Kanji Cards

Joshua Carmody

About this app

Kanji Cards is a simple flash card app for people studying the book Remembering The Kanji Vol 1, 6th Edition by James W. Heisig. If you do not have that book, this app will be of limited use to you.

To use the app, first select the last lesson you've read in the book. Afterward, you can review kanji flash cards. When reviewing, the app will show you the keyword associated with the kanji, and prompt you to attempt to draw the correct kanji yourself. After you've drawn it, you can flip the card, and then tell the app if you got it correctly. The more times you answer correctly, the less often that kanji will appear in the reviews.

This app is a side project mostly for my own use. I'm distributing it in case others find it useful. It makes me no money, so I can not promise a high level of support. However, if you have any issues or comments please email [e-mail] and I'll try to help if I can.

This initial version of the app requires no permissions.

Ratings and reviews

It's great! If I want more refinement on the SRS, I use Anki, but what I want right now is the little practice space on my phone so I can get the muscle memory of drawing Kanji in the RTK(6) order. The first improvement I might like to see is just a little bit of settings on the algorithm, so you can increase or decrease the frequency of the repeats, but now I'm contradicting my earlier statement. I expect that Kanji recognition is not going to happen, but if it did, if you got points for how well you drew it...?

Fantastic supplement to Anki RTK decks for the first 2200 kanji. The only reason I dropped a star is that it lacks the RTK 3 kanji and there's nowhere to put stories, meaning that this does have to be a partial supplement instead of a complete resource. If you're reading this as a learner and need a good Anki deck, I recommend BritVsJapan's Super Simple RTK (and the corresponding font packs), which is sadly missing ~100 kanji from RTK 6e.

Fantastic for a free app, great companion to 'Remembering The Kanji'. Only reason I knocked a star off is because of the occasional crashes. Would definitely recommend though

What's new

- Changed default kanji font to Stroke Order font from https://sites.google.com/site/nihilistorguk/. This is a stop-gap until stroke order animations are done.
- Added settings menu. You can change your font back to Roboto/Noto (the old font) there if you want.
- Increased size of kanji on answer cards
- Fixed low-contrast text in navigation drawer for some versions of Android. Text is now explicitly white on dark gray.