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漢字JLPT N5 to N1 · free on iPhone
2,480 kanji, 9,020 words and the complete N5 to N1 grammar, with JLPT reading, listening, dictation and 40 mock tests. All on smart SRS flashcards.
Walking (辶) with your head (首) held high on the path.
映像The 60-second tour
Every feature, shown with real lessons, start to finish. Tap a stop to jump straight to it.
体験Why Kanjijo · try it
The phone shows each tool with sample content written for this page. Pick a tool, then tap around inside it.
Sample content written for this page. Sound on this page uses your browser’s Japanese voice.
Interactive kanji and vocabulary flashcards with readings, meanings, radicals, and funny mnemonics to make every character stick. Watch the stroke order, then trace it yourself.
Never studied Japanese? Begin with hiragana and katakana, with stroke order and audio, then follow the Learning Guide into N5.
From N5 to N1: every pattern, with formation, notes, real examples, audio and cloze quizzes. Tap any word to look it up.
Pass proficiency tests after each lesson. Score 80% or more to unlock the next lesson.
264 real-life dialogues from N5 to N1 with play-along audio, every key expression explained, and a short quiz after each scene.
Tap the mic and say the sentence out loud. Speech recognition checks your pronunciation word by word and shows what to retry.
100 lessons cut from real Japanese videos, one sentence at a time. Listen, rebuild the sentence by ordering the words, replay it and slow it down.
Practice exam-style questions for N5 to N1, then review mistakes by grammar, kanji, vocabulary, reading and listening skill.
Paste a link to any Japanese video. Every spoken sentence is split into words with furigana, ready to save as cards.
Point your camera at any Japanese text: books, signs, menus, manga. Instantly look up every kanji and word detected.
Type or paste any Japanese sentence. Kanjijo splits it into words, adds furigana, and detects the grammar patterns inside.
A new kanji or word appears on your lock screen and home screen all day, and you can answer a quiz without opening the app.
Spaced repetition schedules each review right before you forget, and every word you master grows in your zen garden.
See what you know, what is due and how your study streak is growing, at a glance.
Study day or night with a carefully crafted dark theme. Progress is encrypted and synced across your devices.
A step-by-step roadmap inside the app, from absolute zero to N1, so you always know what comes next.
Kanjijo draws your due words, study calendar and JLPT countdown onto your own photo, and a Shortcut sets it as your Lock Screen every time you close the app. Pick up to 3 panels. Premium.
方法Simple process
Seven simple steps to Japanese mastery.
Pick your JLPT level (N5–N1) or start with Kana. Content is organized into bite-sized lessons across Kanji+Vocab, JLPT Hira/Kata vocab, Grammar, Reading, Listening, and Dictation.
Learn Kanji, Vocabulary, Hira/Kata and Grammar through interactive flashcards with readings, meanings, exclusive mnemonics for kanji and vocab, and example sentences.
Complete lesson tests to unlock the next lesson, then use JLPT mock tests to practice timing and find weak sections.
Smart algorithm schedules reviews at the perfect time: right before you forget.
Add the home screen widget, lock screen widget and interactive test widget. Kanji and vocab silently appear all day so you absorb them without even opening the app.
Paste a link to any Japanese video you actually want to understand. Kanjijo splits every spoken sentence into words, adds furigana, shows which ones your lessons already taught you, and names the grammar: then you save anything new straight into your reviews.
Watch your items level up from Seed to Ancient Tree. Track stats and celebrate milestones.
機能The complete toolkit
Twenty-six tools that take you from your first hiragana to JLPT N1. Tap any of them to see what it does.
Kana from zero. Hiragana and katakana with stroke order and audio, plus a guided “Starting from Zero” path before N5.
Kanji N5–N1. 2,480 kanji with on’yomi, kun’yomi, stroke-order animation and writing practice, in the order the JLPT tests them.
Vocabulary with real sentences. 9,020 words, each with audio, and 7,904 of them with example sentences carrying furigana and an English translation.
Complete JLPT grammar. All 476 N5–N1 grammar points explained by nuance, with furigana examples and quizzes that make you produce the form.
Exclusive mnemonics. A memory hook for every kanji and every word: not only the characters: plus 885 radical stories.
JLPT reading track. 95 graded reading lessons from N5 to N1, built like the real exam passages.
JLPT listening track. 95 listening lessons with audio, transcripts and exam-style questions, level by level.
Conversation (会話). 264 real-life dialogues from N5 to N1 with play-along audio, the key expressions explained, and a quiz after every scene.
Shadowing. Say each line out loud: speech recognition checks you word by word and shows what to retry.
Dictation. 100 lessons and 914 sentences cut from real Japanese videos: listen, rebuild each sentence, replay and slow it down, N5 to N1.
Learn from any video. Paste a link to any Japanese video: every spoken line is split into words with furigana, ready to save.
JLPT mock exams. 40 full mock tests, eight for each level, with a listening section, the time limit of the real exam and a pass mark for each section.
Tests after every lesson. Meaning, reading, listening and fill-in-the-blank questions that check you actually know it, not just recognise it.
OCR camera scanner. Point your camera at signs, menus, manga or packaging: words, readings and meanings appear instantly, fully on-device.
Sentence analyser. Type or paste any sentence: Kanjijo splits it into words, adds furigana and detects the grammar patterns inside, by JLPT level.
Lock screen widget. A new kanji or word on your lock screen all day: learning without opening the app.
Home screen widget. Glance at your words on the home screen and tap one to jump straight into its lesson.
Interactive test widget. Answer a quick question right on your home screen. Thirty seconds, many times a day.
7-stage SRS garden. Every kanji, word and grammar point grows from seed to ancient tree, reviewed right before you would forget it.
Gentle review reminders. Reminders when reviews are due that respect your sleep: never between 10 pm and 8 am.
Collections & favourites. Build your own decks from lessons, scans and videos, and star the words you want close at hand.
Statistics & streaks. See what you know, what is due and how your study streak is growing, at a glance.
Learning guide. A step-by-step roadmap inside the app, from absolute zero to N1, so you always know what comes next.
Cloud sync & offline. Progress is encrypted and synced across devices, and lessons and reviews keep working offline.
Zen design & dark mode. No noise, no nagging mascots: a calm interface in light or dark, built for focus.
One Premium, three apps. A single Premium unlocks Kanjijo, Hanzijo (Chinese) and Hanguljo (Korean).
Free to download on iPhone. Start today, at your own pace. Download Kanjijo Free
道具Free tools
Three free tests that run in your browser, need no signup, and explain every answer.
25 questions across N5 to N1, scored level by level, with a 30-day plan at the end.
Take the level test あDrill all 104 hiragana and katakana in either direction.
Start the kana quiz 口56 real signs from stations, konbini and appliance panels.
Test my survival kanji 活Including the verb conjugator and drill: 111 beginner verbs, 15 forms each.
Open the tools読物From the blog
Yes, Kanjijo is free to download on iPhone and iPad. Free users get one new lesson a day in each lesson track, daily reviews, the widgets, the first two mock tests of each level and the first three reading and listening lessons of each level. Premium ($5.99 a month, $39.99 a year or $149.99 once on the US App Store) removes the daily limit and the ads, opens every lesson and mock test, and also unlocks Hanzijo and Hanguljo.
Yes. Kanjijo follows the JLPT from N5 to N1 in one path: 2,480 kanji and 9,020 words in 324 lessons, 476 grammar points, 95 reading lessons, 95 listening lessons, 264 conversations, 100 dictation lessons and 40 mock tests. It is free to download on iPhone and iPad, and the phone on this page runs a small sample in your browser.
Yes. Kanjijo has 40 full mock tests in the JLPT format, eight for each level from N5 to N1, each with a listening section, the time limit of the real exam and a pass mark for each section. They are practice tests written for the app, not official JLPT papers. Free users can take the first two tests of each level.
Yes. Each of the 2,480 kanji has a memory story built from its parts, and so does each of the 9,020 words, with 885 radical stories underneath. A kanji card also shows the on’yomi and kun’yomi, the radicals and an animated stroke order, and the seven-stage SRS brings it back just before you would forget it.
Yes. Kanjijo has home screen, lock screen and quiz widgets that show the kanji and words you are learning, and the quiz widget lets you answer without opening the app. The widgets need iOS 17 or later. With Premium, Kanjijo can also draw your due words, a study calendar and a JLPT countdown onto your own photo and use it as your lock screen wallpaper.
Yes. There are 95 JLPT-style listening lessons with transcripts, translations and explanations, and 100 dictation lessons with 914 sentences cut from real Japanese videos, where you hear a line and put its words back in order. The 264 conversations add play-along audio and shadowing, where speech recognition checks what you say.
Not at the moment. Kanjijo runs on iPhone and iPad with iOS 16 or later. The free tools on kanjijo.com, such as the JLPT level test and the kana quiz, work in any browser, including on Android phones.
Five JLPT levels, N5 to N1, after a Foundations course that takes you from hiragana and katakana to reading a whole sentence. Each level has kanji and vocabulary lessons, grammar, reading, listening, conversation and dictation, and a lesson test unlocks the next lesson. Everything you learn goes into a seven-stage review garden that grows from Seed to Ancient Tree.
Yes. Paste a link to a YouTube video with Japanese subtitles and Kanjijo turns each line into something you can study: it splits the sentence into words, adds furigana, marks the words your lessons already teach and names the grammar patterns. Tap a word for its meaning, and save any word or grammar point to your reviews.
Yes. Point your camera at a sign, a menu, a book page or a screen and Kanjijo reads the Japanese on your phone, then shows the kanji, words and grammar it contains with their readings and meanings. The recognition runs on the device, so the photo is not uploaded.
Yes. Turn off auto-renew at any time in your Apple Account settings, and Premium stays active until the end of the period you paid for. There are no cancellation fees, and the one-time Lifetime purchase does not renew, so there is nothing to cancel.
Free to download on iPhone and iPad.
On a computer?Scan with your iPhone
Stroke-order outlines on this page are drawn from Make Me a Hanzi and are used under the Arphic Public License.