It has some interesting features but some design choices that made it unusable for me. The worst being a lack of support for dark mode and settings for people with less than great vision. Poor contrast in some places, forced white space in much of the UI. Does not respect increasing font size, etc. For me this was enough to delete the app, if it hurts my eyes to use then it’s no good for me. Other things that bugged me were things like only able to select one learning resource. I know I am not the only one using textbooks and online resources such as Wanikani and jpbd.io. Also, no way I could see to create and save my own learning list, I could select a lot of kanji from the jplt list for a custom study but I could not find a way to save it. On the really big plus side, no ads. If the UI had been designed better to support Apple’s in place mechanisms for vision impaired I could have perhaps dealt with the lack of customizability. If your eyes are great and you don’t a flexible and customizable learning plan then give this app a test run, it might very well work for you. If you are a more advanced learner using multiple resources I think you will also find this app too restrictive. Being free and without ads it’s worth giving it a try. Still searching for a well designed kanji writing practice app.

This app is very useful for getting in spaced repetition for learning Kanji. There is only one thing I would change that would make all the difference. After you get far enough in, the phonetic hint for the kanji is not enough. For example the kanji for 写真　has two characters that both give the “SHA shin” hint but each kanji’s first strokes start in different places. And there are several Kanji that are like that. Even if you know both in your mind if you start in the wrong place it will count it as wrong. If there was a way to hint that it is one character or the other this app would be 5 stars without question.

Using this with my 2 classroom textbooks and Wanikani is really great! It’s frustrating to have so many different arrangements of kanji (in each book), but Ringotan makes it easy to study exactly what you want. I find that writing out the kanji is an important step to learn them, beyond just reading flash cards. Thanks for this!

Duolingo has much to learn from this app. Currently it lets you try using a symbol five or six times and when it thinks you’re good, you never see it again. This app makes sure you never forget (granted you try).

Props to developer for making something to help people learn Japanese and not prioritizing making money.

Very challenging.it helps me to remember the stroke order.

This is an amazing app. I can’t believe it’s free. (Why is this free?!) I’ve learned so much from this app. Very easy to use and it makes learning Kanji enjoyable. 5 stars all the way. Thank you for making it.

I was so frustrated doing anki and other SRS vocab apps because I never got any practice writing the kanji! Ringotan absolutely solves that problem and does a great job teaching stroke order without feeling overly repetitive.

Tons of features and more than anything else it feels kinda fun to use. Honestly not sure why but hey if it works! One thing I do wish there was is like a tip jar or kofi or something, I have most definitely gotten my money’s worth from this app!

My chosen app for practicing my kanji. It has a lot of amazing features and is by far the best that I’ve used. This is because it gets right to the point and teaches you the shapes and stroke orders in an effective way, and can do so with lists that align with your learning resources. The biggest thing missing is customizable on the SRS timings. I’d love to have down grain control like the review timing list in Anki, but having some ways to control the review periods and the speed of introduction of new kanji would be useful for my middle-aged brain. Also, I’d love to have a way to introduce my own kanji into the lessons. I have some vocab words and kanji that are relevant to me, but don’t appear in the pre-built lists. Being able to overlay my own kanji into or between preset lessons would be the dream, but I’d even take custom list management, especially if I could import the list from a simple file I can generate/manage on my own. Still, despite my feature requests, I still rate this over the many paid apps I’ve tried.