Hourly Kana: Learn Japanese

Learn Japanese from your home screen. Hourly Kana brings new words into your day with widgets and reminders, then helps you build from hiragana and katakana to kanji and JLPT vocabulary.

A NEW WORD, THROUGHOUT YOUR DAY
Add a widget to your home screen, or to your lock screen on supported Android devices, and choose scheduled word reminders. Set your own pace and quiet hours. Open a word for its reading, meaning, example sentences and Japanese pronunciation audio.

FROM YOUR FIRST KANA TO JLPT N1
Learn hiragana and katakana in Foundations with listening drills and character-building exercises. Take a placement test or choose vocabulary from JLPT N5–N1. Follow the kana-first path or study with Kanji First as your reading develops.

MAKE YOUR VOCABULARY STICK
• Review difficult words with personal flashcards and short quizzes.
• Practice handwriting, reading and listening.
• Learn grammar through sentences and answer explanations.
• Import Anki plain-text exports or build custom decks.
• Follow your collection, learning history and progress.

Keep learning with offline access and optional account sync with email or Google sign-in. No ads. Add a widget and make Japanese part of your daily routine.

Start with a free one-day preview. After 24 hours, a monthly or yearly Google Play subscription is required to continue.

Choose your interface language in Settings. Some learning content is available only in English.

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Recent changes:
Smarter, lighter reviews: words you know well now wait longer, and words you're starting to forget come back sooner. Your progress carries over. Tap your Stats to see Learning, Familiar, Mastered and Needs practice words. Reviews ask before showing the meaning, and you can mark any word as new. Kanji words show their on and kun readings, romaji follows your setting at every level, and there's a new lifetime option. Plus audio and sync fixes.