Kana Mind

This is a great app. I appreciate the fact that it is free.

I spent many an enjoyable hour studying Hiragana and Katakana on the go. Best thing is - this app does not need the Internet and you can use in places like the metro, or subway. It is stable, does not have any annoying features one does not need, never crashes. The graphics is beautiful, the design is minimalistic and very pleasing esthetically. I highly recommend it, if you are interested in the subject matter.

Recently got very obsessed with learning Japanese. I found this app and gave it a shot. Within two days I've learned Hiragana, and will be starting Katakana very soon. I love this app. I cannot overstate how fun and easy it truly is. If you're looking to learn, you have found your holy grail here, folks.

A very lightweight and effective tool for teaching recognition of the various kana. I must applaud the fact that the developers even included a page that tracks your overall statistics for the current game. My only complaint is that the importance of the strokes and their order is not demonstrated. Other than that, the app is perfect. My complements to the dev(s).

Easy to use and has enough customization options... Its feels like playing so it makes the experience enjoyable... The only thing i would love to see its a character writing practice being able to Write at a similar size as you do it on a notebook... Either way i love the app.! 5 stars to the developer

Wow. I just started learning Japanese through books, online, etc and I LOVE this app. SO easy to use and it's customizable and it's exactly what I've been looking for. Thank you!! Zeh I love the app I have one question and feedback for improvement can you add a voice/pronunciation of each letter that is presented? So users aren't solely memorizing symbols with symbols. u with う but also learning how to pronounce the character and it gets cemented in memory through an auditory medium instead of solely visual. Thanks again for this app. You're hard work is appreciated

Would be a HUGE help to have the letters pronounced with the ability to repeat the pronunciation. So that way you can keep practicing what the correct sounds of the letters are, as well as how they are written. Would be nice too if this simple suggestion would stop being blown off and ignored by now.

Very fast and effective way to learn kana in a sleek format. Some of the calligraphy can be difficult to differentiate for eyes new to the language but 95% of them only take 2 hours to fully retain per type so I'm really pleased with the program. A pronunciation key could be beneficial.

The algorithm used for the game is amazingly helpful for learning kana. One suggestion I have is to give an option to display whether the character is katakana or hiragana, as I want to learn both at the same time, but also want to know which is which. Please make this an option.

Such a good app, makes learning Kana seem easy! I would love to see a couple more things added though - an option to choose a perticular group of kana to pratice, and maybe a mode where you have to choose the correct kana from all 220! Excellent tool to get you 99% of the way though.

Great app. But it would he nice if I could just choose to practice a single series at a time so I wouldn't have to tackle the entire syllabry at a time or just focus on the ones I have trouble with.

I'm using this primarily as a supplemental studying tool, and it's very good. I personally don't think this is the best way to learn--multiple choice makes it easy, and what it throws at you feels very random--but it is an excellent way to make sure you stay on top of your kana.

One change. When I confuse さ for ちthen ち should be brought back up if already completed.

Within weeks I learnt both writing systems! I couldn't even learn them through 3 years of highschool japanese!!

The greatest way for newbies to learn kana pretty quickly. With this app I learned katakana within three-four days. Now I just need to practice to be able to read fast and approximately fluently.　٩(๑´0`๑)۶

One suggestion, though: I think it would be a great idea to have the option of learning kana without the use of romaji at all. For example, learning Katakana with all 6 options for answers written in Hiragana. Or the other way around.

I really like the method but I wish there was a Japanese person saying the correct sound once you've selected the right tile

This is a really good app. I knew some of the Kana before but now I can remember all of them after only 2 weeks. The tiles are simply beautiful to look at which helps.

It start off easily and increase the difficulty when you memorize more kana. I learned my kana through this app. However, can add something like elementary school level kana vocabulary into the app? Much appreciated.

Great for learning and practicing kana.

As above I usually don't review but this is a really good tool for memorising. It slowly adds additional answers (multiple choice) to the board the more you get correct, it has to be one of the better apps for learning hiragana and katakana I have used. It doesn't just throw you into the fray. It adds more and more symbols the further you go. I'm impressed!

Rubbish

I tried many kana apps, and this one is easily the best one. It's so well done. The game aspect makes it easy to remember. No kidding, I learned both hiragana and katakana in three days using this app! Recommended! Please make a kanji app next!

This is just advice but, at least know basic phonetic sounds and romaji before starting an app. Characters such as "ち" or "し" have three letter romaji known as "chi" and "shi". There's also no such thing as "syo" or "syu" as it should be "sho" and "shu", in the entire language. This is coming from a person who is taking Japanese as a GCSE language. Please check the how it was romanized, as it is incorrect. Otherwise, the app is great and simple to use, the romanizing needs work.

I memorised both hiragana and katakana painlessly in a week with this. The mcq system has 6 options, which pushes you to try to really remember the correct kana, rather than just guess among 4. The progressive adding of new kana also prevents you from getting information overload. You can even choose between calligraphic and simple fonts, or whether to include compund/rare kana. App size could be a bit smaller though, it takes up 30mb on my device. Hope that the developer could come up with a kanji version!

Love this app. Really, really effective due to its simplicity. No annoying bells and whistles to get in the way. Two suggestions to make it even better. Add an optional configurable delay before the answer tiles appear. I often hide the bottom of the screen with my hand, try to recall the character on my own, then reveal the answer tiles to see if my guess is among them. Also, an optional timer (total time and average time per character), to add an incentive to think quickly.

I wish there was an "I don't know" or "skip" option for reading so I can flag for myself characters that Im having trouble with instead of guessing correctly. I always do come back to this app when I need to re learn my kana, though -- the interface is clean and it's almost exactly what I need.

Normally when going through flash cards or similar you get the option between several incorrect answers. Usually I tend to narrow it down to what's not the correct answer, instead of always remembering what the correct one is. This gets easy when seeing the same answers all the time. This app actually changes the possible answers, making it more difficult, but helping you more, as you can't "cheat" your way out by narrowing the answers down by characters which look nothing alike. Do highly recommend!

Didn't think it was possible to learn kana in less than a day while also having fun... I was wrong. Thank you so much for this simple, yet effective app. One thing I would add is the option to hide the answers until I've decided on the answer (or gave up and need help) - it would really force the intermediate/advanced users to think rather than to search for the answer between the presented options. Or I can use my hand to cover the answers up, that works too :-)

I wouldn't recommend it for a beginner as some of the Kana are misspelled and there is no audio for people new to Kana to catch the spelling error. For example you have Ti instead of Chi, Tu instead of Tsu and Si instead of Shi. If you already know your Kana it is a great way to refresh your memory

Yeup, is one of the best "Learn Japanese" apps around!! Difficulty progresses slowly at your pace and you can truly learn by your faults! And even more, these awesome game is free! O_O Thank you, dev!!! (offtop: make a donation option, as for me, I'll be happy to support you :) ...

I was having troubles learning Kana beforehand but this app made it very easy. Though I do wish there was some sort of "congratulations" popup once you got 100% proficiency. (゜ロ゜)

Fun and engaging. A suggestion, adding audio to answer options would be helpful, i.e., for both right and wrong answer since Romaji isn't great in representing pronounciation. thanks.

I dig the layout (it is pretty and the wooden tiles seem characteristically Japanese). This app has helped me reach the goal of memorizing the kana very fast. In a perfect world, there would be the option of varying fonts, and slowly bringing the user into reading and memorizing basic words, phrases, and sentences alongside the integration of kanji. Nonetheless, this is again an awesome tool. ありがとう to the developers!

The repetition algorithm is the best among all kana apps, both when learning from scratch and when filling in missing knowledge.

This is my favorite learning tool for kana. Thank you! I used it a long time ago.

Perfect to practice. I used some other apps with memory tricks to get started then yours to set them to memory for real. Thank you for your hard work, this works great! I know you are still adding to it in your spare time but add katakana and some everyday kanji, with some fun graphics for memory and make it a payed app. With the current version as the base you would have the best app in the market! Again great job!

Amazing and fast way to memorize kana. I love the way it starts you off easy with each one, so that you have to choose it several times, and by then it's familiar enough to remember. I did need to go elsewhere for a few mnemonics, but once I had a handle on it, I learned super quick. Easy to practice while waiting for the bus or in line somewhere. Perfect flashcard app.

great

I think what would make this app perfect is the option to select which characters you already know. If you're someone like me who only semi-knows half their kana, then it would be nice to study the kana we know as we gradually add in the rest. Other than that I think the app is fantastic so far. That one push would make it five stars for me.