App Profile: Jakeipuu - For WaniKani

Jason Toups

Rating: 5/5

I have used Tsurukame for a while, but I was annoyed that I couldn’t add notes, edit meanings (and see my edits), etc. Luckily, this app came along! I downloaded in Jan 2021 and I love it. It looks and feels a lot like the WaniKani website, which is nice. It has clear UI for adding notes to mnemonics and synonyms. It also has an easy navigation to drill backwards from a vocab word to the kanji and then it’s radicals. Lastly, if you get a meaning wrong and want to review it, it shows you the meaning, but not the pronunciation (unless you click over to that), and vice-versa. The app is new, and there are a few improvements I’d like to see: 1. I sometimes have an issue when I add mnemonic notes. My keyboard slides up from the bottom but hides the note-taking area and the save button. So I have to type RETURN over and over until those buttons come into view. 2. It would be nice for the buttons, currently at the bottom, to be moved up higher. This includes the buttons for next card, review card, and re-do card. The “next” button is in the very far bottom right corner, and it’s kind of hard to hit. It hurts my hand. These are both minor issues and don’t really impede my use, but it would be nice to see them improved in future versions. Great app so far!

The Real Kanpeki

Rating: 5/5

The developer has continued to impress me with their dedication to improvement. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an app change so much, and they have done so at an impressive pace. My issues, which were minor to begin with, have all been resolved, and the app runs great! One of the new features I especially dig is the orange level up indicator. I’m excited to see how it continues to evolve in the future. The developer probably has more interesting ideas than this, but some other little things which could be nice is being able to minimize the panels on the main screen (radicals, kanji, review forecast, and item summary) and see a numerical total of how many reviews will come up on each day of the forecast (like you can on the website).

Ruben50

Rating: 5/5

So far I’m loving this app. Super simple to use so long as you go into the Wanikani site to familiarize yourself with the process. I just have one thing for you to look at in the kanji reading input. I spelled out juu for the ten kanji using kana (じゆう) and it was marked incorrect. Not sure if it’s because the “ were added separately from the し on the keyboard on my phone. The website allows you to choose じ　directly. Thanks for the great app. I took a screenshot just in case you need it.