Hiragana that starts from sound, for ages 3–5. Three to five minutes a day.
Learn by sound · Reading first, writing later · Three to five minutes
ListenChooseTrace(about 30 seconds)
A kana book that tracks "can read" and "has written" as two separate things.
Every character carries a recorded voice, so a child who cannot read yet can still play alone.
Tracing is never a gate. A child traces a character only after they can already recognise it.
Five questions per session — a couple more if you miss one, still short enough to finish before a three-year-old runs out of attention.
There are no ads. Not one.
Zero third-party trackers, zero analytics SDKs, no cookies.
Every feature works without an account. In that mode progress stays on the device and nothing is sent to our servers.
A child's account has no email field at all.
A three-year-old's hand cannot yet write あ.
Copying a circle comes at three, a diagonal line at four, and crossed lines and closed curves that change direction at four and a half to five. あ is three strokes and needs both.
あ
あ = 3 strokes
stroke 1
stroke 2
stroke 3
crossing + direction change
Reading develops years earlier. Reading before writing is not our invention — it is the standard order.
ReadingWritingYear 1 (handwriting instruction begins)
Our first version let a child retry a stroke four times, then passed them anyway. The system already knew the task could be impossible — and still made them fail four times before admitting it. Tracing now sits on the reward side instead.
We rebuilt it so that not being able to write is never a reason to be stuck.
150 characters — 104 hiragana (46 basic, 25 voiced, 33 contracted) and 46 katakana.
43 picture words that tie a sound, an image and a character together.
A kana book that tracks "can read" and "has written" as two separate things.
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Five questions per session. Three to five minutes a day.