TL;DR – I made an app to learn & practice writing over 6000 Kanji and I’m looking for testers, users & feedback. It’s available for free at [https://kanji.plus/](https://kanji.plus/)
Hello [r/learnjapanese](https://www.reddit.com/r/learnjapanese/)!
I’ve studied Japanese on and off for many years. Every time I’ve started to learn Japanese, I’ve eventually hit a wall when it comes to the kanji. As soon as I start studying Japanese, I really want to *write* Japanese, and that get’s really tedious to practice without a teacher. However, all the methods of practicing the kanji seemed to be lacking something for me – whether it’s writing them by hand, doing an RTK Anki deck, or a multitude of apps from the App Store. And every solution that I could make work seemed to stop after the Joyo kanji – if I was going to invest months learning the kanji with an app, I wanted one that could teach me them ***a l l*** \*evil laughter\*.
I recently set off on my own as an indie software developer, and decided to make my dream kanji app a reality. I’ve spent the past 6 months working hard to make sure it had everything I wanted – stroke by stroke grading, buttery smooth animations, 100% offline capable, stress free spaced repetition, constituent graphs, and most importantly, a beautiful UI. This might be the single most over engineered kanji application in the world, but I think it’s paid off – I’ve loved using it these past few weeks and have personally already learned a lot. It also fully supports over 6000 kanji for now, with partial support for over 13,000 (I hope to get all of them to full support eventually).
However, I’m a little bit biased, so it’s time to start finding new users. That’s why I’d published it and made it free at [https://kanji.plus/](https://kanji.plus/) If anyone has any interest, questions, feedback, ideas – I’d love to hear it! You can leave comments here, dm me, or there is a contact email in the application. 🙂
I know being able to write the Kanji is not an essential skill in Japanese, but if it’s something you want to do, I hope Kanji Plus is the best solution for you. Even if you don’t care about writing, I hope it’s fun to use and can bring a little more Japanese into your day!
皆さん、ありがとうございました!!
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as a developer who is also studying Japanese, I’m very excited to see what you’ve created! I’ve been looking for a good kanji app so I hope this is the one 😀
No web version? I refuse to use my phone’s tiny screen when I’m on my computer.
The problem I’ve had with these kinds of apps is that, personally, I don’t find that drawing the characters with your fingers translates to written proficiency very well. However, I’ll definitely give this app a try and see if that has changed or if perhaps this app does anything differently that helps that practice translate better.
This looks amazing! Just watched the video and saw there’s a lot more features than meets the eye. Really nicely done and looking forward to testing it out more.
Is there a way to skip kanji? I know quite a number of kanji already so I don’t want to go over them again, I want to learn kanji that I don’t know yet.
I’m genuinely confused, is this only browser based? It says it’s an app with offline capabilities but there’s literally no download option anywhere on the site
This looks great! But I’m curious, is there any need that [Ringotan](http://www.ringotan.com) does not satisfy? I’m also an indie dev who has been working on a writing-app for years, to satisfy the same need. If there’s something it’s missing I’d really like to know.