Bunchuu vs Patapa

Bunchuu is a beautiful, fast, native companion app for WaniKani. Do your lessons and reviews anywhere — then go further, and meet every kanji where it lives: in real sentences. VOCABULARY IN CONTEXT Real context sentences for every vocabulary item. Furigana readings and plain-English grammar notes, one tap away. Translations stay veiled until you ask, so you can test yourself first. YOUR STUDIES, YOUR PACE Hand-pick exactly which radicals, kanji, and vocabulary to learn next. Review in batches, choose the ordering, and ask meaning and reading back to back — or far apart. Typo tolerance, your own synonyms, an automatic kana keyboard, and a leech threshold you control. WANIKANI'S SRS, SYNCED Works fully offline — lessons, reviews, and every mnemonic are cached on your device, and progress syncs when you're back online. Your progress lives in your WaniKani account, so you can switch between Bunchuu and the website at any time. Accuracy, streaks, and review history for every item. WATCH YOUR PROGRESS RISE Every level and every SRS stage, at a glance. Get notified the moment reviews are ready. A DELIGHTFUL PLACE TO STUDY A watercolor world, from the radicals to the snack breaks. Beautiful enough to make reviews feel like a treat. Full dark mode. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No Bunchuu account, no analytics, no tracking. Your study data syncs directly between your device and your WaniKani account. Bunchuu requires an active WaniKani account (wanikani.com). WaniKani's free trial covers its first three levels, so you can try both together. Bunchuu is an unofficial third-party app and is not affiliated with WaniKani or Tofugu, LLC.

Patapa gives you one short Japanese story every day, written for your JLPT level, from N5 to N1. Read it. Tap any word you don't know and see its reading and meaning right there in the text. Listen to the story read aloud, one sentence at a time. Answer five questions about what you read. Tomorrow there is a new story. Kuro, a three-legged crow, reads along with you. He is dry, a little playful, and never scolds. STORIES • A new story every day at every level, N5 to N1: everyday scenes, seasons, work, school, food, the occasional crow • Everyone on a level reads the same story that day • Furigana on every kanji, or hide it when you're ready. Romaji too, if you need it. • Tap any word for its reading and meaning. Save the ones you want to keep. • Read aloud: hear the whole story, with the sentence being spoken highlighted • Five questions after each story. A wrong answer shows the right one at once, with the sentence it came from. You never get stuck. • The last few stories stay on the shelf if you missed a day WORDS • Five new JLPT words a day, each with an example sentence, usually one from the stories • A short review quiz that brings old words back just before you forget them • A quick quiz whenever you have a spare minute VERBS • A conjugation drill with the verbs from your level • Plain and polite forms: ます, ません, ない, た, て and the rest of the everyday set • Say the answer, then check it. The stem is greyed out, so you only look at the ending. KANJI • Draw kanji in stroke order and see the words they live in WHAT YOU DON'T GET • No account needed. Open it and read. • No ads, no tracking, nothing collected. Everything stays on your phone. • No points or coins. Just a story. Patapa is new and still growing. Tell us what you'd like to see: hello@patapa.app