Kanji Study Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience67.5% of reviews
Neutral12.2% of reviews
Negative experience20.3% of reviews

~ Based on 861 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Kanji Study

Is Kanji Study Safe?

Kanji Study - Learn Japanese! appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Kanji Study is 95/100.

This assessment is based on 7,284 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

94.3% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.2% of ratings suggest some concerns
3.5% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 7,275 App Store ratings for Kanji Study.

Is Kanji Study Legit?

Kanji Study - Learn Japanese! appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Kanji Study is 100/100.

Based on 100 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Super Kanji Lern App

Ich benutze die app seit fast einem halben Jahr und bin wirklich begeistert. Sowohl der Aufbau mit der Unterteilung in N5-N1 Kanji als auch der Algorithmus zur Wiederholung der gelernten Wörter funktionieren super. Ich würde die App jederzeit wieder kaufen!!! Außerdem gibt es regelmäßig updates und verbesserungen.
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i am not elon musk.

i can’t believe you have to pay after basic lessons, i dont have that kind of money.

Decent but Needs Significant Improvement

When I first tried this app several years ago on a friend’s iPhone, it was great and had many different, useful readings (for example, 漢 was taught as not only is normal meaning but also as おとこ; same for 社 as やしろ).

When I moved to Japan and downloaded it, the app seemed very different from what I had used. The readings and meanings of words had changed (some improved, but the original ones, such as for 漢 and 社 were also helpful). Also, the application is very slow/heavy. After having used it for over 1 year, I have compiled a list of FIVE THINGS that need urgent improvement (in order of priority) (if these were implemented. I would rate the app 5 stars).

FIRST (MOST IMPORTANT), new lessons need to be added each week or at a minimum each month. Specifically, I mean adding new Kanji to the app and adding new writing lessons (many writing lessons are missing from N1 and are only like flashcards, which defeats the whole purpose of using this app over something like WaniKani).

SECOND, the definitions and readings for Kanji keep changing. It is fine to add additional meanings and readings, but the other meanings (unless clearly wrong) should stay. Also, I would appreciate it if the definitions and readings from over 5 years ago (which I mentioned above) were added back.

THIRD, verbs should indicate whether they are -う verbs or -る verbs so that we know how to conjugate them.

FOURTH, non-verbs should indicate whether they are nouns, い-adjectives, or な-adjectives, or something else. The reason that this change is necessary is because I do not know, for example, whether to use の or な when connecting some words to each other, nor do I know how to conjugate them.

FIFTH, in connection with the first point, the Kanji and vocabulary need to go beyond whatever is in the JPLT. I was surprised that some very standard/daily-used Kanji were not listed in the app. I can not remember which one in particular sparked this comment, but one was so standard and used every day in my work that I expected it to be in this app; however, it was not.
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Great, but some sensitive kanji when writing

I’ve been using this app for a while and it has been great so far. My only complaint is that some kanjis like 字 and 売 (5th stroke for both) get rejected even though I am able to write it.

Edit: The Apple pen sometimes doesn’t work properly when writing.

Good but could be better

Spaced repetition / timed recall feature is good.
Updated option to answer on your own without selecting multiple choice is good.
Wish: Example sentences and other ways of reading each kanji should be available in the “review” mode and not just in the initial learning mode.

Response from developer

Thanks for this feedback. If you have the ‘Use example sentences’ turned on in the settings menu it will use the sentences in the review mode. Please let me know if there’s any issues with that at support@lulilanguages.com

한자배우기 유용한 어플

일본어 한자 어플 찾아헤매이다가 정착했습니다. 비슷한 모양의 한자들 모아져있어 비교도 되고 쓰기도 가능해서 획순연습하기 너무 좋아요. 게다가 복습하고 싶은 한자들은 따로 모아 공부할수도 있어서 제가 찾던 기능이 모두 있어요. 이건 공부해본 사람만이 만들수 있는 어플인듯 합니다!!

Kanjis Fáciles

La mejor app para aprender Kanjis. Fácil y divertida

Please include the new example sentences in the reviews!

This has been the most successful method for me to learn kanji. I think I learned over 200 in a matter of 1.5 months. The writing and SRS really works well for me to cement it in my brain. I saw the app recently updated to include example sentences. However, I would love an option to see these sentences already displayed when reviewing a kanji, much like how Anki cards do it, so we’re actively learning the vocab in sentence use without manually navigating to the definition page.
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SUPER

Franchement, meilleure application pour l’apprentissage des kanjis pour moi. J’en suis dingue. Je révise des que je peux. Très bien conçue. Je réalise à quel point (même si je le savais déjà, mais bon) que les kanjis constituent un "alphabet" à part entière et leur composition devient tellement logique. Parfait!!
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Bonne application

L’apprentissage de la signification et de la calligraphie est vraiment bien pensé. Ce ne sont pas que des dessins, c’est vraiment un alphabet en soit et son apprentissage ne souffre pas d’approximation. C’est ce que j’apprécie.

Best way to learn kanjis

This app is easily the best resource I’ve found for learning kanji. Forget about textbooks, flashcards, and juggling multiple study resources—this app can effectively replace most of them.

It is a paid app, but the price is comparable to what you would spend on a good textbook, and in my experience, it’s absolutely worth it.

It guided me all the way from N5 to N2 in just 1.5 years, and it has become one of the most useful tools in my Japanese-learning journey.

The only real downside is that some of the English translations aren’t quite accurate, and a few words are missing. For example, 動労 is not included.

Overall, I highly recommend it to anyone serious about learning Japanese kanji.
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Why money

So many people doesn’t have money and have problems but using this appp is good but it take money I loved to study with this app my khanjii practice is so much good there are so many khanji learn app with no money they are also
Like same so I will prefer to study in other app but I liked this app

Amazing app for learning

It’s good for basic learning,

Başka bir şeye gerek yok

Kanji mi öğrenmek istiyorsun? Nereden başlayacağını bilemiyor musun? Gidip internetten videolarla uğraşmıyorsun ve hemen bunu indiriyorsun aceleci davranmayıp her gün bir dersi yapıyorsun ve her gün geri dönüp ne öğrendiğine bakıyorsun. Bana sonra teşekkür edersin

Very Helpfull, need fixes

This app is very helpful and is a very good investment, tho I think the kanji progression grid is bugged and doesn’t show the correct color progress at the moment

One of the best

I’ve been reviewing dozens of kanji learning apps and this one is at the top with Ringotan. You really need multiple apps bc each one gives a little different context or it looks slightly different so it helps you recognize it in the real world. I just wish this app gave practice sentences and other contextual practice instead of just writing, but compared to what else is available this is great.
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- 하세요 그냥 -

다른 앱이랑 차원히 다릅니다.

Na ja

Ich kann die Preise dieser App nicht nachvollziehen. Zuerst wurden mir für alle Stufen 14,99 € mit 40 % Rabatt angezeigt, jetzt sind es plötzlich 34,99 € mit demselben Rabatt. In den Kommentaren schreiben andere Nutzer, dass sie alles für ungefähr 8 € bekommen haben. Auf meinem Handy wird für dieselbe App wiederum 14,99 € mit 40 % Rabatt angezeigt.
Ich habe daher den Eindruck, dass die Preise für verschiedene Nutzer unterschiedlich angezeigt werden. Das gefällt mir überhaupt nicht.
Die App selbst ist praktisch. Ich habe die kostenlosen Wörter ausprobiert und fand die App von der Bedienung her sehr angenehm.
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Good but needs work

Pros: The app is fairly intuitive, kanji writing detection is accurate for the most part, semi-decent set of vocabulary and app / general learning method makes it relatively straight forward to memorise kanji.
Cons: Currently only up to start of N3 kanji but noticed there appears to be quite a few words for certain kanji missing the more I go along. E.g. no 試験 (exam), 失礼(discourtesy/excuse me) 葉っぱ (leaf), 様 (honorific suffix), 了解 (understood) etc etc
Many of them are very frequently used in day to day Japanese so it’s strange they’re missing.
Some of the English meanings given to certain kanji are too similar to each other and easy to mess up when asked to guess the Japanese hiragana answer from the English meaning e.g. “research, study” for 究 (which isn’t used standalone anyway as far as I know) and then “research” for 研究. In these instances the English description could probably stand to be a bit more clear like “research (not standalone)”, similar to how it shows up under the kanji.
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