Bimoji vs Banana Cards
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.
Banana Cards
This educational game helps toddlers learn new words through interactive image selection. It focuses on nouns, speaking words aloud and requiring users to pick the matching picture, avoiding written text to prevent pronunciation errors.
- Interactive word learning
- Image-based noun recognition
- Audio pronunciation
- No written content
- Designed for toddlers
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Banana cards is a fun, intuitive, word learning game. I say word learning because the app just teaches nouns (in the simplest way possible). It speaks words and you have to choose the appropriate image. There's no written content (which helps avoid pronunciation mistakes). I designed Banana Cards to help my own baby girl learn her first words. I hope it can help many children.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Banana Cards at 100% against Bimoji's 9%. Bimoji's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 6 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Bimoji ships an update every 6 weeks, Banana Cards every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bimoji | Banana Cards |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 8.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 91 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gloding Inc. | Jacob Miller |
Customer experience
Bimoji
Banana Cards
In-app purchases
Bimoji
No in-app purchases
Banana Cards
No in-app purchases
Questions
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