# Pony: Learn Japanese & English — Together, taught in Chinese

> Together, taught in Chinese (iPhone/iPad app by Roma Tech LLC.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pony-learn-japanese-and-english/id6794539733 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Roma Tech LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/6794539735)
- Category: Education
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 199 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-29
- Data updated: 2026-10-31

## What is Pony?

A new way to learn Japanese and English at the same time.

Studying Japanese, and feeling your English slip? Pony puts both into the same lesson: one Chinese sentence, with its Japanese and its English side by side on the same card. Japanese is brand new; English gets woken back up. No second app, no second study session.

PLEASE READ BEFORE YOU DOWNLOAD
Pony's app interface (menus, buttons, settings) is in Chinese. The lesson cards are trilingual — Japanese, romaji, English and Chinese together — but navigating the app requires reading Chinese. Pony is built for Chinese speakers, not for English-only speakers.

ONE CARD, THREE WAYS TO SAY IT
"これ、おいしい！", "This is delicious!" and "这个好好吃！" are the same thing said three ways — side by side, so the differences are right in front of you. Sentences come with kana reading, romaji, English and Chinese.

WHAT'S INSIDE
• 18 chapters, 891 lessons of real scenes — office, shopping, business trips, sightseeing, then health and social topics. Each scene opens with the dialogue, then teaches the grammar it just used, then the words
• Japanese from N5 through N3; English mostly at junior-high level
• Kanji bridges — Japanese kanji explained side by side with the Chinese characters you already read; katakana loanwords matched to their English
• Speaking practice — record yourself in Japanese or English and get a pronunciation score. We never receive or store your recordings
• Kana learned in the background — a few rows at the start of each chapter, used right away; you know them all by the end of chapter 10. The kana chart and grammar chart are one tap away
• Gentle ramp — chapter 1 introduces 4 new words per lesson, easing up to 8 later; a placement test to start, spaced review on a forgetting-curve schedule

9,000+ cards for listening, speaking, reading and writing. Vocabulary comes with hand-drawn illustrations, and built-in audio reads both the Japanese and the English, offline.

Chapters 1–3 are free. To unlock everything, subscribe monthly, quarterly or yearly (new subscribers get a 7-day free trial on the yearly plan), or buy once for life.

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 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pony Pro Yearly | $29.99 | per year |
| Pony Pro Monthly | $3.99 | per month |
| Pony Pro Quarterly | $8.99 | per 3 months |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Unlock All Lessons | $69.99 | one-time |


## Is Pony safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Pony.

## Is Pony legit?

Pony: Learn Japanese & English has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Pony is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 4 releases)

### 1.0.3 — 2026-10-24

What's new in 1.0.3:
• Looking back at an earlier card: play buttons now work instead of jumping back to the current card, and dialogue cards no longer replay on their own.
• Fixed a few multiple-choice questions: the Japanese, English and Chinese shown after you answer are now that question's own sentence.
• Share cards are now signed with the app's name, Pony 小马.
• Clearer privacy wording when reporting a problem or deleting your account, matching our latest privacy policy.

### 1.0.2 — 2026-10-23

What's new in 1.0.2:
• New quarterly plan: subscribe monthly, quarterly or yearly, or buy once for life.
• More free content: the first 3 chapters are now completely free.
• Each lesson on the chapter page now shows its exercise types, with dialogues easy to spot.
• Fixed the correct-answer sound sometimes going silent, and a crash when playing sound effects on some devices.

### 1.0.1 — 2026-10-18

What's new in 1.0.1:
• Two new chapters, 17 and 18, bring the course to 18 chapters.
• Each chapter is now a single path, with a watercolor city beside chapters 1–16. Revisit every city you have passed in "Cities walked" on the Shelf.
• You can now open any chapter, city, stage or lesson introduction to look around; the unlock prompt appears only when you start a lesson.
• Speaking practice now works even when your iPhone has no offline speech pack for the language. The recording is recognized by Apple; we do not receive or store it. The Me tab shows the recognition status and how to turn on offline dictation.
• On fill-in, listening and word-recognition cards, "Continue" now stays pinned to the bottom of the screen. The right column of matching cards is no longer in answer order.
• Bug fixes and stability improvements.

### 1.0 — 2026-09-29

No release notes.

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