--- title: "Scribe Origins - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads in United States | Apple App Store" description: "Studying Japanese Kanji or Chinese Hanzi characters? Scribe Origins is designed to help students rapidly learn the thousands of kanji/hanzi characters required for reading & writing Asian languages" --- # Scribe Origins — United States > Learn Kanji & Hanzi Characters ![Scribe Origins App Icon](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple125/v4/1e/f1/be/1ef1bec8-aa2a-a9c1-079e-a9d8cab2ed78/AppIcon-0-0-1x_U007emarketing-0-0-0-10-0-0-sRGB-0-0-0-GLES2_U002c0-512MB-85-220-0-0.png/434x0w.png) **Developer:** [Guiix Pty](https://apptail.io/developer/guiix-pty-dcJ) **Category:** Education **Rating:** 4.8/5 (17 ratings) **Price:** Free **Bundle ID:** com.guiix.scribe **Store:** Apple App Store **Country:** United States **Version:** 3.5.1 (released 2021-09-21) **Original Release:** 2013-03-19 **Languages:** English **App Store Link:** [Download on Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/app/id616678052) **AppTail Page:** [https://apptail.io/app/scribe-origins-HnKb/united-states](https://apptail.io/app/scribe-origins-HnKb/united-states) ## Scribe Origins Description Studying Japanese Kanji or Chinese Hanzi characters? Scribe Origins is designed to help students rapidly learn the thousands of kanji/hanzi characters required for reading & writing Asian languages. To make learning as fast as possible, we've developed several games to help practice the characters you are currently learning. Using a unified, inbuilt spaced-repetition system, whichever game you are playing will use the same characters you are currently studying, & remember your progress in them as a single study deck. Writing always comes FIRST in learning a language, as it allows your brain to specifically link word sounds, word meanings, & their written form together. Whereas learning to speak Japanese or speak Chinese before learning writing means your brain will learn one set of links, then needs to unlearn them & re-learn them, which is why most language students take 3 years to learn a language. To study Japanese & study Chinese efficiently & effectively, the character writing system is foundational. - Primitive radicals for 4,800 kanji + hanzi characters (e.g. 親 (parent) is made of 見, 立, 木). - 6 kanji + hanzi language sets: JLPT, JOYO, HSK, TOCFL, Taiwan School System, Hong Kong School System character sets. Covering all major Japanese writing & Chinese writing systems. - 7 kanji games: Kanji Flashcards, Kanji Multiple Choice, Kanji Scrabble, Kanji Tiles, Kanji Matchup, Kanji Blockfall Keywords, Kanji Blockfall Primitives. - Unified keywords across all kanji + hanzi character sets, based as closely to the original meaning as possible (and you can download customised lists too!) - Spaced-Repetition System that.. is simply incredible. When you get down into the deeper levels with thous&s of characters to remember, you'll be amazed at how accurately the right character comes along. - Similar character, character usage, Japanese dictionary + Chinese dictionary of common words all included per card. Even if you don't think you'll learn writing, being able to read is an IMPERATIVE SKILL to easily understand the language. The first level of all languages is free. Further levels can either be purchased once-off or subscribed to. Optional Subscription: Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, & identify the cost of the renewal. Subscriptions may be managed by the user & auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user’s Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. Terms & conditions: Privacy policy: ## Scribe Origins Screenshots - [Screenshot 1](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple124/v4/1f/c7/a2/1fc7a209-57be-e03f-e696-2b1a39bd6487/mzm.rensojen.png/640x960.png) - [Screenshot 2](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple114/v4/48/28/31/48283135-76b7-7e18-1ba7-1edcd4fa6ffd/mzm.ywiepeyv.png/640x960.png) ## Scribe Origins Rating Breakdown in United States - 5 stars: 15 (88%) - 4 stars: 1 (6%) - 3 stars: 0 (0%) - 2 stars: 1 (6%) - 1 stars: 0 (0%) ## Scribe Origins Reviews in United States ### ***** "Incredible!" This app is amazing! I have used it and it’s counter parts to teach myself Japanese. If I was consistent in my learning I would know so much. But this app gives so much for the price and even just the free part of the app can get you a really good understanding of Kanji. It points you in the direction of what to learn and can solidify the basics before moving on. Plus there is a cute anime girl with a different outfit everyday to help the learning process feel less lonely. There was a time when the app had some maintenance issues and I emailed the customer support and within the next day had a response and the issue resolved. Truly recommended this app and have to multiple of my friends who wanted a good way to start learning. This app is great from Kanji and the developer has another app just as good for vocab! It’s incredible! -- Nineja3244, 2021-03-07 ### ***** "Love this app but..." This app is excellent for working through Kanji. My question is. Does the mascot girl have a name? -- Baryonyx, 2019-07-30 ### ***** "Great learning tool!!" This app has allowed me to learn at lightning speed!! The games are fun and keep me interested and learning easy!! -- AlienSolipsist1370, 2017-06-24 ### ***** "Awesome app" My only issue is a lack of choice randomization when working through long lists, but it's still one of the best apps I've used. -- 361points, 2017-03-30 ### ***** "Great app! Wish for one feature" This is a fantastic app overall. Currently I have it set up to not add any automatically and search for and add them manually as I learn them in remembering the kanji book. The feature request would be an all kanji list you can track progress on or a list that follows the RTK order. -- Kirito 1864, 2017-03-30 ### ***** "Good, if a bit odd" Really shows how the characters are built with animations. Makes it much easier to remember them. I could do without the cartoon girl with cat ears, but there you go. -- Stink flipper, 2016-11-14 ### ***** "I love it so far" I'm using this one in conjunction with the vocab master. Easy to use and yea I bought both of them too. Worth it. 良いです -- Booooomtu, 2016-09-10 ### ***** "Great learning tool" Love the interface and gives you a ton of options for memorization long term. A+! Wasn't a hard decision to buy the full version. -- Annnnnie9905, 2016-09-09 ### ***** "Wonderful learning app!" This app is great. I love using it to learn. It has a very user friendly interface. The words come easier and easier the more I practice. It makes learning a new language much more fun. I highly recommend it to anyone wanting to quickly memorize characters. -- Sacred muffin, 2016-07-21 ### ***** "Incredible" I tried to read Learning the Traditional Hanzi, but found the fictional meanings and stories about the primitives bizarre and culturally alien. I simply cannot be convinced that a Chinese primitive means “baseball”! I found and enjoyed reading Chineasy, but it covered so few characters, and it was a muddle of both traditional and simplified hanzi. This app is a godsend. It breaks each character down into its primitive components and presents them in order of complexity, using the primitives and character components you have already learned. Where possible, it gives the actual meaning and context of primitives. It also gives their Mandarin pronunciation in pinyin, which is wonderful. I am using the TOCFL, and my only note is that it would be nice to additionally get the pronunciation in zhuyin, since that is the alphabet in use in Taiwan. -- tastyteacup, 2016-06-14 ### ****- "Nice app!!" I really like this app. I have been trying to learn Chinese for almost a year now and I wouldn't have gotten where I am now without this app. I do have a suggestion though. When using flash cards can you make it so that the flash card takes up the whole screen. Have the screen divided between the flashcard and 'what is a flashcard'/ other meanings and other locations is kind of distracting (maybe add a 'more information' button). Also paying $9 to unlock the WHOLE app when I'm not going to use it all is a waste of money(main reason why I haven't bought it yet). I only plan on using the games and the HSK levels. I won't need the other sets. If i do I would rather pay to unlock the set i want. -- kristi881, 2016-02-27 ### ****- "A great app" I really like this app because it helps me not only memorize a kanji, but because it breaks it down I am more likely to remember how to write it. The couple issues I do have is that the syncing between devices doesn't work as while as I want and that I only really like the different flash card modes. -- fuzycomcuad, 2015-12-31 ### ***** "a+" great kanji study tool! wish it would speak the readings out loud for you but otherwise perfect! -- Capsaicin, 2015-10-16 ### ***** "Great App!" I'm using this App to learn the Japanese Kanji and it's great. I've probably tried most of the other Japanese Kanji learning Apps, and this is the best in my opinion. I'm using this in conjunction with the book Kanji ABC. Definitely learn kanji by radicals, primitives and graphemes. You can add your own stories for each character, and some have entries already. I tried using the Heisig book, but it wasn't working for me. This along with Kanji ABC has. -- Readore1, 2015-09-25 ### ***** "I love it" I know there aren't any shortcuts to learning Japanese, but this really feels like one. It works extremely well and I have already memorized at least 58 kanji! And on top of that I remember them! After a bit you do have to pay but it's very useful and I definitely recommend it. -- Luv u app, 2015-05-23 ### ***** "Great!" I have been studying Japanese for many years, and I lived in Japan for a year. This is the first app that made Kanji make sense to me. The teaching technique is ingenious. -- Great for studying, 2015-05-21 ### ***-- "Need a writing component" I like the method of quickly learning but you still should write them down. This isn't the best kanji app but it could be. -- EJ Ellis, 2015-03-13 ### ***** "Great app for learning characters" This app incorporates spaced repetition pneumonics and games in order to help you learn material grouped according to standardized tests (HSK, JLPT etc.). The only thing that would make this better would be to allow you to use the iOS character entry so you have to practice actually writing the characters. -- Druy12456, 2015-03-12 ### ***-- "Turning off primitives would be nice" If I could, the app might be worth buying. -- Iner7ia, 2015-03-08 ### **--- "Why" A heads-up— the in-app purchase for the full game is $8. This would actually be a great app if it wasn't so buggy. Half the time the phonetic ("on" and "kun") readings of the characters don't show up in the flash cards, which is inexcusable. -- Monica00000, 2015-03-04 [View all Scribe Origins reviews and detailed analytics on AppTail](https://apptail.io/account/signup?utm_campaign=ai-crawl&utm_content=reviews) ## Scribe Origins In-App Purchases | Item | Price | |------|-------| | Add *Everything* | $18.99 | | All-Access Subscription | $1.49 | ## Apps Similar to Scribe Origins - [JLPT test: N4 N3 N2 N1](https://apptail.io/app/jlpt-test-n4-n3-n2-n1-FsD/united-states) - [Kanji Pad](https://apptail.io/app/kanji-pad-SwPb/united-states) - [Immersion Reader](https://apptail.io/app/immersion-reader-fxPb/united-states) - [Hiragana Sensei 2](https://apptail.io/app/hiragana-sensei-2-COPb/united-states) - [Kanji Native: Learn Kanji JLPT](https://apptail.io/app/kanji-native-learn-kanji-jlpt-iimc/united-states) - [Kanji Draw](https://apptail.io/app/kanji-draw-HCne/united-states) - [JLPT Japanese Words & Alphabet](https://apptail.io/app/jlpt-japanese-words-alphabet-nDVf/united-states) - 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