Kanji Flip app for iPhone and iPad

the clarity of this application makes it fun and easy to use. too many Kanji related learning products, including books, lack this kind of simplicity. highly recommended. in the second version, it would be ideal if the developer could include the romaji pronounciation of each Kanji, to correspond with the meaning (listed) of the Kanji... or, an audio translation option.

This is an amazing program, I think it is worth $40 in terms of helpfulness. Its bizarre, in 2 days I have memorized the Level 2 kanji (meanings, not readings), and its taken me much longer to pick up the spoken language (although I have hit a bit of a block on the first 60 Level 3 kanki...). Learning to read is much more difficult than speaking Japanese, but this will really really help. Thanks for adding the kana, looking forward to that too.

Im learning Japanese right now and Im excited to use this program because it is so simple to use.

Awesome program. Real value for your money. I cant wait to see example compounds within the cards and on my wish list would be an option to create a customized stack or two & separated hiragana/katagana stacks.

Very useful tool to learn kanjis, easy to use and fun too! My only qualm is that Ive sometimes find the script a bit small and difficult to read, especially on the bus. 4 stars and a half!

Simple, clean & colourful flashcard interface. Would be nice to be able to earmark problem kanji or make own groups, lists or tests (ie: common verbs, adjectives, etc.). But for 3 bucks, cant complain.

This is a great program for practicing kana, but not so good for learning. A good base in Hiragana and Katakana is essential to benefit from this app.

For the amount of money paid, I am not happy with the results. There is no audio, not even for the kana to get you started on pronunciation. There are only two words given for the examples, despite that there may well be 10 different readings, meaning if you wish to memorise the other possible readings you do not even have a word to associate them with, making it very hard (and moreover, pointless) to learn the readings with no examples. These two things are very important so to have them missing on a device that can easily handle such features is a let down. From my short time using the app, just browsing the kana, I also noticed the example for ち was おちゃ -- which is quite odd since really, it is not pronounced ち in that word. That there is also a listing for ちゃ shows that this should not have been an example for ち and leaves me wondering how many other mistakes there are in this app. From browsing through the level 4 kanji I am just so disappointed. Since there are only two examples for each kanji, you would think the developers would make the most of the examples. However, frequently the two examples are taken from the same reading; such as 日 having both of its examples as days of the week. The app also seems to really like showing readings that are irregular in its examples, so for 父 -- where it says its readings are フ and ちち -- its example words happen to be おじさん and おとうさん. Wow. How helpful. This happens A LOT. Or, I will see a kanji that under readings will list multiple examples for only reading, making me interested in what those examples mean... but no such luck, they never tell you those words in the examples. Take 外 ... it shows me the reading/words はず.す and はず.れる as two out of its seven readings, so I get interested in why they not only show はず twice, but what those words mean... its example words, however, are いがい and こうがい -- yet another example of only using one of the six different readings this kanji is presented with. I believe it also has a glitch -- I constantly see the cursor flashing in the text box for some unknown reason, even though I have not clicked the text box. It is extremely distracting and annoying to need to tap to get rid of all the time. I would not have spent my money on this had I been able to preview how it works I wouldve invested my money in something else, possibly more expensive, but a higher quality learning tool. There just has to be something better on the app store for kanji than this.

Unless Im missing something, it doesnt seem like Kanji Flip or Japanese Flip programs actually provide any type of quizzing. Basically, every answer you uncover by hitting Show Answer provides you with the correct answer all the time. It is up to you to make sure it is right or not. I was dissapointed, because I would like the application to keep track of my progress by actually testing me. Provide some multiple choices, or simply just the wrong answer and if the user chooses incorrectly (Because they actually dont remember correctly), then the application will let the user know and keep the word that was missed in rotation (randomly) until the user shows enough ability that the word is actually memorized. Right now its all on the honor system, which it doesnt really challenge the user to really remember. There needs to be an actual quiz function

What good is saving my progress if it erases with an update...now I cant even manually input what kanji I have studied. This makes the application useless. Please make it so we can choose our own study patterns...

The last update deleted all my data from the last half year! Obviously these guys submit their updates without any testing, otherwise such an annoying mistake would not have been unnoticed and they would at least have put a warning on the download site... I want the time back, that I wasted on this App... Previous review: I like the idea of having Kanji Flashcards on my ipod but although the GUI is nice, the contents of this App is disappointing. Some Kanji do not have readings at all, sometimes on and kun readings are switched or endings are missing. These mistakes do not come from the original KANJIDIC which was used to create the App. I checked that before writing this review. Moreover, the higher levels contain all the lower level Kanji and they cannot be skipped or removed. This Is extremely annoying if you are practicing for JLPT1. I definitely do not recommend the software in its current state to practise for the JLPT. Maybe this will change with future updates.

Definitely not worth the price. Poor choice of example vocabulary and no example sentences.