Bimoji vs Fun! Katakana
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bimoji
Master beautiful Japanese handwriting with this app. Practice hiragana, katakana, and hundreds of kanji characters with guided stroke order and scoring. Improve your writing for any occasion.
- Practice hiragana, katakana, and kanji
- Guided stroke order display
- Character scoring and feedback
- Repetition writing and progress tracking
- Model and suggestion display
- 300 new newspaper-common characters
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300 new characters commonly used in Japanese newspapers and other media have been added! The “Beautiful Japanese Handwriting” has been powered up with more characters to practice, focusing on characters that are often handwritten and commonly used in addresses and people’s names. There are many occasions when handwriting is required. If you can write beautifully, you can write with confidence on those occasions. It’s easy to think that writing beautiful handwriting is a matter of aesthetic sense or innate ability, but it is about getting the hang of how to make it look beautiful. In the “Beautiful Japanese Handwriting,” points for writing beautifully are displayed for each character in the model, and by being aware of these points, the character will change. ◆About the character to practice ・In addition to 46 hiragana and 46 katakana characters and 50 basic kanji characters that are often used in daily life, you can practice 300 kanji characters often used in newspapers and other media. ・The basic Kanji characters are selected from a mixture of basic character building blocks, so they can be applied to writing other Kanji characters. ・Displaying the stroke order helps you remember the correct character ・In the hiragana practice, the original kanji are also displayed for reference, so you can deepen your understanding of hiragana by practicing while visualizing the kanji. ◆Functions ・Equipped with the function of judging the characters by mark. ・Judging standard is graded by full marks. ・Model and suggestion is displayed when finished writing. ・Repetition writing is available! Your writing will be recored. You can see your progress by looking objectively. ・90 or more points is considered as “Beautiful Handwriting”. ・Judgment is expressed by the table. ・The difference of the first score and the top rating which came out after practice is displayed as a growing point. ・Sound ON/OFF ・Reset recording Beautiful characters can be written by writing over and over. Beautiful characters are the property of your life.
Fun! Katakana
This educational game helps children learn to write Japanese Katakana characters through interactive tracing exercises. Encouraging characters guide them as they practice, with a portion of the alphabet available for free and the full set unlockable via purchase.
- Learn to write Katakana
- Interactive tracing exercises
- Encouraging characters
- Full character set unlockable
- Family Sharing compatible
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Fun! Katakana is educational game App for kids learning the Japanese alphabet: Katakana. By tracing dashed line, your child learn to write perfect Katakana, all while receiving encouragement from cute characters! There is lots for your kids to do in Fun! Katakana. You'll receive 20 characters for FREE, and you can get the full 46 characters if purchased. *About Family Sharing Please purchase "Fun! Katakana (VPP compatible)", not from the purchase button in this app. *About VPP Compatible Version We also provide Volume Purchase Program (VPP) compatible version as another app for educational institutions and companies. Please visit "Volume Purchase Program" (https://vpp.itunes.apple.com/) and search "Fun! Katakana (VPP compatible)".
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Fun! Katakana at 93% against Bimoji's 9%. Fun! Katakana also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). Bimoji's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Fun! Katakana sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Bimoji asks for nothing beyond the download.
Bimoji ships an update every 6 weeks, Fun! Katakana every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bimoji | Fun! Katakana |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.8 (18 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 8.7% of reviews | 92.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 18 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 91 MB | 75 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gloding Inc. | Hajime Nakamura |
Customer experience
Bimoji
Fun! Katakana
In-app purchases
Bimoji
No in-app purchases
Fun! Katakana
- Full version$2.99
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