GENKI Vocab for 3rd Ed.

Love it. I needed to increase my vocabulary and I don’t have time to make my own Anki decks. This is perfect, as you recognize the words and illustrations from the book. Note: at first the sound did not work. Tip: toggle the mute switch of your phone and you can hear the recordings! (It looks like the ‘mute’ button overrules the sound of the app, which makes sense in a way 🙃)

Audio doesn’t seem to work for me.

Very disappointed that the sounds do not play. I’ve tried restarting the app and adjusting the settings over and over without success. This could have been a fantastic companion to the books, but it feels like a waste of money.

If you don’t want to spend time on make a deck on Anki you can use this but otherwise better get a free flashcard app and do it yourself. Not worth the money

I had the same issue of the sound not working with the Genki vocabulary app until I read a review that said in order for the audio to work, your phone cannot be in Silent Mode. I turned off silent mode and the playback audio totally worked! Same for the Genki Kanji app as well. Just make sure silent mode is turned off.

After you mark a word as “known” you have no ability to review it as a flashcard. You can only browse to it from a long list of all words… meaning you can’t practice and you’ll forget older lessons… the app is also a big buggy. Should honestly be a free app included with the books. Do yourself a favor and get Anki instead of this.

This is app is good for what it does: a way for you to save time from making your own Anki or flash cards. Because honestly - if you made your own Anki, it’ll be the same vocab. This app at least saves you time from making the vocab that’s already on here. So if you save time studying or making an Anki deck without vocabs from here.

UPDATE: App no longer crashes when attempting to do Study or Check. Can no longer complete studies and checks as reaching the final card/word crashes the entire app.

The sound doesn’t work at all

I took a risk despite the low review average and bought this app. There’s no spaced repetition, and when I got past about six or seven cards the app just crashed. It worked the second time I launched it but I don’t like that we only either have sound on when cards appear or off. Why can’t we tap to play the sound? If we could do that we could repeat it and practice our pronunciation, and we could test ourselves by saying it before we hear the audio. I already own Anki and have a couple of N5 decks, plus my own custom deck. I still wanted to try the Genki app because I thought it would be good since it aligns with the book’s lessons, but everyone would probably be better off just finding Genki vocabulary decks for Anki.