About

It started with two everyday frustrations. Studying Japanese, we couldn't find an app that explained what actually separates two patterns that translate the same way. Making plans with someone close meant either showing them your whole calendar or trading message after message. Neither is a big problem, but both come up all the time, and they deserved a proper answer. What we want from here is plain. We want to make products people pick for themselves and find worth paying for, so the studio can support itself and keep improving what it makes without leaning on hype.

Who makes this

Motitory is one person: a Korean developer who has been living and working in Japan for a few years. The first wall I hit here was the language, and not only the grammar patterns above. Everyday life was full of small things that tripped me up every time: the Japanese era calendar on forms, fields that insist on full-width or half-width characters.

If working as a developer has taught me one thing, it is that friction like this usually goes away with one small, well-made tool. So I started with the ones I needed myself. Anyone who moves between Korean and Japanese has probably gone looking for them at some point.

The name is Motivation plus Story, and there is nothing grander behind it. Learning a language in a new country, building products alone and keeping at it: I hope that story nudges someone else to take their first step. That is what the green light on the logo's key means, too. motivation: on.