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I made an iOS app that help you study & learn Kanji, 50 Kanjis at a time

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Hi, I am an app developer that tries to make useful apps to the public. As a Japanese learner myself, I made an app that makes it easier to learn Kanji in installments. It's called "BiteSize Kanji Flashcards Lite".

The app's idea is simple. It divides the Kanjis in all the 5 JLPT levels into groups, each group has 50 Kanjis at most. Then it gives you the ability to study each group separately. Making it easier to learn all of them 50 Kanjis at a time. Of course, you can study all the Kanjis in any JLPT level at once if you like to.

Some additional features of the app are:-
  • - Keyboard shortcuts support:- If you have a keyboard attached, you can switch to the next & previous Kanji using the arrow keys.
  • - Each Kanji is displayed in large font, so you could notice the smallest strokes in it (That's useful since a lot of Kanjis can look so similar)
  • - Dark mode support:- For your eyes content.

There are both a free version (With ads), which allows you to try the app for free, as well as a paid one with none (in case you don't want any 3rd party stuff in your device).

Any feedback or suggestion about the app is welcome.

Here's a link to the free version

And here's a link to the paid version with no ads
 
I want this so bad!
any plans on releasing on android?
 
I didn't check your app, but you use the Chinese characters shown in the picture in the app? If so, the most fundamental and crucial problem is that it's 旧字体 "traditional form of kanji" or 繁体字 "Chinese hanzi mainly used in Taiwan and Hong Kong", not 新字体 "new character form of kanji".

新字体


旧字体/繁体字
 
Thank you for the feedback! I am pretty sure my app uses the Shinjitai form. You see 気 and not 氣, and 声 instead of 聲 (to give you some examples). However, in the particular case of 漢, it always appears like that, even when I copy & paste the other form from somewhere. I am not sure why. Maybe it's the font or something.
 
Maybe it's because of the language setting or unicode thing. Please refer to the following thread.


How about 骨 in your app? Does it appear as the Chinese one on your screen?
 
Good luck. I recently started studying kanji again using Wanikani. Mainly I like its automatic spaced repetition system. It automatically adjusts the quiz frequency based on your success/failure rate. It also has a system for remembering the kanji based on mnemonics and their own definition of radicals which I find helpful.
 
It appears like the Chinese form (The box to the left).. I have checked the thread you provided, and I did a bit of research on my own, and I found out that the system font shows the Chinese variants.. Setting the font to a Japanese font makes all the Kanjis appear correctly. The next version of my app will use that font.

I can't thank you enough for pointing out that issue.
 
Thank you!

I gave Wanikani a look, and it looks quite interesting. It looks like it uses SRS repetition method, which makes things much easier.
 
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