Nihongo Catch! vs NihonGO Dominos

Why not make mastering Japanese more fun? Just reading a textbook is often not enough to truly learn how to use Japanese. If that sounds familiar, this app is here to help. Nihongo Catch is a completely new kind of Japanese learning app, packed with all the fun and convenience that only a smartphone can offer. Whether you are just starting to learn Japanese or aiming to pass an exam, this app helps you catch Japanese you can actually use in real life. 【Watch: Understand intuitively through animation】 Even difficult grammar points are explained through charming animated characters. You can instantly see and understand how things work, so learning feels smooth and enjoyable. 【Touch: Game-like quizzes】 The app is filled with quizzes where you move blocks with your finger to build sentences. As you play as if solving puzzles, correct Japanese starts to come naturally. 【Speak: Your voice becomes your strength】 With speech recognition, you can check your pronunciation. By practicing speaking to the app again and again, you will gain the confidence to communicate in Japanese. 【Feel at ease: Support in 5 languages】 The app supports English, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Nepali, and Chinese. Whenever something is unclear, you can check it in your own language, so you can keep learning without giving up halfway. 【Convenient: Anytime, anywhere】 Once lessons are downloaded, you can keep studying even without an internet connection. That means you can make the most of spare moments and study whenever and wherever it suits you. From pronunciation and writing systems to the proper use of polite expressions, the app offers a full set of 84 lessons. It covers everything from the basics to more advanced content, making it a great choice for learners aiming to pass the JLPT N3. Download it now and step into a whole new world of Japanese.

NihonGO Dominos is built for the intermediate phase of Japanese — the long climb from finishing a beginner course to reading everyday text on your own. A stretch where progress feels slow, and what helps most is rapid, repeated exposure to the building blocks of the language. —— ONE MECHANIC —— The whole loop is a domino tile. Tap to peek the back. Hold or double-tap to retire it. One thumb, on the train, every day. Tiles glow bone → amber → orange → vermilion as you cycle through them, and items you actually struggle with land in a Challenge Box for spaced repetition — only where it pays off. —— THREE PILLARS —— 語彙 Goi (Vocabulary) — 6,369 tiles in frequency tiers. Verbs, adjectives, adverbs, nouns, conjunctions, and 50 number tables (counters, time words, proportions). Every entry validated against JMdict. ~98% coverage of everyday text at the top of the pool. 6,932 example sentences, individually composed — every sentence built from words already in the corpus, and every one of them read aloud in a natural Japanese voice. A further 2,242 vocabulary entries ship as lookup cards, each with its own spoken example, so a tapped word in any sentence lands on a real card instead of nothing. 文法 Bunpou (Grammar) — 669 grammar patterns spanning JLPT N5 through N1, hand-curated under sensei supervision. One specific surface form per tile. Cross-checked against established grammar references. ~94–96% coverage in general texts. On 109 of them a 形 button shows the pattern's other forms, from written to casual. 漢字 Kanji (Characters) — 2,136 kanji: the Kyōiku elementary set plus JLPT N5–N2 in eight frequency tiers, then the rest of N1 in six more, ranked by a blended newspaper-and-encyclopedia frequency score. Each card has the glyph with colored radicals, kun and on readings, English gloss, a hand-written mnemonic, KanjiVG stroke-order animation, and compound examples that link back into Goi. ~95% coverage of everyday reading. —— TWO REFERENCE SETS —— 部首 Bushu (Radicals) — All 214 Kangxi radicals. Tap any radical to see the kanji that contain it. 仮名 Kana — 232 hiragana, katakana, and extended foreign-sound katakana, organized by row, vowel, and modifier. —— TILES THAT LINK —— Over 50,000 tap-to-jump links run through the corpus. In example sentences, follow any tappable word straight to its own card. In Kanji cards, the compound examples link back into Goi. The app is an integrated reading environment, not a stack of separate flashcards. —— WHAT WE DON'T DO —— No invented "Lesson 1, Lesson 2" curriculum — order is frequency. Tier 1 is what you'll meet first in real Japanese; the last tier is what you'll meet last. (If you'd rather browse by JLPT level, there's a toggle in Settings — same pool, re-bucketed: kanji from N5 all the way to N1, grammar N5 to N2 with the N1 patterns in the frequency tiers.) No drowning in SRS queues. The main loop is rapid, repeated exposure by flipping tiles. The Challenge Box is a Leitner-style safety net for items you've genuinely struggled with — not the front door. No production drills. Recognition is the skill; production follows from input. No accounts. No tracking. No analytics. No ads. No data collected. No internet required after install. —— iCLOUD SYNC —— Your Challenge Box and study progress sync between your iPhone and iPad through your own iCloud account, so you can switch devices and pick up where you left off. The sync runs through Apple. We never see your data. —— FOR WHOM —— Built for serious intermediate learners. You can read hiragana and katakana, you've worked through a beginner course, and you want to push from "I can read simple sentences" to "I can read newspapers, novels, blogs, manga." If you're a true beginner, finish a beginner course first and come back. If you're already comfortable with monolingual Japanese dictionaries, you're past us. Everyone else — this is the tool we built because we couldn't find it.