Reviews of Kanji Draw

List of user reviews and ratings for Kanji Draw

Total ratings

4.39 (Rating count: 1,072)

Review summary

Pros
  • Helpful for practicing kanji drawing and stroke order.
  • Easy to use and extensive resources available.
  • Good companion app for learning kanji alongside other methods like Duolingo.
  • Robust catalogue of kanji.
Cons
  • Pacing of new kanji introduction is too fast for some users.
  • Lacks a practice mode for reinforcing learned kanji.
  • Drawing detection can be too strict, causing frustration.
  • Limited availability of kun-yomi and on-yomi readings for higher-level kanji.
  • Design issues that lead to poor usability.
Most mentioned
  • Stroke order.
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Recent rating average: 3.80
All time rating average: 4.39
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Date Author Rating Comment
2024-09-25
Lora Coggins
I love this app and how I can easily practice kanji drawing even without an internet connection, but I swear I only get the achievements whenever my drawing is at its absolute worst 😭 thank you for this app, though!!
2024-09-02
R- Ry
Overall this is a really helpful app. The animated stroke order and practice mode are helpful. Suggestions: 1. Include some more examples of kanji usage and furigana for the kanji 2. Add a freedraw mode or practice mode without the strokes appearing on screen 3. Make an option to adjust the pacing of introducing new kanji. I find the pacing too fast and use a pen and paper to write the kanji as well as example sentences to slow it down. A freedraw mode and adjustable pace would really help.
2024-05-29
Julie F.
*Edited after developer response: Jumps ahead without much logic to the kanji being introduced. Would be more useful if it solidified simple and common kanji first, but it doesn't bring them back often enough after gold status- leading to low retention. Not helpful if your goal is to learn meaning or pronunciation. The emphasis is only on stroke order. This is ok for reviewing kanji learned elsewhere. *The study sets are not intuitive to access & help info does not explain them at all.
2024-03-06
Anna Ostasz
I'm really excited to try the new update and reset my progress to start getting gold from the beginning, but uhhh... I can't write anything anymore. I don't know if it's just me but after a few minutes of searching I realized that the blank space under the card is supposed to be the canvas. Nothing's showing, no grid or strokes at all. Maybe it's just my old device but if not I really hope it's fixed soon :') Edit: Thank you so much for the quick fix!
2024-01-16
Chris Spencer
Just some stupid and poorly designed game and not a kanji lookup dictionary. Useless, even for learning. Despite it's name, it's not even clear how to draw kanji in the app.
2023-10-15
Arthur Pierrot
Great app but I would liké to train golden characters without the Kanji in the background. I did not find any option to do this in the settings.
2022-04-04
Jacob Kauffmann
The app has a robust catalogue, but it's poorly designed and annoying to use. Just one example: after you make a mistake, you can click a "Try Again" button to try again... but if you tap anywhere other than that button (including while the clunky animation hasn't finished showing the page yet), then you close the page and skip to the next character instead.
2022-02-08
Daniel Monnier
Easy to use, extensive, and even a little addictive. Great educational tool.
2022-01-14
Lyam Lorenz-Coe
All in all, I've memorized more kanji with this than any other source. Great companion app to use aside Duolingo. Only complaint I could think of was that the drawing detection can be a little too strict at times, especially with longer horizontal lines. But hey, I'm still learning the kanji, even if the app says I got it wrong :P would also recommend to users to grab a notepad at the same time to drill each kanji.
2021-07-09
J R
Good app so far. Wish it would give more control over which kanji to practice. Also the English translation should be more noticeable.
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