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You Can Kana - Learn Japanese Hiragana & Katakana
Learn and master the japanese phonetic alphabets at your own pace with this meditative language learning tool.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-14.
“YEY, I can read Hiragana and Katakana totally. This game is recommended to you guys who are beginners and want to learn the Japanese Language. 10/10”
— a player, Steam review · 12 hrs played“Does a decent job of making something that is inherently boring (ramming symbols in your head) fun. Well done game makers!”
— a player, Steam review · 13 hrs played“TL;DR This game is a type racer memory game that forces you to learn a specific symbol's romaji equivalent. I think that's valuable because it will enable me to begin learning words by reading manga so overall I recommend the game. There's no quick way to learn this, at some…”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-05 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-19.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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You Can Kana - now on macOS
🍎 You 🍏 Can 🍎 Kana 🍏 Functionality: 🍏 Steam cloud save transfers between macOS and Windows 🍏 Intel 🍏 M1 🍏 M2 If you're enjoying You Can Kana and appreciate these free updates, please recommend the gam
Dec 22 update: graphics tablet support
Improved graphics tablet / touch-screen support (tested on Wacom Intuos). Now, a pen can be used to navigate the menus and complete the stroke order sections. Note: even on graphics tablet, the stroke
Word explainer hotfix
Added click audio to word explainer ESC key now closes Word Explainer
'Word Explainer' Update
Summary Added the Word Explainer, an interactive way to view the valid inputs for a word. Multiple improvements to the translation system If you're enjoying You Can Kana and appreciate these free upda
You Can Kana 2022 Update 1
Hi everyone, a new update for You Can Kana is available! Thanks again to everyone who submitted feedback, I do read through it all and try to address what I can. Apologies for the large gap between th
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-14.
| Genres | Casual |
| Player tags | Education · Typing · Word Game · Arcade · Score Attack · Cute · Minimalist · Hand-drawn · Tutorial · Singleplayer · Text-Based · 2D (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English |
| Achievements | 11 |
| Official site | http://jamesmoulang.co.uk/kana |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 10 Processor: 2 GHz dual core Memory: 512 MB RAM Graphics: Hardware Accelerated Graphics with dedicated memory