Skritter: Write Japanese
Learn Japanese Kana and Kanji
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Practice Japanese writing with Skritter, whether you have a strong grasp of written Japanese and want to remember the characters better or are a beginner who doesn’t know where to start.

Skritter has existed for more than 10 years, and for a good reason: our learners are amazing! They help us with feedback, which allows us to create what we think is the best Japanese writing app out there!

Japanese writing uses three different scripts; Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Skritter offers all three and you can learn them through our “decks” (similar to a card deck) based on topics and difficulty.

Deck examples:
- Survival Japanese (for traveling in Japan)
- Food and drinks (learn to understand the menus at your favorite Japanese restaurant with delicious sushi, ramen, and other dishes)
- Cultural topics like Samurai Japanese
- More advanced topics like foreign policy
- And many more…

First, you learn a character’s meaning, then practice drawing it and before you know it, you’ll want to learn thousands of characters, and words like these two happy users:

“If I could only keep one app on my iPod, this would be it without a doubt. Skritter will change your life!”
― Wendy Werneth, UN Translator

“Learning to write characters has never been so fun. From writing zero to 2000+ characters in six months!”
― Brian Jackson, Economist

Have questions, problems, or feedback? We would love to hear from you. Reach out to us at [email protected]

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Guest accounts enjoy free access to select decks forever! Unlock Review mode, and study anything you want with a premium subscription, which is available for purchase in the app. Big savings offered on 12-month subscriptions!

• One month subscription (automatically renewed until canceled)

• 12-month subscription (automatically renewed until canceled)

Recurring billing, cancel anytime. Within 24 hours before the subscription period ends, you will be charged through your iTunes account. Manage your subscription from your iTunes App Store settings where you can turn off auto-renewal at any time. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable.

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User Rating

4.61 out of 5

135 ratings in United States

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Excellent but missing one critical leaning element

Blingdingo on

I am using Skritter paid subscriptions for both Japanese and Chinese. The app is wonderful and I’ve been using it for about 4 months consistently. I have learned Japanese kanji on my own in the past and what really lets you learn a character is its CONTEXT, ie what words in the language actually use this character you’re trying to learn. That’s how you build the associations that help the character stick. There’s always a moment of, “oh! That’s the character that you use the word ___!” Skritter does not do this and it’s the biggest difference from reviewing characters in a kanji book and other flashcard systems out there. In some cases, Skritter provides a sentence using the character, but what the app really needs is just a simple list of two or three of the most commonly used everyday words that use the character. It would be the bomb! Please consider this feature for the future.

Best way to learn kanji hands down

Lawnmower16 on

I've been using this app since its very early days (2011 I think) and nothing has helped me learn kanji better. It's fun too and even if you don't care about being able to write, this will still set you down the right path

Amazing app with a couple small caveats

catlover1276293 on

I Really Love this app! I have learned so much in a short amount of time thanks to it. I love that you can pick which decks to learn from and that many popular notebooks are included. I also really enjoy the writing experience, and the testing and time attack options. Tiny tweaks: - please create a streak freeze or other way to restore your streak so that it’s not as easy to lose your streak if you forget to practice one day. - for the review option I would like to be able to re review the words I got wrong within that session, similar to test mode. I’m also not clear why both modes exist but prefer the functionality of test mode. Thank you!

Great writing practice. Gamification lacking.

Rizzardi on

This is hands down the most impressive app for practicing your pen strokes in kanji. Beautiful design. After using it almost daily for 3 months now the problem is its way to difficult to memorize the advanced kanji the way this is presented. My tips to the developer: When you first learn each kanji it gives you an outline to follow and it’s fairly easy to get a green for success. That’s great but I need that learning stage for at least the first 3-5 times I see that kanji. After that I should get some hints maybe I just don’t have to fill it n a few strokes to get a green. Then as I progress keep removing strokes to make it harder for me to fill in the blanks. Then as I get advanced there’s only one or two strokes to give me a hint. Then ultimately I have to know the entire thing to advance to a master level. Something like that would be way more encouraging 😊

Excellent

Bill SBT on

Loving the app so far. I know writing the kanji is so helpful in remembering them vs just grinding flashcards. I’m excited to keep using the app. I do have a feature request. Seems like it might be a bit cumbersome to make though. Was wondering if there might be any plan to search for a specific kanji in a deck. Would love to be able to search for the kanji I’m learning on WaniKani and practice writing them here. Great app!

Bro I made a account 2 days ago

LanguKid on

It already gave me subscription expire like what pls fix it

A must for learning to write Japanese

Studying in Taiwan on

I've been using Skritter to learn Chinese and Japanese writing since 2009, and there's nothing like it.

Practically necessary, however there isn’t an offline mode

Kaorz on

This app has been key to passing the N5 and N4. My only gripe is that the app has no offline mode. It seems like I read about it somewhere, but it won’t even load.

Fantastic app

Alexthe5th112 on

Truly awesome app for practicing kanji, and it’s the only one I’m aware of that lets you practice the stroke order. Feature request for developers: please add WaniKani API integration! It’d be amazing to have Skritter automatically follow my WaniKani progress, it’s a bit tedious to have to add new vocabulary words manually every time I learn a new one in WaniKani.

Re-subscription issues

apc218 on

A good app to waste money on resubscribe and get nothing in return except for the sections that where already free.

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App Info

Category
Education
Publisher
Inkren, Inc.
Languages
English
Recent version
3.11.3 (4 weeks ago )
Released on
Dec 3, 2018 (5 years ago )
Last updated
4 weeks ago