Pacing needs to be fixed
After going through most of the katakana lessons at a reasonable pace (about 5 characters per lesson), the app wants you to learn 43 words in one sitting for the final lesson. Bizarre. It then assigns over 150 cards for a review session, versus the usual 15-30ish.
Overall a decent app but the poor pacing is a real issue that seems like the devs could easily fix
Overall a decent app but the poor pacing is a real issue that seems like the devs could easily fix
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Meilleur app pour le japonais
J’ai appris le japonais vraiment facilement grâce a cette app , je suis passé de 8 de moyenne à 15 franchement je recommande vraiment
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Thank you so much for the 5-star review, and for taking the time to share your feedback! If you ever have any questions, you can reach us at team@skritter.com!
The most I pay for any app
This is the most expensive app I pay for … and I like it! I’m probably a corner case in terms of a user, as I’m fluent in Japanese and can read regular novels, write business emails etc without problem. However, ask me to write the same kanji by hand… and I turn into elementary level. Since I can already read the N1 kanji, this has been a super effective way to add handwriting. Highly recommended.
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Thank you so much for the 5-star review, and for taking the time to share your feedback! If you ever have any questions, you can reach us at team@skritter.com!
Perfect for improving reading and writing
Have been using this app with premium on and off for several years now. I notice that when I’m not using it me retention of new vocabulary is worse, my reading is worse and obviously my writing is terrible. But when I’ve got a good streak going I find that I can write without even looking things up. And even if you’re someone who doesn’t think you’ll ever need to write, it’s still super useful. Just the practice of writing the kanji in the correct stroke order deepens your understanding of them and the radicals which comprise them making it easier to distinguish between similar appearing kanji (e.g. 締める and 諦める, or the characters in 輸入 vs 車輪). Relation to this my recognition speed for reading is drastically improved which makes reading Japanese subtitles whilst immersing in Japanese content online soooo much easier.
I also find that remembering new vocabulary involving kanji I’ve studied on the app then becomes much easier. E.g. if I can recognise 動 (movement) and 行 (carrying out, also going) then it makes more sense in some way that 行動 action/behaviour/conduct.
Because of this app I’m constantly impressing my Japanese teacher with my knowledge of kanji despite my overall less than impressive Japanese.
I highly recommend using this app on an iPad/tablet with an pencil/stylus as well as this extra layer of familiarity and simulating real life is much more grounding than just using your index finger on a tiny phone screen.
My one complaint is that there is no way to search for vocabulary
Within decks. I.e. say I come across a new word whilst watching a YouTube video and I want to learn the kanji. I know it’s a fairly basic word and so I know it should be in the pre-made Core 6k deck I downloaded. There is no search function within the deck (for as yet unknown words) so I would have to manually go through and find it - which I don’t wanna do in a 6000 word deck… so i end up just having to make my own hodge-podge messy deck of random vocab.
I also think the SRS algorithm could perhaps use some fine tuning re: writing vs reading/definition cards. The writing card is obviously harder and easier to forget as it contains multiple steps so I feel like I definitely need to review it more frequently, and find myself having to mark it wrong more often than the others (but maybe this is just me being dumb haha).
Realistically, these are just a minor QOL things and otherwise this app is incredible.
Another feature which I’m not even sure is possible but I think would be really cool would be to include in the progress section on a writing card an amalgamation of all the previous attempts (raw squigs), so you can see how your handwriting is tracking overall. But as I said I suspect this is impossible lol.
Anyway..
TLDR: this app is great and is helpful in so many more ways than you would expect. 100% recommend for anyone learning Japanese.
Thanks so much Skritter team for this wonderful tool!
I also find that remembering new vocabulary involving kanji I’ve studied on the app then becomes much easier. E.g. if I can recognise 動 (movement) and 行 (carrying out, also going) then it makes more sense in some way that 行動 action/behaviour/conduct.
Because of this app I’m constantly impressing my Japanese teacher with my knowledge of kanji despite my overall less than impressive Japanese.
I highly recommend using this app on an iPad/tablet with an pencil/stylus as well as this extra layer of familiarity and simulating real life is much more grounding than just using your index finger on a tiny phone screen.
My one complaint is that there is no way to search for vocabulary
Within decks. I.e. say I come across a new word whilst watching a YouTube video and I want to learn the kanji. I know it’s a fairly basic word and so I know it should be in the pre-made Core 6k deck I downloaded. There is no search function within the deck (for as yet unknown words) so I would have to manually go through and find it - which I don’t wanna do in a 6000 word deck… so i end up just having to make my own hodge-podge messy deck of random vocab.
I also think the SRS algorithm could perhaps use some fine tuning re: writing vs reading/definition cards. The writing card is obviously harder and easier to forget as it contains multiple steps so I feel like I definitely need to review it more frequently, and find myself having to mark it wrong more often than the others (but maybe this is just me being dumb haha).
Realistically, these are just a minor QOL things and otherwise this app is incredible.
Another feature which I’m not even sure is possible but I think would be really cool would be to include in the progress section on a writing card an amalgamation of all the previous attempts (raw squigs), so you can see how your handwriting is tracking overall. But as I said I suspect this is impossible lol.
Anyway..
TLDR: this app is great and is helpful in so many more ways than you would expect. 100% recommend for anyone learning Japanese.
Thanks so much Skritter team for this wonderful tool!
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Perfect!
Super fun, easy to use, and based on learning theory, asking you the characters just as you’re about to forget them.
Love it
Im interested to subscribe when i have enough money.. its expensive :”)
Good. Could be great.
The subscription model is fair. The srs works well. Writing training is why I got it, and I’ve found it helpful, though not perfect (possible to register clearly wrong writing as correct.). I think I would find it all much more useful, enough to keep a paid subscription going longer, if there were example sentences. Several power word/character, ideally.
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Thank you so much for the review and feedback! Let us know if you ever have any questions or additional feedback. You can reach us at team@skritter.com!
A little disappointed
I used Skritter many years ago, and love the idea of a self-contained SRS that tests written recall. I’m a little surprised that it does not seem to have been improved at all since I last used it.
I’m only about 100 kanji in this time around, and have already found errors on common kanji. This is supposed to be a mature app, so errors in stroke count or order are totally unacceptable.
I also find it a bit shocking that no features have been added since the old days. I cannot search for kanji or vocab in the app. I cannot add words through the app. This is a very outdated system, which is surprising given the high price.
I’m only about 100 kanji in this time around, and have already found errors on common kanji. This is supposed to be a mature app, so errors in stroke count or order are totally unacceptable.
I also find it a bit shocking that no features have been added since the old days. I cannot search for kanji or vocab in the app. I cannot add words through the app. This is a very outdated system, which is surprising given the high price.
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Seems like a scam
Useless. It doesn’t let you try anything without paying. First give me a sample of performance and quality and then I can decide if it’s worthy the money. It also doesn’t have much textbooks to choose from on their library. Only the basic Genki o Minna no Nihongo. I wish I could have a trisl of how this app works but there’s no way to know.
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🔥🔥🔥
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Güzel uygulama
Japonca öğrenenlere tavsiye ederim.
I enjoy learning with thid app
Its a really nice app to use every day to learn the basics. The repetition really improves the memory. But its not only making memory on high concentration level, its a good app for easy learning without any interruptions. But there is room for more learning tools and different perspectives to learn and connect this material in different ways.
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Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback! We'd love to hear more about what would make Skritter a 5-star app for you. If you have the time, let us know at team@skritter.com.
WOAH
I wish I could have tried the app but I got to the subscription page and saw how much it cost. I’m sorry but I don’t think an app, no matter how good it is, justifies spending this much money. Make it cheaper, make it make sense. In the meantime I’ll just use my kanji dictionary.
Excellent, Needs Minor Tweaks
Overall hands down the best way I’ve found to practice and learn Japanese writing systems.
Occasionally, it refuses to recognise my writing even when it’s exactly as the tracing suggests (e.g., it has trouble with my hiragana hi, and for some reason it thinks I’ve done the last stroke of a hiragana fu before I have) - but these are minor niggles in the grand scheme of things.
For Kanji, as a new learning, I’ve found it an excellent complement to the “Remembering The Kanji” books - avoiding the need to creating flash cards.
Occasionally, it refuses to recognise my writing even when it’s exactly as the tracing suggests (e.g., it has trouble with my hiragana hi, and for some reason it thinks I’ve done the last stroke of a hiragana fu before I have) - but these are minor niggles in the grand scheme of things.
For Kanji, as a new learning, I’ve found it an excellent complement to the “Remembering The Kanji” books - avoiding the need to creating flash cards.
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I really like it
The app has a lot of pre made decks and spoken content. I use the Genki decks so I can learn the vocabulary before going through the chapter, it really eases my stress to know the building blocks before I have to put them together. The whole character rendering is quite addicting so I like to swipe a lot 🥹
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Thanks for the review! If you ever have any other feedback or questions, let us know at team@skritter.com. Happy studies!
Very time efficient!
Aside from the fact that my stroke order and handwriting was completely transformed by this app, the app is also just really smooth. I seem to be able to get through words much quicker than with other apps, making this app my most time efficient way to improve my writing skills. Just for example, this morning I got through 75 reviews in only 15 minutes!
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Great app, but could use some minor improvements, especially for Japanese
I enjoy both Chinese and Japanese versions of the app and use them religiously 😀
I have a feature request though: for words with many characters, it would be nice to have multiple boxes on the screen at the same time (one per character), rather than inputting each character into the same box.
This might only work for iPad users in horizontal orientation, but it would probably be effective so users can see the whole word they just wrote. It also feels more natural to write while moving my hand to the right for each subsequent character.
I have a feature request though: for words with many characters, it would be nice to have multiple boxes on the screen at the same time (one per character), rather than inputting each character into the same box.
This might only work for iPad users in horizontal orientation, but it would probably be effective so users can see the whole word they just wrote. It also feels more natural to write while moving my hand to the right for each subsequent character.
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Thanks for the review and for taking the time to share your feedback! I'll pass your feedback on to the development team. If you ever have any other feedback or questions, let us know at team@skritter.com. Happy studies!
Excellent but missing one critical leaning element
I am using Skritter paid subscriptions for both Japanese and Chinese. The app is wonderful and I’ve been using it for about 4 months consistently.
I have learned Japanese kanji on my own in the past and what really lets you learn a character is its CONTEXT, ie what words in the language actually use this character you’re trying to learn. That’s how you build the associations that help the character stick. There’s always a moment of, “oh! That’s the character that you use the word ___!”
Skritter does not do this and it’s the biggest difference from reviewing characters in a kanji book and other flashcard systems out there. In some cases, Skritter provides a sentence using the character, but what the app really needs is just a simple list of two or three of the most commonly used everyday words that use the character. It would be the bomb! Please consider this feature for the future.
I have learned Japanese kanji on my own in the past and what really lets you learn a character is its CONTEXT, ie what words in the language actually use this character you’re trying to learn. That’s how you build the associations that help the character stick. There’s always a moment of, “oh! That’s the character that you use the word ___!”
Skritter does not do this and it’s the biggest difference from reviewing characters in a kanji book and other flashcard systems out there. In some cases, Skritter provides a sentence using the character, but what the app really needs is just a simple list of two or three of the most commonly used everyday words that use the character. It would be the bomb! Please consider this feature for the future.
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Response from developer
Thanks for taking the time to share your feedback! In the future, we plan on adding more ways to learn the words in context. We do not currently have an exact timeline for when we will release this type of content, but it is definitely on our radar as a future improvement.
Best app I've found to learn kanji
Each card has three different review options: the meaning, reading, and writing, so can choose what to review depending on what need to practice. The built-in JLPT decks are great.
Best way to learn kanji hands down
I've been using this app since its very early days (2011 I think) and nothing has helped me learn kanji better. It's fun too and even if you don't care about being able to write, this will still set you down the right path
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Thanks for the review! If you ever have any other feedback or questions, let us know at team@skritter.com. Happy studies!
