# Kazoekata: Japanese Counters — Counting, kanji and drills > Counting, kanji and drills (iPhone/iPad app by Jakub Dwojak.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kazoekata-japanese-counters/id6803676309 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Jakub Dwojak](https://appshunter.io/developer/6801993670) - Category: Education, Reference - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 18.0 · 4 MB - Languages: American English, Polish - Released: 2026-09-01 - Data updated: 2026-09-15 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kazoekata-japanese-counters/id6803676309/reviews.md ## What is Kazoekata? Japanese counting is not a number stuck onto a noun. Three books is 三冊, three cats is 三匹, three long thin things is 三本 – and 本 does not even sound the same at three as it does at six. Kazoekata teaches the part that actually takes time: not the list of counters, but how they behave. THREE SKILLS, MEASURED SEPARATELY Knowing that books take 冊 is one thing. Saying 八冊 without stopping is another. Hearing ろっぷん and knowing it means six minutes is a third. Most apps average these into one number per counter. This one keeps them apart, because that is where the useful sentence lives: 本 Counter choice 95 % Reading 61 % After that you know what to open. After "本 78 %" you know nothing. THE PATTERN, NOT THE FLASHCARD 一本 いっぽん, 三本 さんぼん, 六本 ろっぽん are not three unrelated facts. One, six, eight and ten cut the number short and turn h into p; three voices it. That is one rule with three faces, and after a week it stops needing thought. When you get something wrong, the app says which rule you met – and shows the other places the same change happens. FIVE WAYS TO BE ASKED Which counter belongs. How a written form is read. Type the reading. Write the whole expression. Say what a reading means. Each one measures something the others cannot. WRONG ANSWERS THAT TEACH The wrong options are not random. They are what the engine produces with the sound changes switched off – さんほん for 三本, よんじ for 四時, いちにん for 一人. The mistake you would actually make, offered next to the form you should learn. HONEST ABOUT WHAT IS UNCERTAIN Some readings genuinely have two forms. 三階 is さんがい and さんかい; 三足 is said both ways and the dictionaries disagree. Those cells are never turned into a four-button question, because a button holding correct Japanese marked wrong teaches an untruth whichever one you pick. They are shown side by side instead, with the reason. FIVE LEVELS, NOT JLPT Counters do not split along exam levels. 本 is in every beginner textbook and 六本 still catches people after two years. The levels follow how the difficulty actually builds: numbers and people, everyday objects, time and calendar, the irregular readings, then everything at once. Levels four and five bring no new counters. The fourth gathers the forms you cannot work out from a rule – ひとり, ついたち, よじ, はたち – and drills them together. REVIEWS AND WEAK SPOTS That books take 冊 is a fact to remember, and facts fade unless they come back on a schedule. That ほん becomes ぽん after six is a skill, and skills need repetition where they break. Kazoekata does both. A weak spot is not "本". It is "本 with the numbers that cut short" – because if you missed 六本 you will miss 八本 too, and the session knows that before you do. ENGLISH AND POLISH Interface and content switch independently. A Polish menu with English descriptions is a deliberate combination. PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION No account, no analytics, no ads, no network. The shipped app makes no request of any kind except to the App Store for the purchase itself. Everything stays on your phone. FREE AND PREMIUM Levels 1 and 2 are free in full – twenty-two counters, quick practice, reviews and progress. That is enough to count what is in your flat. One purchase opens levels 3 to 5, the complete set of thirty-eight counters, the irregular-reading training and weak-spot practice. No subscription. Also from the same author: Kaname – Japanese Grammar, Katsuyokei – Conjugation, and Joshi – Japanese Particles. ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | Kazoekata Premium | $2.99 | one-time | ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.2.0 — 2026-09-14 Answers from tiles are confirmed with a button. Tapping a choice only selects it; the answer is graded when you press “Check” at the bottom of the screen, the same way typed answers work. You can change or undo the choice, so a slip of the finger no longer costs you a review. One side effect worth knowing: “average answer time” now runs until you confirm, so it includes the time you spend deciding. The check screen shows what you were asked. Until now the screen after an answer gave you the verdict and the correct form, but not the question itself – and with counters the question is a number together with the thing being counted, which is exactly the pair you are still learning. The prompt now sits above the answer, in the same shape it had a moment earlier. As a side effect, tapping that screen reveals readings the way it does everywhere else; before, it did nothing at all. Answer tiles show what sets them apart. When the choices differ only in their ending – さんぼん next to さんまい – that ending is picked out in your accent color, on every tile. Your eye stops comparing strings character by character and goes back to the real question: how this counter is read. The highlight is never on just one tile, so it never gives the answer away. The next session now counts down. The review button used to say “today at 9:00”. A running countdown now sits beside the time, so you can see at a glance whether that is ten minutes away or five hours – no subtraction required. The Today screen and counter pages are noticeably quicker. Your progress and today's numbers were being worked out again on every reference while the screen was drawing – dozens of times instead of once. They are now worked out once and kept, and a sentence with readings is no longer rebuilt every time its label is measured. You will notice it most on the Today screen once you have a long history. ### 1.1.6 — 2026-09-13 Opening a counter from a level no longer hangs the app. Since 1.1.5, tapping a counter inside a level could put that screen into an endless redraw, and the system closed the app after a few seconds. The screen was running about thirty-five redraws a second; it now runs about one. Level lists and counter pages are quicker. Your progress and the per-counter decisions were being worked out again for every row of the list, instead of once per redraw. On a level that offers several dozen counters, that is the difference you could feel. The day's goal fits what your stage still has. When a stage ran out of counters you had not met yet, the goal stayed at something like "1 / 5" and the only way to reach five was to take material from beyond your stage — which the app asks about separately. The day now has an end. Reports reach an address on our own domain. "Report a bug", "Suggest a feature" and reports about the material now write to kazoekata@jd-japanese.pl. ### 1.1.5 — 2026-09-10 "Your Japanese" now shows all ten apps. Keigo, Onomatope, Kifuku and Shindan join at the end, in the order they were released; a row still appears only for an app you actually use. Progress from those four shows up at all – until now the app looked only for the files of the sister apps it knew about, so it had nowhere to appear even when it was there. "More Japanese" has four new cards: politeness, mimetics, pitch accent and a level test. Each one opens that app's App Store page. ### 1.1.4 — 2026-09-08 Wrong answers no longer differ by the number alone. In "how is this read" questions some of them used a different number than the one on screen, so you could rule them out by reading the digit — without knowing what the counter does to it. Wrong choices now keep the number and change the counter, which is the thing being asked about. The progress bar reaches the end on the last question. At "7 / 7" it sat exactly where it sat at 6 of 7, because the counter showed the question you were on while the bar showed the ones behind you. Reduce Motion is respected. Revealing readings and expanding sections animated regardless of the system setting; with the setting on, the change now happens at once. VoiceOver says what the sister app card and the session button will do, not only what they are. ### 1.1.3 — 2026-09-07 A counter introduces itself with two sentences, not one. 本 shown only next to a bottle teaches that 本 counts bottles; it counts a shape, and that shows once the umbrella stands beside the beer. In "which counter" questions the number and the gap after it are marked in the sentence. Nothing is given away — the counter is not in the sentence at all. VoiceOver no longer reads the answer aloud. On "how is this read" the screen deliberately showed 三本 without its reading, but the screen reader was handed the same characters in Japanese, and a Japanese voice pronounces them さんぼん. On "what does this mean" the correct tile was announced with the very reading the question asked about. "Only weak spots" now stands with the other ways to practice, instead of only inside the section that measures them. Answer tiles are the same height, and "set aside" no longer reads as "not practiced". Average answer time uses a decimal comma in Polish. ## More apps by Jakub Dwojak - [Kaname: Japanese Grammar](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kaname-japanese-grammar/id6801993668) - [Katsuyokei: Conjugation](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/katsuyokei-conjugation/id6802813564) - [Joshi: Japanese Particles](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/joshi-japanese-particles/id6803144744) - [Bunmyaku: Japanese Reading](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bunmyaku-japanese-reading/id6804188062) - [Kuzushi: Casual Japanese](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kuzushi-casual-japanese/id6805788146) All apps by Jakub Dwojak: https://appshunter.io/developer/6801993670 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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