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24 alternatives to Miyabi J-Prep: Japanese Study
Effortless daily Japanese practice in your pocket
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Douzo▲127Free Japanese typing practice organized by JLPT level
Mar 2026 · typingdouzo.com · its alternatives →
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Mainichi▲133Learn Japanese, one prefecture at a time.
Jul 2026 · mainichiapp.com · its alternatives →
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Build the habit of learning Japanese with one word per day
2025 · dailykanji.xyz · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, Just wanted to share a tool i've been working on to help with my own study routine. It’s a browser extension called Lingoku. The idea is simple: we spend hours browsing the web in English every day. This tool replaces some of the english words with Japanese vocabulary based on your japanese level (Similar to Toucan, but with a better user experience). It’s basically an attempt to make the "i+1" method actually passive, you understand the sentence because it's mostly english, but you pick up Japanese words naturally from the context. It uses an LLM in the backend to make sure the…
Dec 2025 · lingoku.ai · its alternatives →
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Learn JLPT-N5, JLPT-N4, JLPT-N3, JLPT-N2, JLPT-N1, Genki and anime Japanese voabulary with pictures. Download a free mini-eBook today.
2021 · kumalearn.com · its alternatives →
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Japanese language learning guides for Bengali and English speakers. JLPT preparation tips, study strategies, kanji mnemonics, and cultural insights.
2020 · learn-japanese.org · its alternatives →
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Kanji Words▲62Study Japanese Kanji words with this simply game
2023 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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I quit my job last year and worked mostly on this full SwiftUI rewrite of my Japanese reading app, Manabi Reader. The rewrite gave me the opportunity to expand to macOS (and without Catalyst so it feels extra native) and redo the data layer to be offline-first via Realm with iCloud sync. The biggest differentiators compared with other language study apps are that it tracks every word/kanji you read so that you can see how much of a given webpage/article you're already familiar with and other features/analytics built on that foundation; it automatically builds a personal corpus…
2023 · reader.manabi.io · its alternatives →
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Michi 道▲4Learn Japanese daily — a free, personalized roadmap
Jun 2026 · michi-japanese-roadmap.netlify.app · its alternatives →
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The idea is actually quite simple. As a Japanese learner and a coder, I've always wanted there to be an open-source, 100% free for learning Japanese, similar to Monkeytype in the typing community. Unfortunately, pretty much all language learning apps are closed-sourced and paid these days, and the ones that are free have unfortunately been abandoned. But of course, just creating yet another language learning app was not enough - there has to be a unique selling point. And then I thought to myself: why not make it crazy and do what no other language learning app ever did by adding a gazillion…
2025 · kanadojo.com · its alternatives →
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Free JLPT N2 Practice | Learn Japanese
Aug 2026 · nihongojouzu.jp · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, it’s been 8 years since I posted on here about the launch of my Japanese dictionary app Nihongo [0] and I’m finally back with a new app: Nihongo Lessons! Think of Nihongo Lessons as the textbook to Nihongo’s dictionary. It’s an app for learning Japanese, specifically made for learners who are serious about becoming fluent, and want a guided set of content that will help them efficiently acquire vocabulary and grammar. The project came about when Adam Shapiro of Japanese Level Up (Jalup) [1] announced last April that he was shutting Jalup down. As a fan of Adam’s work I was bummed to…
2022 · lessons.nihongo-app.com · its alternatives →
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JLPTN5▲5Learn Japanese kanji and words for the JLPTN5 examination.
2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Learn Japanese online with the most efficient curriculum ever devised. Get started for free.
2019 · japanesecomplete.com · its alternatives →
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Kazu Navi (かずナビ)▲142Learn Japanese with clarity, context, and confidence
2025 · kazunavi.com · its alternatives →
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I'm a long time lurker that recently quit my job to work on my own projects, a lot due to the inspiration from Hacker News. Now I have published my first serious project, an app for learning how to write Japanese characters. It's the app I always wanted but couldn't find when I was studying. It tries to be simple to use, you just start the quiz and go with the flow. There's no need to plan and manage your studies, and it uses spaced repetition for better retention. There's a promo page with more details up at http://www.kanjibyhand.com. It's only for Android so far. The free version includes…
2012 · kanjibyhand.com. · its alternatives →
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A free alternative to WaniKani for mastering japanese kanji
Mar 2026 · kanji-mastery.com · its alternatives →
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Yokoso▲81Japanese for the life you're actually living in Japan
Aug 2026 · yokosoapp.com · its alternatives →
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Dozo▲8Learn Japanese N5 to N1 with a real teacher in your corner
Aug 2026 · nihongodozo.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · questions.japanesecomplete.com · its alternatives →
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We at Japanese Complete have been hard at work on a rapid fluency curriculum designed to take people with no exposure in Japanese all the way to fluency. Our three-year timeline is designed for the ambitious learner to be well equipped to tackle the Japanese Language Proficiency Test highest level (N1). We have designed this curriculum because, frankly, it solves a problem our founders had: No good online textbooks or drill-like training systems exist for Japanese that can take one beyond intermediate. In 2011 a huge corpus called the BCCWJ (Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese)…
2019 · its alternatives →
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