Japanese Class vs Kanji Drill
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Japanese Class
Master Japanese with a comprehensive offline course. Features interactive exercises for verbs, vocabulary, grammar, and listening, with a fun awards system to track progress. Ideal for serious learners.
- Offline Japanese course
- Interactive verb, vocabulary, grammar, and listening exercises
- 1500+ words and 125 phrases
- Support for Kana, Kanji, and Romaji
- Customizable exercises with awards system
- Progress tracking and error summaries
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Gain a mastery of Japanese! Japanese Class offers a complete offline Japanese course, together with interactive verb, vocabulary, grammar and listening exercises. All words and phrases are available to listen to as well. Great support when you learn Japanese. Easy to practice your verb conjugations, vocabulary, grammar and phrases with. This full course contains 10 Japanese language lessons covering the following content: * All tenses * 1500+ words, sorted into different categories such as food and transport * 12 grammar articles: Hiragana, Katakana, Particles, Adjectives, Verbs, Counters, Numbers, Dates, Te Form, Existential Verbs, and more. * 125 useful phrases And the following features: * Support for Kana, Kanji, Romaji(bring up Course Settings to change writing display). * Highly customizable exercises on all of the above, with a fun awards system that is integrated with Game Center which makes practicing fun, with separate awards for the vocab, verbs, grammar and listening exercises. * Keeping track of your progress by saving statistics and summaries of all completed exercises, while keeping track of errors made. The first strength of this app is the extended content. No other Japanese app offers this much for the same price. The other strength lies in its fun, addictive and useful exercises. If you are serious about learning Japanese, this app is for you.
Kanji Drill
This educational app offers three distinct drills to enhance Japanese language learning. Focus on kanji reading, vocabulary acquisition, and verb conjugation. Developed by university students, it's a practical tool for mastering Japanese fundamentals.
- Kanji reading practice
- Vocabulary word drills
- Te-form verb conjugation
- Developed by university students
- Japanese language learning
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Nihongo Drill is from the Japanese program at Lehman College, The City University of New York. There are three drills - Kanji, Tango and Te-form drill - all designed to help students learn Japanese and improve their knowledge in kanji reading, vocabulary words and the verb conjugation, and they were developed by Lehman students.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Kanji Drill at Free against Japanese Class's $3.99. Kanji Drill also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 12.0). Japanese Class's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 7 months). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Kanji Drill is free to download; Japanese Class costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Kanji Drill holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively.
Japanese Class ships an update every 2 months, Kanji Drill every 7 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.
| Parameter | Japanese Class | Kanji Drill |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Linguineo BVBA | ASAKO TOCHIKA |
Customer experience
Japanese Class
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In-app purchases
Japanese Class
No in-app purchases
Kanji Drill
No in-app purchases
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