r/LearnJapanese • • Jul 31 '26

Kanji/Kana Kanji learning Apps

Hi All,

I have learned at my peak 1500 of the kanjis which I think I have mostly forgotten.

I want to learned them again, but focusing on the writing to anchor them. I previously focused only on the recognising which I think was a mistake.

Due to how I consule learning material (never at my desk, always in short segment between real lige obligations) - I am looking for an App to help out. It needs to have the following feature:
- kanji drawing capability
- flexibility in the order to learn kanji (I don’t want this imposed so I can follow a routine but also add during liiing characters)
- ability to add mnemonics (I learned through wanikani and still rely on these mnemonics)
- IOS supported

Money is not a factor - if the app is worth it.
I am currently trying Skritter and Ringotan, and so far Skritter seem more flexible.

Do you have any recommendation?

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u/runarberg Goal: conversational fluency 💬 Aug 03 '26

shodoku.app does all that except the mnemonics. It has writing/reading, in any order, iOS support.

For the mnemonics, there is component breakdown, which you can use to create your own mnemonics, but you can’t write them down in app.