Write It! Japanese vs Orbit Lab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Write It! Japanese
Master Japanese hiragana and katakana handwriting with this app. It uses advanced recognition technology for stroke-by-stroke guidance and timed tests. Learn efficiently with bite-sized lessons and track your progress.
- Handwriting recognition technology
- Bite-sized lessons
- Stroke-by-stroke guidance
- Timed test mode
- Progress tracking
- Offline support
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Learn to write all 92 characters of the Japanese hiragana and katakana alphabet with Write It! Japanese, the ultimate app for mastering Japanese handwriting. Whether you're a beginner or looking to improve your skills, our innovative app replaces traditional pen and paper with cutting-edge handwriting recognition technology. Dive into bite-sized lessons designed to fit your busy schedule, allowing you to make progress in just a few minutes a day. With our intuitive practice mode, you'll receive stroke-by-stroke guidance to perfect your technique. Then, put your skills to the test in our exhilarating test mode, where you can race against the clock and prove your mastery. Key Features: • Real handwriting recognition technology • Bite-sized lessons for quick learning • Practice mode with stroke-by-stroke guidance • Timed test mode to challenge your skills • Customizable review mode • Progress tracking • Full offline support Why Choose Write It! Japanese? Innovative Technology: Our real handwriting recognition technology provides instant feedback, helping you improve faster than traditional methods. Comprehensive Learning: Master all 92 characters of the Japanese hiragana and katakana alphabet through a structured, step-by-step approach. Flexibility: Practice at your own pace with customizable review options and offline accessibility. Engaging Experience: Gamified elements like the test mode keep you motivated and challenged throughout your learning journey. Progress Monitoring: Track your improvement over time and celebrate your achievements as you advance. Write It! Japanese combines the best of traditional learning methods with modern technology to create an engaging and effective way to master Hebrew script. Our app's unique approach guides you through each stroke, helping you develop muscle memory and confidence in your writing abilities. Write It! Japanese is the perfect tool for anyone looking to master the beautiful art of Japanese handwriting. Our app combines cutting-edge technology with proven learning methods to make the process of learning to write Japanese engaging, efficient, and effective. Start your journey to mastering the Japanese hiragana and katakana alphabet today. Download Write It! Japanese and transform your Japanese writing skills one stroke at a time. With dedication and practice, you'll soon be confidently writing the intricate and elegant the characters of the Japanese script. Begin your Japanese writing adventure now! Privacy Policy: https://jernung.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://jernung.com/terms
Orbit Lab
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Orbital Lab teaches orbital mechanics by making you fly it: set a launch speed and angle, and a real two-body Kepler solver draws the exact orbit that results — not a canned animation standing in for physics. Every one of the app's 31 lessons ends on a live 3D workbench. Drag the speed slider and watch the path bulge, open into a wide ellipse, or dive into the star; nudge the launch angle and the shape changes again. The same solver computes eccentricity, periapsis, apoapsis, and orbital period from scratch on every frame — nothing is pre-rendered behind the numbers. A lesson only marks complete when you've actually done what it asked — raised the launch speed past the true escape boundary and recovered an orbit just under it, or hunted down the exact speed that avoids a crash — not for pressing Play. Curriculum, unit by unit: • Unit 1 – Orbits from scratch: what an ellipse, periapsis, and escape velocity actually mean • Unit 2 – Solar System missions: fly from Mercury and Venus out past Mars to Jupiter and beyond • Unit 3 – Space engineering: Hohmann transfers, delta-v budgets, gravity-assist flybys • Unit 4 – Deep Space (Pro): the workbench switches engines to a hand-written Verlet n-body integrator, where Kepler's one-body assumption starts to break down Deep Space runs six curated three-body scenes — a figure-eight choreography, a Sun–planet–Trojan system locked at a genuinely stable Lagrange point, and a three-body pass that turns authentically chaotic. Each scene is checked to hold its total energy over the run, so what plays out is real gravity working, not an animation dressed up to look unstable. Explore is a second sandbox: no lesson, no lock, no limit. Set any launch speed and angle and watch the trajectory resolve in real time on the same solver, wide open. Tight circular orbits, wild eccentric ellipses that graze the surface, hyperbolic escapes — try as many launches as you want. Two hand-written physics engines sit behind every screen: a closed-form Kepler solver for two-body mechanics — the exact analytic solution for that problem — and a symplectic Verlet integrator for the n-body cases where Kepler's math stops applying. Neither is a physics library wrapped in a UI. The first Deep Space lesson runs both engines on the same star-and-planet setup side by side, so you can watch them agree. What's free: • Unit 1 in full, plus Mercury through Mars in Unit 2 — 11 of 31 lessons with their live workbenches • The Explore sandbox, unlimited and always available • Progress tracking across all four units • Full light and dark themes, 10 languages What Pro adds: • The rest of the curriculum — outer-planet missions, space engineering, and all of Deep Space — 20 more lessons and their workbenches • Deep Mode: six real three-body simulations • An AI tutor that explains the orbit currently on your screen • No ads Built for the space-curious adult, the physics or astronomy student who wants "orbital velocity" to mean more than a line in a textbook, and anyone who's flown a space sim and wants the actual laws behind it. No science background required — the lessons build the vocabulary as you go. Orbital Lab starts as a guest — no account to create, no sign-in wall. Explore, the first eleven lessons, and your progress are all there the moment you open the app. Sign in later only if you want to. Monthly and annual subscriptions unlock the rest of the curriculum and all of Deep Space, and both plans start with a 3-day free trial. Payment is charged to your account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel anytime in your device's Account Settings. Full terms and our privacy practices are linked below. Terms of Use https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy https://coddykit.com/terms/privacy-policy
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Verdict
Write It! Japanese and Orbit Lab are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Write It! Japanese sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Orbit Lab sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Write It! Japanese | Orbit Lab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (2.3K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 86.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2.3K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jernung | MEHMET CANKER (TR) |
Bugs and requests
Write It! Japanese
Reported bugs
4 issues- Freezes when drawing outside the box
- Inconsistent character recognition
- Resets progress after updates
- Crashes on launch for some users
Requested features
7 requests- Add kanji writing practice
- Ability to customize review content
- Provide more detailed performance tracking
- Include native speaker audio
- Add landscape mode support
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- Implement stroke order guidance
- Allow selecting specific characters to review
Orbit Lab
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Write It! Japanese
- Full Unlock$6.99
- Full Unlock$8.99
- Full Unlock$9.99
Orbit Lab
- Orbital Lab Pro monthly$5.991 Month
- Orbital Lab Pro annual3 Days trial$29.991 Year
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