Kana User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience93.5% of reviews
Neutral3.8% of reviews
Negative experience2.7% of reviews

~ Based on 816 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Kana Safe?

Kana - Hiragana and Katakana appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Kana is 96/100.

This assessment is based on 12,780 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.8/5.

Safety Analysis

96.5% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.0% of ratings suggest some concerns
1.5% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 12,780 App Store ratings for Kana.

Is Kana Legit?

Kana - Hiragana and Katakana appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Kana is 100/100.

Based on 100 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Simple, Fun & FREE

This app is definitely the best app for those who want to master Japanese alphabets!! It’s very simple and it’s completely free! I usually don’t review apps but this app is soo good that I couldn’t just stay quiet! I highly recommend this and I am glad that I discovered this amazing app.💯
Hope this app is forever free:)
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Great for Uni kickstart

Amazing stuff for getting a head start and keeping up practice for remembering both hiragana and katakana

Really good

About as customizable as you need.

Bestest app ever please read

So glad I found this. I’ve always learned Japanese off and on cuz it was hard to keep doing Duolingo with all the ads and all the other ones woth ads or cost money but this is completely free no ads and it’s genuinely like just wants you to learn Japanese. I got their other apps one with a textbook and the other for kanji and man best thing ever. This is the furthest I’ve ever learned Japanese and I’m actually staying committed. You can go at your own pace to. So nice so easy. 100 percent recommend.
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Amazing tool for studying.

I’ve been learning Japanese in an actual school setting, however I found it quite difficult to remember every Hiragana. This app does a great job for memorisation and testing you on what you know.

This morning, I had a test on Hiragana and aced it, mostly because of this app, lol.

My favorite part is how it has the statistics visible on the front page, which helps me learn the hiragana i haven’t quite mastered. This is the same for the tests, they give you several options, including least mastered by score, by streak, least reviewed, and new kana. (You can also select specific kana to be tested on, which is how I remove kana I’ve mastered from my tests if I’m not reviewing, but instead trying to memorise as many new ones as possible.

Tests have 3 modes which is just as helpful, multiple choice only (easy!), drawing input & keyboard inout for writing (hard), and lastly automatic: which is just all of those but it relies on how well you did on previous questions (either harder or easier).

Other apps tend to be really annoying with paywalls and bad explanations, but I love this app series, and overall I’d recommend it to anyone who’s getting this app just for studying. Learning new kana with this app? I would suggest you write on paper to get the shape right first, and then using the app for studying and remembering it.

Main points: free, has statistics, multiple modes, great for studying, no ads, and my personal favorite for studying kana.
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Great app to memorise

Love this app for my uni class.

Simply amazing

This app is such a simple but amazing app. This app is very responsive. Very user friendly. No complaints. Best kana app on the App Store.

Stop asking me to review

I just got the app! I will re-review once i have used it more. But it keeps interrupting me asking for a review when i dont even have an hours worth of use yet

Recognition is faulty

Most of the 46 basic hiragana work, but literally everything else refuses to register. I’ve copied the stroke order, size, length, everything, but nothing works. It makes practicing a pain instead of enjoyable.

Best app for rote memorizing kanas

Very simple and functional UI! It also shows you all your stats to see which kanas you’re weak in.

An excellent app!

Little by little I started understanding how to learn Japanese language. This app is super!!!!!

Amazing app if used daily

You can quite easily master hiragana and katakana if you pair this with reading japanese daily. I lt took me about 2-3 weeks to get fully comfortable with both, its alot easier than the rest of japanese but a great place to start

No ads

Best app out there to learn Kana. No ads, and you have the entire table for both Hiragana and Katakana. You can see the stroke order, draw it yourself, hear the sound, and just drill! User friendly, clean aesthetic. Very recommended.

Love setup

I love that I can practice writing in both hiragana and katakana. As a beginner the customized drills I can make come in really handy and help with memorization.

Great

This is literally all you need for a beginner. It is easy to use and set up. Totally free and doesn’t send you bunch of notifications

Very simple, yet useful

As someone who has a hard time differentiating kana, this is very useful to my memory and my handwriting

Great supplement to Genki

Trying to get started in learning Japanese, I was searching for flash cards to learn Hiragana and Katakana.
This is filling that need with features that go beyond flash cards.
I tried two others.
This is the best.
And free!

Probably a good app but annoying intro

I kid you not, immediately after the onboarding slides when I was inside the app for 0 seconds, it hit me with asking for a star rating. I closed that, ready to poke around, and on the bottom of the home screen there's constantly text cycling to beg for reviews (it's not even static so you can't ignore it. constant cycling). I'm pretty sure the app was made with love and it'll be great and stuff, but here's your dang rating – 2 stars off for leading with frustrating UX.
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Very good

I only do the hard mode and it’s perfect. Learning little by little.

Won’t record practice

When I practice writing the symbol, I tap on the check mark and nothing happens. I reset and try again. I can never get the app to work.