Skritter Japanese App Reviews

This app is the best app Ive ever see ... THANK YOU GOD!!!!

Ive been waiting for this app so I can use Skritter offline, and it lives up to my expectations! Its awesome, if youre learning Japanese you need this! Its even good without a subscription if you want to maintain what you know.

This is one smokin hot app! Lots of fun. I was surprised, however, that after about only THREE (3) kanji--note that I didnt write 333 or even 33--the kanji learner is told that its time to pony up some big yen, dinero, moohlah...to the tune of ONLY $15/month to go any further. Bottom line? If youre serious about learning kanji and vocabulary, then I guess $180/year might be worth it. (**Try to be totally at ease with hiragana and katakana before you begin!) But heck, if youre already dishing out $51,000/year for tuition, room, and board at Famous Liberal Arts College in New England, whats an extra $180? You probably pay that for iTunes and beer every WEEK. Just dont be shocked, dont choke on your chai frappuccino blended crème, when the "free" thingy ends after about four minutes the first time you crank up this otherwise excellent app.

I am learning tons of kanji daily with RTK and this app. Highly recommend!

Great app... Its free to explore it and use a smallish number of characters early on, then there is a very modest fee. Worth every penny!

Its helped me get my kanji down perfectly

Yes, its pricey, which is initially what kept me from using it. But I finally ponied up and subscribed, and was glad I did. The writing detection algorithm is fantastic, allowing for little errors and deviations while detecting big mistakes. Ive managed to obtain a far more solid knowledge of kanji after practicing for just a month. Bottom line is, the cost is worth all the work that the Skritter team continues to pour into the development of this app. Well done!

If you really try and follow what the slides ask then you will really learn a lot in what I consider is a short amount of time. Genius invention

I used it for the trial period and it got me hooked on learning kanji. I decided to pay for the $15/mo subscription and have nit regretted it. The mix of vocabulary, writing, reading is perfect. I recommend this app. It is the best Japanese language app I have tried.

I love this app. But or someone just learning the kanji an never seeing a certain one before, I feel like they shouldnt test you on it at first... Unless Im doing it wrong. Haha but great and nice looking app!

Sorry, guys, nice software but way way way too expensive at $15 a month. $25 per year would be much more reasonable.

Skritter has the best software I have seen for a Kanji based environment. What you must understand about this app, is it is intended for review, and the best part, is review of anything. The app has "books" you can download the kanji from, by which I mean, Japanese study books like Remembering the Kanji. So if youre following along with said book, you can later come to this app to study the kanji you just learned. Great for tests, helps learning to write and read much easier!! I suggest you know your hiragana and katakana before you dive in though! My one complaint is the price, but you can keep all the kanji that you have already imported, so you can review what you have been studying. A nice incentive to keep learning!

Just perfect.

Tried it on a desktop first, this is MUCH better.

Awesome! Now I can Skritter on any train in Japan!

Every time I draw a character, I get them ALL wrong, even if its right. Also $15 dollars a month is way too much to learn how to draw Kanji, like someone else said $25 dollars a year would be much more reasonable. I agree. Other than that, its okay-ish

This app is very good. It will help you remember kanji and Japanese. The app doesnt teach grammar. It is very expensive though. I would rate more stars if cheaper.

Okay, I looked some of this up in my translation dictionary, but I have never been able to master more than 5 kanji after now; its about at 20, Id say, from Skritter, and Ive barely used it! This isnt the first time Ive tried to learn Japanese, but this is the first time I used more complex radical combinations than 森 and memorized them, along with their meaning and their furigana/pronunciation.

Easily customizable through being able to add word lists from japanese proficiency tests and popular study books such as genki. Fun to use, almost like a game.

This a a great app to help you learn Kanji. Its value is in its versatility, it more than just flash cards. Using existing texts is such a great idea as I have the accompanying books to follow along with. You could easily use the app as a stand alone learning tool but as I got the books before the app I use it in conjunction. I love that I can change things to suit my needs. In addition to retention rate, I can change how strict the stroke order is tracked, I can change the cards themselves and most importantly I can control when I get new cards so if I get stuck I can spend an extra day before adding.