Doriru: Learn Japanese
Juan Carlos Mayoral Education iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Doriru: Learn Japanese is a free Education app for iPhone and iPad by Juan Carlos Mayoral. Requires iOS 16.4. Updated October 10, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 110 MB
- Age 12+
- Updated
- Oct 10
- 2026 · v2.0.1
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About Doriru: Learn Japanese
Learn Japanese the way students in Japan do: by writing it, stroke by stroke. Doriru is named after ドリル, the drill workbooks Japanese students practice kanji in. Tell it where you are and it lays out a path of small, clear steps, from your first hiragana to N1 kanji. Ten minutes a day is enough to start. WRITE EVERY CHARACTER • Animated stroke-order guides for kana and kanji • Practice grids with center guides, like a Japanese drill book • With a stylus, strokes respond to pressure and speed, and you choose the line thickness A PATH THAT STARTS WHERE YOU ARE • Starting from zero, know a little, preparing for JLPT N5 or past your first JLPT: Doriru builds your route from your answer • Small milestones of hiragana, katakana, words and kanji, level by level up to N1 • New to Japanese? A short guide explains how its three scripts work 6 WAYS TO PRACTICE • Flashcards for kana, kanji and vocabulary • Kanji quiz and reading quiz • Vocabulary puzzle: drag the syllables into place to spell each word's reading 2,100+ KANJI. 2,800+ WORDS. • Kanji by JLPT level (N5–N1) or by school grade • Complete hiragana and katakana • Vocabulary from N5 to N3 • Search kanji by character, meaning or reading • Everything lives on your device: no account, no connection needed BUILD THE HABIT • Set a daily goal and keep your streak • Watch every character move from studied to mastered • Bookmark the characters you want to come back to COMFORTABLE TO USE • Light and dark mode • Clean layouts for phone and tablet • Modern or classic Japanese font FREE AND PRO Free: hiragana, katakana, JLPT N5 and grade 1 kanji, and N5 vocabulary, with writing practice and every game. Doriru Pro unlocks every kanji and vocabulary level, unlimited bookmarks and the classic font. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
What’s new
Version 2.0.1 · Updated October 10, 2026
The biggest Doriru update yet: • A personal path from your first hiragana to N1 kanji, built around your level • Vocabulary: 2,800+ words from N5 to N3, with 3 new games • A daily goal, a streak and stats that show your progress • New to Japanese? A short guide to how it's written • A celebration when you hit an answer streak or finish a step • Kana cards can show hiragana, katakana or both • A fresh new design
App privacy
The developer, Juan Carlos Mayoral, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data
Used for: Analytics, Product Personalization, App Functionality
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