The best Japanese learning app!
I thought this app had long since been abandoned by the dev but I still found it useful and kept it on my phone since I was also afraid it might disappear someday. The go my surprise it suddenly got an update and got such better and every update now makes it run even better and get even more useful. Thanks dev for not giving up on this one!
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Can’t kanji draw my study sets anymore？
I’ve been using this program for many many years. And after a while, I just figured it was abandoned, because it hadn’t been updated in years. But I still continue to use it, with my most favorite feature being able to create my own study sets, then use those study sets in Kanji Draw. So I was excited to see this had been updated recently, and some of the new UI is nice, but it seems now that I no longer have the option to do Kanji draw with my study sets. Honestly, that was the main reason why I used this program. Being able to draw the kanji help me remember them.
I really do hope this feature comes back soon. Also, with the kanji draw the current line stroke when you draw is too thin and sometimes hard to see. I preferred it in the old version where the line strokes were thicker. Also, at least on the iPad, I dislike how the draw window slightly gets smaller once you draw your first stroke. I think it tries to fit in some new text once that first stroke is drawn, and it shifts the whole draw window slightly up and a bit smaller. It can be distracting.
I think if these issues can be resolved, then this will be a perfect program for studying and learning Japanese
I really do hope this feature comes back soon. Also, with the kanji draw the current line stroke when you draw is too thin and sometimes hard to see. I preferred it in the old version where the line strokes were thicker. Also, at least on the iPad, I dislike how the draw window slightly gets smaller once you draw your first stroke. I think it tries to fit in some new text once that first stroke is drawn, and it shifts the whole draw window slightly up and a bit smaller. It can be distracting.
I think if these issues can be resolved, then this will be a perfect program for studying and learning Japanese
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Actually really useful!
Great value for money, responsive developer, funny asides, what’s not to like. Used it myself and now using it in a class to teach some Philippino guys. They love it too.
Wonderful tool
I've been using this app on and off for almost a full year now. I picked up the original site back on Facebook when I was I Japan. Amazing tool to practice reading with.
Great App for Studying for the JLPT
I try to do at least one kanji, vocab, and reading quiz per day, and it's motivating to see the progress bar for each advance. The statistics in this app are really good for evaluating how well you know things. I prefer this to Anki for a number of reasons: you aren't punished for being unable to review every day, the multiple-choice format is more honest than self-grading yourself, and this app is really really good at making the multiple-choice answers really REALLY tricky, which makes it extra good practice for the JLPT.
The developer has made a lot of updates recently to better optimize the UI for phones. You can sync your progress so you can have multiple copies of the app on different devices. The developer is also really quick to respond if you find and report a bug.
The developer has made a lot of updates recently to better optimize the UI for phones. You can sync your progress so you can have multiple copies of the app on different devices. The developer is also really quick to respond if you find and report a bug.
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Great App for Studying for the JLPT
The developer has made a lot of updates recently to better optimize the UI for phones. You can sync your progress, so you can have multiple copies of the app on different devices. The developer is also really quick to respond if you find and report a bug.
I try to do at least one Kanji, Vocab, and Reading quiz per day, and it’s motivating to see the progress for each advance. The statistics in this app are really good for evaluating how well you know things. I prefer this to Anki for a number of reasons: you aren’t punished for being unable to review every day, the multiple choice format is more honest than self-grading yourself, and this app is really REALLY good at making the multiple choice answers very tricky (which makes it extra good practice for the JLPT).
I try to do at least one Kanji, Vocab, and Reading quiz per day, and it’s motivating to see the progress for each advance. The statistics in this app are really good for evaluating how well you know things. I prefer this to Anki for a number of reasons: you aren’t punished for being unable to review every day, the multiple choice format is more honest than self-grading yourself, and this app is really REALLY good at making the multiple choice answers very tricky (which makes it extra good practice for the JLPT).
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Fantastic
I’m about to move to Japan and this, along with Duolingo, has been paramount in my progress!
Liked the old version better
My use case is specific, but not uncommon, and the old KanjiBox did it well. The old version allowed me to do kanji drawing drills based on reading+meaning hints and using my own study sets. I can now do none of this. On kanji draw I get only readings as a hint, which is a real challenge for kanji with overlapping readings (esp those with only one or two onyomi). And I am forced to use the N1-N5 system now. I cannot do kanji draw from custom study sets. A real bummer as this was my go-to app, but now I’ll have to look for a new one.
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Response from developer
The new version is a complete rewrite, and some of the old features will be progressively reimplemented in the upcoming versions…
Challenging
Great to use a tool to help study kanji
Good
I’ve preferred this app over other alternatives for years. I’m glad to see it being developed again.
Still supported after all these years!!!
I’ve graduated from college with the Japanese major, but I have still been using this app and the website to keep up with my language abilities and study higher level kanji for probably 15 years now. I just reopened the app on a whim because I was recommending it to someone else and there’s a surprise update?!?! It looks amazing now, thanks for all your hard work over the years!
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Love it!
I've been using this app for the better part of a decade to help study or refresh my knowledge on kanji and vocab. I really like the example sentences - you can click on any word after answering the question and get a bunch of examples and usually every part of the example is broken down in case there's words you can read or don't know. 皆さん、頑張れ！！！
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Revisiting
Downloaded this program years ago…must have gotten distracted. Lots of cool additions. It’s just a great program for learning and reviewing Japanese. Thank you!
the best app for studying imo
Been using for over 10
years to refresh and retain my Japanese skills. Please add more grammar!
years to refresh and retain my Japanese skills. Please add more grammar!
La meilleure app de toutes
Ayant fait le tour de beaucoup d’apps d’apprentissage de la langue, celle là est de loin la meilleure, simple et efficace, elle nous prépare le mieux pour le JLPT. Je recommande.
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This app is great, but I wish there was a mode that allows the user to type in the answer for the reading mode. This is much more challenging than multiple choice.
Excellent to refresh and learn Japanese
Best app in town, easy to use, always up to date, been around for years, if you learn, want to learn or refresh your knowledge, this is the go to app for learners up to JLPT1.
Thanks a lot to the devs for keeping the app around, free and (unless mistaken), without adds!!
Thanks a lot to the devs for keeping the app around, free and (unless mistaken), without adds!!
The best app for learning kanji and vocabulary
This is my first written review. I’m writing it because this is a phenomenal app and I want to support it! If you are learning Japanese kanji, the key strokes are essential for writing and understanding. Not only can you practice strokes for kanji on this app, it has multiple levels of drills aligned to the Japanese language test levels that keep track of where you are in your learning that can sync across all of your devices. I practice on my phone and iPad whenever I have a moment. Even 10 minutes a day and you will see soooo much improvement! HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!!!
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Super!
Using this app for years now, so working with this app, I do feel a bit of nostalgia every time I open it.
Its design is obviously a bit old fashioned and not particularly fancy, but it works extremely well and it's intuitive. You can just use the integrated functions or build your own vocab or kanji sets and study away. You get stats and the algorithm for repetition seems adequate to memorise lessons well, similar to other apps that advertise subscription models. This one, you buy once and you're good to go, which I think is preferable, because you're expected to work with other material, books, classes to go along and actually learn Japanese.
This is a companion to help, it doesn't do the work for you.
Its design is obviously a bit old fashioned and not particularly fancy, but it works extremely well and it's intuitive. You can just use the integrated functions or build your own vocab or kanji sets and study away. You get stats and the algorithm for repetition seems adequate to memorise lessons well, similar to other apps that advertise subscription models. This one, you buy once and you're good to go, which I think is preferable, because you're expected to work with other material, books, classes to go along and actually learn Japanese.
This is a companion to help, it doesn't do the work for you.
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Crashes
This app crashes every time I launch it.
