Good app but please add ability to say if we got a flash card right or wrong and if wrong show again
Really good companion app to the book and it’s great to have the flash cards ready to add to a list as you work through the chapters. Two things to make it even better: can you please let us say if we got a flash card correct or not, and if we didn’t, keep showing it in the queue until we mark it as correct. Secondly, can you let Apple Pencil features work with the writing. It’s great to use the pencil but would be amazing if the erase function worked so we don’t have to start from scratch!
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Wonderful companion app to book!
Lovely app. Thank you! If there was any suggestion for easier studying for the way I learn would be to have a form of next button when in writing practice mode so do not have to go back two screens to practice writing the following kanji in the same lesson.
Limited
Useful as a reference to quickly recall primitive elements for the kanji. No stories are provided (likely due to copyright). It would be helpful if you could reveal the kanji elements to see how some kanji build upon one another. Instead, many say “Please consult the book”.
Landscape mode for iPad would be great
Really like the app but would be even happier with it if it had a landscape mode (for iPad at least) as that would make it way easier to write stories using a keyboard!
Useful but sorely needs updating
This app is useful, particularly in combination with other Japanese learning apps and the associated book. But it has some annoying (and likely easy to fix) limitations. Reasons for taking off two stars are:
- only works in portrait mode, so it is very annoying to turn tablet around, when using in combination with other apps that can support either portrait or landscape
- search mode is set to numbers, and cannot be defaulted to letters
- since presumably is a companion to a book, why is it not pre-populated with said book’s stories?
If these issues were addressed, it could be a 4 or 5 star app.
- only works in portrait mode, so it is very annoying to turn tablet around, when using in combination with other apps that can support either portrait or landscape
- search mode is set to numbers, and cannot be defaulted to letters
- since presumably is a companion to a book, why is it not pre-populated with said book’s stories?
If these issues were addressed, it could be a 4 or 5 star app.
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No Heisig story???
Pros-
Organizes all 3 books by lesson
Using writing as part of the flash card(and being able to compare it yourself as opposed to fighting with a writing AI)
Cons-
Setting up your own flash cards can’t be done from the kanji study itself and need to go into index
No Heisig stories which are the core of the teaching style!!! Writing your own story can defeat the purpose because if you mislabel a primitive you can mess up learning other primaries and kanji.
Organizes all 3 books by lesson
Using writing as part of the flash card(and being able to compare it yourself as opposed to fighting with a writing AI)
Cons-
Setting up your own flash cards can’t be done from the kanji study itself and need to go into index
No Heisig stories which are the core of the teaching style!!! Writing your own story can defeat the purpose because if you mislabel a primitive you can mess up learning other primaries and kanji.
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Awesome.
Love this app. No longer need a box of pesky flash cards. Very helpful and great system for learning Kanji.
No update for 5 years !
Good and useful app to learn and polish your kanji but no update for 5 years !
Seems to be a dead app. Distributor’s web site does not exist anymore...
Seems to be a dead app. Distributor’s web site does not exist anymore...
Best App for Heisig method
Don’t believe naysayers — this app is amazing and worth the money, especially if you’re already using the accompanying books to learn Kanji via Heisig method.
Pros:
-Kanji separated out by lessons, easy review
-Practice reading kanji
-Practice writing kanji
-Primitives given on back of card
-Blank space (“story” area) to make use of Heisig’s story or memorable mnemonics OR ability to create your own. This is a fantastic space to expand or link knowledge (like Chinese v Japanese words/additional references). Also the ability to use any installed keyboard (Chinese, Japanese) and not just English keyboard support is fantastic!
-Watch kanji being drawn in real time with stroke order — super clean, beautifully scripted
-Ability to create your own study lists
-Chinese readings index
-Japanese readings index
The only con I see is that it doesn’t offer automatic timed repetition (like Anki), but this is minor considering that the app isn’t just meant to be a basic flashcard review app. The true worth of this app is to have you structure/stack your knowledge while you’re actively learning, so that you can rehearse it later with ease. Genius :)
Pros:
-Kanji separated out by lessons, easy review
-Practice reading kanji
-Practice writing kanji
-Primitives given on back of card
-Blank space (“story” area) to make use of Heisig’s story or memorable mnemonics OR ability to create your own. This is a fantastic space to expand or link knowledge (like Chinese v Japanese words/additional references). Also the ability to use any installed keyboard (Chinese, Japanese) and not just English keyboard support is fantastic!
-Watch kanji being drawn in real time with stroke order — super clean, beautifully scripted
-Ability to create your own study lists
-Chinese readings index
-Japanese readings index
The only con I see is that it doesn’t offer automatic timed repetition (like Anki), but this is minor considering that the app isn’t just meant to be a basic flashcard review app. The true worth of this app is to have you structure/stack your knowledge while you’re actively learning, so that you can rehearse it later with ease. Genius :)
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Very disappointed
I should have read the reviews before spending $10 on this app. Without the stories this is just a robust kanji dictionary, and there are plenty of other free or cheaper apps that do the same thing. I’m going to try to get a refund
Great companion app
Great companion to the book, supports versions 5 and 6 of the book. On Apple, the backup crashes every time, so only 4 stars. I have to screen capture to back up my progress.
You would think it would included
Audio and more of a actual compliment too the book to study with ease. I WANT A REFUND
Not bad
One great feature would be more hyperlinks i.e. clicking on a radical takes you to list of kanji with that radical.
Search uses wrong keyboard but good otherwise
It’s very annoying that search brings up the numeric keyboard when I literally never search by number. It should default to alphabetical so I can check kanjis by name easily.
Really good
2 things would get it 5 stars.
- preload Heisig stories
- app should remember where I left off on a study list. It’s not fun when you’re trying to practice 500 randomized kanji, get through half the list, pause and then cannot continue from where I left off.
Adding an SRS kind of memorization system would be great.
- preload Heisig stories
- app should remember where I left off on a study list. It’s not fun when you’re trying to practice 500 randomized kanji, get through half the list, pause and then cannot continue from where I left off.
Adding an SRS kind of memorization system would be great.
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Great app to have alongside RTK
Great as a companion app for the book. The Study Lists are a great way to keep track of your progress by placing, for example, all the kanji you’ve learned in a week into 1 study list. Unfortunately, this app does NOT have a SRS (spaced repetition software); but it’s not like it needs it, after all you can just use Anki or Koohii.
TL;DR: great for sort-term study and keeping track of your progress.
TL;DR: great for sort-term study and keeping track of your progress.
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Impossible to Import Stories
App claims you can import stories for the kanji, but there is no function to do so. Can I get a refund now?
Incorrect/redundant vocabulary
Many of the words and vocabulary provided with the Kanji are either redundant or incorrect. As such this app is only useful for studying the Kanji meanings on their own; if you intend on studying Kanji by learning a few associated words (and readings) for each one I would not recommend this app.
Lacks spaced repetition system
Study lists are useless without some way of tracking progress. In fact, if you are serious about studying kanji, there is only one study list: all of the kanji in the RTK book. What you need is for the app to help you organise which Kanji to review over time, which is exactly what the spaced repetition system does.
Also we found the stroke order to be different to what is shown in the book for some kanji (e.g. convex).
Finally, being the official app and not having the original RTK stories makes it feel overpriced, especially when spaced repetition is available in other free apps.
Also we found the stroke order to be different to what is shown in the book for some kanji (e.g. convex).
Finally, being the official app and not having the original RTK stories makes it feel overpriced, especially when spaced repetition is available in other free apps.
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Use this with the book
I would have liked an Anki-style priority system with the flash cards in this app (ie shuffling the deck around based on your results) but otherwise it’s absolutely perfect to use in tandem with the book. I also highly recommend using a cheap stylus (saves a lot of paper!).
