# Kanji Quizzer — user reviews > 69 indexed App Store user reviews of Kanji Quizzer by Ryan Edmonds, rated 4.70/5 from 212 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kanji-quizzer/id1071476932/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kanji-quizzer/id1071476932.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 175 · 4★ 24 · 3★ 8 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 3 ## What do users think of Kanji Quizzer? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Great for learning Kanji - 👍 Simple and effective interface - 👍 Good for JLPT preparation - 👍 Well-priced full version - 👍 Useful for review and repetition - 👍 Clean interface, no bloatware - 👍 Variety of testing options - 👍 Genuine Japanese audio - 👍 Helpful for beginners - 👍 Quick refreshers throughout the day - 👍 Intuitive interface - 👍 Randomization of quizzes - 👍 Good for recognizing radicals - 👍 Well-priced in-app purchase - 👍 Makes learning Kanji fun - 👍 Great for quick study sessions - 👍 Efficient for learning - 👍 Straightforward learning - 👍 Good for parents helping kids - 👍 Useful for vocabulary practice - 👍 Good for recognizing kanji - 👍 Flexible and reliable **Cons** - 🎧 Sound effects pause background videos - 🎧 Sound effects interfere with music - 🎧 Sound effects cannot be turned off - 🔊 Audio not working on iPhone - 🔊 App is completely silent for some users - 🔄 Inconsistent hiragana/katakana matching - 🔄 Outdated kana (Wi & We) - 🔄 Two of the same choice in quizzes - 🔄 Landscape mode not supported - 🔄 No dark mode option - 🔄 Interface readability issues after design change - 🔄 Super scripts are invisible - 🔄 Japanese font smaller and harder to read - 🔄 No indication of kanji in a set **Commonly reported bugs** - Purchased version not opening on iPad - Purchased levels not accessible after purchase - Purchases not recognized on other devices - Transaction ignored, app acts like purchase didn't happen - Audio not working on iPhone - App completely silent for some users - Restore purchase not working consistently - Inconsistent hiragana/katakana matching - Outdated kana (Wi & We) used - Two of the same choice in quizzes - Landscape mode not supported - Interface readability issues after design change - Super scripts are invisible - Japanese font smaller and harder to read **Most requested features** - Option to see missed kanji after a set - Make sounds not pause background videos - Activate voice option - See kanji in a given set - Add N1 list to website flashcard mode - Silent mode option (no voice, no sound effects) - Dark mode or night mode - Ability to reset everything to zero - Add a 'do not know' button - Save kanji for creating custom tests - Randomized quiz with user progress - Develop vocabulary aspect of the app - Option to view latest score or score progress - Separate by grade level - Show different scores for Kanji to English and English to Kanji - Keep track of most troublesome kanji - Make a vocabulary app - Option to reset quizzes - Add both kun-yomi and on-yomi to choice card - Rapid fire mode (auto advance on correct answer) - Swap English and Japanese options - Randomize kanji font ## Newest reviews (12 of 69) ### 5/5 — Interface *2023-01-21, version 2.0.4* Please, please, please change the interface back to what it was before....: 1. Simplicity is best, that’s why I love the app. 2. Black characters on white background are better readable than white ones in color. 3. It is understood that kun readings are in hiragana, on readings in katakana, and English words, well English. There is no need to spell this out on every flash card. Because of this, the card has become very crowded, the Japanese font smaller and much harder to read (the super scripts are basically invisible) Your app really is 5-star, but it was better the way you had it before the change yesterday. Maybe you could make this user selectable? PS: another minor thing: there seems no way to reset everything to zero. I cycle through all 2000 kanji in about 20 days, then I have to delete the app and reinstall and restore past purchases, to reset everything. (This is just a minor suggestion - the color scheme and hard to read font on the back of the card are almost a deal breaker for me :( ### 5/5 — Fantastic app *2022-09-15, version 1.2.0* I have been studying Japanese for 30 years and I can tell you as a revision this is an absolutely fantastic app. It not only presents you levels but gives you the different Japanese and Chinese origin readings for each kanji character with word examples. It is simple and useful and such a practice good tool.And the Japanese vocal/audio is genuine Japanese and not Americanised or some foreign accent speaking Japanese. This is the genuine product. Well done guys. More than happy to pay for something like this. ### 5/5 — Hontoni Helpful *2022-08-02, version 1.2.0* 10/10 app ### 4/5 — Audio not working *2022-06-25, version 1.2.0* Pity the audio doesn’t work on the iPhone. Good app. ### 5/5 — Great app *2021-04-08, version 1.2.0* Great app for learning and would recommend buying! I would also like to suggest a do not know button! ### 5/5 — Best App for Kanji *2021-03-19, version 1.2.0* This is no doubt the best app I tried for Kanji. I absolutely love the app although I cant get the sounds to play on it, Im using IPhone 8. for some reason The app is completely silent for me. Is there a reason for this? How can I fix it? ### 5/5 — Reset score *2021-01-21, version 1.2.0* It would be nice if one could reset your score. ### 5/5 — 5stars *2020-11-25, version 1.2.0* This app is exactly what i was looking for and works perfect for people trying to learn kanji, i paid for the entire set of n5 to n1 kanji and couldn't believe how cheap it was. Cannot recommend it more to anyone ! ### 5/5 — I’m doing this along with M.I.A. method of learning. *2020-09-04* I initially struggled to remember directly from anti. Since I’d only use it in the morning and after my reps, I wouldn’t see the Kanji I learned as frequently, so I’d often have a foggy memory of them. This app helps me do quick refreshers throughout the day, and aided in me really getting Katakana (something I, for some reason, have always struggled with despite studying for almost 7 months+) Thanks for this app, and glad I came across it. Definitely recommend if you’re starting out or even more advanced. ### 5/5 — Awesome! Wish it had a few more features *2020-09-04* These features, after using the app for 10 minutes, would be awesome: 1) rapid fire mode - auto advance to the next question when the answer is correct. 2) swap English and Japanese 3) randomize the kanji font ### 5/5 — Good *2020-06-16, version 1.2.0* I use this to help me figure out what kanji my kids know. I know zero Japanese but my kids learn at school so it is very helpful for me. ### 5/5 — Very helpful *2020-05-03, version 1.2.0* This is helping me accelerate my Kanji knowledge used together with other apps. Highly recommended. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 2/5 — Other option *2022-07-04, version 1.2.0* If you google this app on pc then you have all options and don’t have to buy the extra courses via the app ### 3/5 — dark mode please *2024-01-31, version 2.0.4* add a dark mode or night mode please for oled devices ### 3/5 — My transaction is being ignored? *2019-03-11, version 1.2.0* I do like this app. Very straightforward for learning kanji. So I bought all the levels, except the app is acting like i didn’t and it keeps asking me to buy it again???? It won’t let me get what I paid for. I mean it’s only 3 bucks but still. Hope this is just a mistake and not a scam. ### 3/5 — Requires Purchasing *2018-04-23, version 1.1.9* Requires purchasing lessons. ### 4/5 — Small issue *2025-05-12, version 2.0.4* Love the app and has really helped however it is very irritating that I can’t listen to music because the sound effects (Which can’t be turned off) interfere with it every time you flip a card. Other than this it’s perfect but would really love the ability to practise whilst listening to my music ### 4/5 — Great app *2024-11-25* Very useful for learning kanji, I’ve had great success with this app. My only wish is to be able to see what kanji are in a given set in case I wanted to study a specific set of flashers, as there is currently no indication. ### 4/5 — Love this app..but *2023-11-23, version 2.0.4* I love this app, but I purchased it on my phone and it wont open the purchased version on my iPad. Would love if this problem could be looked in to. :) ### 4/5 — Purchase of all levels and restore purchase *2023-03-29* First of all I found this app from the website! I was using the website version on my pc but I wanted to use it on the go and discovered the app. I decided to purchase all levels so I can progress farther. The issue I ran into was it not giving me access to the levels I just bought. I checked my iTunes account and it showed the purchase, but no matter what they wouldn’t give me access, even after trying to restore purchase But the fix was to restart my phone, so if you run into this issue try that!! I definitely recommend this app for a quick refresher or studier on the go 🫶 ### 4/5 — Randomized Quiz, Vocabulary Test, and Scores *2023-02-03* This is one of the best apps for Japanese learners—thanks for putting it together. I highly recommend this app for all people who are preparing for the JLPT. I have three suggestions which imho would make the app even better. 1. Add a feature that allows users to take quizzes with random kanji based on user progress. 2. Develop the vocabulary aspect of the app. You can maybe add vocabulary quizzes for the sets. 3. Instead of always viewing the high score for the sets give the users the option to view the latest score on the sets or provide the score progress for individual sets. Thank you. ### 4/5 — Best There Is *2022-12-29, version 1.2.0* This is the best app there is to review kanji Hiragana and katana. but it’s missing HALF of the letters like が　ぎ　ぐ　げ　ご　ざ　じ　ず　ぜ　ぞ　だ　ぢ　で　ど　ば　ぱ　び　ぴ　ぶ　ぷ　べ　ぺ　ぼ　ぽ　etc. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Request: *2026-01-18* Hi, can you please add an option the see all of the kanji you missed (right after finishing a set). For example it only lets me to try again on the kanji I missed but it doesn’t give me a list of all of them, I want to screen shot or export them to try and focus on those kanji more. Just want to focus on the ones I I’m having difficulty There is no point in studying kanji I always know ### 5/5 — Great app, but I would like to request a feature… *2025-10-21, version 2.0.4* It’s a great app for learning and memorizing Kanji, but my only complaint is that when the sound plays after an answer, it pauses any background videos you have playing and doesn’t unpause them after. For example, if you are watching a YouTube video while doing the quizzes, every time you complete a question, the sound plays and pauses the video and doesn’t unpause it after. This happens even if you set all the apps sounds volume to 0. My one request is to make it so that the sounds do not pause any other videos currently playing. ### 5/5 — Best Kanji App *2025-07-28, version 2.0.4* Best app I’ve found to review Kanji. I like the variety of what you can test for (English, hiragana, kanji). And it has no bloatwear. Scoring is a nice touch too. ### 5/5 — amazing app but HOW DO I ACTUVATE A VOICE *2025-02-01, version 2.0.4* why is there a voice option but there’s no voice?? 😓😓 ### 5/5 — Update the website flashcard mode to add N1 list *2024-11-02* Hi could you please let me know when you will update your website to add the n1 list on the flashcard vocabulary list. It still says N1 coming soon. Thanks ### 5/5 — Love the app, but can we have a silent option? *2024-09-30* I highly recommend this app and I find it extremely helpful. The one thing I would like to see is the ability to turn on silent mode (no voice, no sound effects) for just visual flash card practice. I would practice more often if I could listen to music while I was studying, but as it is I can’t see how to do that. Still, thanks for a great app! ### 5/5 — Very good *2024-05-06* Very good and to the point. I wanted a flashcard app for study repetition of kana and kanji as I work towards the N5 exam. Interface is clean and it does what I want and the buy once option is much appreciated. Thank you. ### 5/5 — Great for Exercises *2024-01-05* I’m finding I benefit from several apps, because they are each good in some way. This one is great b/c the quizzes take you randomly through the specific study set, with the options you select, for that set. So, you pick if you want Romani, kanji, etc vs what other expression style for each word or character. It’s great for making sure you review one of each thing you want t review! ### 5/5 — Interface *2023-06-25* 1. Simplicity is best, that’s why I love your app. 2. It is understood that kun readings are in hiragana, on readings in katakana, and English words, well English. There is no need to spell this out on every flash card. Because of this, the card has become very crowded, the Japanese font smaller and much harder to read (the super scripts are basically invisible) Your app really is 5-star, but it was better readable before the recent design change. 3. Another minor thing: there is no way to reset everything to zero. I cycle through all 2000 kanji in about 20 days, then I have to delete the app and reinstall and restore past purchases, to reset everything. ### 5/5 — I bought your app *2023-03-19* Can you please add an option to study, in a similar quick fashion, it could be a paid upgrade 👍 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-26.*