A calmer way to study Japanese
Keep the science of Anki.
Lose the backlog mountain.
A calm flashcard app for Japanese. Bring the Anki decks you already built, keep your review history, and study a daily pile that stays capped, so a few days off never becomes a wall of cards.
In active development. No accounts or downloads yet.
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The itch
Spaced repetition works. The app around it usually doesn't.
The method is proven. Anki, the most popular tool, is also the one people quietly resent: a steep first hour, a dated interface, and the part that breaks the most resolve, a review count that grows without limit. Miss a few days and you face a wall. Mekuri keeps the scheduling and rebuilds everything around it to feel calm, not punishing.
What is different
Designed to be gentle, on purpose.
A capped daily pile
A manageable, capped batch instead of the whole backlog, so the pile never balloons while you sleep.
Sessions by the minute
Tell it you have 15 minutes. It estimates your pace, mixes new and review cards to fit, and stops cleanly when time is up.
Recovery, not guilt
Come back after a break to a kind path through the pile, with the few truly stubborn cards quietly flagged for fixing.
Faithful Anki import
Bring an .apkg file and Mekuri reads your cards, layouts,
media, and review history, so your schedule resumes where you left off.
A built-in kana trainer
Hiragana and katakana from zero: recognition and recall, look-alike distractors, a placement test, and recorded audio.
Private by design
Your decks stay yours, in a private, per-user study space with no public marketplace to put your data at risk.
Working today
What already runs
- ✓ The capped daily review loop and time-budgeted sessions
- ✓ Anki
.apkgimport with media and review history - ✓ The kana trainer, placement test, and mastery view
- ✓ Deck and note creation, on desktop and phone browsers
Still to come
What is not ready yet
- ○ Accounts and public sign-up
- ○ Native phone and desktop apps
- ○ Cloud sync across your devices
- ○ The first-party themed Japanese courses
While you wait
Free guides for learning Japanese
The best Anki alternatives in 2026
A clear look at what to use instead of Anki, and what to keep.
How toHow to import an Anki deck
What an .apkg file holds, and how to move it without losing history.
The Genki Anki deck, and what happened to it
Why the classic deck vanished in 2025, and how to study Genki vocabulary now.
BeginnerThe best way to learn hiragana
A calm method that drops the romaji crutch as quickly as it safely can.
MotivationLearn Japanese through video games
A realistic roadmap for turning the games you love into real practice.
ResourceJLPT N5 vocabulary, and how to remember it
A starter word list, plus the part most lists skip: actually retaining it.
Be early
Mekuri is being built in the open. Want to know when it opens?
No spam, no streak nagging, just one message when you can bring your decks over and try it.