Efficient and Useful!
Love this app. Been using it for a couple years now and like how it provides the different readings, as well as useful examples. I would love to see a save option for kanji I find myself coming back to but often forget. :)
Really want to like this app.
I really want to like this app. It’s well made. It includes useful kanji. It details stroke order, which is what I was looking for when I found this app, and it’s flash card design is very useful for review and memorization.
But the ads make it unusable. I hate to be the person to complain about ads—I don’t mind that there’s ads on a free app. It becomes a problem, however, when the ads not only come up every 10 seconds or so but when they’re also designed to be unclose-able.
I’ve gotten multiple ads which have their exit hidden behind the phone’s status bar, making it impossible to navigate back to the app itself without clicking on the ad or manually closing the app. To make it worse: clicking the ad doesn’t even close it in the app! It opens up in the App Store, but when you navigate back to the kanji app the ad is still there and still unable to be closed. So anytime you get one of these ads, you have to force close the app and then you lose all of your progress/lose your spot when you relaunch the app. :(
To the devs of this app: I recognize that you didn’t design the ads that show up on your app, and I’m honestly not sure how much control you get over which ones you’re partnered with/which ones show up, but as it stands the ads make this unusable. :( If it matters and you do have a choice in the matter, a few of the ads I notice consistently doing this are: Homescapes and Fishdom—so probably any ads by Playrix.
It’s impossible to use this app if I have to manually close it every minute or so, lose my spot within the app, and then navigate back to wherever I was.... sometimes getting an ad while I navigate, setting this process back to the start!
I can’t add pictures to a review, but I have screenshots showing this issue.
I’m disappointed. I really, really wanted to like and use this app.
But the ads make it unusable. I hate to be the person to complain about ads—I don’t mind that there’s ads on a free app. It becomes a problem, however, when the ads not only come up every 10 seconds or so but when they’re also designed to be unclose-able.
I’ve gotten multiple ads which have their exit hidden behind the phone’s status bar, making it impossible to navigate back to the app itself without clicking on the ad or manually closing the app. To make it worse: clicking the ad doesn’t even close it in the app! It opens up in the App Store, but when you navigate back to the kanji app the ad is still there and still unable to be closed. So anytime you get one of these ads, you have to force close the app and then you lose all of your progress/lose your spot when you relaunch the app. :(
To the devs of this app: I recognize that you didn’t design the ads that show up on your app, and I’m honestly not sure how much control you get over which ones you’re partnered with/which ones show up, but as it stands the ads make this unusable. :( If it matters and you do have a choice in the matter, a few of the ads I notice consistently doing this are: Homescapes and Fishdom—so probably any ads by Playrix.
It’s impossible to use this app if I have to manually close it every minute or so, lose my spot within the app, and then navigate back to wherever I was.... sometimes getting an ad while I navigate, setting this process back to the start!
I can’t add pictures to a review, but I have screenshots showing this issue.
I’m disappointed. I really, really wanted to like and use this app.
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Great app
The only thing missing is the ability to make custom kanji lists to study.
Unusable in free mode
Total piece of rubbish if you do not pay to remove the ads, which are completely intolerable
Basically perfect.
As much as I prefer hard copies of learning materials, this is easily the best kanji dictionary I could find (hard copies included)
The app has always been stable (used for two and a half years), the UI is clean, looking up by copying and pasting or typing is on point, the JLPT and Kyou’iku lists are nice, and the ads are never disruptive.
The one thing that could make it even better is the inclusion of a “search by radical” function.
The app has always been stable (used for two and a half years), the UI is clean, looking up by copying and pasting or typing is on point, the JLPT and Kyou’iku lists are nice, and the ads are never disruptive.
The one thing that could make it even better is the inclusion of a “search by radical” function.
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Crash
The app is amazing when it works, but at least once a month it goes through this crashing phase. When it does that I have to delete the app and re-download it. Not anymore. I’m done with this app.
Nearly perfect
Keeps crashing
exactly what I wanted
I'm happy with this app-- it's exactly what I was looking for: input the character (or a short sequence) and then it clearly shows the correct stroke order/proportion for practice.
Very handy!
Nice tool for learning kanji. Would love Apple Pencil support please!!!
could be so much better
being a beginner in kanji, I love how many it looks like I can learn. the only thing is, the "pronunciation" in the information side of the kanji is really confusing, so it kinda defeats the purpose of learning the kanji if you only know the English meaning and not how to pronounce it. If this app had an audio option where I could HEAR how the kanji is pronounced, it would help so much, and then I would have a reason to use this app.
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