Tanuki Sensei vs NihonGoToGo

Tanuki Sensei is a focused Japanese practice app for beginners. Build a strong foundation through structured free practice in Hiragana and Katakana, with additional practice in beginner Kanji, vocabulary, grammar, and Japanese numbers. Train reading, listening, recognition, writing, and recall through a variety of short, focused exercises. The app adapts to your progress, bringing back the characters, words, and concepts you are still learning while reducing repetition for the ones you already know. WHAT'S INSIDE • Free Hiragana and Katakana practice • Beginner Kanji with readings, meanings, audio, and tracing • Vocabulary, grammar, and Japanese numbers • Exercises for reading, listening, typing, tracing, matching, and sentence building • Adaptive reviews based on your performance • Daily missions, XP, levels, and streaks • Start practicing without creating an account Open Tanuki Sensei and begin your first practice session in under a minute.

NihonGoToGo helps you learn Japanese one card at a time — calmly, privately, and at your own pace. Built around spaced repetition, it shows you each card right before you're about to forget it, so the essentials stick without hours of drilling. Start with the writing systems and move into the vocabulary you need for JLPT N5. WHAT YOU'LL STUDY • Hiragana and Katakana — the two core Japanese syllabaries • JLPT N5 core vocabulary • Numbers and everyday basics • More decks as you progress DESIGNED TO BE SIMPLE • Spaced repetition (SRS) schedules your reviews automatically • Set your own daily goal — study as little or as much as you like • Flip cards with clean, readable typography • Track your progress and daily streak PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no sign-up, no ads • Your progress stays on your device and syncs acros iCloud • Nothing is sent to any server we control FREE, WITH NO SUBSCRIPTION NihonGoToGo is completely free and the whole app is helps you and you'd like to support development,there's an optional one-time tip in the Configuration tab — but it unlocks nothing, because there's nothing locked. Start with your first deck today and build a Japanese habit that lasts.