Kaketa
Write Japanese words by hand. Skip the ones you already know.
See the reading, write the kanji, check the stroke order. Easily mark the words you have already mastered.
Join the beta on TestFlightRequires iOS or iPadOS 26 or later. Apple Pencil is optional. Free during the beta. No sign up required.
A practice card
Reading
がっこう
school
Mark words you already know. The rest resurface when you’re about to forget them.
Words to practice
- By school grade: the kanji taught in each year of Japanese elementary school, with common words for each, a few kanji per section like a textbook
- By JLPT level, N5 to N1
- My Words: your address, your family’s names, phrases from a letter you need to write by hand
Also:
- Mark whole sections or groups as mastered, or select words one by one
- Prompts you choose: the reading, the meaning, or an example sentence with the word blanked out
- Meanings in English, Japanese, or Tagalog
- Every kanji’s stroke order, animated
- Handwriting check
- Progress syncs between iPhone and iPad
Privacy:
Kaketa has no account and no analytics. Your progress stays on your device and in your own iCloud. The handwriting check, when you tap Check, sends a picture of what you wrote and the word through a small server, which keeps nothing, to OpenAI. Under OpenAI’s API terms it may keep that for up to 30 days to monitor for abuse, and doesn’t use it to train its models. Details.