Kana Challenge: Learn Hiragana
MY SENPAI LLC Education iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Kana Challenge: Learn Hiragana is a free Education app for iPhone and iPad by MY SENPAI LLC. Requires iOS 15.1. Updated October 11, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 46 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 11
- 2026 · v1.2.11
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About Kana Challenge: Learn Hiragana
Kana Challenge teaches you to read hiragana and katakana, the two phonetic alphabets you need before anything else in Japanese. It is built around a 30-day plan, so you always know what to study next instead of staring at a wall of 200 characters. How it works You move through 30 short lessons. Each one introduces a small set of characters, then drills them with a timed quiz. Get answers right and the quiz speeds up and levels up; miss too many and you run out of lives and try again. The next day opens once you finish the current one and a new calendar day starts, which keeps the pace to something you can actually hold. What you get - A structured 30-day hiragana and katakana course, from the first row to full words. - Timed recognition quizzes with four choices, single sounds or vocabulary, that get faster as you improve. - A 90-second speed round for when you just want to see how many you can clear. - Free practice where you pick the script, the rows, and the starting speed. - Speaking practice that listens to you say a word and checks your pronunciation. - Full hiragana and katakana reference charts with audio for every character. - Recorded audio so you hear each sound, not a synthesized guess. - Streak tracking and optional daily reminders to keep the habit going. - Progress stats for your average score, study time, and whether you are on track, ahead, or behind. No account, no clutter Your progress is stored on your device. There is no sign-up, no login, and no social feed. Open the app, do a lesson, close it.
What’s new
Version 1.2.11 · Updated October 11, 2026
• Smarter, personalized study reminders that fit your daily routine • Fixed a crash that could happen when starting speaking practice • Performance improvements and bug fixes
App privacy
The developer, MY SENPAI LLC, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
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, Advertising Data, Other Usage Data
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data, Other Diagnostic Data
Used for: Third-Party Advertising, Developer’s Advertising or Marketing, Analytics, Product Personalization, App Functionality
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