Manabi – Japanese Flashcards

Great app like Anki with more user friendly interface, but it’s constantly crashed whenever I tried to review the flashcard. Too bad.. I hope you can fix this bug soon.

The app is too slow; whenever I add a card, it would always fail. If I retried, it still fails. It takes more than a minute to load the deck, which is too slow. Using the app also feels really heavy. Scrolling the dictionary is not smooth and also feels heavy.

Great concept in principle and so much potential, but all that is unfortunately lost with all the bugs… 残念…

It's a great app. I'm not a very big fan of Anki because it takes too long to create flash cards for it, I like Manabi because I can create a great flash card WITH A SENTENCE at just the touch of a single button. This is the perfect flashcard app in my opinion. I don't mind paying for it as I feel it is much better than Anki. There is one problem with the app, but it may be my fault and not a problem with the app itself. I am actually not sure. When creating multiple decks, all of the flash cards I make go straight to the original deck. I wish there was a way to activate a certain deck for all of my cards to go to. I have been using the Manabi Reader app for reading web novels and it would be great to separate my cards into separate decks for each web novel. Currently I have been using one big deck because I can't figure it out. Being able to at least select multiple cards at a time to move into another deck would be fine too. One more thing, I wish that there was a setting to display the sentence before seeing the translation of the word. That's not such a huge complaint though.

It’s a great concept and and would be convenient if it worked. The app freezes and crashes constantly.

Honestly it’s a great app, and a great concept. But unfortunately it’s really buggy on iOS. Fix some of the problems with the app and it will be perfect.

OLD: Before the update, the app was running more or less okay, although it took a while for each new set of reviews to load. Now, it’s disconnecting and not saving any of my progress. I can only get one review in per day. I really liked this app and its connection to Manabi Reader; I hope it can be fixed soon! EDIT: the latest update fixed everything! It’s back to working very well again. Great flashcard app, especially with the reader integration.

This app is wonderful and easy to use. I like that I can edit definitions on the card so I can learn the meanings in a way that sticks for me. One thing I wish, though, is that one could see the English first and then flip to the kanji. I understand this is a kanji learning app, but after a few months use I see that I know what these kanji mean, but not how to pronounce them. I've turned off furigana to try and help this, but honestly I've just started making physical flash cards to supplement.

Edit 7/16: apparently there seems to be a bug where large phrases in flashcards become shaky and hard to read, dropping a star in hopes the dev can fix this This is a fantastic app for reading and practicing Japanese along with Manabi reader but I feel as if some things feel missing. For one thing, it’s really weird when the app links you to the App Store download of Manabi reader when you’re told to read something in Japanese despite the fact that I already have it downloaded. That really is just a general fix but along with that, I use Anki alongside this app (just for General vocab, not for this I pick up in news articles) and the deck I use their provides audio for when reviewing cards. This may just be a personal preference but I would really appreciate a voice option during study to hear how the words sound and reinforce it. Otherwise, I feel that this app has a lot of potential. I have some notes for Manabi reader as well but I’ll have that over there. Keep up the good work!

I really like using this app to learn kanji I encounter while reading and the flash cards.