Mojikaki
Hiragana · Katakana · Alphabet
Trace it with a finger, in stroke order.
Mojikaki (もじかき, “writing letters”) is a writing app for children from age 3. They trace hiragana, katakana and the alphabet with a finger or an Apple Pencil, one stroke at a time, and each character they write earns a medal.
The app is in Japanese, made for children who speak Japanese, in Japan or abroad.
iPhone and iPad · hiragana is free
Trace and write
The model moves in stroke order
The model strokes move in stroke order, and your child traces them from the starting mark, one stroke at a time. When the order and the direction are right, the next stroke comes; when it does not go well, the model moves again to show the way.
The tracing is more or less forgiving depending on your child’s age, from 3 to 6 and over. Each character is read aloud in Japanese as its screen opens. Your child picks one of four crayons.
A medal for each character
Write it, earn a medal
No score or percentage is ever shown. A medal for each character and today’s check marks show your child’s progress, day by day.
- Bronzethe first time it is written
- Silverwritten on ten different days
- Goldwritten without the model on three different days
Words
Their name, and the words they love
When a parent adds words, such as your child’s name or でんしゃ (train), your child writes them one character at a time. Small っ and ゃ and the long-vowel mark ー can be written too.
Album
Every character, kept in an album
Each character your child writes is kept just as it was drawn, in crayon, to look back on. A drawing can also be played back, in the order and at the speed it was written.
Katakana and the alphabet
The alphabet on four lines
The unlock adds all 71 katakana and the 52 capital and small letters of the alphabet. Letters are written on the four lines of an English exercise book: the capitals in print, the small letters in cursive.
For parents
Made so that a child can use it alone, safely.
No ads, no account
No ads, no account, no analytics and no tracking of any kind.
Kept on this device
Your child’s name, drawings and medals stay on this device. Nothing is sent anywhere.
Grown-up steps behind a check
Settings, the purchase and adding words open only after Face ID, Touch ID or a multiplication question.
Works offline
No internet connection needed, except to buy or restore the unlock.
For brothers and sisters
Up to six children on one device, each with their own drawings and medals.
iPhone and iPad
In portrait or landscape, and with an Apple Pencil on iPad.
All of hiragana is free
Free version
Free
- All 71 hiragana, with the forms marked ゛ and ゜ (が, ぱ…)
- Words in hiragana
- Your child’s name, even in katakana
Unlock all characters
One-time purchase
- All 71 katakana, with the forms marked ゛ and ゜
- The 52 capital and small letters of the alphabet
- Words in katakana and the alphabet
The purchase covers every child on the device. No subscription, no ads.
One stroke at a time, starting today.