Nihonary
Thu Nguyen Education iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Nihonary is a free Education app for iPhone and iPad by Thu Nguyen. Requires iOS 17.0. Updated August 27, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 159 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Aug 27
- 2026 · v1.0
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About Nihonary
Learn practical Japanese through a connected manga story designed for JLPT N5 beginners. Nihonary turns 40 illustrated chapters into interactive lessons. Tap Japanese dialogue to see its meaning and learning notes, listen line by line, save useful words, and review them with flashcards. FEATURES • 40 story-driven JLPT N5 chapters • 291 illustrated lesson pages • More than 1,500 character-matched audio clips • Japanese dialogue with English meaning and grammar guidance • Saved-word flashcards and progress tracking • Lessons and bundled audio available offline • Optional iCloud sync for learning progress • No Nihonary account or sign-in required ADS AND PURCHASES Chapters 1–3 have no chapter-entry advertisements. Chapters 4–40 may show one interstitial advertisement before entry. A chapter Review can be unlocked by choosing to watch a rewarded advertisement. The one-time Remove Ads purchase removes chapter-entry ads and unlocks every Review. Purchases can be restored from Settings. PRIVACY AND CONTROL Learning data stays on your device unless you choose to enable iCloud sync. Settings provides controls to disable sync, delete learning data, restore purchases, and manage available advertising privacy choices. AI CONTENT Lesson artwork, character voices, and portions of the educational text were created with generative AI, then curated, mapped, and reviewed by the developer. Nihonary does not provide live AI generation or a chatbot. The voices are AI-generated and are not recordings of real people. Nihonary is an independent learning aid and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the JLPT administrators.
App privacy
The developer, Thu Nguyen, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Location: Coarse Location
- Identifiers: Device ID
- Usage Data: Product Interaction, Advertising Data
- Diagnostics: Performance Data
Used for: Third-Party Advertising, Analytics, App Functionality
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:
- Diagnostics: Crash Data
Used for: Third-Party Advertising, Analytics, App Functionality
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