StickyStudy Japanese Kana (Hiragana & Katakana) app for iPhone and iPad

4.0 ( 880 ratings )

Productivity Education
Developer: Stickystudy

1.99 USD

Current version: 4.03, last update: 6 years ago
First release : 30 Jul 2010
App size: 11.23 Mb

** New kana writing trainer **

Need to learn Japanese katakana and hiragana in a few days using the best SRS method?

*** REVIEWS ***
"I learned the entire Hiragana syllabary -- thats 71 symbols yall -- in one session of 3 hours and 33 minutes!"
"Best app for learning Kana"
"If you want to learn the kanas well, get this app."
"This app is by far the best way to get you foot in the door with the Japanese Kana."
"Very easy and intuitive, highly recomended! I mastered hiragana in 10 days"
"Bellissima!!!!!!!"
"This tool is perfect for what it is designed to do. I you want to learn the kanas well, get this app."
"Very thoughtfully designed"
"After a few disappointing purchases for learning Japanese, here is a program that outperforms the others. No hesitation to have if you are learning kana"
"Ive spent at least 15 minutes of my free time each day to use this app, and Im extremely impressed with the results."
"This app is great. Was able to learn all the hiragana in a couple hours. And it sticks. I retest myself and I just fly through answers."
"Amazing!"
"Quick, fun and necessary"
"Im so surprised at how quickly Im learning the hiragana that I didnt know! Ive spent so much money on other apps when this was all that I should have purchased! Thank you!"
"Concise and practical .. Within a week, I mastered all of them"
"All memory based learning should be like this."
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Main Features

◆ Beautiful "Map" Interface
All kana are shown as one large map that you can freely scroll and zoom around in. Depending on your progress, each sticky is assigned a colour from red to green.

◆ Writing Practice
View all kana stroke order animations and be guided how to write each and every one of them with the built in trainer. When ready, test your skills in study mode.

◆ Audio
Clear audio from a native speaker (as opposed to "not quite right" synthesised audio) for all characters and words.

◆ Examples
Each sticky is cross-referenced with common example words (with English romaji).

◆ 4 Decks Included
Hiragana, Katakana, Kana combinations and must know kana words.

◆ Leitner Study Method = Awesome
StickyStudy remembers your progress for every character and adjusts the testing frequency accordingly.

◆ History
Your study progress is constantly updated in a rolling bar chart.

*** Summary ***

◆ A beautiful, smooth, free scrolling "map" interface
◆ Full Hiragana & Katakana included
◆ Stroke animations for all characters
◆ Writing practice for all characters
◆ Audio for all characters and words
◆ Real world examples that youll actually use
◆ Romaji for all example words
◆ SRS Study algorithm
◆ Background iCloud syncing
◆ Filtering, sorting and searching
◆ iCloud background syncing
◆ Study calendar guides you every day
◆ Rolling progress statistics
◆ Numerous customisation options
◆ Universal app. iOS8+. iPad Pro ready.
◆ "Launch Centre Pro" = "stickystudykana://"
◆ Awesome support

Twitter: @justininjapan
WWW: http://stickystudy.com/
Email: [email protected]

Im Justin. Ive lived in Japan since 2002 and Im married to my Japanese wife (lovingly called "Spellchecker"). Ive taken the JLPT tests up to L1 and Im still going. I speak, read and write Japanese fluently and Im an overactive developer who really should relax a little more.

Pros and cons of StickyStudy Japanese Kana (Hiragana & Katakana) app for iPhone and iPad

StickyStudy Japanese Kana (Hiragana & Katakana) app good for

Greatest app to learn hiragana and katakana. The feature with seting a timelimit is really great. It will show you during you learn either how long you studied or how many cards you have to get right until you reach your daily goal. Feedback there is a great studie setting with katakan examples, why are there no hiragana examples?

I really love practicing my Japanese every day with this great app. Special thanks to Justin for the improved Apple Pencil Support on the iPad Pro 12". Keep on your great job!

Good way of learning hiragana. Used in conjunction with another program and learned all the words in half a week

Great interface and the studying system works really well! Best of all, its free!!!

This is a nice app: very useful for learning, remembering and practising stroke order of Kana. However, I think the flash card randomisation could be improved. For a relatively small set of characters that needs repeated re-learning, the app presents the flash cards in a consistent (and thus, predictable) order. This means that the learner could remember the order instead of the character to get it right the next time. This is despite the fact that I have chosen Auto Randomisation in the settings. Unless this is expected from the SRS algorithm, the character picked from the set should be chosen with a call to arc4random_uniform with the current set size as the upper bound. Nonetheless, overall, a very useful app.

Bug with old iPhone solved. For me this is the clearest, good looking and best to improve ひらがな and カタカナ I really good!!!

Some bad moments

I admit as a programmer I implemented a kana quizzer in some ways like this many years ago. Always wondered why nobody made programs that quizzed fast and intelligently. This goes quite beyond my young attempts and is the most interesting/fastest Japanese language learner Ive seen. I was fascinated to find that I retained the characters so quickly (it had been a dozen years since school) and got past the hard characters I always had trouble with. All memory based learning should be like this. More, please.

It doesnt have any unnecessary features and is focused on learning the characters. Showing characters you missed more frequently really speeds up learning. Not buggy at all and its free!

I installed it and began using it at once. I learned the entire Hiragana syllabary -- thats 71 symbols yall -- in one session of 3 hours and 33 minutes! I plan on working with it 30 minutes everyday this week to solidify my learning.

This app has an excellent interface and what not, needs a stroke guide and fix that damn bug where you cant see the options thing, when you click the folder XD its on iOS 4 and iPhone 4 if that matters XD

I love this app. It not only shows the kana but it shows words and examples that goes way above all the other apps The only thing to make it better would be studying backwards. Like it shows you the romanji and you say the kana

Its really easy to learn Japanese with this app! The only problem is that you should be able to write the character and see if you are right.

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