Ittekimasu vs YangMAL

Moving to Japan means two problems at once: a pile of paperwork with deadlines you cannot see, and a language you will need on the day you land. Ittekimasu handles both. A CHECKLIST WITH DATES ON IT Pick your visa route and your target move date, and the checklist builds itself — visa paperwork, housing, banking, the ward office run, the things nobody warns you about. Every task carries its own date, counted forward or back from the day you arrive, so you always know what is next rather than what exists. The checklist keeps going past your arrival. Registering your address, opening a bank account, the phone contract — they are already on the list, waiting. THE JAPANESE YOU WILL ACTUALLY USE Kana first, because that is the real wall. Both syllabaries are a chart you tap through and hear, 104 characters each — a reference, not a deck, so reading it costs you nothing and needs no connection. Then vocabulary, scheduled by spaced repetition. The front of a card is the word as written; the back is the reading and the meaning, so you recall how to say it and not only what it means. Cannot read kana yet? Readings start in romaji — a card reads "otoko - man" rather than "おとこ - man" — and one switch in Settings turns romaji off everywhere the day you would rather be tested. The Ward Office deck is the differentiator: the vocabulary of registering your address, enrolling in health insurance and opening a bank account. Fifty-five cards you will not find grouped this way in a textbook. A SESSION THAT DECIDES ITSELF Open a deck and today is already worked out: everything due comes back first, then at most ten cards you have never met. Clear it and the deck tells you the day it returns rather than pretending to be finished. The silence between sessions is the method, not a gap in it. Every answer shows you exactly when the card comes back, so honest self-rating costs you nothing. Tapped the wrong button? One step of undo, no confirmation dialog. BUILT FOR A REAL LIFE Works offline. Your decks are cached on the device, and answers given on a plane are queued and sent when you land — they survive the app being closed. No punitive streaks. A day with nothing due does not break anything; clearing a deck buys you quiet by design, and losing a streak for that would punish you for doing the work. One daily reminder, at an hour you choose in your own timezone, and only when there is something worth opening. FREE, AND WHAT PRO ADDS Free: the complete checklist for your visa route, both kana charts, the JLPT N5 deck, 20 reviews a day, streaks and the daily reminder. Ittekimasu Pro: JLPT N4, JLPT N3 and the Ward Office deck, and no daily review limit. New cards stay paced at ten per deck a day on Pro too — that pacing is what spaced repetition is; what Pro removes is the cap on reviewing what you have already met. Both plans start with a 7-day free trial. Not moving to Japan? Choose the language-only path in onboarding and go straight to the decks. IMPORTANT The checklist is a planning tool written from common experience. It is not immigration advice. Always confirm requirements with the Immigration Services Agency of Japan and with your employer's HR. 行ってきます — I'm off, and I'll be back.

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.