KanjiBox App Reviews

Great little app that keeps getting better. It can be genuinely addictive at times, and smart algorithms mean that characters are presented at a frequency that actually helps you remember them. The integration with the imiwa? dictionary app is also particularly helpful. Ill add new vocabulary to my favourites list in imiwa?, then use that to create study sets in KanjiBox (which now appear on the top page, rather than buried in a submenu).

I have really enjoyed using this app. I like how I can compete with myself to see how I am doing from flash card to flash card. Since I am studying for the N3 test I have adjusted all settings for that level but I like how it adds on N4/N5 for review. My kanji reading has definitely improved from using this app. Heres hoping I pass N3!

Great app. Big help in learning how to read kanji. I use this everyday to learn more kanji. It is customizable. You can create your list of kanji you want to learn. Very useful.

Fantastic app! Ive had so much fun going through all the drills. Its a joy to use and makes studying a lot of fun. Love the way it keeps track of everything and how its structured for studying for the JLPT. Simply the best Japanese study app Ive ever used. Highly recommended!

...but I found some of the example sentences kinda weird in real-world Japanese.

Im passing N2 with this app.

Thanks Dave. A very good software to practice Kanji everywhere. Its fun to use...

What a fantastic application for studying kanji! Absolutely love it. Thanks so much.

As a japanese studies graduate I have tried many learning apps and this one is truly the best.

The best Kanji-learning application ever!

This is the one stop resource for kanji. Learn new ones, review known ones, create study sets share then online and tap into ones already present there. I truly recommend this app.

IMHO its the best app here. A killer-feature for me was ability to handwrite kana/kanji and check it. Nonetheless, therere some flaws: - inconvenient study sets - not flexible flashcards. Id like to learn reading->kanji, kanji->reading, translation->kanji - non-perfect handwriting checker, sometimes annoying - design

Very simple and useful app for Kana and Kanji. Easy to learn Japanese that way!

Highly recommend the kanji draw extension.

You will have to find your own way to use it effectively, but what you need is there. It is most certainly worth the price.

Im on my second trip working my way through it. Great app!

So love this app. Like a game (and Im an old guy). Learned sooo much! Must have for Japanese training IMHO

Change it back please

Like all tools, you have to know how to use this one to best advantage. Spaced-repetition works amazingly well. Ive set up customized kanji and vocab decks and my reading ability has improved immensely. I would like the option of adding custom entries for vocabulary, but the existing list is huge so its only a minor request. The "kanji draw" feature helps to reinforce the kanji in your memory (as long as you try to draw the kanji yourself on paper or the iPad). Its overly critical with the way I draw the kanji on my iPad mini, but that may be because its more difficult without a stylus. I didnt find "kana draw" as useful because the kana was squished to one side and didnt take up the whole square of space nicely. The grammar portion is still in "beta" more or less. The example sentences use vocabulary far above my JLPT level and I spend more time looking up the vocabulary than working on the grammar. For those looking for specific features, it does NOT have 1) audio samples for vocabulary 2) kanji lookup from your hand-drawn kanji 3) pull a specific kanji flashcard out from ALL the kanji it has (although you can kind of do this by creating a custom deck) But Im not docking any stars. Kanjibox is first and foremost a kanji memory tool and it does its job beautifully. UPDATE: With the latest version, the Vocabulary and Kanji are inter-referenced. I love this feature! When Im having a hard time remembering a compound word, I can now easily see the meanings of its component kanji and see how to draw them. And then go right back to the rest of the vocabulary drill.

i totally love this app. if id had it in college, i never would have gotten that b- in japanese 401. of course, we didnt have tablets and smartphones in those days. this is a million times better than making my own flashcards and writing out kanji 100 times to try to get them into my brain. i am loving being able to brush up my japanese skills with this app. A+++++