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kana-trainer

Trainer for the hiragana and katakana alphabets, on desktop, tablet and phone. Built with Tauri 2 and Svelte 5, in cream paper and black ink.

Features

Hiragana, katakana or both, in either direction, from single characters up to all 104 including the dakuon, handakuon and yoon rows
Three question formats (text to text, audio to text, text to audio) and answers by multiple choice or typing
Runs of 10 to 500 questions or one pass over the set, at three difficulty levels that decide how look alike the wrong answers are
Optional time trial, per question and for the whole run.
Chart view of every character grouped by sound type and row, tap a tile to hear it
Score reports saved on disk, exported and imported as .kt-report files holding any number of runs. Easy migration of runs to other devices.
Responsive interface, the same app on a wide screen and on a phone

Installing

Manually

https://arsalan-anwari.github.io/kana-trainer/

sudo dnf install ./kana-trainer-*.rpm            # fedora, opensuse
sudo apt install ./kana-trainer_*.deb            # debian 13+, ubuntu 24.04+
sudo pacman -U ./kana-trainer-*.pkg.tar.zst      # arch
adb install ./kana-trainer-*.apk                 # android

Or run exe/dmg package with your OS package installer.

From crates.io

cargo install kana-trainer

Development

Needs Node 22+ and Rust 1.77+, plus the GTK and WebKit development headers.

# fedora
sudo dnf install webkit2gtk4.1-devel gtk3-devel glib2-devel librsvg2-devel \
                 libsoup3-devel openssl-devel dbus-devel patchelf \
                 libappstream-glib rpm-build dpkg

# debian, ubuntu
sudo apt install libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev libgtk-3-dev libglib2.0-dev librsvg2-dev \
                 libsoup-3.0-dev libssl-dev libdbus-1-dev patchelf \
                 build-essential curl wget file rpm

# arch
sudo pacman -S webkit2gtk-4.1 gtk3 glib2 librsvg libsoup3 openssl dbus \
               patchelf base-devel rpm-tools

rpm-build/rpm/rpm-tools and dpkg are only needed for the .rpm and .deb bundle targets, patchelf for bundling in general. On Arch dpkg comes from the AUR.

npm ci
npm run tauri:dev      # run the app against the vite dev server
npm run tauri:build    # bundle for the current platform
npm test               # unit tests
npm run test:e2e       # playwright

Keyboard Shortcuts

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

Credits

Character sounds from Learn Japanese Adventure (CC BY 4.0), pitch and loudness normalised with scripts/normalize-audio.py

kana-trainer 1.5.3