Drops: Learn Japanese

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4.6
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About this app

What if 🇯🇵 Japanese vocabulary learning would be a crazy fun game instead of boring memorisation drills? Drops makes language learning an effortless fun. Practical vocabulary is bound to your memories through beautiful graphics and quick mini-games.
The crazy part? You have only 5 mins per day. Might sound insane but works like charm! :)
These are the ingredients of the secret sauce:
👀 100% illustrated: Pictures directly carry the meaning - you don’t have to use your native language at all! No intermediary. Faster, more effective and of course more fun! :)
🏎 5 min sessions: limiting practice time sounds crazy but it it makes it incredibly addictive - which is cool thing for learning. The barrier of entry is close to zero so you can’t have any excuses: you’ll have 5 minutes even on the busiest day!
🕹 Effortless play: We know why games are fun and addictive and distilled the essence into Drops. The result is a truly immersive experience but it’s not waste of your time while you play because you build a valuable knowledge.
⚡Qucik: Keyboard typing is painfully slow. Welcome rapid swipes and taps! Trust us, you’ll need those extra seconds during the quick learning session ;)
🎯 Vocabulary only: Zero grammar, just handpicked practical words. That’s our focus and we do it extremely well. The app teaches the Korean “alphabet” Hangul (hangoul) too!
💁Forge a habit: Drops wants to make you language learning addict. Effectiveness is nothing without a well established habit. We help you build one!
We are extremely proud of our lovely word pronunciations by seasoned voice talents!
Drops is free for casual learners: more than 2500 words in 100+ topics are all available for everyone. Hardcore language learners can subscribe for premium to progress faster with unlimited learning time.

🌍 Our goal is to empower people of the world via language knowledge by providing a special tool that utilizes the universal language we all speak: pictures.


p.s.: be careful, this app really can get you addicted to to language learning.

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😍 If you love Drops as much as we enjoyed building it, please leave us a review! :)

Questions? Contact us at [email protected]
Updated on
Apr 28, 2025

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Ratings and reviews

4.6
127K reviews
A Google user
October 11, 2018
The ability to learn Japanese in Dutch is awesome. Also I'm really happy with the ability to train kanji, although it comes with one downside: tapping kanji does not reveal the hiragana. Please make this possible so I don't have to rely on audio or an outside dictionary. That all said, I like it so much that I've just subscribed to premium for a whole year.
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Drops Languages
October 11, 2018
Hi Mark, Thanks for learning Japanese with Drops and sending us feedback! We constantly work hard on improving the app, stay tuned! If there's anything else to refine, feel free to let us know!
UnDra Glover
March 21, 2025
I liked it better when it had the link to the lesson that you had been working on previously, so that you could go straight back to the lesson that you were working on, if you don't want to do the units program and you want to do your own program schedule. It was just better in my opinion.
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Katrina キポキ Sparrow
May 17, 2022
Hello, Drops Team! Could you please fix the issue with the app being stuck at the last second of every session? It is really annoying to have to wait for 20 secons every time to come back to learning. Also, I would like to have an option to switch off the "5-in-a-row", because it is distracting. All the rest is awesome! Thank you for your hard work.
29 people found this review helpful
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What’s new

This update has squashed some bugs to make learning easier. Have fun learning languages!