Japanese Kanji Study - 漢字学習

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About this app

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.
Updated on
Jun 3, 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
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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

4.8
57.7K reviews
Miamh Cowan
February 16, 2026
Absolutely in love with this app. I will be buying some upgrades very very soon! The prices of everything are extremely reasonable (for me and my circumstances), and you can tell so much love has gone into this app. The fact that the very beginner kanji is free lets you get a good feel for if this style of app is for you. I have NEVER even seen an ad in the free version (some apps give you ad jumpscares and it takes you out of the learning). I recommend giving it a go, you lose nothing :)
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Tim Favro
December 8, 2024
It's unfortunate that the other Japanese learning apps aren't as affordable and as good as this one. One solo developer produces this. He cares and it shows. It's so feature rich that it's a little overwhelming at first. With it's add-ons, upgrades and other flexible features. But it's nessarry to learn something as complicated as Kanji. The Tanuki character is cute too! I'm excited to see what updates come in the future!
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Cassidy Crawford (LightBringer)
June 29, 2026
great studying at the n5 level. I haven't found if there is a romaji setting, so it has pushed me to learn my katakana better. it uses hiragana and katakana interchangeably. getting a good start before class in the fall. some apps have have little sayings or tricks to remember the kanji. that would be helpful. for instance if I keep forgetting a kanji I'm not able to make a strong connection to the meaning. instead of review only sending me to the full report without any help,maybe a tip/trick.
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Chase Colburn
June 29, 2026
Thanks for your review. You can enable romaji in the settings, under study options. Was there anything I could improve that would give my app 5 stars? Edit: I'm working on adding mnemonics. Keep an eye out for updates!

What’s new

- Fixed issue when restoring backups with different kanji sequences.
- Fixed issue with links in Outlier content for する verbs.
- Fixed several text-to-speech audio issues.
- Fixed issue with disabling search word category.
- Fixed other small UI/UX issues.
- Updated interface and character translations.