes come from KanjiVG, and pitch-accent data from Kanjium, both under Creative Commons BY-SA. The 13 bundled Japanese fonts are open-source, under the SIL Open Font License. Full credits are on the app's About screen.