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Catch it by ear. Keep it.
The everyday Japanese textbooks skip. Say what you heard; AI makes a card to save and review before it fades.
The Android version is coming soon.
Open it and there are four things.
Catch by voice
Say it as you heard it; AI sorts out reading and meaning
Learn by scene
24 scenes of daily life, from the konbini to disasters
Shadowing
Listen, repeat, get scored
Review
Shows up just before you forget. 30 cards a day, no backlog
The words textbooks skip.
At the register, at the counter, at a viewing. Heard daily, missing from dictionaries.
- Konbini
- Clinic
- City hall
- Real estate
- Izakaya
- Trash day
- Bank
- Post & delivery
- Trains & buses
- Workplace
- School
- Disasters
From hearing it to keeping it.
01
Say what you heard
Tap and repeat the sound as you heard it. No need to know how it is written.
02
AI makes the card
AI drafts the reading, meaning and an example. Check it, tap “Save to my words”, and it is in. No photos, no typing.
03
Review before you forget
Up to 30 cards a day, only as much as you can keep up with.
Listen, repeat, get scored.
Hear the model, then say the same line. Your audio itself is scored for pronunciation: accuracy, fluency and completeness, plus which words were off. If that scoring is unavailable, the transcript is compared with the model instead.
- 803
- everyday Japanese words
- 720
- everyday English words
- 24
- scenes
- 12,000+
- course words, kana to N1
The basics live here too.
From kana stroke order to N1 vocabulary, a structured course sits alongside the everyday words.
The app speaks your language.
Menus, instructions and error messages in eight languages. Word meanings appear in your language where a translation exists, otherwise in English.
- 日本語
- 中文
- English
- Tiếng Việt
- မြန်မာ
- 한국어
- हिन्दी
- नेपाली
Questions
Is it free?
Yes. Signing up, catching words and reviewing are all free.
I barely know Japanese. Can I use it?
Yes. The app comes in eight languages, word meanings show in your language where a translation exists (otherwise in English), and the course starts from kana stroke order.
Can I learn English too?
Yes. 720 everyday English words for work, travel and the clinic, grouped by scene.
What happens to my recordings?
Capture recordings are used only to transcribe and build the card; Shadowing recordings only to score your pronunciation. Neither is stored. Processing happens at overseas providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft Azure).
What you heard today, kept today.
Free to start.
The Android version is coming soon.