Comparison

JFT vs Kanji Speed Drill

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

JFT

Features
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Prepare for the JFT-Basic (Japan Foundation Test for Basic Japanese) with daily practice and realistic mock exams. KEY FEATURES • 300 practice questions across Script and Vocabulary, Conversation and Expression, Listening, and Reading • Six original mock exams with 50 questions and a 60-minute time limit • Japanese and Indonesian explanations after answering • Listening questions designed around limited-play practice • Accuracy, answer history, and Can-do progress tracking • Japanese and Indonesian interface options, plus light and dark themes Use the daily 10-question set during a commute or break, then take a full mock exam when preparing for test day. This is not an official JFT-Basic app. All questions, explanations, and mock exams are independently created learning content. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Kanji Speed Drill

Features
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Kanji Speed Drill is a timed drill for kanji. You practice until you can read a character without stopping to work it out. A kanji appears, or a compound word in the upper levels, with four answers under it: meanings, or readings in kana or romaji. You tap one, and the app times how long it took. That time is what the app grades you on. Working out that 曜 is yō after four seconds isn't reading, so only quick correct answers count toward knowing a character. Meaning, on'yomi and kun'yomi are tracked separately, because knowing one says nothing about the others. A kanji counts as known once all of them are fast. WHAT YOU GET • All 2,136 jōyō kanji plus compounds in five levels, following the common JLPT study lists from N5 to N1 • Three question types per kanji: meaning, on'yomi and kun'yomi, each drilled and tracked separately • Readings shown in kana, romaji, or both at once — your choice, each backed by a real example word • Tap any kanji in the charts for its full card: every meaning, every reading in context, and your record on each • Sessions built around a small working set of your weakest kanji, so things repeat until they stick • Wrong answers pulled from real confusions: lookalikes such as 犬 beside 大, and readings one sound apart • A chart of every level, colored by how well you know each kanji • A ranking that puts your weakest facts first and names what you mix them up with • Session stats: median time, fastest answer, best streak, accuracy • Four Japanese typefaces built in: Print, Modern, Rounded and Textbook, or Shuffle for a different one every question • Light and dark themes, with layouts built for phone, tablet and landscape FOUR TYPEFACES, BECAUSE THE SHAPE CHANGES 令 ends in a vertical stroke in print and a curve in handwriting, and a device set to another language can quietly draw kanji in the wrong regional forms. All four faces ship inside the app, so every character renders the Japanese way, offline, with nothing falling back to a font that draws it differently. OFFLINE AND PRIVATE No account, no ads, no analytics. The app makes no network calls at all. Your progress stays on your device, and you can export it to a file whenever you want to move it. FREE All of it. Nothing locked, no subscription. Made by ConvoCopilot. Terms of Service: https://kanji.convocopilot.app/terms Apple Standard EULA (App Store): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://kanji.convocopilot.app/privacy

Screenshots

JFT4 screens
Kanji Speed Drill4 screens

Verdict

The call

JFT and Kanji Speed Drill 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
JFT versus Kanji Speed Drill: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJFTKanji Speed Drill
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size79 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKazumasa ShimomuraLambda 7 Tech LLC

In-app purchases

None

JFT

No in-app purchases

None

Kanji Speed Drill

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is JFT free?
JFT is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Kanji Speed Drill free?
Kanji Speed Drill is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do JFT or Kanji Speed Drill have ads?
Neither JFT nor Kanji Speed Drill shows ads.

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