# No Fluff: Katakana
**URL:** https://community.wanikani.com/t/no-fluff-katakana/34689
**Category:** Resources
**Created:** [January 18, 2019, 7:41am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/no-fluff-katakana/34689 "2019-01-18T07:41:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@mks](https://community.wanikani.com/u/mks)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2019, 7:41am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/no-fluff-katakana/34689/1 "2019-01-18T07:41:37Z")
I just published an app for improving katakana recognition.
It is very simple and may not be worth your time.
It’s free for Android in the [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.manonthemat.nofluffkatakana).
I don’t have an active Apple developer program membership, so there’s no easy-to-grab iOS version. Sorry! But you can build it yourself (or ask an iOS developer to build and publish it for you), as I’ve made the source code available, too: [GitHub - manonthemat/noFluffKatakana: React Native App for straight-forward quizzing of katakana-\>romaji recognition](https://github.com/manonthemat/noFluffKatakana)
As you might notice from the App or its presentation in the store, you can easily see that I only put very little time into it. But it does the job and I’m open for suggestions.
I’ve only tested it on a Google Pixel and it works fine there.
If this helps just one person, it was worth it.
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### Author:  [@Pep95](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Pep95)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2019, 7:48am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/no-fluff-katakana/34689/2 "2019-01-18T07:48:14Z")
It looks pretty cool! I’d be interested to use it. Do you also have a function to do it in reverse? (Romaji-\>Katakana)
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### Author:  [@mks](https://community.wanikani.com/u/mks)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2019, 7:50am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/no-fluff-katakana/34689/3 "2019-01-18T07:50:28Z")
No, I don’t provide that function. It could be easily be added though.
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### Author:  [@tupuliini](https://community.wanikani.com/u/tupuliini)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2019, 8:11am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/no-fluff-katakana/34689/4 "2019-01-18T08:11:58Z")
I’m going to install it now, thanks for this! I’ve been having trouble reading katakana because I just don’t see it as often.
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### Author:  [@Atani](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Atani)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2019, 10:56am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/no-fluff-katakana/34689/5 "2019-01-18T10:56:41Z")
Thanks, I was just thinking about how to study katakana more as I have some troubles with them. Will install your app and try it 😊
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### Author:  [@DaisukeJigen](https://community.wanikani.com/u/DaisukeJigen)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2019, 3:50pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/no-fluff-katakana/34689/7 "2019-01-18T15:50:06Z")
Any chance of an Anki style mode being added?
Multiple choice is nice, but when you think “is this RE or RU?” and only RU is a choice, it can lead to false corrects.
User could just select wrong answer to make a fail, but even if you don’t mean to, seeing the correct choice out of the corner of your eye can trick your brain into thinking you knew it.
Or some sort of keyboard entry, but Anki mode would be easier to implement I imagine.
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### Author:  [@Corbayne](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Corbayne)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2019, 4:24pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/no-fluff-katakana/34689/8 "2019-01-18T16:24:03Z")
I have only recently joined the modern world and upgraded from my flip phone so I can totally enjoy this!!!
Plus, I am so thankful it’s Katakana which I blow donkey balls at \<3
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### Author:  [@VioletMouse](https://community.wanikani.com/u/VioletMouse)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2019, 8:48pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/no-fluff-katakana/34689/9 "2019-01-18T20:48:32Z")
So glad i’m not the only one who just can’t grasp katakana
unfortunately I have iOS and no idea how to build an app
but still OP, very 👍
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### Author:  [@Frosty-chan](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Frosty-chan)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2019, 8:51pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/no-fluff-katakana/34689/10 "2019-01-18T20:51:48Z")
This sounds pretty cool. Did you have any screen shots?
I have ios myself but Ill see if I can download blue stacks and get it running on my computer.
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### Author:  [@Saida](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Saida)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2019, 9:00pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/no-fluff-katakana/34689/11 "2019-01-18T21:00:28Z")
Nice one! Thanks Matthias!
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### Author:  [@mks](https://community.wanikani.com/u/mks)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2019, 9:40pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/no-fluff-katakana/34689/12 "2019-01-18T21:40:45Z")
Yes, there are screenshots for the Android version on the Play Store linked in the first post.
For convenience, here’s another one.
As you can see, it’s a very simple user interface, which I hope to be self-explanatory.
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### Author:  [@Corbayne](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Corbayne)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2019, 10:18pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/no-fluff-katakana/34689/13 "2019-01-18T22:18:58Z")
I also use [this](https://community.wanikani.com/t/kanjiroids-space-invaders-for-vocab-kanji-hiragana-katakana-alpha-testing/33388) to practice katakana and WK in general \<3
> [@VioletMouse](#):
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> not the only one who just can’t grasp katakana
## IT JUST WILL NOT STICK
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### Author:  [@mks](https://community.wanikani.com/u/mks)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2019, 3:10am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/no-fluff-katakana/34689/14 "2019-03-08T03:10:16Z")
After Tofugu surprisingly picked up this little app in their [New Japanese Learning Resources: January 2019](https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/japanese-learning-resources-january-2019/#no-fluff-katakana) blog post, a set of new eyeballs pointed out an obvious shortcoming that there was no summary of mistakes.
So I just uploaded version 1.0.1 and initiated a rollout of the app with said summary. It should become available for all through the Google play store soon.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.wanikani.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2020, 3:12am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/no-fluff-katakana/34689/15 "2020-03-07T03:12:16Z")
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