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Ready-made decks cover someone else's textbook. Upload your own chapters, slides or photos and get flashcards that match what your class actually covers, with spaced repetition built in.

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Why a custom Japanese Anki deck beats a generic one

Shared decks are a fine starting point, but a Japanese Anki deck built from your own textbook chapter matches the vocabulary and grammar your course actually tests.

  • Cards reflect your own lessons, not a generic word list
  • Kana, kanji and grammar points can go into separate batches
  • Reading and example sentence stay on the back of each card
  • Anki export keeps your review history portable on the Plus plan
Example Japanese vocabulary flashcards
What does 食べる (taberu) mean?To eat. It is an ichidan verb, so its polite form is 食べます (tabemasu).
What is the kun reading of 水?みず (mizu), meaning water. Its on-reading すい appears in 水泳 (suiei), meaning swimming.
Which particle marks the topic of a sentence?は (written ha, read wa). It marks the topic, while が (ga) often marks the subject of new information.
How do hiragana and katakana differ in use?Both are kana syllabaries. Hiragana writes native words and grammar, while katakana writes loanwords and foreign names.
What does 学生 (gakusei) mean?Student. 学 means study and 生 means life, so the compound describes someone who studies.
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Built from your material

Upload PDFs, DOCX, PPTX, plain text notes or photos of pages. Text recognition reads handwritten or printed lesson pages.

Spaced repetition

Cards come back at the intervals your memory needs, so vocabulary and kanji you find hard appear more often.

Anki export

On the Plus plan, export your flashcards to Anki and keep studying on desktop or mobile with the deck you already use.

How it works

Upload your Japanese material

Add a textbook chapter, vocabulary list, slide deck or a photo of your notes.

Review and edit the cards

Check the generated fronts and backs, then remove anything you do not need.

Study or export

Study in the browser on the free plan, or export to Anki on Plus.

Generating from your material also keeps you in control of scope. You study the words from this week's lesson rather than a list of thousands of entries you have not seen yet, and you can add new batches as the course moves on.

Spaced repetition then handles the review schedule, so each session focuses on the cards you are most likely to forget.

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Frequently asked questions

How many Japanese cards should I make per lesson?

Keep each batch small enough to review in one short daily session. Add new cards gradually as older ones become familiar.

How should I use flashcards to learn kana and kanji?

Learn hiragana and katakana until you read them without pausing, then add kanji in small groups tied to vocabulary you already know. Put the reading and an example word on the back of each card.

Can I export my flashcards to Anki?

Yes, Anki export is part of the Plus plan at $99.90/year or $9.99/month. The free plan lets you study in the browser without exports.

Is there a free plan to try it first?

Yes, the free plan includes 3 generations per month and browser study. No credit card is needed to start.

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