Kimariji

Learn to read Japanese

Kana · Kanji · Vocabulary

Learn the characters. Read what surrounds you.

Start with guided lessons, then use what you know on short Japanese from station signs, streets, and menus. Kimariji schedules the right review without streak pressure.

Join the waitlist → See the app

Android coming first. iOS is not planned for v1.0.

All hiragana and katakana free. Full: €9.90 early-bird lifetime · €14.90 regular lifetime. No subscription.

Inside the app

From the first shape to a sign you can read.

These are current Kimariji screens: a guided lesson, the short-phrase reader, and its optional browse view.

Kimariji Hiragana lesson teaching the character i
LearnMeet the shape, hear it, then check recognition.
Kimariji Real Reading screen for the station kanji
ReadReveal the reading and meaning when you are ready.
Kimariji Browse reading sheet with situation and status filters
ReturnBrowse by situation, or come back to saved phrases.

One calm learning loop

Learn. Read. Remember.

01 · Home / Learn

Learn

Guided lessons introduce kana, kanji, and words before they enter review.

02 · Real Reading

Read

Use familiar characters on short station, street, and menu phrases.

03 · Home / Test + Progress

Remember

Test recall. Progress shows the same mastery state and what is ready next.

Learn more than one printed face

The same kana can look different.

Kimariji lets you practise the same character in the textbook, print, handwritten, marker, and pixel fonts already included in the app.

ねTextbook
ねPrint / Serif
ねHandwritten
ねMarker
ねPixel

Try it here

Can you read these?

Ten local prompts. Nothing is recorded, and the answers do not affect app progress.

1 / 10Textbook
ね

Choose the reading.

Quiet by design

Progress without the pressure.

No daily streak, no XP, no leaderboard. A missed week is not a failure state.

Visible mastery. Learn and Test update the same review state; Progress shows it.

Finite sessions. Review what is ready, then stop when it is done.

Android coming first · iOS is not planned for v1.0

Get the launch note.

Learn all hiragana and katakana free. Full unlocks the included kanji and vocabulary packs, plus short reading practice for signs, streets, and menus.

Your email is used for the launch notification. Privacy and removal requests.

One email at launch. Nothing else, ever.

Full: €9.90 early-bird lifetime · €14.90 regular lifetime.
One payment. No subscription. Local store prices may vary.