Kanji LS Touch App Bewertungen

Sehr gutes Programm zum Lernen, spielerisch und für kurz zwischendurch ideal. Nur 4 Sterne, da die Anzeige bei vielen Wortbedeutungen umgeschaltet werden muss und keine eingebaute Anleitung vorhanden ist.

Sehr gutes Programm um Kanji zu lernen. Glücklicherweise auch multilingual, Kanji können also auch in Deutsch und nicht wie z.B. bei iKanji Touch nur in Englisch gelernt werden. Strichfolgen für einen Großteil (alle?) Kanji machen das Ganze umso besser. Was mir nicht so gut gefällt ist die Optik, die Umsetzung des Leitner-Systems und das ein Test fehlt, der alles testet (Lesungen, Bedeutung und Strichfolge). Aber im Großen und Ganzen eine sehr gute App um Kanji zu lernen - für Anfänger und Fortgeschrittene

Ein geniales Lernprogramm. Kenne jemanden, der sich das iPhone nur wegen diesem Programm gekauft hat ... Würde mir nur noch die Möglichkeit zur Eingabe von Wörtern wünschen, die aus mehreren Kanji bestehen

Gutes Programm, sehr umfangreich. Design und GUI sind teilweise verbesserungswürdig (Listenansichten und kleiner Umschaltknopf ziemlich fuzzelig und unübersichtlich). Für meinen Geschmack deutlich zu teuer, aber unter den von mir getesteten Kanji Programmen mit das Beste, das muss man schon anerkennen.

tolle idee, leider ist der akku nach 15 min dann leer.

Diese App ist einfach klasse, endlich ein Programm, mit dem man auch unterwegs das Schreiben lernen kann. Statt langweiliger Arbeitsblätter schnell die App starten und ein paar Kanji malen! Bisher konnte ich die Kanji ja immer nur auswendig lernen und lesen, aber das Schreiben war dann doch eine ganz andere Sache. Mit dieser App fällt es mir auf jeden Fall leichter. Ich finde es super, daß auch die einzelnen Strichfolgen gezeigt werden, selbst im Quiz kann man sich damit ganz streng bewerten und auch nachprüfen, ob nicht nur das Kanji richtig geschrieben, sondern auch die Strichreihenfolge richtig befolgt wurde. Ich benutze es als reines Schreibübungsprogramm, zum Kanjilernen bevorzuge ich Study Arcade oder Anki, weil die Beispiele und Übersetzungen zwar praktisch, in meinem Fall aber zu viel Info auf einmal sind.

Das Lob vorab: Das Programm ist die beste Kanjilernsoftware, die mir bisher untergekommen ist. Bei den zahlreichen Funktionen ist für jeden Lerntyp und jede Methode etwas dabei. Sehr positiv finde ich auch die Möglichkeit, eigene Listen zu importieren. Ist man über die Jōyō-Kanji hinaus und möchte noch mehr Kanjis erlernen, klaffen jedoch schnell Lücken, da das Programm zwar etwa 1000 weitere Kanjis anbietet, die Zahl der im Japanischen vorkommenden jedoch deutlich höher liegt. Hier würde ich mir eine stetige Erweiterung des Zeichenbestands Wünschen, um auch den Bedürfnissen fortgeschrittener Lerner gerecht zu werden. Außerdem wird demnächst die Liste der Jōyō-Kanji um 196 Zeichen erweitert, welche hoffentlich auch bald berücksichtigt werden. Ansonsten bleibt nur zu sagen: 頑張って下さい！

...für den Preis kann man wirklich darauf verzichten. 10 Eur ist wirklich ziemlich viel Geld, wenn man bedenkt, dass man andere Kanji-Programme für viel weniger Geld bekommt, wenn auch ohne wirkliche Lernfunktion, aber die ist ja hier auch nicht gerade so gut gegeben. Ich hätte mir "Lektionen" gewünscht, sodass man pro Lektion > 10 Kanjis lernt. Die App ist bisland (!) TROTZ des Preises, nicht an das Display von iPhone 4 angepasst. Das Design ist viel zu dunkel und erdrückend. Ich würde anstatt dieser App, "Kotoba!" (kostenlos) empfehlen. Kann eigentlich das gleiche, nur das nachzeichnen der Kanjis ist nicht möglich. Fazit: Eine App, die auf guter Basis entwickelt wurde, aber viel zu überteuert hier angeboten wird. Einige Funktionen fehlen mir. Das Design ist wirklich mies. Mehr als 4 Eur, sollte sie nicht kosten.

Kanji LS ist einfach das beste Kanji Programm fürs iPhone und seit dem letzten Update auch fürs iPad. Da es eine Universal App ist muss man für die iPad Version nicht mal extra zahlen. Folgende Sachen machen fuer mich das Programm zur Nummer 1 unter den Kanji Lern Programmen: - Schreiblernfunktion ist einfach genial und in der Form einzigartig im App Store - komplett auf Deutsch lokalisiert - man kann seine eigenen Lektionen erstellen oder importieren und muss nicht wie bei anderen Programmen fuer jede neue Lektion extra zahlen - übersichtliches, hübsches User Interface - viele unterschiedliche Test- und Übungsfunktionen - man kann selbst genau entscheiden welche Kanji man wie üben oder abgefragt werden sollen. In anderen Programmen ist man oft gezwungen nach bestimmten undurchsichtigen schlechten Mustern & Testschemas zu lernen. Man könnte sicherlich noch viele andere Features nennen, aber die stehen ja auch alle in der Beschreibung. Es kostet zwar etwas mehr ist aber sein Geld absolut wert und aus meiner Sicht ein absoluter Pflichtkauf für alle die ernsthaft Kanji lernen wollen. Sehr empfehlenswert ist auch die Programmhompage mit extrem vielen Screenshots/Video und einem sehr guten Handbuch (hat auch nicht jedes Programm). Vielen Dank an den Entwickler. Weiter So.

Sehr gut, um japanisch oder chinesisch (Kanji stammt aus dem chinesischen - nur die Aussprache ist anders) zu lernen!!! PS: zu 5.: Sollte bei dir wirklich der Akku so schnell leer sein, solltest du ihn zu Apple schicken; bei häufigem Gebrauch gehen sie manchmal kaputt. Die 10$ sind sehr gut angelegt, es gibt unglaublich viele Ausdrücke, die man lernen kann und(soweit ich das verstanden habe) lernt man sogar dieselben Vokabeln wie japanische Kinder in den Klassen eins bis Ende der Oberstufe!!! Von daher kommen wirklich nur nützliche Wörter dran.

Für mein Japanischunterricht an der VHS ist das Programm äußerst nützlich. Es sind alle Kanjis vorhanden, die bisher im Unterricht gelernt wurden. Die Option, dass man sich eigene Kanjisets zum individuellen Lernen zusammenstellen kann, ist besonders hervorzuheben.

Kanji LS Touch ist ein tolles Programm um japanische Kanji zu lernen. Das tollste: es ist deutsch, und nicht (wie üblich) englisch. Der einzige Nachteil, wie ich finde, ist, dass es keinen Ton gibt. Ich finde es undenkbar, eine Vokabel zu lernen, bei der ich mir vorher die genaue Aussprache von einem Muttersprachler/einer Muttersprachlerin nicht anhören kann. Wenn dies beim nächsten Update berücksichtigt werden könnte, wäre dieses Programm eine der besten überhaupt.

Besser hätte ich sie mir nicht selbst vorstellen können. Das direkte Schreiben der Kanji hilft ungemein beim lernen

Technisch veraltet und insgesamt zu schlecht. Umfangreiche Datenbank genommen und lieblose App drum geklatscht.

Ich finde die App gut. Tut was es soll, alles in Ordnung. P.S.: Würde mich über eine automatische Stricherkennung freuen, so müssten die Antworten nicht selbst überprüft werden, ist aber nur eine Anregung, aber auch so ist sie die top App zum Lernen der Kanji.

Sehr gute App zum Kanji lernen. Vor allem das erstellen eigener Kanji Listen, sie sofort die korrekten Lesungen und Strichfolgen übernehmen, ist klasse. Auch bei Fragen erhält man binnen weniger Stunden eine Antwort.

I can’t just memorize kanji by looking at them. For me, I needed an app that taught me how to write them - it’s the only way I could really learn them. So far, I’ve made it through the N5 and N4 sets (284 total). Best way to use this tool is to go to Settings/Test Set and set the range to 20 characters at a time. As I then test myself every day, and start consistently getting 100%, I move the range from “86-105” to “91-110” (for example). That way I’m introducing a small amount of new material and reinforcing the old. I recommend this app to everyone I know who is learning Japanese!

Maybe it was good at the time it was developed over 10 years ago or if it was free. I got this app because of the option to take a test by drawing the kanji to answer instead of typing. However, when you submit your answer it has you push the next stroke button to compare yours to theirs and then you decide if you got it right or not. This too too long even with the most simple kanji and can only imagine the pain it’ll be when doing the 10+ kanji. Considering it’s paid and the Japanese learning innovation these days from other websites and apps, I would have at least expected it to tell me if I got the answer wrong and try again. I would happily change my review if it improved and it helped my study, but at this point I feel I’m better off looking at an image of kanji stroke order and using paper and pencil

This app has been great. I have used it for several years and it is the simplest way to practice Kanji! Highly recommended for anyone studying Japanese.

After running into a few major issues one of the developer's other apps (which ended up being the fault of my device ) and emailing the developer I received immediate support. This app itself is smooth, simple, and fantastic for learning to write Kanji. The app is all about utility and it performs! There is a huge amount of content and many ways to test yourself and learn. The most unique and helpful feature that it offers is the ability to grade your own writing and stroke order in a step by step manner. There is no automatic writing detector to be picky and mark you wrong because the angle was "slightly off". This app makes studying and learning Japanese a breeze! It is an absolute must have for any learner! Thank you Jan for bringing this helpful tool to life! I don't have a single regret in purchasing this app!

I love this app, I have both the Japanese and kanji LS apps but they are completely broken right now on my iPad 2 iOS 5. Cannot draw anything in the practice or test modes

I had updated the developers Kana LS app and the new interface is ugly and awkward. I was hoping he'd leave the kanji version alone. I will NOT be updating. The original version is elegant, attractive and easy to use. If it ain't broke, don't fix it!!!

I have quite a few Japanese and Kanji apps. This is one of the two or three that I consistently use and make progress with. It works. Simple and good. (though I wish I could change the colors; don't really like the black background, alas) It would really be nice to have DROPBOX support!!

Worth every penny. I've been learning Japanese and this app has helped in so many ways. Downloaded lots of other apps but none of them are as simple to use. Huge thanks to the developers! Nice work!

Ok so needs some work on setting up which kanjis to learn. Being able to divede the joyo kanji into whatever size groups the user would like would really help. The background needs to be user set to whatever color I really hate the black orange. Its almost insulting. Also there is not one app that just does the 212 radicals only grouping the kanjis by radicals would be useful knowing all the radicals should come first.

By far, the best learning app I have tried. It is unbelievable the amount of options it has and the friendly design! It is complete and fun to use. My handwriting in japanese has improved a lot, and I simply couldn't resist buying the hiragana and katakana app. I wish I could give it more than five stars.

I been using this app for about one year now and it's great. This app saved me a lot of money from buying kanji textbooks.

Absolutely amazing, befitting of an iPad. I am learning basic Japanese by myself, for Kanji this is the top notch must have! well organize, works well, very usefull, many features. I am impressed. A note to a prospective beginner... before you dive into Kanji, learn your Kana, as this app has Hiragana and Katagana to help with pronunciation/reading the Kanji... it does not have romaji.. you can spend a weekend learning Kana before attempting Kanji. If you don't know Kana, get the Kana app firsr This app uses the screen real estate very well, and I for one am glad they did not waste it with romanji. I just started learning Japanese and my goal is just the basics (for right now)... this app will cover that plus much more... seriously, I've compared many apps and this one blew them all away. thanks developers, what a professional job!

This application is excellent in nearly every respect! It provides pre-made grade level based sets for learning the kanji characters, and allows you to make your own subsets or custom sets using the characters as well. The stoke order feature is also superb, and works very beautifully and naturally when used on an iPad with a stylus. Before finding this application, I, like many others I would assume, had relegated myself to using archaic and clumsy flash cards for the readings and definitions of characters. Now I'm infinitely more efficient in learning the characters and readings, and don't have to worry about if the information I'm teaching myself is accurate! This application takes much of the headache out of what can be seen as the most daunting aspect of learning Japanese, and is absolutely worth the $12 price of admission. My only minor complaint is the color scheme and look of the application. However, in this case function is far more important than form, and should not in any way be a deterrent from purchasing this wonderful application!

It's all relative, really. I would definitely pay much more for just a quarter of the information provided in this application to be able to understand just N5 of the JLPT. Over 5,000 kanji from N1-N5... Seriously, at $15, this application is more than worth it.

This app is the best. It seems a little pricey but was well worth it to me. I am learning Japanese for an expatriate assignment. This app allows me to learn the specific kanji's my teacher is teaching me. The multiple test modes are awesome. The only thing that would make this app better is if it had audio of pronunciations. But with over 5,000 kanji's and 9,000 words it would take a lot of disk space. Other people mentioned the kotoba app for free. I tried it but first but it is no where close to the functionality of this app.

I majored in Japanese 25 years ago and forgot how to write a lot of kanji. With a stylus pen, this is such a great way to brush up... I'm seeing my re-remembering improving quickly...very good interface, well set up... Would definitely recommend compared to the other kanji / Japanese iOS apps I've tried...

We, me and my half Japanese kids, have been looking for this app for ages. So I commend the creators for making this app, but there is one really nagging problem. The handwritten character samples are not correct. The stroke order is fine and the basic shape is correct, but the stroke finishes of "haneru" and "harau" are missing. A non native Japanese must have written the samples as failing to "haneru" and "harau" would get a "batsu" in your kanji test. I know as my daughter is doing 3rd grade Kanji now. If the creators could fix this problem through a software upgrade I would give it a 5. Maybe... The tests are good but the creators could think of tests that are more akin to how the Kanji tests are set up, or give compound words are only half the reading that would be really enticing.

Never bothered to write a review before but this app is so useful I figured I'd make the effort. Simply put: you could spend a _lot_ more and not learn nearly as fast. At least for me, the progress since using this one (as well as Kana LS) has been amazing. Worth every penny and more!

An awesome application! Considering all the dough and time we (learners of japanese) spend on trying to learn japanese, KANJI LS, paid for itself in one day (in time alone). The thought,hard work and the EXCELLENT support response that goes into this and effectiveness of the application, makes it well worth the $. Together with ANKI srs ,I use it for Heisig's RTK writing practice instead of paper. -Thanks Jan!

Would be good to add audio playback of character to reinforce learning. Would also be good to be able to more easily sub-divide each group further for more bitesized learning.

I bought Kanji LS Touch 1.4.1 a bit over a week ago, and it has been an epiphany for me on how kanji learning apps should work. I love it. There is some limited overlap between this app and the excellent and free Kotoba! app, but I prefer Kanji LS Touch by far for studying kanji systematically. In practice mode it allows you to paint the kanji with your finger, and you can turn cuing on or off. In cuing mode, it shows a faded version of the kanji in the background (either system font or handwriting font) that you want to paint, and indicates the next stroke and where it starts. You can and should turn that off after a few practices so as to exercise your own memory, but you can always toggle it back on. The kanji set you want to study is highly configureable, as is the way you test yourself. Generally useful predefined kanji sets come with the app (grades 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, secondary school kanji, JLPT N5, N4, N3, N2, N1, all joyo kanji, and all kanji (over 5,000), as well as custom sets that you create and import yourself via a free service such as dropbox. As mentioned, the flashcard tests you set up are highly configureable, with reading to kanji, kanji to reading, meaning to kanji, kanji to meaning, fill in the missing kanji, etc. with options for either timed multiple choice or your typed-in answer or painted-in kanji. When you paint in the kanji, you end up being the ultimate judge of whether the kanji is right or wrong. To decide, you touch the "solve" button, and the kanji you just painted is displayed alongside the correct kanji (again, toggle-able between system and handwriting font). But one of the refinements that make this an absolutely best-of-breed kanji learning app is the "stroke" button you can push to check your work while you're on this screen. Push it once, and you can see both the correct first stroke and where it starts juxtaposed against your first stroke and where you started it. Pushing this button repeatedly, you can step your way through the entire kanji, making sure you got all the strokes right. If you got the order or direction wrong, you'll notice it, and if you left one out, even a "minor" one, you'll really notice it when the highlighted strokes get out of sync as you step through. And even if you got it right, this serves as one additional reinforcement of the correct stroke order. Again, it is up to you how stringently you want to grade yourself. If I'm off with the proportions, but get the stroke order right, I score it as "right" even though an elementary teacher might mark it "wrong." But if stroke order doesn't matter to you, you're free to ignore even that. Also, as with many flashcard kanji learning systems, you can turn on the Leitner system, which basically keeps track of which kanji you're having more trouble with, so that you can study them more. My only quibble with this app is that the choice of kanji-related vocabulary is occasionally curious in containing seldom-used words. Many will be disinclined to purchase a $12 app when a very good app like Kotoba! is already available for free. A miser by nature myself, I can identify with this attitude, but it is a false economy. How much is your time worth? Kanji are absolutely essential in advancing your Japanese language skills, but they are a high mountain to climb. You should give yourself every advantage for mastering them efficiently!

This app is the best thing out there now for learning kanji. I find the interface to be elegant and intuitive. I look forward to any improvements that you make in the future but in the meantime I will enjoy the app as it is now.

I was looking for a tool to study Japanese that would allow me to do more than just memorize flashcards and this app is exactly what I wanted. It allows for practicing writing kanji and not just learning meanings (although it does that too). It has stroke order and allows you to test yourself without seeing the character first although in the practice you have the option of seeing it or not. This app is a bit hard to figure out at first but the programmer answered my emails extremely quickly and helpfully. The only real downside is it's a bit pricey but as someone who usually only downloads free apps I think it is totally worth it.

It's a bit overpriced for what it is, but it's decent. The UI could be improved a bit. I think it would be nice if the program itself could decide whether your input was correct or not--at least in the practice window where it shows you where to draw the lines. Instead, you have to tell it whether you were right or not. And it would be nice if you didn't have to go to the settings menu to change what kind of test you wanted to do and what set of kanji to test. When you start a new test it should open up a window asking you what kanji set to use and what type of test to do, maybe even how many characters to test. The data could be populated by the defaults set in the settings menu, but it should be something you don't have to go to the settings menu to change. Also, I just opened it up again after having closed it and now when I check my answers it doesn't show the right answer, so I don't know if I'm right or wrong. This bug needs to be fixed.

Very cleverly overcomes the iPod's crappy touch resolution to make practicing writing kanji possible. Needs the ability to edit lists from within the app. Importing custom (but static) lists is not quite good enough, especially if you like to come up with mnemonics while studying. Still, it blows away the iPod kanji competition.

This app was good before and most of the complaints have been addressed in the latest update. There is no reason a student of Japanese shouldn't get this app. It's certainly a worthwhile investment.

I'm an avid app store user, and this is my first iTunes review ever. This program really hit a sweet note with me so I'm happy to share my experience and hopefully promote the good work the developer is doing. If anyone has ever studied kanji in class, the traditional way is to have a paper with the first box in a grid filled in with a particular symbol, and you practice writing the kanji over and over until you remember it. The fundamental problem with this method is that you inevitably look at the kanji to the left, and just copy what you see, without building the muscle memory needed to reproduce the kanji from scratch when you are presented with a blank sheet of paper and nothing to copy from. The brilliance of this program is that it always presents you with a blank screen (with the English meaning and/or On/Kun-yomi), and you have to draw the symbol from memory, with nothing to the left to copy from. But then you get to very quickly compare what you drew side-by-side to the correct symbol (stepping through the strokes in order if you care to get picky), and judge yourself whether you got it right or not. Forgot the san-zui or put an extra stroke in somewhere? Hit "wrong" and put it in the "needs some more practice" stack. What really worked for me is the speed that you are able to be presented with a meaning, draw the symbol onto the screen, compare it, and get instant feedback on whether you got it right or not. I kicked and screamed my way through 4 years of college Japanese just hating kanji renshu and memorization. 10-years later when I needed to brush up on my handwritten Kanji to pass a handwritten Japanese proficiency test, this program actually made it fun to study Kanji again. The ability to whip out your iPhone on a train or while you're waiting for your meal to arrive and get in some meaningful symbol *writing* practice is pretty much impossible with any other method, no matter how you slice it. For those wondering as I did how exactly it works, there are two fundamental modes: Practice, where you can see the meaning, compounds, and the symbol on the screen. You can practice tracing over the top of the symbol in the correct order stroke by stroke as prompted. You can then hide the symbol, draw it on the screen, the turn the symbol back on behind what you drew to see how you did. I typically picked ~20 symbols at a time, went through the practice mode a few times to get aquainted, the moved to Test mode. In Test mode, it gives you the meaning and/or reading, and you draw the symbol on the screen. If you mess up, you can just hit clear and try again. Once you're satisfied, you hit the "solve" button, and it shows you what you drew side-by-side with the correct symbol. NOTE: IT DOES NOT AUTOMATICALLY TELL YOU WHETHER YOU DREW THE SYMBOL CORRECTLY OR NOT. You make that judgement yourself by comparing the two side by side. Once you get into it, the flow makes perfect sense: as soon as you hit solve and see the two together, you'll immediately recognize when you've screwed up click "Right" or "Wrong." Those you got wrong it keeps in a temporary list that you can then go back and practice and retest. Another useful feature is that it keeps "correct percentage" statistics on each symbol, so you can test yourself on symbols you get wromg >25% of the time, for example. I would only really recommend this program for those really wanting to learn to write Kanji. If you're looking for a Japanese/Kanji dictionary, the free "Kotoba!" is the best out there, with a million different pieces of info on each word/symbol. If you're looking for a vocab flashcard program just for symbol recognition, there are more general flashcard programs out there that have better UI's and more flexibility for making your own lists. But if you want to learn to write Kanji, bingo. As for cons: The program takes longer than most to load, and to start Practice or Test mode with a large vocabulary set can take many seconds (sometimes 10-15) to start. Once you're in a list though, it is pretty responsive. I still do run into the occasional crash, but it is generally not annoying enough to significantly blemish the experience. Last, I'm now moving over to Chinese and downloaded the Chinese LS program, which is basically the same UI as Kanji LS but with a few new/different tweaks such as the ability to write compound words and import custom lists, although the program seems a little more buggy yet and not as refined as Kanji LS. Still, I hope to see those new features brought into the Japanese program as well. Finally, a big thank you to Jan Bogner for your work in developing these programs! Great work.

First off, this app has great promise for learning kanji. However, it can use a fair bit of improvement to justify its high cost. Feature requests: -- loading very large practice sets is SLOW -- list manipulation: it would be nice to create lists inside the app and not just import them from elsewhere. Also, joining lists (say from two different lessons) would be extremely useful. -- the current way of testing meaning (by typing words in from the keyboard) is time consuming to the point of being useless. It would be better to have a more sophisticated word search function that would save time.

For the serious but busy student of kanji, this app is worth $11.99 plus the cost of an iPhone or iPod Touch if you don't already own one. This is much more than just glorified flash cards. I've tried carrying flash cards for spontaneous study when I have random down time. Here's why this app is simply on another level: - automated Leitner system and tracking of your mistakes - option to practice actually writing the kanji and check stroke order, or multiple choice if you prefer - versatile test options - meaning, On, Kun (or both), missing kanji in a compound - way cooler than flash cards. This will make you want to practice!

I was able to import the Heisig list via a list that was posted on the Internet. Now I'm able to practice writing wherever I happen to be. Once I learn all the Heisig kanji, I plan on turning on the Leitner function and going to town. There is nothing comparable to this app that I know of, and it just works. I'd give it 6 stars if possible.

It was only gonna get 4 stars from me when I didn't see a Heisig set included, but after contacting the app writer(who was prompt and helpful), I was able to import a custom Heisig set. This along with the Leiter method of review is the perfect way to learn kanji. 5 stars all the way!!!

This is my favorite Kanji learning tool. With version 3.1 a number of features have been added which, although useful, make it slow to load compared to the last version. This is not a reason to not buy this app, but it changes when you can use it because it takes 30 seconds to get to the menu and then another 30 to load the selection. The last version was practically instant. The one feature I wish it had was in the test-like screen where you repeat the kanji until you got it right without looking. The flow would be "test screen-->solve-->wrong-->test-like screen with the same kanji-->right-->test screen with next kanji". The "test-like screen-->wrong" sequence could be repeated as many times as you like. This would really reinforce writing the kanji correctly. The way the test is currently set up you tend to be practicing the errors more than the correct way.

This program is really useful for practicing/learning kanji. I find it so much more effective to actually write the kanji than just to look at flashcards. I understand there is a new version in the works; I'd like to be able to save my custom test lists--I believe that will be in the new version.

This is the first review I have taken time to write. I have always been looking for an app to practice writing Kanji and this is better than I thought it could be on the Ipod touch. Very good.

The newest update added two very important features that had been on my wish list: * a SRS feature for optimal efficiency in retaining kanji (the latest update includes Leitner system boxes, so that reviews of known kanji are scheduled so you spend the most time studying the things you are having difficulty, rather than repeating stuff you already know.) * ability to easily customize decks, for example a button that says add to practice list Given the improvements, this app goes from 3 to 4 stars in my book. The Leitner system is great! Here is my earlier review: ********************************* If you want to practice fingerpainting kanji by rote, this app will allow you to do that. The practice mode does a decent job of showing stroke order and you just follow along with your fingertips. Test mode allows you to compare the kanji you drew with their version, and that is fairly useful. The multiple choice test mode is unremarkable in any way. If you exit the app and re-open it does not remember where you were in the deck. VERY FRUSTRATING if you were somewhere midway through the 700+ jlpt2 kanji. Even if you remembered which # you were at, there is no feature to be able to go to that card. Wish list for this app: * ability to pick up where you left off after exiting and reopening the app * an outline of the drawing area, so you actually know how much space you have to draw the kanji in * ability to navigate to a certain kanji by kana or english meaning * a couple of jyukugyo (compounds) with below each kanji. Bottom line, this app is very basic, especially considering the price, but it does let you practice drawing your kanji over and over, and for that reason, I do use it. It has a lot of room for improvement. I would consider adding more stars if more features were added.

So far it's good, but I'd like to see the full jouyou kanji set and it should have the ability to input our own meanings for the kanji (for those of us studying via Heisig). Also, I'd like to see a kind of daily spaced repitition system built into it, like Kanjiflip, so we can write the ones we had the most trouble with daily and improve. Please add this stuff to make the app perfect.

I am so happy someone finally used the touch screen's potential in a kanji learning app for English (and other language) speakers. However, there are some things missing that really hold the app back. The following features are currently missing as of March 5th 2009: -1- Searchable database. I want to be able to type in the reading or the actual kanji and bring up a specific kanji for practice. -2- Custom lists. I want to be able to study only the specific kanji that are going to be on my next quiz usually. -3- Examples and compounds. Without these the program fails in matters of teaching reading comprehension and introducing new (unfamiliar) kanji. As much as I like this app it is only fun for a while and then I have to go back to programs such as Lima Sky's "Kanji" which have the above features as I don't have time to study anything less specific than my own course content. Summary: Considering the price and competition, this program does not currently accomplish as much as it should, but its innovation, ease of interface, and unique drawing test method entitle it to no less than four stars. Thank you for making this app. I will modify my review and rating as updates become available.

This app features some great Kanji learning tools, including (the ultimate in my opinion) testing your ability to WRITE, and not just read, the Kanji you have learned. Another fantastic thing is that the author is still working on the app, and he already has some really great ideas on where it should be going (check out the website for the app to see what he has up his sleeve). One thing that I would like to see would be the aforementioned Kanji writing tests with, instead of English definitions, Japanese words (or just On and Kun readings) provided in kana. Language learning is best when you can start to move away from the need to translate, and that minor change would make that easier.