For serious kanji students, it’s well worth the investment. It’s 99 cents IAP to get the writing practice. Kanji are grouped by grade and JLPT and subdivided into sets of 20 for easy practice. Very good/on its way to “great” (with just a little efort from the creator). iKanji touch is a powerful kanji study and training tool covering over 2,000 JLPT and school grade jouyou kanji. That said, overall, this is an excellent app, with little to compare it to in OS Mac App store. Having videos and even toggled features guide us through such important choices make it far more likely that users will make use of the app. I’d also like videos and better tutorials showing how we can import sets from (Anki? Tofugu?). Larger categories like going through the entirel JLPT lovels at a go is likely to discourage students - because as “gasmification” (learning theory) is making universally clear, learners get encouraged by mini-victories, and discouraged if the learning never seems to “end”. View stroke animations, example words and search by radical parts and more. Quickly browse and search kanji which are organised by school grade and JLPT level. Finally, I’d like to see Youtube video links for various “how to’s” especially for how to make sub-sets of the larger categories. iKanji 2 is the ultimate Japanese kanji and vocabulary study app for the Mac. Since ease of use is key, if an easier way to input answers could be found, I’d be here way more often. Correct choices are made by clicking buttons, but these require a hard click on my MacBook track pad, and honestly, I doubt that using a magic mouse would make things that much easier. Finally, while I really do prefer studying kanji on the Mac (larger print is my friend), even though I use and enjoy the iOS versions, here,there is an issue with buttons. it’s so important to have those real connections to actual words, rather than just memorize another nebulous (and seemingly endless) list. And If example words could appear after answering, then again, I could deepen my linking of these correct pronunciations *to* something - you could even make a deeper impression by having a bubble appear “kunyomi for is -“. During quizzing, I’d like to slow transitions, so that when I get on-yomi readings wrong (or whatever), I have more time to let *correct* pronunciations sink in. I haven’t seen this app in a while, so was very pleased with the functional updates done a year ago.
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