Kanji Stories
Education
About this app
Kanji Stories teaches all 2,000+ of Japan's common-use kanji in component order. Each character is paired with a memorable story so the meaning sticks the first time you see it, and a constellation map shows how every kanji connects to its parts.
🌟 Key Features
🧠 2000+ Curated Kanji Stories
Every kanji comes with a mnemonic story to help you recall its meaning effortlessly.
📈 No Review Pile. No Guilt
Miss a day? A week? Kanji Stories picks up where you left off. No punishing backlog, no shame spiral. An adaptive probabilistic algorithm reschedules practice around your real life, not the other way around.
✍️ Write, Don’t Just Read
Reinforce memory with guided writing exercises that teach you the correct stroke order for each kanji.
📖 Complete Kanji Data
Explore JLPT levels, readings (on-yomi and kun-yomi) and meanings all in one place.
📊 Personal & Global Stats
Track your learning through detailed statistics: time studied, reviews completed, XP gained, and your study streak.
Subscribers unlock aggregate insights, helping you visualize your total growth across all sessions.
🔥 Stay Motivated Daily
Maintain momentum with a study streak system and heatmap tracker that reward consistency and show your progress lighting up day by day.
🌌 The Kanji Constellation
See all kanji connected in a celestial network of meaning and form.
Watch your personal constellation brighten as you study and explore the relationships between characters like never before.
🔍 Intuitive Kanji Search
Search any kanji and instantly see how it connects to its components, related characters, and stories.
🎓 Free to Start, Limitless to Explore
Study all JLPT N5 kanji and their supporting kanji and radicals completely free. Upgrade to unlock higher levels, advanced stats, and all ~2000 kanji.
App Info
What's New
App Permissions
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Other
- view network connections
- full network access
- run at startup
- control vibration
- prevent device from sleeping
- Google Play license check
- read Google service configuration
Ratings and Reviews
used it to help me learn Korean hanja and also picked up the japanese meanings as well pretty easily, very great app 10/10 honestly
It was really good for a decent while before the update forced you to pay to study anything past N5. However, it wasn't very good for memorization, not as good as other apps I've tried, and pronunciations are usually very small and extremely missable. It helped me learn, but not a ton.
This might be one of the best resources for kanji study that I've ever seen. From the ability to pace how fast you grow to the constellation giving a genuinely rewarding experience, this might actually be the best free trial for any kanji study resource I've ever seen. And that's where my issue comes in. $130 is a steep price. This needs more features than just kanji practice to justify that price tag. Maybe practice sentences based on JLPT level? Grammar study? In depth etymology and origins?
Had been learning for a week. I think I might finally learned something :) I like that this app doesn't correct my ugly strokes, and shows me instead the real one, side-by-side so I can compare. Will edit when I reached significant level.
I'm unsure why this app is not more highly-rated. Utilizing this has been a phenomenal experience for Kanji learning and retention. Just a month and a half in (at a very undisciplined pace), and I have encountered about half of N5's Kanji, and I've retained a surprising amount. Since that time, I've added daily reviews (20-40 for N5) and the introduction of just 5 new Kanji per day, and it's sticking very well. I went ahead and purchased a lifetime subscription for this. The stats: great to see!
seems good,,smooth but just like every other app to unlock all kanji have to pay....nexttttt
