Japanese Apps

Title & Genre	HIRAGANA
iKana touch (Education)			$4.49	Best app for children learning hiragana and katakana – can choose individual characters to practise.
Momo’s learning Japanese (Education)			$0.99	Practise stroke order – annoying voice but children love this one.
Touch  あいうえお(AIUEO) (Games)			Free	Good for recognition of hiragana. A game for practising your reflexes.
Hiragana bubbles HD (Education)			$1.99	Game style app where you pop the floating Hiragana bubbles. Children need to listen to the character and look at the romaji for the correct hiragana. Good revision.
KanaBalls (Games)			$5.49	Fast paced game to help with recognition and recall of characters.
Let’s write Japanese (Education)			free	Fun educational game that makes practising hiragana easy Kids love it! Practice stroke order by writing. Has Hiragana and basic words.
Dr. Moku’s Hiragana (Education)			$4.49	Mnemonics for hiragana – a way to help students remember hiragana characters.
KanaKrush (Games)			$2.99	Learn and practise your Japanese kana (hiragana and katakana) with this fun game. KanaKrush lets you crush the fleeing KanaBugs as you learn to read Japanese.
Hikachan Hiragana Japanese (Education)			$2.99	Includes picture mnemonics to help remember the hiragana, stroke order, ten ten and maru variations, sketch pad and quizzes
Learn Japanese Alphabet (Education)			$1.99	Fun app the children like. Recognition of characters, listening and matching game
Japanese hiragana free (Education)			Free	Great app for learning how to recognise and read hiragana with cultural information as well
Kana (Japanese Hiragana & Katakana) (Games)			$2.99	A fun game to learn and speed up your Hiragana and Katakana reading.
Japanese -hiragana (Education)			Free	Read, write & listen to Japanese hiragana characters. Great app for stroke order. Kids enjoy this one!
Hiragana & Katakana (Education)			Free	Study Hiragana & Katakana by making your own flashcards & doing quizzes.
Hiragana Lite (Education)			Free	Study aide for students learning Hiragana
I Kana Learn Kana (Education)			$0.99	Study aide designed for beginner students & kids
Hiragana Tiles (Education)			$0.99	Click & drag a hiragana character to its corresponding English translation. You are ranked on speed & accuracy.
Kana Attack (Education)			$0.99	Learning Hiragana & Katakana alphabets is fast, easy & engaging with the app.
AIUEO for Kids (Educations)			$1.99	Learn Hiragana in the form of sweets! Also listen to simple words made from these characters.
ひらがなLite (Hiragana) (Education)			Free	Check, read & remember hiragana in small words
	VOCABULARY
Kids Japanese (Education)			Free	Kids Japanese 1, they will learn basic daily vocabulary in categories such as animals, body parts, colors, food, fruits, insects, vegetables, wild animals and weather.
Kids Japanese 2 (Education)			$1.19	Kids Japanese 2: they will learn new categories such as cloths, furniture, holidays, music instruments, numbers, shapes, stationery, toys and transport.
First Words: Japanese (Games)			$5.49	Good for younger children. They love playing this. Vocab: transport, animals, house objects, colours and shapes. Good for listening and character recognition
Talking Memory Japanese (Games)			$1.19	3 different levels to practise different vocab using the memory game
Speak & Read (Education)			$.99	Vocab app, includes: Animals, body, actions, numbers, nature, personal belongings, stationery and shapes, transportation, flags and countries, marine creatures. Has lessons and games
	WRITING
Zen Brush (Entertainment)		$2.99			Beautiful app for writing characters, can adjust brush size and background. Can save pictures as well.
Glow Draw (Entertainment)		Free			Writing anything in different colours
Kokuban (Education)		Free			Chalk board for writing on
	STORIES
Stories2learn (Education)		$14.99			Can input photos, Japanese text and voice to make books. Great!
Puppet pals (Education)		free			Easy to create own stories, can input own pictures. Can buy more expensive app which includes different characters and scenes
	COMICS
Comic Book (Photo & Video)		$1.99			Great for ipad 2 with the camera. Students can design their own manga page using photos or drawings they’ve done. Insert script in Japanese.
	GAMES
Fruit Ninja (Games)		$.99			Cut up the fruit, miss the bombs
Edo ‘Samurai’ Catch the fly (Games)		$.99			Use the chopsticks to try and catch flies
The sumo (Games)		free			Tap the ipod/ipad to beat your opponent
River Test (Games)		free			Used for Japanese business to pass for a job interview Older students love the challenge of this one
Ispot Japan (Games)		free			Spot the differences in the pictures of Japan.
OishiShake (Games)		free			Game around Japan with challenges
	MUSIC
Ikoto (Music)		$1.99			App for playing koto (Japanese harp) They loved using this one.