Read stories full of your WaniKani vocab
Each story weaves in words you’ve learned in WaniKani. Words you tap come back. Words you read past don’t.
2,618 words森は深くなり、道の方向も分からなくなった。
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暗くなる前におばあちゃんに届けて、びっくりさせようね。
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うん。でも、だんだん心配になってきたよ。
Translateその時、木の間から赤い屋根が見えてきた。二人は顔を見合わせて、走り出した。
Translateおばあちゃん、来たよ！
TranslateHow it works
Connect WaniKani. Paste an API token and Kototap imports all your vocab, Apprentice to Burned.
Start a story. Kototap writes an interactive story around the words you imported from WaniKani.
Tap what you don’t know. The meaning and reading appear, and the word is saved to your deck to return in future stories.
Also studying with Bunpro, Renshuu or Anki? Kototap imports from those too.
Questions
What exactly gets imported from WaniKani?
Every vocabulary item whose lesson you have completed, with its SRS stage — Apprentice, Guru, Master, Enlightened or Burned. Kanji and radicals are not imported.
Does Kototap use spaced repetition?
Yes, but there is no card queue. Every word and grammar point in your deck has a schedule, and the reviews happen inside stories: a word that is due is written into your next story. Tap it and it counts as a miss, so it comes back soon. Read past it and it counts as a successful review, so it comes back later. Imported WaniKani words are scheduled the same way, starting from the stage they arrived at.
How do the WaniKani stages affect the stories?
Each story weaves in a mix of your imported words, and the mix follows the stages. Words at Apprentice or Guru take the most slots. Master and Enlightened words take fewer. Burned words take the fewest, and among them the ones with several meanings go first.
Does it stay in sync with WaniKani?
Yes. Once connected, Kototap checks WaniKani for newly completed lessons and refreshes your whole record once a day. Kototap only reads from WaniKani; it never writes to your account or changes your reviews.
Are the stories written by people?
No. The stories are generated around your deck. They are not a replacement for native Japanese; they are practice for the stretch before native material is readable.
How much does Kototap cost?
Nothing during early access, which ends November 1, 2026. After that it is $9.99 a month. Subscribe before then and you keep $6.99 a month for as long as you stay subscribed.
Does Kototap replace WaniKani?
No. WaniKani teaches kanji and vocabulary; Kototap exposes you to those words in context. Keep doing your WaniKani reviews.
Start reading your WaniKani words in context.
Connect WaniKani during setup, or later from Settings. Free during early access, on iOS and Android.