Nihongo Learn vs Hanzi Pen

Learn Japanese the smart way — from your first hiragana to JLPT N1 mastery. Nihongo Learn is a comprehensive Japanese study app with 30+ interactive modes designed for every stage of your journey. Whether you're memorizing kana, drilling kanji stroke order, or preparing for the JLPT, everything you need is in one place. WRITING SYSTEMS • Hiragana & Katakana with stroke-by-stroke animation • 2,000+ Kanji with readings, meanings, and stroke order • Handwriting practice with trace and recall modes • Radical breakdown for systematic kanji learning VOCABULARY & GRAMMAR • N5 through N1 vocabulary with audio pronunciation • Complete grammar explanations for all JLPT levels • Example sentences with furigana and translations • Conjugation drills for every verb form QUIZZES & PRACTICE • Multiple choice, typing, matching, and speed drills • SRS spaced repetition to remember what you learn • Smart drills that target your weak points • JLPT mock exams to test your readiness IMMERSIVE LEARNING • AI conversation partners for real-world dialogue practice • Graded reading passages with tap-to-translate • Listening comprehension at every level • Pitch accent training for natural pronunciation • Cultural context lessons on politeness and etiquette STAY MOTIVATED • Guided lesson paths from beginner to advanced • Daily tasks and study streaks • Detailed analytics tracking your progress • Customizable avatars, themes, and collectible rewards • Study calendar to visualize your consistency FREE TO START Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji, N5-N4 content, all quiz types, conjugation drills, reading passages, and pitch accent training are completely free. PREMIUM Upgrade for AI conversation partners, full analytics, N3-N1 content, unlimited SRS cards, the immersion reader, and advanced listening practice. That's about 1,500 characters — well within the 4,000 character limit. Adjust any section as you see fit. Privacy Policy: https://digitalisapps.com/nihongo-privacy-policy/ Terms of Use: https://digitalisapps.com/nihongo-tos/

Hanzi Pen turns the slow, deliberate work of learning Chinese characters into a guided practice loop. Every character you encounter becomes something you can read, recognise, and, most importantly, write from memory. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT • Writing comes first. Trace each stroke on screen, get per-stroke feedback on length, position, and missing hooks, and graduate to writing from memory. The app coaches you toward the actual mechanics of each stroke type (横, 竖, 撇, 捺, hooks, turns). • Spaced repetition built in. Every character you practice joins your SRS deck with independent mastery for writing, reading, and translation — track each skill on its own, mark the ones you already know, and let cards resurface exactly when forgetting starts. • Etymology that actually helps. Each character's detail page shows its phono-semantic / pictogram / compound-ideogram structure, the meaning and sound role of each component, and a prose origin story sourced from Dong Chinese. • Across Asia. Chinese shares thousands of characters with Japanese, so a character's page can show the Japanese on'yomi and kun'yomi readings, and even which hiragana and katakana the character became (安 → あ / ア). A quiet bridge for anyone who already knows some Japanese or is curious how the writing systems connect. • Real example sentences. Over 64,000 Tatoeba sentences indexed by character with mixed-difficulty selection, so you see the word used in short, medium, and longer real-world contexts. • Measure-word coaching. Every noun's detail page shows which 量词 to pair it with (个, 位, 名, 只, 条, 部 …) and explains the nuance — polite vs. formal vs. casual. CORE FEATURES • HSK 1–6 vocabulary with official-list filtering • 3,000+ characters from HSK 3.0 with stroke-order graphics, etymology, and decomposition • 110,000-entry CC-CEDICT dictionary for words and compounds • 10,800 learner-friendly single-character definitions • Multi-character word breakdown — tap any word to drill into its sub-words and individual characters, with pinyin grouped word-by-word over example sentences • "Don't mix these up" guidance — side-by-side notes on easily-confused look-alikes (重 / 垂, 土 / 士, 未 / 末, 天 / 夭 …) • Tone sandhi (一 / 不) applied to example-sentence pinyin • Multi-pinyin readings shown for every character (得 → dé / děi / de) • Handwriting search — draw a character you saw somewhere with no stroke timeout and no auto-clear, then tap a candidate • Vocabulary lists with paste-import, shuffle, and per-list practice sessions • Quiz modes: writing, reading (pinyin), translation, and combined — each skill tracked independently, and settable by hand when you already know it • Component questions: "which is the meaning component? which is the sound?" • Per-stroke coaching after each writing attempt • Live canvas resize via pinch + drag handle • Practice history with one-tap undo for accidental "I know this" • Switchable Simplified / Traditional display • Dictionary searchable by hanzi, pinyin, or English • iCloud sync across iPhone and iPad • Profile customization (avatar glyph, name, and a selectable accent theme colour) WHO IT'S FOR • HSK 1 / HSKK beginners drilling the first 600 characters • Heritage learners filling in writing gaps • University and high-school Mandarin students preparing for proficiency exams • Anyone serious about character recall! Writing, not just recognition PRIVACY All learning data lives in your private iCloud space. No accounts, no ads, no analytics, no server-side tracking. Nothing leaves your device except the iCloud-synced records that only you can read. OPEN-DATA ATTRIBUTION Built on CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0), Tatoeba (CC-BY 2.0 FR), Make-Me-a-Hanzi (LGPL / Arphic Public License), chinese-lexicon (ISC), and Dong Chinese wiki etymology (CC BY-SA 4.0).