Great for lazy people!!!
I have a hard time studying because I don’t like to repeat the same vocab or in this case kanji over and over. Here you can set it to show you different kanjis more often instead of practicing the same 5 for a while.
Best thing ever
Genuinely good
Hope At Last
I have been searching for an app like this for so long. My Japanese reading and speaking proficiency are business level, but when I need to fill out forms I’m helpless without my keyboard. I’ve tried drilling writing textbooks, but without a teacher to tell me where I’ve gone wrong I find myself learning bad habits instead of progressing! The app makes my brain actually have to recall the kanji and each stroke in order, and for the first time in years I feel like I might actually be able to write fluently one day.
The only criticism I could have is that sometimes the program is a little too kind (I wrote what should have been a diagonal stroke vertical, but it counted it as correct). But I prefer this over the app being so particular that even correctly written strokes could be counted as wrong , which I’ve encountered in other kanji learning apps.
Realistically, I don’t have any expectations that I’ll learn how to write beautifully from this app. At this point I’m just grateful for the chance to lay a foundation down, which can always be made more beautiful later. But we’ll see!
The only criticism I could have is that sometimes the program is a little too kind (I wrote what should have been a diagonal stroke vertical, but it counted it as correct). But I prefer this over the app being so particular that even correctly written strokes could be counted as wrong , which I’ve encountered in other kanji learning apps.
Realistically, I don’t have any expectations that I’ll learn how to write beautifully from this app. At this point I’m just grateful for the chance to lay a foundation down, which can always be made more beautiful later. But we’ll see!
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fun and useful
I’m only 2 lessons in, and it’s already helped me memorize common kanji more than the green owl.
Wonderful app, only one... complaint
This is a really great app, simple and straight to the point, not a single ad! The only warning I’ll give is that the home page has the most terrifying cartoon apple I’ve ever seen, and worse (better?) his face will get less and less happy the longer you sit on the home page. In a way this is genius, I’m very motivated to study kanji and stroke order lest I incur His unholy wrath… I shudder with the dark thoughts of what He will do to me if I close the 口 in 四 before adding the ル. But all in all a very good app that I highly recommend!
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GOOD APP!!!
very good app very easy to memorize easy teaching system very cool highly recommend!!
kanji srs
exactly what i was looking for to review kanji and it’s actually free. really easy to choose exactly where you want to start from, and then it schedules your new kanji and reviews for you. there’s even with an option to change how often you want to practice. looking forward to using this app to learn even more kanji
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Awesome app
This is the only good app for learning kanji and kana that I’ve found thats actually free, with no hidden pay wall. Highly recommend!
Great for reinforcement
The writing recognition algorithms are really good. I was worried I’d fight the app but it is actually very relaxing.
Great app
Very intuitive. I wish when speaking the word hint, it would alternate, instead of just speaking the first one.
Pretty good
Great for drawing kanji.i like the spaced repetition looking part. Maybe it isn’t? Use with Anki
Useful & Fun!
My kanji recognition has markedly improved since I added writing practice.
Ringotan really helps to cram those little suckers into my aging brain - and make ‘em *stick*!
Ringotan really helps to cram those little suckers into my aging brain - and make ‘em *stick*!
The best kanji App
I use this app literally everyday. It’s so easy to use and I love how it works. I’ve tried some other apps but I always gravitate back to this one.
Good method
So far pretty good. This method of learning the symbols and their pronunciation has been working well for me.
Learning Kanji Has Never Been Simpler
I'm a simple guy, I don't like having an app with a gajillion options like Anki. I prefer this a lot more the. The UI is a lot more intuitive. It doesn't have as much customization, but I don't care. This app is amazing!
Almost as good as skitter and free!
A very solid app. I couldn’t bring myself to fork out the $199AUD for an annual subscription to Skitter, so was over the moon when I found this. The Wanikani integration is a particularly useful feature. The only thing I wish it had was a free hand component rather than just the tracing. The app’s still in beta though, so hopefully this feature might come later. Anyway, great work Ringotan team. Thanks for creating such a cool and useful app.
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Perfect app
No frills, no spam, just exactly what you need to build kana and kanji recognition and writing from the ground up.
Super Useful!
This app is very easy to use! I am surprised that it isn’t one of the most used kanji apps. I like how you can write the kanji characters with the stroke order, and how it’s organized by what material you want to learn kanji from (ex: Genki) and the app will teach you kanji according to the structure of your source. Super useful, and I’m glad it’s free!
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Excellent method for reviewing and learning kanji presented in KKLC order
I’ve only reviewed the first 400 kanji and will be learning new kanji from around #500 onward but I really enjoy have vocab words (with their English translations) as prompts to write the kanji. I already feel like knowledge is deepening faster than simple recognition reviews or using only English keyword prompts. Of course, I’ve got a fairly good spoken vocabulary already down so it might become more daunting when I need to learn a lot of new vocabulary as well, but I can always slow my new kanji per day pace down. I like the fact that I don’t have to do anything other than study the kanji using methods I prefer and then use Ringotan to learn the writing as well as review it. With Anki, I’m always tempted to optimize my cards and then too much of my study time goes to doing that rather than to learning and reviewing kanji.
As for my study methods, I read the hints and vocab in KKLC, then check out any Outlier dictionary info (in Yomiwa), and finally I look up the red key words in Kanji in Context to make sure I know those words as they help ensure an adequate knowledge of readings but using vocabulary. I have all of these resources ( and more) on my iPad so cross referencing is super quick and I can go through 8 kanji in 15-30 mins. Usually closer to 15 mins. I’ll study another set of 8 kanji on a break later in the day and then go through writing them using Ringotan later at night. Throughout the day I’ll do review lessons as they come up. (Usually waiting until 15-30:have accumulated.)
I like my study resources better than WaniKani or a lot of RTK stories as most of the time the info Outlier presents plus KKLC’s notes help me to build more accurate knowledge of the components and their typical readings with will help me infer the above in unknown kanji. Outlier is especially helpful at seeing how the sound components work in Japanese and reading I wouldn’t have thought connected I now understand the connections.
The only thing I would change about Ringotan is being able to select my own vocab prompts — but unless there were a super fast way to do this it would get me bogged down in optimizing my cards rather than studying and reviewing. For now, I make a mental note of the most important vocab words I remember if they don’t happen to be represented by the ones that Ringotan displays. And this seems to be working well enough for me.
As for my study methods, I read the hints and vocab in KKLC, then check out any Outlier dictionary info (in Yomiwa), and finally I look up the red key words in Kanji in Context to make sure I know those words as they help ensure an adequate knowledge of readings but using vocabulary. I have all of these resources ( and more) on my iPad so cross referencing is super quick and I can go through 8 kanji in 15-30 mins. Usually closer to 15 mins. I’ll study another set of 8 kanji on a break later in the day and then go through writing them using Ringotan later at night. Throughout the day I’ll do review lessons as they come up. (Usually waiting until 15-30:have accumulated.)
I like my study resources better than WaniKani or a lot of RTK stories as most of the time the info Outlier presents plus KKLC’s notes help me to build more accurate knowledge of the components and their typical readings with will help me infer the above in unknown kanji. Outlier is especially helpful at seeing how the sound components work in Japanese and reading I wouldn’t have thought connected I now understand the connections.
The only thing I would change about Ringotan is being able to select my own vocab prompts — but unless there were a super fast way to do this it would get me bogged down in optimizing my cards rather than studying and reviewing. For now, I make a mental note of the most important vocab words I remember if they don’t happen to be represented by the ones that Ringotan displays. And this seems to be working well enough for me.
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the ONLY app for learning kanji
nothing fancy or flashy just gets right down to it. rly helpful for memorization without being too grating. not too unforgiving to the point that it’s frustrating. all around good time, would recommend!
