# Shindan: Japanese Level Test — JLPT placement: N5 N4 N3 N2 N1 > JLPT placement: N5 N4 N3 N2 N1 (iPhone/iPad app by Jakub Dwojak.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/shindan-japanese-level-test/id6809168153 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Jakub Dwojak](https://appshunter.io/developer/6801993670) - Category: Education - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 18.0 · 3 MB - Languages: American English, Polish - Released: 2026-09-09 - Data updated: 2026-09-14 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/shindan-japanese-level-test/id6809168153/reviews.md ## What is Shindan? Shindan does not teach. It measures, and then it points. You already know the feeling: you study, you make progress, and you still cannot say what your weakest link is. A grammar app knows how much grammar you have. It does not know that particles are what keeps costing you points. Nothing you own sees the whole picture, because nothing you own asks about all of it at once. Shindan asks about all of it at once. One sheet, under a clock, and at the end two answers: where you stand, and the one thing worth studying next. TWO ANSWERS, NOT ONE Your level, on the JLPT scale, from the material that has a level: vocabulary, kanji readings and grammar constructions. Nobody asks "am I at practical level three" – they ask "will I pass N3", and that is the scale this answers in. Your weak spots, as a share of your mistakes: particles, verb forms, register, contractions, mimetics, counters. These have no JLPT level and never will – a particle you meet in week one and use for life. Measuring them on the same scale would make that scale mean nothing, so they are measured apart. NO PRACTICE, NO REPETITION, NO STREAK There is nothing to grind here and that is deliberate. A sheet measures once. Answers are not marked as you go, because seeing three mistakes in a row changes how you answer the fourth – and then the test measures your nerve instead of your Japanese. The result comes at the end, or not at all. WHAT IT WILL NOT DO It will not give you a level from half a sheet. If too much ran out on the clock, it says so instead of guessing – a number from a thin measurement looks exactly like a number from a good one, and someone would build a study plan on it. It does not measure reading longer texts, and it does not measure listening. Both are missing, both are named on the opening screen, and neither is hidden in the small print. It does not measure pitch accent either — that one does have an app of its own, but the sheet does not cover it yet. BUILT ON THE FAMILY The questions come from the catalogs of the Japanese-learning apps, all by the same author: grammar constructions, vocabulary in context, particles, conjugation, counters, casual speech, honorific register and mimetics. That is why the diagnosis can point somewhere specific – and why it says which app fixes what. The first sheet is free. ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | Shindan Premium | $2.99 | one-time | ## Version history (last 3 releases) ### 1.1.1 — 2026-09-14 Reading questions no longer give the answer away in kana. Every option now ends with the same kana as the word on screen, so the reading is the only thing that tells them apart. The clock in the test runs on its own now. Tapping an option no longer waits for the countdown to redraw the question underneath it. You choose how often Shindan asks you to measure again. Every month, two, three or six – and if you miss the reminder, three more follow a week apart. The list of mistakes says what each option meant. Next to the one you picked and the right one, wherever the material carries a meaning. The greyed-out button says what it is waiting for. Pick an answer and it lights up. Areas the sheet could not measure point to the app that teaches them. Only where one covers exactly that area – reading longer texts and listening still have none. You choose which apps Shindan may suggest. Hide the ones you are not going to use – your result stays the same, and the list says when it is short. Bug reports and feature requests go to shindan@jd-japanese.pl. Own domain instead of a personal mailbox, the same across all ten apps. ### 1.1.0 — 2026-09-10 Four sheets with no repeated question. A second attempt no longer draws what the first one already asked. The progress bar says which question you are on. And it reaches the end exactly when the sheet does. What changed in this version, inside the app. A short sheet after an update, and the full history from Settings. ### 1.0.0 — 2026-09-09 No release notes. ## More apps by Jakub Dwojak - [Kaname — Japanese Grammar](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kaname-japanese-grammar/id6801993668) - [Katsuyokei — Conjugation](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/katsuyokei-conjugation/id6802813564) - [Joshi — Japanese Particles](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/joshi-japanese-particles/id6803144744) - [Kazoekata — Japanese Counters](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kazoekata-japanese-counters/id6803676309) - [Bunmyaku — Japanese Reading](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bunmyaku-japanese-reading/id6804188062) - [Kuzushi — Casual Japanese](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kuzushi-casual-japanese/id6805788146) All apps by Jakub Dwojak: https://appshunter.io/developer/6801993670 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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