Kanji Time vs Kanji Widget

Turn every glance at the clock into a Japanese lesson. Kanji Time is a beautiful bedside and desktop clock designed to help you learn Japanese naturally — one look at a time. The time, date, and day of the week are displayed in kanji with phonetic readings so you always know what you're looking at. Tell time in Japanese The time displays in Japanese format — 午前 (gozen) for AM and 午後 (gogo) for PM. Tap the time to hear it spoken aloud in natural Japanese. Learn the date in kanji See today's date as 4月13日（月曜日） with phonetic readings in romaji or hiragana beneath each line. Hide phonetics once you've learned to read on your own. Tap the date to hear it spoken. 13 rotating content panels — you choose Pick any two to display on your clock face. Long press any card to expand to a full reading view with larger text. Panels include: • Kana cards — hiragana and katakana with romaji, example words, and English meanings • Proverbs — a new ことわざ (kotowaza) every day in kanji, kana, romaji, and English • Cinema quotes — from 黒澤明 (Kurosawa), 宮崎駿 (Miyazaki), 小津安二郎 (Ozu), and more • Baseball quotes — from 鈴木一朗 (Ichiro), 大谷翔平 (Ohtani), 王貞治 (Sadaharu Oh), and more • Baseball terms, teams & stadiums — all 12 NPB teams and every home ground • Sushi vocabulary — 30 dishes with kana, romaji, and cultural notes • Zen quotes — from 道元 (Dōgen), 白隠 (Hakuin), 鈴木俊隆 (Shunryu Suzuki), and more • Music quotes — from 坂本龍一 (Sakamoto), 久石譲 (Hisaishi), 宇多田ヒカル (Utada), and more • Prefectures — all 47 都道府県 with capitals, kana, romaji, and regional highlights • Temples & shrines — 26 sacred sites from Kinkaku-ji to Itsukushima • Japanese cars — from kei classics (Jimny, N-BOX) to sports legends (GT-R, RX-7, Supra) Speak and listen Tap any card to hear it read aloud. Japanese content uses a natural Japanese voice, followed by the English translation — or switch English off in Settings for full Japanese immersion. Tip: download enhanced voices in iOS Settings for even more natural speech — Kanji Time automatically uses the best installed voice. World clock Add a second time zone and see the city name in Japanese — 大阪 (Osaka), ロンドン (London), ニューヨーク (New York) — alongside local time. Designed for the bedside table and desktop The screen stays on while active, with adjustable night dimming for sleep. Choose from five dark themes — Midnight, Charcoal, Navy, Forest, and Burgundy — all built around the amber LED aesthetic of classic Japanese digital clocks. No ads. No account required. Completely free. Works offline.

Learn Japanese without opening an app — one character at a time, right on your home screen. Kanji Widget puts hiragana, katakana, or a JLPT kanji character directly on your iOS home screen. Every time you unlock your phone, you see one character with its reading and meaning — a free repetition, dozens of times a day, with zero extra effort. FEATURES • 1,600+ characters: hiragana, katakana, and JLPT kanji N5 through N1 • 7 study sets, downloaded independently — start with kana or jump to the level you're studying • Onyomi, kunyomi, and English meanings for every kanji • Common example words with readings for context • Tap the widget to move to the next or previous character • Small and medium widget sizes • Customize the widget's theme (system, light, or dark), background opacity, and text size, with a live preview as you adjust WHY A WIDGET Apps you have to open compete with everything else on your phone. A widget doesn't — it's already there. Kanji Widget turns the moments you check your phone into study moments, without a streak to keep or a lesson to finish. PRIVACY No account required. No tracking. Your progress stays on your device. Once a study set is downloaded, the widget works completely offline.