Comparison

Dekimasu vs Migaku

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Dekimasu

Master Japanese Kanji with this intuitive and effective learning app. Utilize a smart spaced repetition system, interactive canvas for stroke order practice, and keyword mnemonics to retain meanings. Break down complex characters and personalize your learning journey.

Highlights
  • Spaced Repetition System (SRS)
  • Interactive Kanji Canvas
  • Keyword Mnemonics
  • Radical Breakdown
  • Personalized Learning Journey
Features
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できます (Dekimasu): Master Japanese Kanji with Ease Unlock the Secrets of Kanji: Dive into the world of Japanese writing with Dekimasu – your personal kanji tutor! Whether you're a beginner or advancing in your studies, our app is designed to make kanji learning intuitive and effective. Spaced Repetition System (SRS): Say goodbye to forgetfulness! Our smart spaced repetition algorithm optimizes your study sessions, ensuring you remember kanji meanings longer and more effectively. Interactive Kanji Canvas: Practice makes perfect! Use our interactive canvas to master the art of kanji with guided stroke orders. It's like having a calligraphy expert in your pocket. Keyword Mnemonics: Every kanji in Dekimasu comes with a unique keyword, helping you anchor its meaning deeply in your memory. Create vivid story mnemonics with these keywords for an enjoyable and lasting learning experience. Radical Breakdown: Unravel complex kanji by understanding their radicals. Our app breaks down each character into simpler parts, making learning intricate kanji an enjoyable puzzle to solve. Personalized Learning Journey: Take control of your kanji learning. Spend extra time crafting memorable stories for tricky characters, or breeze through the ones you know. Our app adapts to your pace, ensuring a stress-free learning curve. Embark on your kanji journey with Dekimasu today – where learning meets creativity and efficiency!

About

Migaku

This app helps you learn languages by making content interactive. Click words in subtitles or text to get definitions, create flashcards, and personalize study sessions. It focuses on high-frequency words for efficient learning.

Highlights
  • Interactive subtitles for YouTube
  • One-click media-rich flashcard creation
  • Personalized study sessions
  • Data-driven courses for beginners
  • Word frequency-based vocabulary learning
  • AI sentence breakdown and explanations
Features
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Learning languages is actually pretty simple: if you consume content you enjoy, and you understand that content, you will make progress. Period. Migaku (and its Chrome browser extension) enables you to do that: 1. Our courses take you from zero to 80% comprehension in ~6 months (10 cards/day) 2. We make text interactive: click words in your phone's YouTube subtitles to see what they mean 3. We let you make media-rich flashcards out of those words with one click 4. We make personalized study sessions out of the flashcards you create 5. Repeat! Whether you're learning Japanese, Mandarin, Korean, Spanish, Italian, German, Cantonese, Portuguese, English, French or Vietnamese, Migaku equips you with the tools you need to make real progress. Migaku requires a paid subscription to access its courses, features, and AI tools. Migaku – AI Language Learning Tool ■ How languages are really learned: If you want to watch movies in other languages, then you need to learn languages with movies. If you want to read books in other languages, then you need to learn languages by reading. As you spend more time doing the things you enjoy doing in the language you're learning, you'll build the unique skills you need to more easily do those things. Unfortunately, it's difficult to read books and watch movies in another language as a beginner. And that's where Migaku comes in ■ Data-driven courses for beginners The problem with most apps and textbooks is that they teach you what someone else thinks language learners need to know, and those things may not reflect what you actually need to learn to do the things that are important to you. This matters because not all words are used equally often: while a college-educated native speaker knows ~30,000 words, you only need to know ~1,500 words to recognize 80% of the words in modern media. Our flashcard-based courses teach you these ~1,500 words—the ones that are useful to everyone, no matter their goals—plus a few hundred basic grammar points. What makes our courses special is that every "next" flashcard contains only one new word, making Migaku's learning curve super smooth. You're always learning something new, but never overwhelmed. It's a fluent language learning approach. Migaku courses are currently available for Japanese, Mandarin, and Korean. ■ Turn subtitles and text into interactive language learning opportunities Migaku makes texts interactive: just click on words to see what they mean. You can also hear audio recordings from native speakers, reference images of the term, check example sentences, get an AI explanation of what the word means in context, have AI break sentences down for you word-by-word, or see a translation of the sentence that your word appears in. Basically, Migaku lets you consume content in another language as if you knew as many words as a native speaker. Our mobile app supports YouTube, manually pasted content, and physical content like books or street signs. Our Chrome extension supports web pages and several popular streaming websites. ■ Create custom study cards or import language flashcards Find a useful looking word while consuming content? Turn it into a high-quality flashcard with one button, and Migaku's spaced repetition language practice algorithm will create personalized study sessions for you. You'll be nudged to review these flashcards periodically, ensuring you remember them. Decks designed for the Anki flashcard app can be converted for use with Migaku, too. ■ Study anywhere, even offline Migaku's courses and any flashcards you make are available offline and automatically sync between all of your devices. ■ Learn multiple languages at once A single Migaku subscription gives you access to all of Migaku's languages and lets you use all of Migaku's features and AI language learning tools as much as you want. - - - Immerse → enjoy → improve

Screenshots

Dekimasu4 screens
Migaku4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Dekimasu at 5.0 against Migaku's 4.4. Dekimasu also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 15). Migaku's advantage is ratings volume (360 vs 6) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Migaku sells 13 in-app purchases, starting at $14.00 per month. Dekimasu asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Dekimasu holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Migaku has 360 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dekimasu ships an update every 10 days, Migaku weekly. The most recent releases landed on June 5, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Dekimasu versus Migaku: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDekimasuMigaku
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings) — better4.4 (360 ratings)
Positive reviews—73.3% of reviews
Number of ratings6360 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size92 MB1.9 GB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperChris BrownMigaku Inc.

Customer experience

Dekimasu

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Migaku

All ratings360 ratings
Positive84.7%
Neutral1.4%
Negative13.9%
Written reviews232 reviews
Positive73.3%
Neutral3.0%
Negative23.7%

Bugs and requests

Dekimasu

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Migaku

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Unable to create new accounts in the app
  • Broken kanji course with empty cards
  • Inconsistent behavior when switching between apps

Requested features

4 requests
  • Offline mode for learning on the go
  • Expanded support for more languages
  • Better integration with Anki and other SRS apps
  • More customization options for flashcards and reviews

In-app purchases

None

Dekimasu

No in-app purchases

13 purchases

Migaku

Subscriptions8
  • Migaku Standard2 variants$14.001 Month
  • Migaku Standard7 Days trial$14.001 Month
  • Early Access2 variants$21.001 Month
Show 5 more
  • Early Access7 Days trial$21.001 Month
  • Migaku Standard$136.991 Year
  • Migaku Standard7 Days trial$136.991 Year
  • Early Access$179.991 Year
  • Early Access7 Days trial$179.991 Year
One-time5
  • Lifetime$214.99
  • Lifetime$289.00
  • Lifetime$344.99
Show 2 more
  • Lifetime$359.00
  • Lifetime$719.00

Questions

Is Dekimasu free?
Dekimasu is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Migaku free?
Migaku is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Dekimasu or Migaku?
Dekimasu is rated higher. Dekimasu averages 5.0 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while Migaku averages 4.4 from 360 ratings.
Do Dekimasu or Migaku have ads?
Neither Dekimasu nor Migaku shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Dekimasu or Migaku?
Dekimasu ships an update every 10 days, and Migaku weekly. Most recently, Dekimasu was updated on June 5, 2026 and Migaku on September 22, 2026.

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