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Very basic

It does a good job boosting vocabulary with spaced repetition. I wish that it offered the option to turn romaji off, because having them on every word makes internalizing kanji much more difficult. The pronunciation tests are not useful. They often count words wrong for being pronounced in hiragana rather than katakana, which if you’ve studied Japanese you know doesn’t make sense. In general this is fine for practicing basic vocabulary but will not teach you the language or even simple sentences.

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MC Leemur

8 days ago

Response from developer

Hello! Thank you for your feedback! We are glad that you like our application and you suggest ideas for its improvement. We have forwarded information about your request to the development department to study the possibility of adding new functionality to the application!

Could be great but…

It seems like this was produced without actually testing the product on any users. I set my skill level as beginner and all of the new vocabulary cards are in kanji - not hiragana - and the app is asking me to carefully read them? How is a beginner supposed to know the kanji for a vocab word they’ve never seen before? I’m especially irritated because I accidentally signed up for an 80 dollar description for this absolutely garbage app. Am I missing something?

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F8c3!x_]great^¥job=5454

18 days ago

Response from developer

Decent app - billing wrong

I was offered a 6m or unlimited subscription after one week. I clicked on the unlimited - it did not work. I clicked on 6m for £19.99. I was charged £70.99 for one year. This was not an option - the billing is wrong. I am hoping it is an accident - if it is not then it is fraud. Good app otherwise so far - but you cannot charge people like this. Jo

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TokyoJo

2 months ago

Response from developer

Hello! Could you describe the problem in more detail by contacting user support? You can do this through the application: go to the settings "Applications", then "Write to developers" - or by email support@mobilecleverapps.com

Can’t choose

The app doesn’t let you buy the “forever acces” as indicated in the “in app purchase” on the app store. There’s also no account nor a section to change the subscription.

Trolololo$:!&,9:!

3 months ago

Response from developer

Not good for Japanese at all

It is a bad application even if it were free, and it is definitely not worth the money. This flash-card method of learning is okay for Indo-European languages and other languages that are spelled phonetically—I say okay because in the 7-day trial no grammar has been covered, and because it presents you with the written language in the earliest stages of learning the language, which is a bad practice in general. But it is terrible for Japanese. First of all, it relies on your device’s built-in text-to-speech for audio—this is bad because one character can be read at least two ways depending on context, and the given pronunciation of the character could be wrong for the context and also not match up with the romanization (体 is romanized as “karada” on the card but my phone’s TTS says “tai”). Second, it relies on your device’s voice recognition for pronunciation exercise. Japanese has a myriad of homophones, and when I say 章 [shou], my phone will transcribe your speech as 笑 [shou] and register it as incorrect; I’ve run into 5 such words so far. I give it two stars instead of one because it can be redeemed: if grammar exercise is added, support for homophones is added, if Tokyo-dialect native-speaker audio examples are added, and if connecting pronunciation with meaning is introduced for every word before showing how it is written.

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pfargtlgeist

3 months ago

Response from developer

Hello. Thank you for your detailed feedback on using our app. We appreciate you taking the time to share your insights into the learning process with us. We will continue to work on improving our app for our users!

Scam

Very sneaky monetization. Apparently I just paid for a 1 year subscription. There's barely any words and no context and they couldn't even bother to get a real person to pronounce the words. 80 bucks for this app is hilarious.

I'm getting 1000x more value using ChatGPT for grammar/vocabulary/ example sentences in kanji, hiragana, and Romaji and Google Translate for pronunciation. Also Anki for study decks. These are all free btw

Embarrassing app

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T gideon

3 months ago

Response from developer

Hello, thank you for your feedback. We are very sorry that you had a negative impression of our application. Please describe your experience using the application in more detail. You can supplement the review or write to our support service directly from the application in the "Settings" section or send an email to Hello! Could you please describe the problem in more detail by contacting user support. You can do this through the application: go to the "Applications" settings, then "Write to developers" , - or by email support@mobilecleverapps.com

Decent SRS, poor pronunciation grading

Mostly fine if you want to learn new vocabulary with SRS. The big problem it has is that there are multiple ways to write a certain word or phrase, and often the app will hear what you said correctly, but incorrectly write a different phrase that is pronounced the same or similarly pronounced. This means it considers your word choice to be incorrect even though you are saying the same thing in the same way as the example. For example the app may present you with a phrase written with the appropriate kanji to speak. When the phrase is spoken into the app, the voice recognition decides to write what you said in hiragana without converting any of it to the proper kanji. So even though you said the correct thing, the hiragana is not the same exact text as the kanji and so it fails you for being “incorrect”.

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Eggroll1024

6 months ago

Response from developer

Good afternoon, thank you for your feedback. We are very sorry that you had a negative experience with our application, but we appreciate your detailed description of your user experience. If you have ideas to improve the application, you can write to us - support@mobilecleverapps.com

Decent SRS, poor pronunciation grading

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Eggroll1024

6 months ago

It’s nice but

I cannot read Kanji. I have learned Hiragana and Katakana but not being able to read Kanji makes it hard for me to continue to use this app until I am able learn. Also, the speaking part does not give you enough time sometimes. I would say it all and say it right yet it would cut off before I finish and then just skip the word all together so I cannot add the word to my learned list. It’s just a little frustrating.

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SnowWhiteDM

6 months ago

Response from developer

Hello. Thank you for sharing your experience using the application. We have forwarded the information to the development department to explore the possibility of making changes to the educational process in our application.

How to cancel?

I can’t seem to find the option anywhere in settings or otherwise to cancel or modify my subscription plan. I started the free trial and want to cancel. Panicking because I’ve searched all over the app and can’t see any options.

Cancelling because the app doesn’t really provide any help for learning all the Kanji it presents to you even when learning common / beginner vocab- so it doesn’t suit me.

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ansiwvdux

6 months ago

Response from developer

Hello! We use standard Apple subscriptions. In accordance with Apple's payment policy, subscriptions are managed on the platform side for security reasons, and developers do not have access to the transactions and data of users who have subscribed. You must cancel your subscription to the app yourself. You can read more about managing your subscription in these instructions: https://support.apple.com/HT202039 If you have any other questions, just let me know and I'll be happy to help. Have a nice day!