Kanji Ninja - Learn Japanese Characters for Free
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | Free | Zero to One Labs LLC | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
Learn 1000+ Japanese characters (both drawing and meaning). Have fun while learning, growing from white belt to black belt and competing with players around the world.
CURRENT FEATURES
* Real-time multiplayer kanji battles to memorize the meaning of different kanjis.
* Belt system: go from white belt to black belt and higher!
* Learn kanji, the characters of written Japanese, on the go through engaging mini-sessions where you learn 3 characters at a time. Both stroke order and meaning.
* The built-in optical character recognition (OCR) engine can check whether you drew characters correctly or not.
* To help with memorization, we first show you the stroke order, then assist you when you’re drawing the kanji for the first time. Then we expect you can recall it on your own. The blank screen shouldn’t scare you Don’t worry if you get it wrong. We’ll hold your hands until you master them all!
* All the kanjis are organized by levels. You can’t move on to the next level until you finish the current one.
* The ‘panikku’ (‘panic’) game where you have to recall & draw as many characters as possible in 40 seconds.
* The adaptive engine tracks your progress and prompts you to review kanjis at just the right time.
* Help your ninja pulse reach the new skies with every kanji learned and every ‘panikku' game played!
* Compete against other learners around the world on the global leaderboard!
We built this app after the frustration from dozens of apps we tried when learning to draw Japanese characters. All of them were plain boring & we would give up after a few days. With Kanji Ninja, our hope is that you will help billions of neural connections to be created and wouldn’t even notice how the time flew.
If you have a minute, please leave sensei a review in the App Store. It would mean a ton to him!
Become the Kanji Ninja (漢字忍者)!
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Best wishes from your fellow wannabe-ninjas on this journey,
Nurym, Daulet, Binur, Zhanserik, Almas & Arman (ZeroToOneLabs.com)
Reviews
Too buggy to be useful
tnarake
The idea of the game is promising. Unfortunately there are too many bugs in here to make it useful. The OCR engine fails to recognize drawings of the most simple 2 and 3 strokes kanji already. I can't imagine how it copes with more complex characters. You don't get any feedback why your drawing was not correct. Other than promised in the app description, the stroke order is NOT shown. Only an image what the final kanji should look like. Also the OCR doesn't care about stroke order. So, wrong order can still be recognized as correct by the app. On top of this maim feature being broken there is other bugs. The restore purchases button was not working for me. The initial price is already high for a broken app, but there's also a paid subscription necessary to continue learning after the first 20 kanji or so. In the current state, app is not worth your money.
Makes learning Kanji fun!
Bmo746
I've tried other apps and programs that attempt to teach Kanji, but this app does it so well. It's fun and simple and it gets you coming back daily to learn more!
Best Kanji learning App!
phimema
I was amazed how accurately the app recognizes the Kanjis I type in. Also, the app is a lot of fun and helped me remember the Kanji I've learned in my first semesters.
No way to contact developers
Torqgal
App worked great for one day although it was a bit buggy with recognising some kanji inputs. App now crashes when I try to open it and there's no way to contact developers for assistance
It's really helpful!
That girl?
Ya... That's pretty much it. It's really help full and I would recommend it.
Very engaging!
Aiym's Mac
1st time Japanese learner and i absolutely loved it! I think it would be pretty cool if there were actual ninja animations at the end like in Mortal Combat beating each other up in battles.
Great potential
juandanceswild
This is a great idea for a Kanji app. It still is missing is a way to further study the Kanjis I'm learning. Having the the readings and examples of the kanji's uses would improve my rating. Thanks!
Kanji learner
ECL!PSE_2_E€HO
This app is great! Would be five star if not for a glitch that marks right answers wrong sometimes
