Bunpo: Learn Japanese
Bunpo - Learn Japanese Education In-app purchases
Learn Japanese offline with fun lessons. Start learning Japanese grammar!
- Rating
- 4.7
- 95.5K ratings
- Downloads
- 3.3M+
- on Google Play
- Price
- Free
- In-app purchases
- Updated
- Sep 29
- 2026 · v3.24.1
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About Bunpo: Learn Japanese
Bunpo is a free, fast and easy way to learn Japanese.
This free Japanese learning app provides grammar explanation and lessons for learners of any levels, from JLPT N5 to JLPT N4, JLPT N3, JLPT N2 and JLPT N1.
Get JLPT ready with interactive lessons.
The app offers over 1700 example sentences and 8000 Japanese grammar quiz questions. All comes with English-Japanese translations.
Key features:
Learn Japanese Alphabets (Hiragana and Katakana):
Study both hiragana and katakana easily
Hear how kanas are pronounced
Japanese grammar:
Learn Japanese grammar. Detailed grammar notes in all lesson.
The app contains explanation and exercises for all the grammar points of JLPT N5, JLPT N4, JLPT N3, JLPT N2, JLPT N1.
All Japanese grammar are organized by its JLPT level.
Japanese Vocabulary:
Learn Japanese words in each lesson.
Tap on Japanese words to bring up the smart dictionary. (This feature makes you Japanese learning journey easy)
Learn Kanji:
Improve your kanji recognition by reading Japanese sentences.
Tap on kanji to bring up the smart dictionary. (Works as Japanese translator or dictionary)
Study kanji grouped by JLPT levels.
The app contains over 2500 kanji.
Read Japanese:
Learn to read Japanese language sentences in each lessons.
Great supplement for minna no nihongo (minano nihongo, minna) textbook.
Smart tap function will work as Japanese translator or dictionary.
JLPT:
Japanese grammar notes and exercises for any JLPT level N1 ,N2 ,N3 ,N4 ,N5
Offline mode:
Learn Japanese offline
SRS(spaced repetition system):
Enhance your studying with a personalized Japanese flash cards powered by SRS (spaced repetition system)
Subscription of Bunpo Plus
Subscribe to Bunpo Plus and get access to the complete Bunpo courses, which has hundreds of premium contents, listening training and review system (spaced repetition system) to help you learn Japanese language anywhere, anytime.
What’s new
Version 3.24.1 · Updated September 29, 2026
We've released a new update for Bunpo We've made some improvements and fixes to make the app even more enjoyable to use. Thanks for always learning with Bunpo! • Added a zoom animation to the splash screen • Audio now auto-plays on the first quiz question too • Fixed learning language and course being reset when changing the display language • Made app launch more stable • Other bug fixes and performance improvements
User reviews
It's a pretty awesome app..
Best Free Japanese Learning App I have used so far
Excellent app
Very user-friendly app. Easy to use and can guide you in journey of learning Japanese at various level.
As someone who has had this app for ages but only started using it after i bought offical classes I can say without a doubt this app is wonderful. I love how you have a full collection of the kana scrips showing the additonal blended forms and explaining the small つ which i found i had to go out of my way for to lea...
Great way of getting the basics. I'll continue to work through it!
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