NihonGO Manabi is the whole intermediate road in one course β thirty-six chapters across three books, following one continuing story, where every word, kanji and grammar pattern is one tap from a card that explains it. Two companion apps drill the same deck and put it to work in literature.
δΈη΄ Built for the intermediate years
ε¦γ³ IβIII Β· the complete intermediate series
NihonGO Dominos
The drill Β· iPhone & iPad Β· free
On the App Store now
NihonGO Manabi
The course Β· iPhone, iPad & Mac Β· free
Arriving 15 December 2026
NihonGO Dokusho
The reader Β· iPhone & iPad Β· free
On the App Store now
Not yet. You'll want kana and your first few hundred words under your belt first β then this system will carry you a very long way.
This is built for you. You read kana comfortably and know elementary grammar. Manabi picks you up exactly there and walks you to real Japanese, one chapter at a time.
You've likely outgrown it. If native books and dramas are already comfortable, you won't need the furigana, glosses and drills built into every page.
The whole intermediate textbook, rebuilt as an app. Follow one young reporter from her first day on the job: three books, thirty-six chapters of authentic native Japanese, quietly carried for you, so nothing is dumbed down and nothing is out of reach. See what's ready, and when.
Six rooms in every chapter β worked in order, or looped freely.
Nothing here is a dead list. Tap an underlined word and up comes its meaning, reading, the kanji it is built from and an example you can hear. Conjugated forms find their own dictionary form β ζ©γγ¦γγ and ι γγγ open just like anything else.
Over 330 patterns across the series, taught as families rather than isolated points: every conditional side by side, every way of saying βcanβ, so you learn which one to reach for. Plus all 755 N3 and N2 kanji, each introduced by the chapter that needs it.
Around 7,500 exercises across the series, in several forms for every grammar family. You write the Japanese yourself, then the model answer shows how it should have been written β free, offline, as often as you like.
Write a kanji with your finger or an Apple Pencil and it's checked for shape, stroke order, direction and missing strokes β and told which part of the character went wrong. Entirely on your device: no account, no connection, no cost.
A word you keep peeking at, a kanji you keep missing, a pattern you keep getting wrong β all of it returns in a spaced review queue that schedules itself. You never add anything by hand.
Complete reference tables, an index of every word and kanji in the book, printable practice sheets, and a dictionary with three scopes β this book, every card in the system, and a full JapaneseβEnglish dictionary of over 22,000 entries.
Manabi teaches. Dominos drills the same deck until it's automatic, and Dokusho puts it to work in real literature. One deck under all three β so nothing you learn in any of them is ever wasted.
The drill. Rapid, frequency-ranked exposure to every building block β one thumb, on the train, every day.
The reader. A graded Japanese novel where every word is alive β tap it, and up comes the very same card you met in Manabi.
Every word, kanji and grammar point lives in a single hand-curated deck. Meet it in Manabi, drill it in Dominos, then tap it inside a Dokusho story β the identical card appears. Recognition becomes reading.
Active recall of the blocks until they're second nature β ranked by how often you'll actually meet them.
The course itself. Thirty-six chapters that introduce the words, the kanji and the grammar in the order a reader actually needs them β then make you write it back.
Meet those same blocks in longer literature β in context, with a tap-to-reveal card the moment you need it.
γγγ Dominos and θͺζΈ Dokusho are on the App Store today. Here is exactly what else arrives and when β because a course with a date you can hold it to matters more than one that is merely announced.
Every entry is curated and cross-checked β put through a multi-stage editorial pipeline before it ever reaches your screen.
No machine-generated word lists. Each pillar is sourced, ranked and reviewed by hand.
The chapters are written as Japanese first, then reviewed line by line by independent native readings β never translated out of English.
You learn what you'll actually meet β ordered by real-world frequency, not textbook order.
Everything works offline, on your device. No accounts, no ads, no tracking. Free β the content is the product.
All three apps are free and built for intermediate learners.
Dominos and Dokusho are on the App Store now. All three ε¦γ³ Manabi books arrive together on 15 December 2026.
The course is finished. This page will link straight to it the moment the listing is live.