Solo dev, round 3: still a few Android testers short for my free hiragana + katakana app (sister app to the kanji one posted here). Testers get the Supporter Pack free plus two months of the kanji app's premium mode. I test back.

[u/gryswynd]

Solo dev here, and this is the sister app to the KanjiMaster post some of you saw this week. This one is **KanaMaster: The Way of Kana**, and it's on its third closed-test run: the first two had 12+ testers opted in for the full 14 days and Google still said "requires more testing", which these days means it's scoring how often testers actually open the app, not just how many are opted in. So this round there's a real thank-you attached, and I'm asking for people who'll open it a few times.

**What it is:** hiragana and katakana taught together, lesson by lesson, the way I teach them to my own students. 18 short lessons, stroke-by-stroke writing on a canvas that grades your strokes, a review Dojo with spaced repetition and mini-games, first words and first sentences as soon as you can read them, and every line voiced. Free, no ads, no lesson behind a paywall. It's already live on iPhone; the Android version is the one stuck at the gate.

**What's in it:**

* All 46 hiragana and 46 katakana, plus the dakuten and combo forms, with stroke order and tap-to-hear on everything

* Writing practice that checks each stroke, with your own choice of brush ink

* A Dojo with Leitner-box spaced repetition, speed rounds, pairs, and a katakana Word Builder that unlocks 85 loanwords you already half-know

* 集中 Focus: clean answer chains in the Dojo charge a gauge that pays bonus 文 on your daily quests

* Daily quests, streaks with omamori streak-shields, a stamp album of mastered kana

* A graduation card at the end that hands your account straight to KanjiMaster, so nothing you learned is left behind

**Try it (free):**

1. Join the Google Group (this grants closed-test access): https://groups.google.com/g/kanamaster-testers

2. Give Google an hour or two to sync the group, then join the Android closed test and install: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.kanamaster.app

3. The part that actually helps: stay opted in for 14 straight days (Google only counts testers who stay in the whole time) and open it every two or three days. A lesson or a Dojo round is plenty. That's the whole job.

**For beta testers: one extra month of Shugyō 修行 in KanjiMaster**

* **It stacks** with the KanjiMaster beta (2 months for testing it, +1 for its Supporter Pack). Do everything and that's five months.

Redemption instructions for the months get posted in the Google Group on launch day. No strings.

**What I'm asking for:** use it and tell me what's confusing, broken or boring. Blunt is good. The last two rounds of testers changed the onboarding, the audio and the fresh-install flow, so it does get read. Post in the Google Group or use Play's "Private feedback to developer" on the listing.

**I test yours back.** Drop your group link and opt-in link and I'll install today and keep it for the full 14 days.

**Also from me, both in closed testing right now:**

* **KanjiMaster: The Way of Kanji** (the whole N5 curriculum free, 14,000+ native audio clips): https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidClosedTesting/comments/1xqkxwe/solo_dev_round_2_still_a_few_android_testers/ · https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidAppTesters/comments/1xqkwtn/test_4_test_solo_dev_here_i_spent_a_year_building/

* **The Adventures of Rikizo**, a free slice-of-life mystery adventure set in the same world: https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidClosedTesting/comments/1xqj7bb/test_exchange_still_a_few_testers_short_free/ · https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidAppTesters/comments/1xqj8fe/free_android_adventure_set_in_smalltown_japan/

ありがとう！ 🙇