Skritter for Android

Great, but desperately needs a dark mode. Please! This app is blinding me. Wish I could study more in the evening without needing to invert colors through accessibility settings. Also, bring back the ability to auto-add words to the review queue from the decks. Not everyone wants to “learn” them first. Just introduce them automatically in review mode and allow us to set daily limits between 1 and 100. Can be a totally optional feature and not enabled by default. This old (original?) way of doing things was way better IMO for some language-learners. Happy to change my rating if I had these features.

Even though the app tries to get you to be a paid monthly subscriber, you can skip and first start learning your hiragana, katakana, and beginning kanji decks for free. After this, if you really want to get serious, pay a monthly fee and learn the more intense kanji. The app says that any premium kanji you learn, you can forever keep, even after you unsubscribe. Overall, this is an awesome app and compliments apps such as Pimsleur which helps with conversational language speaking. 頑張って！(Ganbatte!)

I was using a combination of Benkyō Pro, Robokana, & KanaDrill, but Skritter replaced them all. Discovering that I could download the vocab & kanji “cards” from the language text books I was working through sealed the deal for me. 👍👍

Kanji stroke recognition is good, and it helped me remember words so much more efficient. I can also practice the vocab for each of my textbooks which is so convenient. Although, in the my words list, you can only search using kana, so if you dont remember a word, you have to look through the whole list. Also great because the subscription also applies to the chinese version and it has the same benefits.

I really wish that instead of unlocking more lessons through a subscription, you could do a one-time payment. There’s just no way for me to justify paying $8/month for an app, even if it’s as good for studying as this is. Aside from that, I appreciate the selection of free lessons that are available. I think for a completely free selection, there’s a good amount to get someone started. The settings for recognizing text (snapping to strokes vs free strokes) are a huge deal for me and I appreciate the ability to change them without hassle. The stroke recognition + free stroke writing (instead of snapping), with hirigana katakana and some kanji all in the same app is exactly what I was looking for, and this one functions smoother than other similar ones I’ve used. This would be a perfect app if there simply was a one-time full unlock purchase for some of the later lessons (mainly the more advanced ones, such as ones for the N5-N1 etc) instead of a monthly subscription. I wouldn’t be opposed to paying if it was a one-time fee to unlock all current lessons/future lessons, or even paying by the lesson (i.e. pay $1 per set).