Drops: Learn Japanese

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4.4
134K reviews
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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 sup@languagedrops.com
Updated on
May 15, 2025

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Ratings and reviews

4.4
127K reviews
Leon voisey
March 13, 2021
I think the image association here is methodically the best of the learning apps I have. However: It is a bit feature lacking, you can't sellect to only do one lesson type for example. Some of the imagery is a bit too vague or criptic especially for concepts. Definitely worth trying, probably worth waiting a few updates before buying the full version though.
42 people found this review helpful
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Eren Kemp
December 4, 2021
I like this app a lot. It's great for vocab, and has a fun way of teaching it. It also utilises a variety of methods to alleviate the repetition and boredom. My biggest complaint is the notifications. I've literally just used the app, and halfway through my lesson a notification came up on my phone to use the app. It's more than a little needy!
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A Google user
April 22, 2019
Brilliant app for learning vocabulary. It's got a good range of topics and for the free version, allows you to start multiple pathways. It uses kana and kanji but introduces it gradually. Doesn't teach you grammar but that's fine. For Japanese combine it with Duolingo/ Memrise/ Lingodeer and this can really bolster the rate at which you learn. Premium should be cheaper, I can't justify that even though I'd love the features and to support it.
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What’s new

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