Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana

Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana

Learn to write the Japanese character the only way that works: by drawing them.

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Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana 21.0 XAPK APKs
October 22, 2023 9.13 MB

Requires Android: Android 4.0.3+

Screen DPI: 160-640dpi

SHA1: 1aa7742a48f28304e880f3c98cc6a32487d4a349

Size: 9.13 MB

Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana 20.3 XAPK APKs
October 4, 2021 9.7 MB

Requires Android: Android 4.0.3+

Screen DPI: 160-640dpi

SHA1: 2a9b021e39c68c945a30a053d119937a292a3dc0

Size: 9.7 MB

What's New:

- Fixed a bug where the 'Set Progress and Log' activity would not update to currently selected set.
- Fixed a bug in syncing data across devices.
- Fixed a bug so that deleted custom character sets are actually deleted.
- Added more information on what was synced after 'Perform Network Sync' option is used.
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana 20.1 APK
May 28, 2020 9.39 MB
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Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana 20.1 XAPK APKs
May 30, 2020 9.78 MB

Requires Android: Android 4.0.3+

Screen DPI: 160-640dpi

SHA1: 456be2596a9a4d2a83404062af8dc7132d5cd087

Size: 9.78 MB

What's New:

Added link to published privacy policy for this app.
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana 19.0 APK
July 7, 2019 9.16 MB

Requires Android: Android 4.0.3+

Screen DPI: 160-640dpi

SHA1: 17665b6851b696c013bd92d016a835485f5e6dc2

Size: 9.16 MB

What's New:

- App now available for Kindle Fire devices on Amazon App Store! Support code for Amazon App Store IAP.
- Move set progress card to own activity on 7, 8 inch tablets, like on phones. 10+ inch tablets and Chromebooks will still see it on main activity.
- Ensure default layouts always exist.
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana 18.2 APK
July 1, 2019 9.16 MB

Requires Android: Android 4.0.3+

Screen DPI: 160-640dpi

SHA1: 67a0fadd08473867205a8c550557b2f17afd5ab6

Size: 9.16 MB

What's New:

- Tracing mode now shows you better feedback on why a character was marked as incorrect, the Same feedback as main mode.
- Improved recognition of certain similar characters: ね vs れ, ぬ vs め, ま vs も.
- More useful data recorded when users submit an Override Character feedback.
- Improved accessibility.
- Fix bug where edited custom character sets could miss changes until activity restart, on some devices.
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana 18.1 APK
June 22, 2019 9.16 MB

Requires Android: Android 4.0.3+

Screen DPI: 160-640dpi

SHA1: afe240c57f7dac0daaa7270ca0b3be3a034e2989

Size: 9.16 MB

What's New:

- Tracing mode now shows you better feedback on why a character was marked as incorrect, the Same feedback as main mode.
- Improved recognition of certain similar characters: ね vs れ, ぬ vs め, ま vs も.
- More useful data recorded when users submit an Override Character feedback.
- Improved accessibility.
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana 17.1 APK
October 9, 2018 9.48 MB

Requires Android: Android 4.0.3+

Screen DPI: 120-640dpi

SHA1: ec7213574ec8480f84183c93cfe5f9bfdd3006f2

Size: 9.48 MB

What's New:

- Add new 'Report Bug' option in main menu. Submit a bug report from right within the app! This lets the bug report include valuable internal data about the state of the application.
- Allow users to Override correct ratings, as well as incorrect ones. Useful if you know you got a character wrong, but the software didn't catch it.
- For grading overrides, now by default send the character data to the developer to use in improving the grading algorithm in the future.
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana 16.5 APK
September 11, 2018 9.47 MB

Requires Android: Android 4.0.3+

Screen DPI: 120-640dpi

SHA1: 682f3c42da91c8e20dd1469e259a081020436444

Size: 9.47 MB

What's New:

Ensure that when a character is manually marked as 'known', or any other knowledge level, the level is applied across all character sets the character appears in.
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana 16.4 APK
September 6, 2018 9.47 MB

Requires Android: Android 4.0.3+

Screen DPI: 120-640dpi

SHA1: dbc4136e7a004ae540d978870491496b309253d0

Size: 9.47 MB

What's New:

Added a Toast message indicating what set an cross-set SRS review character is from.
Fix for a Global Spaced Repetition issue affecting some users after the 16.0 update to application launch speed.
Fix for a progression issue, where an incorrect character at the very beginning of a study session could repeat twice.
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana 16.2 APK
August 29, 2018 9.47 MB

Requires Android: Android 4.0.3+

Screen DPI: 120-640dpi

SHA1: e2a7d095abb850e45ebc6bfeb3d3e2e2020b617a

Size: 9.47 MB

What's New:

- Make 'Character Cooldown' apply to SRS review characters too.
- At least partial fix for bug where a single character gets stuck, and repeats over and over. A few users have reported this, and this update fixes at least one way this bug can happen. Will keep working to make sure bug is completely fixed.
- Add additional debugging and error reporting around character progression - trying to identify all the ways a character might get stuck repeating.
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana 16.1 APK
August 28, 2018 9.47 MB

Requires Android: Android 4.0.3+

Screen DPI: 120-640dpi

SHA1: 4ec8ca28368a142b45c1af069248a229e4f8d15e

Size: 9.47 MB

What's New:

- Make 'Character Cooldown' apply to SRS review characters too.
- At least partial fix for bug where a single character gets stuck, and repeats over and over. A few users have reported this, and this update fixes at least one way this bug can happen. Will keep working to make sure bug is completely fixed.
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana 16.0 APK
August 17, 2018 9.47 MB

Requires Android: Android 4.0.3+

Screen DPI: 120-640dpi

SHA1: 537c410c1faee9132de4dab1bfd092049db7a6d7

Size: 9.47 MB

What's New:

Add a 'Character Cooldown' feature, so characters aren't repeated too often. This is customizable by users in 'Progression Settings'.
Add setting to skip SRS for characters after drawing them correctly on the first attempt.
Remove randomness from character progression. Improves testability and repeatability. Randomness still present if Shuffle mode is enabled.
Fix bug where completion metrics in 'Study Progress' and 'Study Goals' could differ slightly.
Additional bug fixes (see release notes).
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana 15.6 APK
June 25, 2018 9.46 MB

Requires Android: Android 4.0.3+

Screen DPI: 120-640dpi

SHA1: 8c07b46294f29128ea1b7b52cfeda3e44f2efec3

Size: 9.46 MB

What's New:

- Ensure that after returning from Study Activity, you aren't immediately quizzed on the character you just studied.
- Fix bug where vocab examples could get out of sync with the character being tested.
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana 15.5 APK
May 19, 2018 9.46 MB

Requires Android: Android 4.0.3+

Screen DPI: 120-640dpi

SHA1: 87974244fae7763410902ec17b09957601068aef

Size: 9.46 MB

What's New:

Speed up tracing view, basing stroke animation speeds on arc-lengths instead of preset duration per stroke. Makes short strokes much faster.
Added fancy Android Oreo adaptive icon.
Fix bug where entering Study Activity multiple times from the incorrect screen would incorrectly iterate through characters.
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana 15.4 APK
May 14, 2018 9.13 MB

Requires Android: Android 4.0.3+

Screen DPI: 120-640dpi

SHA1: 86f2ca17d3cee69b3423d2f28fe5ec7a7ac206f1

Size: 9.13 MB

What's New:

Fix big when changing from full-screen to windowed mode on ChromeOS devices.
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana 15.3 APK
April 25, 2018 9.13 MB

Requires Android: Android 4.0.3+

Screen DPI: 120-640dpi

SHA1: e039dda72172b6f32eb65591409167990a40a756

Size: 9.13 MB

What's New:

- Clue card type setting (meanings, readings, or translations) are now saved per character set, instead of globally.
- Fix bug where a set with all characters in Timed Review state could get stuck repeating 1 or 2 characters, instead of the full set.
- Fix bug where a newly created custom character set might not show up in main activity until the main activity is stopped and started.
- Fix bug where one character would always visually cycle on main activity load.
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana 15.2 APK
January 4, 2018 9.33 MB

Requires Android: Android 4.0.3+

Screen DPI: 120-640dpi

SHA1: 8f3d2af0742293eb30924488e5c68af08fa23cb9

Size: 9.33 MB

What's New:

Re-enable some characters that had been disabled due to problematic SVG files: 才, 医, 満, 均, 際.
Fix bug to ensure that if you manually set a character to 'known' from the Progress activity, it is removed from SRS queue.
Similarly fix situations when manually adjusting a character to 'failed', 'reviewing', or 'timed review'.
Fix a few more SRS bugs.
Build now targets Android OS 8.1; adds Notification Channel support.
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana 15.1 APK
December 11, 2017 9.28 MB

Requires Android: Android 4.0.3+

Screen DPI: 120-640dpi

SHA1: fef868cb6b64f653d6532289ce6ec8aa21b9af09

Size: 9.28 MB

What's New:

- More buttons!
- Adding 'undo stroke' button on main drawing page. The back button can also do the same thing, but new button is visible on-screen.
- Adding 'grade override' button - when sure you drew correctly, you can override the grading system.
- Fix bug in landscape tablet layouts, where the study button after an incorrect draw could be unclickable.
- Fix bug introduced with SRS, where character progression could be shuffled, even if option not set.
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana 15.0 APK
December 8, 2017 9.28 MB

Requires Android: Android 4.0.3+

Screen DPI: 120-640dpi

SHA1: 604ad1a131c6698007fd43ac77b3b993931790a1

Size: 9.28 MB

What's New:

- More buttons!
- Adding 'undo stroke' button on main drawing page. The back button can also do the same thing, but new button is visible on-screen.
- Adding 'grade override' button - when sure you drew correctly, you can override the grading system.
- Fix bug in landscape tablet layouts, where the study button after an incorrect draw could be unclickable.
- Fix bug introduced with SRS, where character progression could be shuffled, even if option not set.
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana 14.0 APK
November 21, 2017 9.24 MB
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120-640dpi
Android 4.0.3+
120-640dpi
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana 13.1 APK
November 13, 2017 7.65 MB

Requires Android: Android 4.0.3+

Screen DPI: 120-640dpi

SHA1: f19a83ff54228decddd2a2566edef48afab6b42b

Size: 7.65 MB

What's New:

Big news: Write Japanese now has a spaced repetition system (SRS)! This feature repeats correctly drawn characters at increasing time intervals, to really lock them in your memory.
Also: more control over ratings. You can now manually mark characters as failed or passed from the character set progress page.
Also: a fix to prompt ambiguity between katakana characters ヂ and ジ.
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana 13.0 APK
November 6, 2017 7.65 MB

Requires Android: Android 4.0.3+

Screen DPI: 120-640dpi

SHA1: 04c8728283dfbb8d08a6d21d4dbba1e644643f50

Size: 7.65 MB

What's New:

Big news: Write Japanese now has a spaced repetition system (SRS)! This feature repeats correctly drawn characters at increasing time intervals, to really lock them in your memory.
Also: more control over ratings. You can now manually mark characters as failed or passed from the character set progress page.
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana 12.0 APK
July 18, 2017 7.16 MB
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Android 4.0.3+
120-640dpi
Android 4.0.3+
120-640dpi
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana 11.0 APK
April 24, 2017 10.71 MB

Requires Android: Android 4.0.3+

Screen DPI: 120-640dpi

SHA1: c2afe2f195955af296ecfda7eeda87bebb8e16c7

Size: 10.71 MB

What's New:

Improved character progression! Now new characters from a set will only be shown to you when there are less than 5 characters from the set in 'incorrect' state, and less than 15 in 'reviewing' state.
The new 'Progression Settings' panel lets you alter these numbers, so you can control how many characters from a set you are practicing at a time. Access it from the main menu.
Snackbar update to inform users after a feature upgrade, with link to release notes.
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana 10.0 APK
March 8, 2017 10.68 MB

Requires Android: Android 4.0.3+

Screen DPI: 120-640dpi

SHA1: a0ed0122faa031386ef74a003b4a4f888ea8c33e

Size: 10.68 MB

What's New:

Custom character sets are now available! Create one by selecting the 'Make Custom Set' option from the character set selection dropdown.
Adding missing hiragana character を.
Placing hiragana ん at end of hiragana set, following most common orderings.
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana 9.2 APK
February 4, 2017 10.45 MB

Requires Android: Android 4.0.3+

Screen DPI: 120-640dpi

SHA1: 719eb019a68059ec3138871318451f4e2391d755

Size: 10.45 MB

What's New:

Fixing grading error in katakana ni
Allow users to kanji readings or vocabulary usages as character clue, in addition to core meanings
Improve example vocab ordering to show simpler usages first
Round icons for Google Pixel users
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana
Write Japanese: Kanji and Kana 9.1 APK
February 1, 2017 10.45 MB

Requires Android: Android 4.0.3+

Screen DPI: 120-640dpi

SHA1: 2bddf2e5c9574fb2243d1711261857f2738c54ad

Size: 10.45 MB

What's New:

Fixing grading error in katakana ni
Allow users to kanji readings or vocabulary usages as character clue, in addition to core meanings
Improve example vocab ordering to show simpler usages first
Round icons for Google Pixel users