Ari Kanji – Japanese

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10+Free
EducationEveryoneVersion 1.5.8Updated 8/24/2026, 3:20:43 PM
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You are going to read Japanese. Not someday: this month.

Ari Kanji puts you in front of your first kanji in ten seconds, then keeps you moving at a pace you can hold through a busy week. One lesson, a few minutes, done. Then again tomorrow.

HOW IT WORKS

Every kanji is built, never crammed. You learn a handful of small parts first, and from then on new characters arrive as combinations of things you already know. A short story locks each one in place, and the stories are deliberately a little ridiculous, because ridiculous is what memory holds onto.

Reviews come back exactly when you are about to forget. That is the whole trick: a few minutes today instead of an hour of panic next month.

YOU READ REAL JAPANESE, EARLY

This is the part most kanji apps never get to. Short passages in real Japanese show up while you are still a beginner, written only from what you already know. Tap any word for its reading and meaning. The first time a line makes sense on its own, you will remember why you started.

A PACE YOU CAN KEEP

No pile of reviews waiting to punish you after a weekend off. No streak shouting at you. Miss a day and the app says the honest thing: today is fine, see you tomorrow. Studying should add something to your week, not hold it hostage.

ALSO INSIDE

• Dojo: a fast game for the days you want speed instead of a lesson
• Collections: your kanji by JLPT level, or grouped your own way
• Student card: your progress, your style, yours to share
• Statistics: your consistency, your review load, how solid your memory really is
• Keepsakes: small illustrated rewards that mark the road behind you

FREE, AND PRO

Everything above starts free. Pro opens more lessons per day, unlimited Dojo, every reading passage, more personal collections and the deeper statistics. Fourteen days to try it, no strings attached.

MADE BY HAND, IN EUROPE

Ari Kanji is created and actively developed in Europe, by one person in Italy, slowly and on purpose. New kanji, new chapters and new passages arrive with every update, and there is no plan to stop.

Questions, ideas, bugs: arikanji@giappomente.com

Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Developer email
arikanji@giappomente.com
Released
May 25, 2026
Current version
1.5.8
Android version
9

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