# perapera: learn japanese — JLPT vocabulary & grammar > JLPT vocabulary & grammar (iPhone/iPad app by Zoe GALBOIS.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/perapera-learn-japanese/id6802783912 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Zoe GALBOIS](https://appshunter.io/developer/6783253167) - Category: Education - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 26.5 · 31 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-09-01 - Data updated: 2026-11-10 ## What is perapera? a word crammed once is a word forgotten. a word reviewed at the right moment sticks. perapera teaches japanese from both ends: 12,691 words from N5 to N1, and 238 N5 and N4 grammar points, all explained in english. you type your answers on the keyboard, in kana or kanji: no forgiving multiple choice where you can recognize a word without being able to produce it. GRAMMAR, IN SCENES 51 lessons that mix N5 and N4 in the order you actually need them, not all the particles at once. each point first appears in a scene by the river, with Hana and Mira, then comes back in reviews just like a word. nuance duels pit commonly confused points against each other: one sentence, two answers, one right choice. A KOI TO FEED your vocabulary lives around a pond. every review feeds your koi, and it grows through twelve forms all the way to a dragon. words are sorted by theme into aquariums. AN ORGANIZED MEMORY spaced repetition brings each word back right before you'd forget it. ten stages, from 4 hours to four months, from apprentice to the final rank, 永, engraved. every word moves at its own pace: the one you keep missing comes back sooner, the one you've got spaces out. CONJUGATION, WITH THE FERRYMAN knowing 食べる without knowing 食べなかった means knowing a word you can't actually use. seventeen forms, from polite forms to the causative-passive, across 3,892 verbs and adjectives. nine of these forms, the polite ones, the plain ones, and て, are free. every verb class is checked against the source, because 帰る, 走る, and 入る look like ichidan verbs without being one, and an app that gets this wrong is worse than no app at all. NINE GAMES AT THE RIVER FESTIVAL かるた, the word is read aloud, grab the right card before time runs out. 神経衰弱, japanese memory, word against meaning. しりとり, chain a word onto the last syllable of the one before. 紛らわしい, lookalike words face to face, which of the six さす is it? 語順, put the japanese sentence back in order. plus: fill-in-the-blank, tile puzzles, a 60-second blitz, and the haunted house. A PATH, NOT A LIST 登竜門, the carp that swims up the river and becomes a dragon. twenty stations from the river mouth to the waterfall, and every word you learn moves you forward. WHAT TEXTBOOKS DON'T TELL YOU 48 illustrated onomatopoeia: ぺこぺこ doesn't mean "hungry," it's the hollow feeling in your stomach used as an adjective. 27 proverbs, one a day, with the gap between the literal words and the actual meaning. 643 groups of words that sound identical and get mixed up constantly, put face to face. the pitch accent of every word and its kanji breakdown. AND ALSO timed mock exams, from N5 to N1. three pixel art palettes: soft candy, blue hour, milk tea. stats and review forecasts. iCloud sync across all your devices. a bilingual french and english app, everything works offline. PERAPERA PLUS the 783 words of N5 are free forever, plus 150 more words wherever you want them, at a pace of ten new words a day. all of N5 grammar and ten N4 points are free too. the other 11,908 words, a slider up to fifty words a day, the other 123 N4 grammar points, the eight advanced conjugation forms, and mock exams from N4 to N1 are part of perapera Plus: a monthly or yearly subscription, with a free trial. staying free, and staying free for good: the nine games, the koi, the river, the N5 mock exam, stats, and iCloud sync. what the free tier gave you stays yours, subscribed or not. what the subscription unlocked pauses if it ends, never deleted, and handed back exactly as it was, srs level included, if you come back. perapera is built by one person. no studio, no investors, your subscription directly funds the next words and the next features. thank you for supporting it. ペラペラ, may it eventually come out on its own. terms of use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **Subscriptions** | Subscription | Price | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | perapera plus - monthly | $2.99 | per month | | perapera plus — yearly | $17.99 | per year | ## Is perapera safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess perapera. ## Is perapera legit? perapera: learn japanese has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for perapera is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 3 releases) ### 1.2 — 2026-11-06 the biggest perapera update yet. what's new 文法, grammar is here: 238 N5 and N4 points, across 51 mixed lessons. each point first appears in a scene by the river, then comes back in reviews just like a word. a koi to feed: vocabulary now centers on your pond. every review feeds it, and it grows through twelve forms all the way to a dragon. 縁日: the games move to the river festival, stall by stall. the whole app is redrawn in pixel art, with three color palettes to choose from. conjugation now happens with the ferryman and his boat. fixes the dictionary kept getting checked word by word, all the way to N1. ### 1.1 — 2026-09-17 a big update, after a long time without a new version. what's new the whole app has been redrawn to finally look like what it says it is: a real pixel font on titles, tabs and counters, raised windows instead of flat ones, sunken input fields, the active tab pressed in like a button, and a light panel effect over the screen, like a liquid crystal handheld. the screen effect can be turned off in settings if you prefer a perfectly clean image. japanese particles now have their own learning path, on a new cartridge switch screen: one tap to go from vocabulary to grammar. the rakugaki bridge: words made entirely of kanji you already know how to write are surfaced first, to learn the vocabulary for what you can already write. your own words, including bulk import from a CSV file (perapera Plus), sorted into your own categories. in the mini-games, you can now choose which words to play with: new ones, your most missed, or random. fixes an old bug badly merged words that exist in two forms, with and without する (like 勉強 and 勉強する): the broken entries this left behind are now repaired. missing a word you already knew well now drops it two tiers instead of one, to stay true to spaced repetition. the daily streak counted wrong around midnight, fixed. duplicate entries created by syncing between devices now merge automatically, keeping the more advanced progress of the two. "i already know this" now sends a word straight to the last tier instead of a middle one. over a hundred french translations reviewed, including several outright wrong ones. the entire dictionary was checked against a japanese reference: あちら said "this way" instead of "over there", すれちがい promised a chance meeting when the word means the exact opposite, そこら was given as "everywhere". a truncated duplicate and a typo were removed, and around twenty entries whose english translation was cut in the middle of a parenthesis are repaired. this word-by-word review is now complete for the N5, N4 and N3 levels: 157 corrections across the 783 N5 words, 151 across the 718 N4 words, and 222 across the 2507 N3 words. the N2 and N1 levels will get the same treatment in an upcoming update. reported issues now actually leave the phone instead of staying stuck locally. ### 1.0 — 2026-09-01 No release notes. ## Apps similar to perapera | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Perapera AI -Language Learning](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/perapera-ai-language-learning/id6761471835) | 5.0 (2) | Free | Education | | [Kanji World](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kanji-world/id6759068086) | — | Free | Education | | [Kinu Reader](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kinu-reader/id6770064230) | — | Free | Education | | [MASUMASU: JLPT Vocab N5–N1](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/masumasu-jlpt-vocab-n5n1/id6760101525) | — | Free | Education | | [JLPT N5 Vocabulary 700](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/jlpt-n5-vocabulary-700/id6781198452) | — | Free | Education | | [Kanji Mnemonics: JLPT N5-N1](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kanji-mnemonics-jlpt-n5-n1/id6801383438) | — | Free | Education | ## More apps by Zoe GALBOIS - [rakugaki : write kanji](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/rakugaki-write-kanji/id6783253165) All apps by Zoe GALBOIS: https://appshunter.io/developer/6783253167 ## Related topics [dokidokivocab](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/dokidokivocab) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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