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KanjiBox is an offline Japanese studying application. It provides an efficient yet fun way to practice all aspects of Japanese (kana, kanji, vocab, reading, writing...) through drills, quizzes and flashcards, while providing engaging feedback through progress charts, scores and game-like "achievements" for each Japanese level.
KanjiDraw and KanaDraw add-ons harvest the full power of your device's touchscreen to guide you through proper Japanese handwriting, while detailed animated cards tell you everything you need to know on each kanji.
KanjiBox is particularly well suited for standardized test preparation (JLPT, Kanji Kentei, Ninja Academy etc.) but works great as a personal study tool too.
Main features:
• Six training levels: JLPT N5 to JLPT N1, plus an extra "Sensei" level.
• Adaptative learning: focuses on your weak points and uses spaced repetition (SRS) techniques to help you learn faster.
• Live stats: let you measure your current level and gauge your progress.
• Additional modules help you train your handwriting on kana and kanji using the touchscreen.
• Custom Study Sets let you pick your own set of vocabulary words or kanji to focus on.
• Over 6,000 kanji.
• Over 34,000 vocabulary words.
• Hiragana and katakana.
• Drill mode helps you train on kanji, vocabulary, word reading and kana.
• Quiz mode lets you log high scores and compete against friends.
• Study mode gives you customisable sets of flashcards.
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The initial public indexing or launch date for KanjiBox within our tracked developer communities was recorded on July 14, 2009.
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KanjiBox has achieved measurable traction, logging over 131 reviews and facilitating 5 recorded discussions or engagements.
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Community Voice & Feedback
I’ve graduated from college with the Japanese major, but I have still been using this app and the website to keep up with my language abilities and study higher level kanji for probably 15 years now. I just reopened the app on a whim because I was recommending it to someone else and there’s a surprise update?!?! It looks amazing now, thanks for all your hard work over the years!
I've been using this app for the better part of a decade to help study or refresh my knowledge on kanji and vocab. I really like the example sentences - you can click on any word after answering the question and get a bunch of examples and usually every part of the example is broken down in case there's words you can read or don't know. 皆さん、頑張れ！！！
Downloaded this program years ago…must have gotten distracted. Lots of cool additions. It’s just a great program for learning and reviewing Japanese. Thank you!
Been using for over 10
years to refresh and retain my Japanese skills. Please add more grammar!
years to refresh and retain my Japanese skills. Please add more grammar!
This app is great, but I wish there was a mode that allows the user to type in the answer for the reading mode. This is much more challenging than multiple choice.
This is my first written review. I’m writing it because this is a phenomenal app and I want to support it! If you are learning Japanese kanji, the key strokes are essential for writing and understanding. Not only can you practice strokes for kanji on this app, it has multiple levels of drills aligned to the Japanese language test levels that keep track of where you are in your learning that can sync across all of your devices. I practice on my phone and iPad whenever I have a moment. Even 10 minutes a day and you will see soooo much improvement! HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!!!
This app crashes every time I launch it.
probably the best flashcard program specifically for learning japanese both in terms of ease of use and user freedom. the dev also doesn’t try to nickle and dime you or use any cancerous ‘freemium’ design patterns which is enough of a rarity these days that it is worth pointing out and applauding. i’d like to give this a 5 star review but currently one of the best features, the ability to quickly create custom kanji & vocab sets seems to be broken and has been for some time and i am under the impression the developer has moved on from this project for all intents and purposes
-KanjiBox is great…when it’s working.
-Has crashed for at least three months already in 2023.
-I sent crash report to developers but they did not fix anything (although they did reply).
-Also crashed for several month a few years ago (around 2020 I believe).
-Has crashed for at least three months already in 2023.
-I sent crash report to developers but they did not fix anything (although they did reply).
-Also crashed for several month a few years ago (around 2020 I believe).
Really great app. No frills but solid functionality. It allows you to drill kanji, vocab, readings, etc. A nice surprise for me has been the KanjiDraw add-on. Forcing yourself to recall (rather than just recognize) kanji really reinforces the learnings. You’re forced to notice minute details between kanji as well as the actual radicals and components themselves. And the writing hints decrease as you get a kanji repeatedly right.
Only thing I wish is that the kanji were also natively grouped by grade level rather than just JLPT level. I would love to be able to learn a set of kanji by each grade level without having to create a custom set. There doesn’t seem to be any shared sets that group them like this either.
Only thing I wish is that the kanji were also natively grouped by grade level rather than just JLPT level. I would love to be able to learn a set of kanji by each grade level without having to create a custom set. There doesn’t seem to be any shared sets that group them like this either.
Seriously, this app is like replacing every other app you currently have/use for learning Japanese besides maybe HumanJapanese and JapaneseApp (dictionary). You won't need Anki, Skritter, Memrise, Duolingo, Bunpo, Drops, StickyStudy, WaniKani, Goi, MindSnacks, iKnow!, iKanji, Scribe, or any other app that claims to teach Japanese.
It does nearly everything, does it well, and it does it without a subscription! Only things missing are a proper dictionary so get Japanese App, and some simple early explanations, so get Human Japanese.
Treat youself to the best Japanese learning app there is!!
It does nearly everything, does it well, and it does it without a subscription! Only things missing are a proper dictionary so get Japanese App, and some simple early explanations, so get Human Japanese.
Treat youself to the best Japanese learning app there is!!
This app may not have all the flash and pizazz of a more polished app, but it covers everything I needed to pass both N3 and N2 of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test. That makes it perfect!
Kanji box is the best all round program I have seen.
Great value for money, reasonably responsive developer, funny asides, what’s not to like. Used it myself and now using it in a class to teach some Philippino guys. They love it too.
KanjiBox seems to be the easiest flash card system to start with. I could never get into things like Anki because it seemed to take so much prep to start studying. But I love the option now to create your own lists.
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