# Kanji Teacher - Learn Japanese — user reviews > 267 indexed App Store user reviews of Kanji Teacher by Christian Rusche, rated 4.70/5 from 299 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kanji-teacher-learn-japanese/id1048445761/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kanji-teacher-learn-japanese/id1048445761.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 256 · 4★ 18 · 3★ 10 · 2★ 4 · 1★ 11 ## What do users think of Kanji Teacher? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Extremely helpful for learning kanji - 👍 Customizable and flexible learning experience - 💡 Comprehensive coverage of kanji, kana, and vocabulary - 🎉 Completely free with no ads or in-app purchases - 👍 Intuitive and easy-to-use interface - 💡 Spaced repetition and progress tracking features **Cons** - 🐛 Strict stroke order detection can be frustrating - 🔍 Lack of ability to create custom kanji lists - 🔍 Limited vocabulary examples and context - 🔍 Overwhelming amount of content for beginners **Commonly reported bugs** - Occasional crashes or freezes reported - Issues with data loss or reset progress **Most requested features** - Add ability to customize number of answer choices - Implement palm rejection for better writing experience - Provide more example sentences and vocabulary in context - Allow users to create and manage their own kanji lists ## Newest reviews (20 of 267) ### 3/5 — Good! But can improve *2025-11-10, version 14.0* Gives you 2 different pronunciations but doesnt tell you when to use each one. It’s good for refreshing what you already know but not for learning. ### 5/5 — Great App *2025-08-06, version 12.5.1* Very Good App. Does exactly one thing and does it very Good. User a different App for Hiragana and this one for Katakana. I learned a lot faster using this App. Kanji will take some time though 😉 ### 5/5 — Had improved my study 10-fold *2025-07-20, version 12.5.1* This app has helped me SO much in learning Japanese. It’s helped me improve my hiragana and katakana reading, my vocabulary, and learning kanji. It’s been perfect for supplementing what I’ve been learning on Duolingo. I didn’t care for it at first because the user interface isn’t stellar, but once I started digging into what the app can do, I’ve been so impressed. And it’s all for free! Thank you for an amazing app! ### 5/5 — Download It *2025-06-02, version 12.5.1* I’ve been downloading and deleting apps for like an hour trying to find a decent one for free and this is it. I haven’t been using it for very long but so far the lessons are effective and similar to expensive alternatives. It offers everything it needs to offer and has a pretty good UI so everything is organized by level and purpose. I approve!! ### 5/5 — Best out there *2025-06-01, version 12.5.1* Free, no ads, no weird data collection, no in-app purchases; and the app itself is great too. Huge thanks to the developer(s) behind this :) ### 5/5 — Best app for studying Kanji *2025-05-13, version 12.5.1* Absolutely amazed by how complete is this APP, everything for free, no adds. I’m obsessed. ### 5/5 — So far so good ! *2025-05-07, version 12.5.1* I started learning basic Japanese on a serious note and was introduced this app. Thus far, there is no ad, no payments required ! I was able to memorise all hiragana at ease. So far so good. Thank you ! ### 5/5 — Best Kanji App *2025-04-25, version 12.5.1* I have been using this app for a long time and it is definitely my favorite way to learn kanji. It has many features that paid sites do but it is free. I really enjoy the new audio tests, however sometimes I am on the go and can’t listen to them. It would be really great if there was an option to temporarily disable the audio tests while studying. ### 5/5 — Better than the paid apps *2025-04-09, version 12.5.1* Free and somehow has more features and is easier to use than apps that cost almost $100 a year, plus no annoying ads. Grateful I found it! Thank you to the devs! ### 5/5 — Best Japanese WRITING App *2025-03-27, version 12.5.1* This is by far the best learning tool I’ve found (paid or free) for practicing kana and kanji WRITING. It uses the classic four quadrant grid and rates the accuracy of your strokes and the order. Lots of custom options in settings. No gimmicks. Beautiful. ### 5/5 — love it! *2025-03-26, version 12.5.1* I am so grateful for this app, it makes learning the Hiragana & Katakana (I haven't started on Kanji yet) so easy and fun! On top of it, it is free and without ads, which is rare these days. I really appreciate the developers efforts, what a blessing, may God bless you🙏🏼 ### 5/5 — Super *2025-03-16, version 12.5.1* Vraiment parfait pour apprendre les hiragana, katakana et kanji pour le jlpt. J’ai testé la plupart des app et celle ci est la plus complète. On peut apprendre dans les 2sens et pas de pub énervantes ou de limitations. C’est totalement gratuit. ### 5/5 — BEST APP *2025-03-11, version 12.5.1* This app has been BEAUTIFULLY put together. It’s based on the scientifically-proven spaced repetition method, already containing everything you need to learn the three Japanese writing systems. And tons of customization options, unlike other apps where you can’t customize your experience. And I LOVE that you can see your statistics. As a data analyst in real life, this is exactly what I need for motivation. Thanks to the devs, your hard work is much appreciated. 🙏 ### 5/5 — Great App With Responsive Dev Team *2025-03-05, version 12.5.1* My original review was negative because new kanji was being used in quiz questions before they were introduced (like the first set of kanji). I thought there was a flaw with the tutor system. The dev’s contacted me. As written in the manual, when a new kanji is presented, there are no penalties for clicking the hint button to read all about it the first time. It’s an ingenious system that pushes us to acknowledge unknown kanji. Also, when new kanji is in combination with known kanji, the meaning/pronunciation can be partially or fully deciphered which is a good mental exercise. The app definitely doesn’t hold your hand like duolingo, but that’s likely for the better for those serious about becoming fluent. ### 3/5 — Making a custom list is horrible *2025-02-22, version 12.5.1* There doesn't seem to be an easy way to import lists ### 5/5 — Excellent tool *2025-02-11, version 12.5.1* Thank you! This is exactly what I was needing - it’s a great way to practice reading and writing characters in the different systems, and drill on key vocabulary. I can pick just what aspect I want to work on for a session, and the individual exercises are only about 5 minutes long. Visual feedback on how my writing is deviating from “acceptable” for any given character is helpful. ### 5/5 — Perfect for writing practice *2025-01-24, version 12.5.1* As part of my Japanese class, I’m often assigned new kanji to learn to read and write, this app is a phenomenal help drilling in the stroke order and correct way to write kanji! Thanks to the creator for introducing me to the lists feature too. Makes segmenting kanji a real breeze! ### 5/5 — Amazing *2025-01-24, version 12.5.1* The app is better than anything I used before, that includes two most popular apps to learn languages. ### 5/5 — Best app *2024-12-28, version 12.5.1* Best app ### 4/5 — Really useful resource for learning Japanese! *2024-12-18, version 12.5.1* The app itself is great and I don’t have any real complaints, but I was hoping if it would be possible to add a pitch accent feature shown alongside vocabulary. Other than that, I am thorougly enjoying this app! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — new update ruined my settings and i cant change them back *2024-10-14, version 12.5.1* :( ### 1/5 — Irgendwie unübersichtlich *2024-03-14, version 12.4* Ich finde die App unübersichtlich. Zudem werden Kanji nicht nach und nach vermittelt. Zwischendrin findet man ständig neue, ohne sie vorher üben zu können. Außerdem vermisse ich beim Kanjitutor eine immer verfügbare Tonspur. Vielleicht nützt mir die App später etwas, wenn ich mir einige Kanji selbst beigebracht habe. Jetzt gerade fühle ich mich aber eher demotiviert als begeistert. ### 1/5 — Horrible *2023-04-27, version 12.3* Testing isn’t actually seeing about the knowledge gained, it’s testing your reaction time and saying you do t know something if you do t react fast enough. ### 1/5 — Bad *2023-04-09, version 12.3* It’s annoying I kept pressing the home button ### 1/5 — Nonsensical *2022-05-17, version 12.3* The kanji lessons make no sense. It shows you what ‘one’ is, then gives you a multiple choice page where at the top it says ‘one’ and then all the choices are all different words with the ‘one’ kanji included, none of which make any sense. ### 1/5 — It’s okay, but hardly useful *2019-09-02, version 11.3* I’ve already written to support for this app for a major problem I have, but I’m not entirely sure it’ll be fixed. The other issues come down to how the writing test is implemented, which is part of the reason why I’m rating this so low. Now, I will give at least some leeway with the device screen being so small, but the other problem (the one I contacted support about) is on my device the exercises take up even LESS room somehow than they do in the screenshots shown making them even more infuriatingly harder than they should be. It’s already hard to draw precise lines on a device you’re holding in your hands; next to impossible when the area you have to draw in is about an inch in size and your finger takes up most of that space already. The multiple choice questions for the reading/keyword quizzes aren’t as bad, but they still suffer a bit from the lack of space since the answer boxes are super tiny. I’d honestly rather just use the multiple other flashcard apps and find writing sheets online rather than use this. It isn’t fun or interesting, it doesn’t add anything I can’t get anywhere else and it clearly isn’t formatted for my device (and it isn’t even a new large device either; I’m using an iPod touch 6th gen) ### 1/5 — Sehr schade. *2018-06-19, version 10* Die App ist gut Programmiert und wäre sehr effektiv zum lernen. Wenn aber Wörter falsch übersetzt sind, bringt einen das nicht weiter. ### 1/5 — never trust automatic quizzes *2018-05-01, version 9.2* The app just showed me 前 in a 3x3 quiz for meaning; one option was 'in front', another one was 'before'. I ansewered 'before' and the app said it was incorrect. UNINSTALLING RIGHT NOW, and you should do so too if you really want to learn! ### 1/5 — Waste of space on my phone. *2017-12-29, version 9.0* Confusing, no clear progression, it's hard to find audio to associate with the sounds (which I feel is important to learning a language), no guide to explain what all their code is... Essentially I tried using this app twice before realizing it's not beginner/user friendly and deleting it. ### 1/5 — Doesn't work *2017-06-10, version 8.1* Hi Christian, the app displays a white page from the start and after exactly 20 secs it simply crashes. Downloaded it yesterday, and it crashed. Downloaded yet again and...same thing. Again, iPad 4 and updated. Best of luck ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Exactly what I needed *2026-07-09, version 14.1* I’m so happy to have come across this app. It’s exactly what I wanted in a kanji tutor app, and the vocabulary section is also very useful! Thank you for making this. ### 5/5 — Awesome app *2026-04-17, version 14.1* This app is really great for learning kanji, I have used it for more than half a year and there are absolutely no ads it's completely free and works really well! ### 5/5 — incredible. efficient and effective *2026-04-11, version 14.1* absolutely great app. i can’t believe such a complex app is even on the market offering so much for free, 0 ads, and no annoying email account requirement. One think i really wish was included though, is an audible reading of the question to more quickly associate the sounds with the kanji. I greatly respect this developer’s practice. This is the best way. ### 5/5 — Insane how easy it is *2026-03-24, version 14.1* I never write reviews but I need to say this app literally taught me hiragana. I’m a bad student and don’t practice enough, but even after months of no practice I can read like 90% of hiragana I see. Now to tackle the other alphabets… 😭 ### 5/5 — ok wowww *2026-03-22, version 14.1* 🤯🤯🤯 ### 5/5 — Essential and Great tool for kanji learning *2026-02-15, version 14.1* The most important thing this app has to me is including writing/stroke order of kanji as well as kanji reading tests. I feel writing is my preferred method of remembering kanji, whilst other tools I used may have it I don’t think they do well in remembering the readings. This app covers both excellently. I also love that this app practices readings via both in words and general readings. These are very helpful both generally and if you wanted to nail the vocabulary/kanji section of JLPT tests. Truly well developed and structured. ### 5/5 — Best kanji app so far *2025-10-22, version 14.0* This app has been the most useful app for me to learn Kanji. I have been using it for the past five or so years and the various divisions as well as “quiz” like structure to identify each Kanji really makes it easier to understand. However, since the most recent update the ability to see the radicals and components of each can Kanji seem to have been removed. It would be useful if this could be added again as this was one of the most useful features in trying to understand each Kanji. ### 5/5 — Best Kanji app *2025-10-05, version 14.0* I’ve tried many different apps to learn kanji, and found this to be the best. I love that the Spaced repetition system is built-in, so that I don’t have to worry about when or how often I should revise a given character. Just fire up the app and go through the exercises. It feeds you. :) The built-in dictionary, examples and mnemonic hints also extremely useful. ### 5/5 — Best Kanji app *2025-09-20, version 12.5.1* I use this app alongside the jisho dictionary app. For every new kanji I learn, I find it more helpful to write out the kanji in the jisho app and study the most common words that use that kanji. I love that with this app, you can customize the definitions of the words (although it took me a while to figure out how to do that), and I love that you can edit the “mnemonics” screen—of which I just dump various common words that use that kanji, and copy paste example sentences from jisho into this app. If the example sentences don’t read quite right in English (and I’m becoming a better self-translator), I’ll use deepl to form a more accurate English translation. I will say, I find it difficult to use this app for anything other than kanji learning. The vocab and listening exercises are sometimes very ???, even when looking at N5 level. For example, under the listening games, “What did she say?”, one of the example sentences under N5 level is “She gave me the fish eye.” ??? another is “Scratch a Russian and find a Tartar.” ??? ちょっと待って… まったく意味が分からない。 However, the vocab, listening, etc, don’t subract from the overall usefulness of the kanji learning aspect. It’s very customizeable. And I’m sure there are things about the functionality of this app that I still haven’t learned how to do. I appreciate this app so much. As someone who is struggling with disabling chronic illness and お金がない, I thought it would be near impossible for me to learn Japanese. Thank you for making learning a language more accessible for people like me. 本当に、どうもありがとうございます。 ### 5/5 — Free and professional *2025-09-01, version 12.5.1* I’m impressed. I’ve been getting a good understanding of kanji and it’s pronunciation patterns from just a few hours. Haven’t seen any addwall/paywall (yet). I think I’ll remove the other kanji apps --- *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 2026-08-12.*