renshuu - Japanese learning

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4.9
11.8K reviews
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

A cute, ad-free, and enjoyable learning experience is waiting for you in the Renshuu community! The free version is unlimited: there’s no timer before you are forced to pay!

ā˜… A path for every learning style and every goal ā˜…
Whether you are getting started with the alphabets or have been studying for years, jump in exactly where you belong! Don’t waste time going through what you already know.

Renshuu maintains learning paths for most textbooks, the JLPT, Kanji Kentei, and for those who just want to learn. You can also carve out your own path! Our community has over 10,000 user-made lessons for even more focused learning.

ā˜… Cute, relaxing, and fun ā˜…
Our mascot Kao-chan is here to let you enjoy learning Japanese, whether it’s through collectible coins every time you quiz, a character that evolves as you learn, manga pages that you unlock, or hundreds of hand-made illustrations.

Additionally, we have both single and multiplayer games to help you keep your learning and reviewing fresh!

ā˜… Personal service ā˜…
We are just a two-person company - and we don’t use chat bots. That means that every question you have gets an answer directly from us.

ā˜… Rich, in-depth materials ā˜…
ā–  Vocabulary: over 15,000 native-recorded audio files, 17,000 hand-picked images, and 160,000 example sentences make understanding vocabulary a breeze. Our growing library of accent/pitch data can even help you with accent reduction.
ā–  Kanji: 12,000+ kanji, with no limits on what you can study! Over 2,000 colorful mnemonics help you to understand and retain the meanings.
ā–  Grammar: Over 800 different expressions, each complete with native-written model sentences, construction diagrams, audio, and over 7,500 hand-made quiz questions.
ā–  Sentences: Thousands of sentences complete with audio, divided by theme and difficulty levels.

ā˜… A superior quiz system designed around Japanese ā˜…
Our SRS-for-Japanese system doesn’t treat Japanese materials like flashcards to be memorized, and breaks every item down into individual components so you can understand, and not just memorize. Mastery schedules keep you studying only what you need to, pushing weaker materials to the front for you to focus on.

Dozens of different question styles keep things fresh, while a flexible input system (multiple choice, typing, or writing) lets you answer the way that you want to.

ā˜… Customizable down to the last character ā˜…
Renshuu doesn’t believe that there is a single way of studying that everyone should adhere to. Our expansive settings and customizations let you adjust the learning environment to what works best for you.
Updated on
Apr 23, 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Financial info and App info and performance
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, Financial info and 3 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.9
11.2K reviews
TeePoke
May 1, 2025
I just started learning and its been fun. I'm trying hard and studying everything on the side as well. Now i can read simple sentences and can say what I'm reading. It's a perfect place to start for beginners and seam to really want to build you up to a proper level of comprehension. Love it.
6 people found this review helpful
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renshuu.org
May 1, 2025
Congrats on your progress, great work! I hope that continues to be the case. If you need anything as you learn on renshuu, do let me know. I'm always here at michael@renshuu.org, or the ? button at the top of the app!
Cris Graves
May 2, 2025
love this app!!!!!! I'm using it to learn vocabulary. I turned notifications on just now, I'm unsure if there are reminder notifications, but it would be great if there were maybe a widget with kao-chan and maybe the daily challenges so that you can remember to learn? would be a cool feature, but it's not something THAT needed!!! :D small glitch where I can only see the definition of a word if I use my stylus. unsure what caused this issue.
3 people found this review helpful
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renshuu.org
May 2, 2025
Thanks for the review! We do not have any widgets available at the moment, just notifications :). As to the glitch, feel free to reach out to me at michael@renshuu.org with details of the issue so I can look into it!
Shouko ā€œthe Finciā€
April 21, 2025
it is a great tool for learning Japanese. the best I have come across by far. the only really things are that when doing the kanji quizzes it is very inconvenient to see the stroke order. I wish there was a way to toggle stroke order for quizzes or have questions relating to stroke order or something. it would also be great if more things have audio. remembering the various readings of kanji might be easier if I actually hear them. oh and a streak count somewhere would also be great!
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renshuu.org
February 15, 2025
Thanks for learning with us! If you ever need other resources to complement your renshuu learning, our community has lots of ideas, including a maintained list of cool stuff in our discord server. If you need anything as you learn on renshuu, do let me know. I'm always here at michael@renshuu.org, or the ? button at the top of the app!

What’s new

Tons of server-side fixes, but this app update is to help with regional server support that is coming later in 2025!