kana-trainer

Desktop trainer for the hiragana and katakana alphabets. Built with Tauri 2, Svelte 5 and a theme ported from kasumi-ui.

What it does

• Practice hiragana, katakana or both, in either direction (kana to romaji, romaji to kana or mixed)
• Three question formats: text to text, audio to text and text to audio
• Two answer styles: multiple choice with four options, or typing the romaji yourself
• Time trial with 5, 10, 15 or 30 seconds per question and an optional limit for the whole run
• Pick single characters, whole rows, or the characters you keep getting wrong
• Optional dakuten and handakuten rows (text to text only for now)
• Score reports saved on disk, loaded and exported as JSON files
• Charts for the characters, rows and alphabets you struggle with
• One click to turn past mistakes into a new practice set

Requirements

• Rust 1.77 or newer
• Node 20 or newer
• On Linux: webkit2gtk 4.1, gtk3 and the distro base build tools

Installing

From crates.io:

cargo install kana-trainer

From a Linux package:

sudo dnf install ./dist/release/*.rpm                  # fedora, opensuse
sudo apt install ./dist/release/*.deb                  # debian 12+, ubuntu 22.04+
chmod +x dist/release/*.AppImage && ./dist/release/*.AppImage   # any distro
sudo pacman -U dist/release/*.pkg.tar.zst              # arch
flatpak install --user dist/release/*.flatpak          # any distro with flatpak

Keyboard Shortcuts

• 1 to 4 picks an answer in multiple choice
• Enter submits a typed answer and moves on after feedback
• r replays the sound in audio questions
• Escape leaves the run

Credits

• Character sounds from digitaIfabric/japanese
• Theme from kasumi-ui