Merry Xmas! Learn Japanese more conveniently with Kana v2.13, here's what's new: Quizzes (iOS 17 or later) - Updated and improved user interface (UI) - New options to sort and filter questions - Introducing a speed answering chart for better insights - View related flashcards for deeper understanding - Redo quizzes with the same scope and settings (hence questions may vary) - Interrupting a quiz before the end and selecting the saving option will now show the quiz results screen Flashcards (iOS 17 or later) - Modernized and improved UI - Added statistics for better tracking - New quiz history with a speed matrix chart to view answer times by date Additional Improvements - The default app icon adapts to Light, Dark, and Tinted system themes (iOS 18 or later) - Kana now respects your system text size preferences across more screens, whether you prefer small and compact or large and accessible text - General UI refinements and performance improvements If Kana is helping you learn Japanese, we’d love your review! Enjoy learning!
Improvements and optimizations.
Your favorite Hiragana & Katakana learning app gets even better with many quality of life and UI/UX improvements! And also: • New focus study mode (for lists and for wrong answers after a quiz) • Better lists view • Smoother audio for kanji pronunciations and improved furigana display • Added FAQ • You can now swipe between entries in your lists • You can now quiz up to 1000 questions in a single custom/smart quiz session • Better compatibility with mac equipped with Apple Silicon processors • Performance optimised • Other fixes and improvements Thank you for using Kana, support the app development by leaving a review on the App Store!
Better quiz experience! - New: choose what to do when the correct answer is detected in hard mode (for both drawing and keyboard)! - New: for drawing questions, you can pause the quiz and directly practice the correct drawing, useful when you got it wrong - Better readability - Refreshed look and feel - Result screen: refreshed for a better UI and readability, also added a confetti animation when you score 100%! - History screen: refreshed and simplified UI, quiz sessions can now be filtered by FlexSRS or practice, chart can now be hidden, added the "FlexSRS" mention when applicable. - Top flashcards screen: Better readability and flashcards are now clickable. - Modified the flashcard and free drawing screens to improve clarity. This update also strengthens your privacy protection and includes other improvements, optimizations and fixes. Love Kana? Download Benkyō, my other app, to Learn Japanese Vocabulary and Kanji.
• Fixed an occasional keyboard display issue during quiz on iPhone SE • Other fixes and improvements Thank you for using Kana, be sure to leave a review on the AppStore and to check out my new app: Benkyō!
Added link to the app "Benkyō: Learn Japanese" app in the email and home pages.
• Fixed a situation where quiz could not start for new flashcards • Improved stability and performances
Improved stability and performances
Changes: • Fixed a situation where the start quiz button was unavailable • Performed technical changes related to on-device database Happy Japanese learning!
New: • Quiz will can now play Kana sound for writing questions during quiz • When a quiz question is answered wrongly, you can optionally see the kana details, and the result can be manually edited (useful if you mistyped the correct answer on the keyboard) • Quiz scope manual edition is now a separate (and optional) step after the custom quiz quick filters step: this should improve the quiz scope editing process clarity Improvements: • Audio does not pauses your music anymore, but will temporally decrease it's volume instead (on iOS 13 onwards) • UI improvements • Added social links in the settings
• New flashcard mastery statistics and chart • Quiz can now be deleted when leaving a quiz, or in the quiz history • Some UI and UX improvements • Other improvements
Home screen slightly reworked and added a shortcut to Sensei App.
• Kana can now be opened directly from the app "Learn Japanese: Sensei" from the same developer. • Other fixes and improvements
Version 2.1 adds features requested by users: - Filter Smart Quiz by question type - Question limit setting saved independently for Smart Quiz and Custom Quiz - Added an introduction to kana lesson - Other fixes and optimizations Thanks for using Kana, as always, AppStore reviews/ratings are greatly appreciated!
Kana 2.0 is here! Introducing Smart Quizzes, Dark mode support (for iOS 13 devices), kana selection, and more. If you like it, leave an AppStore review!
Performances and bug fixes. If you like the App, leave a rating on the AppStore!
New: - Performance and battery saving improvements. - You can now navigate between Kana on the kana details view. - Kana table Layout improved. Thank you again for the AppStore ratings and review, I read them all and it's very encouraging!
- Kana view can be zoomed in and out - Fixed a bug where deleted lists could appear in the quiz selected lists (thanks to @KevinGodoyR on twitter) If you also find issues you can let me know on twitter: @Kana_App_iOS Thank you again for the rating and review on the AppStore, keep it up!
New features: - Handwriting recognition for drawing quiz questions - Free drawing mode As always, please leave a rating on the AppStore to keep the updates going, thanks!
Big update for the quizzes! New "hard" quiz mode where reading questions are answered by typing on keyboard, and writing by drawing! Multiple choice mode is still available in the "easy" mode. Also in this update: new design for the draw practice view, and new appearance for Japanese characters. Once again, BIG thank you to those who rated and reviewed the app, I read all your reviews, and develop the features you ask for! Keep it up, じゃあね :)
New: • STROKE ORDER for all hiragana and katakana: now shows on the kana page and the draw practice page • New presentation of individual kana practice statistics Fixes: • Fixed occasional crash when coming back to the home screen • Deleting a reminder will now correctly remove it from the list • Other optimizations And of course, there is still more to come in the upcoming updates. Thank you so much to those who left a review or a rating on the AppStore <3 it truly encourages me! Thank you also to tofugu.com for the post!
Thank you so much for the ratings and reviews, if you haven't done so, please leave an AppStore review to keep features coming! (like winter) New features in 1.2: - Activity history, with review day streak. - Reminders, with custom repetition. - Other optimisations and little fixes (thanks to some of your feedback!) More is coming, stay tuned! And again, leaving AppStore reviews is very important.
Little optimisations. Please leave a review on the AppStore! It will let us know what you think and encourage new features.