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Efficient and Useful! Love this app. Been using it for a couple years now and like how it provides the different readings, as well as useful examples. I would love to see a save option for kanji I find myself coming back to but often forget. :)
Really want to like this app. I really want to like this app. It’s well made. It includes useful kanji. It details stroke order, which is what I was looking for when I found this app, and it’s flash card design is very useful for review and memorization. But the ads make it unusable. I hate to be the person to complain about ads—I don’t mind that there’s ads on a free app. It becomes a problem, however, when the ads not only come up every 10 seconds or so but when they’re also designed to be unclose-able. I’ve gotten multiple ads which have their exit hidden behind the phone’s status bar, making it impossible to navigate back to the app itself without clicking on the ad or manually closing the app. To make it worse: clicking the ad doesn’t even close it in the app! It opens up in the App Store, but when you navigate back to the kanji app the ad is still there and still unable to be closed. So anytime you get one of these ads, you have to force close the app and then you lose all of your progress/lose your spot when you relaunch the app. :( To the devs of this app: I recognize that you didn’t design the ads that show up on your app, and I’m honestly not sure how much control you get over which ones you’re partnered with/which ones show up, but as it stands the ads make this unusable. :( If it matters and you do have a choice in the matter, a few of the ads I notice consistently doing this are: Homescapes and Fishdom—so probably any ads by Playrix. It’s impossible to use this app if I have to manually close it every minute or so, lose my spot within the app, and then navigate back to wherever I was.... sometimes getting an ad while I navigate, setting this process back to the start! I can’t add pictures to a review, but I have screenshots showing this issue. I’m disappointed. I really, really wanted to like and use this app.
Great app The only thing missing is the ability to make custom kanji lists to study.
Crash The app is amazing when it works, but at least once a month it goes through this crashing phase. When it does that I have to delete the app and re-download it. Not anymore. I’m done with this app.
Very handy! Nice tool for learning kanji. Would love Apple Pencil support please!!!
could be so much better being a beginner in kanji, I love how many it looks like I can learn. the only thing is, the "pronunciation" in the information side of the kanji is really confusing, so it kinda defeats the purpose of learning the kanji if you only know the English meaning and not how to pronounce it. If this app had an audio option where I could HEAR how the kanji is pronounced, it would help so much, and then I would have a reason to use this app.
Ok but.. Not really. Could be better. There is almost no explanation and the option to move forward to practice the next character is always open. ie: there's no requirement to "master" (even slightly) the correct form and no acknowledgment that you used incorrect form-which is necessary to the person looking to learn the correct form. If kana is generally meant to be written left to right, top to bottom, then there should be some guidelines or reprimand when/if you don't-Literally, you can just scribble across the page. I could do that in my Notes app. Not helpful.👎🏻
Button for English descriptions not working This app is very useful for practicing stroke order and testing yourself on writing the characters (you can choose whether or not you see stroke animation) but the button to change the description of the characters to English is not working. Changing the descriptions to Chinese or Korean does not work either. I'm trying to learn Japanese for the first time, so seeing the descriptions in English is VERY important to me as that's the only way I know what I'm writing. I will keep the app and hope the English descriptions are fixed in a future update, it would be a great app if the English descriptions worked.
The Best!!!!! This app is amazing!!! It gives an easy to follow, numbered stroke order animation of each kanji. You can practice tracing your finger over it OR hide the animation, practice tracing on a blank screen, then bring the animation back to see how well yours looks in comparison! "On" and "kun" readings are given, plus translations in English, Chinese, and Korean. All kanji are divided into N5-N1 levels PLUS there's kana stroke order for hiragana and katakana writing practice, too! AND you can even *search* for a kanji by typing it in or copy and paste. I don't know of any other app that does all of these things. Plus it's all free...AMAZING!!!!!
Good For some reason, it stopped working. It closes when I open it now, and it's never done that before. Pls fix.
From 24 saved reviews since 18 Sept 2012, all countries.
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“Crash The app is amazing when it works, but at least once a month it goes through this crashing phase.”
“But the ads make it unusable.”
“I’ve gotten multiple ads which have their exit hidden behind the phone’s status bar, making it impossible to navigate back to the app itself without clicking…”
“:( To the devs of this app: I recognize that you didn’t design the ads that show up on your app, and I’m honestly not sure how much control you get over whic…”
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“Simple, clean, and helpful This app is just so easy to use and does the job perfectly.”
“Love this app.”
“It gives an easy to follow, numbered stroke order animation of each kanji.”
“Plus it's all free...AMAZING!!!!!”
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