Mojiya: Hiragana & Katakana
James Johnston Education iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Mojiya: Hiragana & Katakana is a free Education app for iPhone and iPad by James Johnston. Requires iOS 16.4. Updated September 20, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 62 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Sep 20
- 2026 · v1.03
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About Mojiya: Hiragana & Katakana
Mojiya teaches you to read hiragana and katakana. All 208 characters, at whatever pace you turn up at. Note: the app's interface is English, and every reading is shown in the Latin alphabet. NOTHING IS TIMED There is no clock to lose to. No countdown, no streak to break, no score, no league table. Answer in four seconds or four minutes and it is worth exactly the same. If you put the phone down for fifteen seconds, your companion stops paying attention and waits. That is the only thing in the app that notices time passing, and nothing is lost when it does. THE WRONG ANSWERS ARE THE POINT Most kana apps show you three random characters next to the right one. Ruling out three shapes you have never seen is not reading. Mojiya draws every wrong option from a confusion set: one character that looks like the answer, one that sounds like it, one from the same row. さ against き. シ against ツ. That is the pair you actually mix up at two in the morning, so that is the pair you get asked. Get it wrong and the screen waits. It tells you what the character was and why the one you picked is different, and it does not move on until you have read it. IT GETS HARDER AS YOU GET BETTER A lesson starts with six options. Answer well over a stretch and it opens to eight. Have a rough hour and it settles back to four and gives you more room to make mistakes in. You never see a rank or a level for this. It is not a score. It is just a question that fits. 208 CHARACTERS, AND YOU CAN SEE ALL OF THEM 46 basic, 25 with dakuten and handakuten, 33 combined, in each of the two scripts. The full gojūon chart is one tap from the home screen and shows you exactly which rows are holding and which are not. Home shows one stage at a time, so the number in front of you is the row you are on rather than a total you are nowhere near. EVERY CHARACTER IS SPOKEN Two voices, one female and one male, recorded rather than synthesised. Choose either, replay as often as you like. Listening questions play the sound and ask for the character. WHAT YOU KEEP Spaced repetition puts each character on its own schedule, so the ones you find hard come back sooner and the ones you have got come back later. Master a whole row and words open up: すし, ねこ, characters you can now actually read rather than recognise. Test yourself whenever you want. Choose what it covers, how long it is, whether you tap an answer or type it, and how many options you get. THE ARRANGEMENT Every lesson is free. All 208 characters, both scripts, every word, both voices. That is not a trial. Ads pay for it. If you would rather not see them, one purchase turns them off for good and opens every companion and colour. Nothing that teaches you anything is ever behind it. Yearly, or one payment for life. Your store handles the money and you cancel a yearly plan from your own account settings, never from us. AND NOT VERY MUCH ELSE No account. No sign-in. No email address. Your progress lives on your phone and never leaves it. Every lesson works with the plane on. Mojiya without ads is sold as a yearly auto-renewing subscription, or a one-off Lifetime payment. A yearly plan renews at the end of each year unless you turn renewal off at least 24 hours before it ends, in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://sovl.store/mojiya/terms Privacy Policy: https://sovl.store/mojiya/privacy
What’s new
Version 1.03 · Updated September 20, 2026
When a question asks you to type the reading, the box now sits above the keyboard, so you can see what you are typing.
App privacy
The developer, James Johnston, 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:
- Location: Coarse Location
- Identifiers: Device ID
- Usage Data: Product Interaction, Advertising Data
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
Used for: Third-Party Advertising, Developer’s Advertising or Marketing, 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: Performance Data, Crash Data
- Purchases: Purchase History
Used for: Third-Party Advertising, Developer’s Advertising or Marketing, Analytics, App Functionality
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