I’ve been using wanikani and recently bought the subscription and personally I love using wanikani. I’ve been looking for more apps that follow wanikani’s teaching style and Then I heard about iKnow! On the App Store. I was wondering if anyone here has used it and had anything to say about it.
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I used iKnow back when it was free.
I LOVED iKnow, the set up was kind of a mix between Duolingo and memrise.
It had several minigames to help you learn words and sentences, and no word bank. I also really liked how it handled you forgetting a word.
When it became a paid service I stopped using it. I haven’t gone back since.
See if you can try it on a month-by-month basis and see if you like it better than free alternatives.
I don’t know how many cards you’re looking to add in a day, but WK can really start to add up, just like any SRS deck. I don’t recommend studying two at a time. If you do though, you might want to put WK on vacation mode while you switch it up or something. I’ve been doing WK for about a year and a half. I’m keeping it going until I have nothing left at the apprentice level, and then I’ll reassess, maybe move on.
I used to have a subscription but I stopped using it as I found better value for money elsewhere. What you get with I know is a core desk 6000 deck. Well anki copied this deck when they had it freely available. It’s just Anki doesn’t have a nice looking interface like iknow. Also iknow has images and audio in their deck. The deck basically asks you to identify a word by its text which can be in kanji, kana or romaji I think. They’ll also be questions that play the sound of a word and ask you what it was. They’ll also be questions that ask you to type in the blanks which I didn’t mind except that sometimes it wants you to type in the conjugated forms of a word when iknow doesn’t teach the conjugations.
If you don’t mind an ugly interface, lack of images, some sounds, and typing in the blanks to sentences then you can apparently use the deck on anki for free.
I use a website called Kanshudo which has flashcards for words which has some toggling you can do with them. It has lessons which teach kanji, grammar and vocabulary for $6 a month. Iknow is charging $11 a month for a fancy word and sentence flashcard deck. The cheapest you can get it is $6 a month if you buy the yearly plan. Now $6 isn’t much to some people so if you want try it but there are better resources out there in my opinion.