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TABI

Learn Japanese from zero in about five minutes a day.
New in version 2.4.0
KANA MNEMONICS under Progress shows every kana with its mnemonic or note, one card at a time, with no quiz. Swipe through basic kana, dakuten and handakuten, yōon, and extended katakana, and tap ♪ to hear each one. The 12 extended katakana, like ティ and ヴ, now have notes too.
TABI takes you from your first hiragana to reading a menu, counting change, understanding the konbini clerk, reading street signs, and picking the right train. It has eleven stations, unlocked in order, each with two trials and a test from the Stationmaster (駅長). Pass it and the station's eki stamp goes in your stamp book. SHARE STAMP turns any stamp into an image for Mastodon or any other app.

A day takes about five minutes. One button shows you up to eight new items, then asks about twenty questions from everything you have met so far. Finishing it marks the day, whatever your score. There are no streaks. Missed days cost nothing and nothing decays while you are away.

What the stations cover:

• Hiragana and katakana, with a mnemonic for every character, a deck to read them all without a quiz, and drills aimed at the look-alikes
• Numbers, prices, clock times, and counting people versus things
• Thirty survival phrases and the situations they belong to
• Ordering food, reading menus, and the questions every register clerk asks
• Fifty-eight sign kanji: exits, toilets, push and pull, open and closed, no photos, hot and cold
• Platform boards, train types, IC cards, and following spoken directions
• Particles and sentence building
• A listening log for hours of Japanese heard
• The first 104 kanji

Question types: multiple choice, typed answers in romaji (IME spellings accepted) or kana, listening, matching, tile building, and rendered menus and platform boards. Wrong answers show the rule you missed.

Audio uses the Japanese voice from your phone's text-to-speech engine. With one installed, some questions play the sound first and show the text after you answer. Hold a speaker button to hear a line slower. If none is installed, the app tells you how to add one. Every reading is printed, so nothing depends on audio.

TABI requests no INTERNET permission. Progress stays on the device and backs up to a file or as text.

Free software under GPL-3.0-or-later.
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Versions

Although APK downloads are available below to give you the choice, you should be aware that by installing that way you will not receive update notifications and it's a less secure way to download. We recommend that you install the F-Droid client and use that.

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  • Version 2.4.0 (8) suggested Added on Oct 22, 2026

    arm64-v8a armeabi-v7a x86 x86_64

    This version requires Android 8.0 or newer.

    It is built and signed by the original developer, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.

    Permissions
    • control vibration
      Allows the app to control the vibrator.
    • dev.lorsupra.tabi.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

    Download APK 1.8 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log

    • New in version 2.3.0
    A run cut short now counts at the next launch. Importing a backup asks first, and if your save does not load, Progress offers it back. TABI opts out of Android backup and phone-to-phone transfer, so SAVE FILE moves your progress to a new phone. New rule notes for particles and kanji readings, ✓ and ✕ marks on answers, proper names for the kana marks, and capitals across the app. Fixes for kanji examples, answers with the same meaning, and the こんにちは reading.
  • Version 2.3.0 (7) - Added on Oct 12, 2026

    arm64-v8a armeabi-v7a x86 x86_64

    This version requires Android 8.0 or newer.

    It is built and signed by the original developer, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.

    Permissions
    • control vibration
      Allows the app to control the vibrator.
    • dev.lorsupra.tabi.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

    Download APK 1.7 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log

    • New in version 2.2.0
    Slow replay: hold a speaker button to hear the line slower, and pick the speed under Progress. The mnemonic for ゆ is now a yuzu. STUDY THIS STATION reads "new items from here, then a quiz". The trip-ready box drops its last sentence, which pointed at the wrong stations when the eighth stamp was not TRAINS.
  • Version 2.2.0 (6) - Added on Oct 08, 2026

    arm64-v8a armeabi-v7a x86 x86_64

    This version requires Android 8.0 or newer.

    It is built and signed by the original developer, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.

    Permissions
    • control vibration
      Allows the app to control the vibrator.
    • dev.lorsupra.tabi.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

    Download APK 1.7 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log

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