Japanese Kanji Study - 漢字学習

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Update your workflow relying on Japanese Kanji Study - 漢字学習. A prime product from Chase Colburn for the APPzone ecosystem. Read full reviews at Education.

Fast And Easy This Software Japanese Kanji Study - 漢字学習

Kanji Study aims to be a helpful and easy-to-use tool for learning Japanese kanji. The app includes SRS, flashcards, multiple choice quizzes, writing challenges, kanji and word search, custom sets and much more. Kanji Study hopes to be your essential companion for mastering kanji.

The app is not entirely free; however, the free version has no ads and offers unlimited study of beginner kanji, radicals, hiragana and katakana. The dictionary and all info screens are also free and unrestricted. The one-time upgrade unlocks the remaining kanji levels and allows you to create your own custom sets. It also supports the continued development of this project.

Main Features

Flashcard study
• Rote memorize kanji in manageable sized sets.
• View stroke animations, readings, meanings and examples.
• Customize theme, layout, displayed actions and swipe behavior.
• Assign study ratings to filter kanji out as you learn them.

Multiple-choice quizzes
• Customize quizzes to show readings, meanings, example words or sentences.
• Example words can be selected from JLPT, common vocab and favorites.
• Quiz times and distractors adapt based on your results.
• Further customize to repeat wrong answers, auto-play audio, pause after answering and more.

Writing challenges
• Improve your kanji recognition by challenging yourself to recall and write kanji.
• Learn the correct stroke order using a finely-tuned stroke detection algorithm.
• Correct strokes will snap into place and hints will appear if you are struggling.
• Detect accuracy stroke by stroke or use the self-assessment mode.

Quick kanji and word search
• Search over 6k kanji using readings, radicals, stroke counts, levels and more all in one text field.
• Search over 180k words by kanji, kana, romaji or translation language in the same one text field.
• Combine any number of criteria and see them highlighted in the results.
• Completely offline and very optimized for quick searching.

Detailed info screens
• View animated strokes, readings and meanings as well as your study time and quiz stats.
• See a breakdown of the radicals found within each kanji.
• Check out example words (grouped by the kanji readings), sentences and names.
• Explore the kanji used within each of the examples and use the breadcrumbs to navigate back.

Additional Features

★ Study kanji in various sequences including JLPT and Japanese school grades.
★ Notify yourself with custom study reminders when you haven't studied.
★ Read Japanese text with over 8k native audio files and text-to-speech support.
★ Add shortcuts to your home screen to study a particular set.
★ Use the rankings screen to make custom sets based on study stats.
★ Favorite kanji, radicals and examples for referencing later.
★ Save progress using Google Drive or local storage.
★ Customize MANY additional settings.

Add-ons

Guided Study
Continue the kanji study journey with unlimited use of the SRS module that tracks kanji and schedules them for review, optimizing your learning efficiency.

Graded Reading Sets
Learn kanji through reading. Adds 30k+ mini reading exercises graded kanji-by-kanji in the Kanji Learner's Course sequence.

Outlier Kanji Dictionary
Understand the underlying logic behind the Japanese writing system by learning how kanji actually work.

Permissions (optional)

- In-app Purchase (purchase upgrade)
- External Drive (store backup files)
- Install Shortcuts (add home screen shortcuts)
- Run at startup (reschedule notifications)
- Full network access (send analytics)

Translations

There is a volunteer translation project with contributions to over 30 languages. If you would like to help, please send me an email.
Highly customizable kanji learning companion for your Japanese studies.
Updated on
Jul 18, 2026

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
  • No data shared with third parties
    about how developers declare sharing
  • This app may collect these data types
    App activity and App info and performance
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • Data can’t be deleted
  • Committed to follow the Play Families Policy

Ratings and reviews

58.1K reviews
Taiya Williams
August 12, 2026
Perfectly great for a kanji review system, but gets expensive fast when you buy the add-ons. Edit: after two months (I think) of using it, I really wish that readings, meanings, and writing(s) were their own different metrics and could be split into different review sets, rather than all lumped together. Feels bad to get dinged on a character I know how to read because I don't know the stroke order.
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Alex Vazquez
August 15, 2026
This app has been the most useful by far for learning Kanji. I use several other apps, including some paid, but their format doesn't help it stick like Kanji Study. I began with the Remembering the Kanji book but this app helps build more context since it gives you words used for the Kanji as well as on- and kunyomi, stroke order, and more. I just with there was a way for it to sync across devices by having an account so I could move studying off my phone.
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Mark Burrill
July 22, 2026
I am advanced student. I just bought the app for $17.99 and it seems I can't access advanced kanji study without paying more, which I did not understand. Frustrating. Follow-up: I heard back immediately from the developer, which was very kind. And I find I have been able to access advanced kanji study. I am looking forward to using the app.
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Chase Colburn
July 22, 2026
If you are using the Guided Study feature, you may have purchased the wrong upgrade. I can give you a refund if this is the case. Please send me an email and I can help you.

What’s new

- Revert to API level 36 until all issues are resolved.
- Added option to separately install crowdsourced translations.