NihongoLoop vs YangMAL

Learn Japanese a few minutes at a time. NihongoLoop turns hiragana, katakana, kanji, vocabulary, grammar, listening and speaking into short practice loops you can finish anywhere. Instead of long lessons, you get quick, focused exercises that build a real daily habit. Read, listen, answer and speak — then let the app bring back the items you keep missing until they stick. WHAT YOU CAN PRACTICE • Hiragana and katakana drills, plus a Time Attack mode • A full kana dictionary with your accuracy for every row • Vocabulary and kanji reading with image hints and natural-sounding audio • Useful everyday phrases, in both directions • Grammar exercises for particles and sentence patterns • Listening prompts with pre-recorded pronunciation • Speaking practice with pronunciation checks • A new mixed Daily Challenge every day • Situational mixes: konbini, restaurant, train station, hotel and more BUILT FOR CONSISTENCY • Loops take just a few minutes • Streaks and achievements keep you coming back • Stats show your accuracy and recent answers • Weak Items automatically collects your mistakes for focused review LEARN IN YOUR LANGUAGE The whole app, including word meanings and feedback, is available in English, Español, Português (Brasil), Français, Deutsch, Italiano and 한국어. Perfect for beginners and early intermediate learners, JLPT N5 and N4 preparation, anime and manga fans, and anyone planning a trip to Japan. PREMIUM NihongoLoop is free to use. Optional auto-renewable Premium subscriptions remove ads and unlock AI speaking exercises, Weak Items review, custom loop length and unlimited retries. Payment is charged to your store account and renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

YangMAL is a serious, no-nonsense Korean vocabulary trainer. Thousands of hand-checked words and idioms, real flashcard mechanics, and zero ads, accounts, subscriptions, or tracking. Everything you study stays on your device. FOUR MAIN DECKS: • Beginner — 1,000+ everyday words with example sentences, organized into 10 topic packs • Intermediate — 1,000+ everyday verbs, adjectives, and connectors a step up from the basics • Advanced — nearly 900 words of formal/academic register and abstract concepts • Idioms — 220 idioms, proverbs, and set expressions used constantly in real Korean media and conversation Every deck is split into topic packs so you can drill exactly the category you need, or shuffle a random mix across everything. SCAN REAL KOREAN TEXT INTO VOCABULARY Point your camera at a menu, a sign, a book page, or any real Korean text, and YangMAL reads it on-device and turns whatever it recognizes into flashcards. No photo is ever saved or uploaded. Pick multiple photos or files at once to scan a whole chapter in one pass, tag scans by book and chapter (or whatever category makes sense), and manage or delete what you've scanned anytime. FLASHCARDS THAT ACTUALLY HELP YOU LEARN • Flip, shuffle, and track what you know vs. what you're still learning • A session timeline you can scrub through to jump back to any word you've seen • "Connects to" badges surface related words as you study • A Speed Round drills you through just the words you don't know yet, against the clock FIVE HANGUL TYPE STYLES Study in Nanum Brush Script, Nanum Myeongjo, Nanum Gothic, Nanum Pen Script, or Gowun Batang. Switch anytime, it applies everywhere instantly. TRACK YOUR PROGRESS, YOUR WAY Charts and pack-mastery badges show real progress. Export the words you don't know yet as a PDF or text study sheet. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS In a world where every app wants a cloud account and a subscription to "save your progress," YangMAL doesn't. Your progress backs up to a single encrypted file you control. AirDrop it, save it, move it to another device, whatever you want. No account, no server, no analytics, no tracking of any kind. Whether you're starting from scratch or already reading real Korean and just need to fill in the gaps, YangMAL is built to actually get you there.