Japanese LS Touch

After running into a few major issues with this app (which ended up being the fault of my device ) and emailing the developer I received immediate support. The app itself is smooth, simple, and fantastic for learning to write Japanese. This app is all about utility and it performs! There is a huge amount of content and many ways to test yourself and learn. The most unique and helpful feature that it offers is the ability to grade your own writing and stroke order in a step by step manner. There is no automatic writing detector to be picky and mark you wrong because the angle was "slightly off". This app makes studying and learning Japanese a breeze! It is an absolute must have for any learner! Thank you Jan for bringing this helpful tool to life! I don't have a single regret in purchasing this app and it's upgrade!

This app is great when you use hiragana to find the vocabulary. However, it doesn't always give you what you're looking for if you type in English or German. Also, it is kind of annoying that this app is separate from Kanji LS Touch if you're learning how to write kanji. This app is intended to help you study vocabulary and if you look for single kanji that do not occur as their own word, you're out of luck. This app is great. It works well as a study aid and as a dictionary, particularly if there are sample sentences that show you the usage of the word (which is sometimes very distinct from what you'd think of the translation). The only downside is that it's expensive and that certain functions are in separate apps, so that you have to spend even more money.

It's priced higher than most other apps but I spend a lot of time studying so I'm willing to spend a little money for a good app. Unfortunately the functionality of kanji and Japanese LS is split between two apps and I don't get that at all. I study kanji when I study vocab and vice versa. I own both apps but they're useless without the other's functionality. I'm a bit annoyed and will use other apps to study instead.

I love this app, I have both the Japanese and kanji LS apps but they are completely broken right now on my iPad 2 iOS 5. Drawing won't work in practice or test modes

I find this app has some useful features, but it could use improvements in some places. The font being used for writing doesn't represent real Japanese handwriting. 週 for example, the last 3 strokes are written differently than they appear in this font. さand きare other examples. In handwriting, the last stroke isn't connected to the rest of the character. I would also like it if the iPad version could allow for the option of a smaller writing area. This would help to enforce the size of the actual characters when writing in real life. I feel the large space on the iPad doesn't help me learn as easily.

This app works ok if you want to practice your handwriting, but thus far I have experienced some major bugs. First of all, it crashes a lot of the time if you click the solve button, and the multiple choice doesn't work at all. If you try to do multiple choice mode, then it displays the wrong kanji for the reading, and the wrong reading for the kanji. The kanji's it displays has that particular reading (quite literally), however, it's not the right vocabulary word. Due to this major issue, I cannot use this app. It's one of the most expensive too in its category.

It's always deeply frustrating to spend significant amounts of money on an application that the seller never ever updates. As of now, 1.1 dates back from almost 7 months ago. Granted, Japanese LS is a fine app. But it still crashes once in a while (I had to delete the app and reinstall it this morning: farewell custom sets). And there is much, much room for improvement, such as having hiragana everywhere if desired, changing the depressingly dark interface, more customizing option, better navigation, etc. I hope the developer hears his customers who spent $15 on his product.

Die App (und die zugehörige Kanji App) sind einfach perfekt. Am Anfang war ich nicht überzeugt bis ich herausgefunden habe, dass man alles individuell einstellen kann. Gibt es für eine Vokabel zum Beispiel eine Kanji und eine Katakana Lesung, kann man auf die gewünschte tippen und es wird gemerkt, auch für die Tests. In den Tests kann man auch vieles individualisieren. Außerdem finde ich die Test-Arten toll, insbesondere das Testen nach Audio oder fehlende Zeichen einsetzen habe ich so noch nirgendwo gesehen. Die Preise sind mehr als fair, für was man bekommt und es ist kein nerviges Abo Modell. Insgesamt bin ich dem Entwickler sehr dankbar für diese Apps!! Einziges Feedback das ich hätte: manche Beispielsätze oder Wörter sind noch auf Englisch. Vielleicht kann man hier noch die Übersetzungen ausbauen.

Ein Meisterwerk

Geldverschwendung. Vor allem keine 10€ wert. Der Übungsmodus ist total unausgereift und nicht hilfreich. Höchstens nützlich als Lexikon. Bereue den Kauf.