Privacy policy

Effective 5 October 2026

Kanakana is made by one person, funclosure. It collects nothing about you. This page says exactly what it keeps, where, and what it never does.

What stays on your device

Kanakana keeps your progress on your iPhone or iPad: which kana you have started and learnt, your answers and the days you gave them, the review schedule, a record of each writing sheet you finish (which kana, at which level, when, and which strokes missed), and your settings. None of it is sent anywhere. It is not synced to iCloud or to any server, and deleting the app deletes it.

What Kanakana never does

• No account and no sign-in.
• No analytics, no advertising and no tracking of any kind. There are no third-party SDKs in the app.
• Your drawings are never stored. Kanakana checks each stroke on the device and keeps only the record above; the writing board reads your handwriting on the device, and the drawing is gone when you clear the sheet.

Sound

The kana are spoken from recordings inside the app. Where a recording is missing, the system’s own speech voice on your device is used. Nothing is streamed.

Reminders

If you turn on the daily reminder, Kanakana asks iOS for permission to show notifications and schedules them on your device. They are local notifications: no server sends them, and nothing about you or your practice leaves the device. You can turn them off in Settings at any time.

Purchases

The one-time purchase, 五十音, is handled by Apple through the App Store. Kanakana never sees your payment details or your Apple Account; it only asks StoreKit, on the device, whether the purchase has been made.

The beta

If you test Kanakana through TestFlight, Apple shares with the developer what TestFlight always shares: crash reports, the feedback and screenshots you choose to send, and basic device information such as the model and system version. They are used only to fix the app.

This website

learnkanakana.app sets no cookies and runs no analytics. Every file it uses is served from its own address. Its host, Cloudflare, keeps the ordinary request logs any web server keeps.

Children

Because nothing is collected, Kanakana is safe for learners of any age.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new date. Questions: [email protected] (write).