Kana - Hiragana and Katakana

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1. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

   broken, useless. helped to memorize hiragana. now when i switch to katakana, it does not exist. i can't get the app to quiz me on the katakana. even when i am doing a custom "katakana only" quiz, i will only get hiragana characters to practice. i'm uninstalling now, as it has no practical use for me anymore.

2. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Good but abandoned. It’s a great app that has helped me learn the kana but the smart quizzes just don’t work they never use katakana and only use hiragana and they rarely follow the category and never actually put in low scoreing kana and it just doesn’t work. And it appears they don’t care as this bug has been a problem for over a year and a half.

3. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

   Quizzes completely broken. Non of the “smart quiz” options work correctly. I only get the same 40 characters that have streaks of 20+ when I have 100s that only had a streak of 1 or two. Since this app doesn’t show you the kana you actually need to learn it’s effectively useless. I checked the custom quiz scope to see if that would fix it but it did not. It’s not even showing me any katakana when most of those are the lowest score and streak characters I have.

4. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   No Instructions. Very difficult to navigate and use this app. No instructions on how to use, you have to hunt and peck and try to figure things out.

5. ★★★★★inaccurate results and incorrect data

   Really hard for a beginner. Not sure if I just haven’t figured out the app or what, but it seems that some instructions and explanations would help me to know what I am being quizzed on. Guessing doesn’t seem to work and moving on from a wrong answer without explaining and helping me learn to correctly identify characters would be great.

6. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Great app buttt. The actual content of the app is minimal but easy to learn and very helpful. The only reason I’m writing this is because the app CONSTANTLY shuts off when doing a quiz and doesn’t save your place I had this happen multiple times in a day to the point I view as a major red flag

7. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Horrible for beginners. It doesnt even show you where to practice it, it only shows quizzes! HORRIBLE FOR STARTERS

8. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   App keeps glitching. I select only hiragana to quiz yet the app keeps giving me katakana…very frustrating

9. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

   Buggy Mess. I cannot do anything for more than 3 minutes without the app crashing, it’s literally unusable.

10. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

    Not working for me. Maybe it’s something I’m doing wrong but after I draw the symbol and click the check mark the app doesn’t do anything.. I tried clicking the check mark several times after retracing the symbol.

11. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Not for beginner. Terrible for a beginner. It just throws stuff at you and you guess it. Doesn’t teach you anything The UI is pretty horrible as well

12. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    No email to contact developer. I have questions / issues about the app. I do not use X / Twitter / Instagram so how am I supposed to contact them?

13. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

    not working. Im tracing the letters and when i click the tick to submit it literally nothing happens and i have to just go of it

14. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    The check button doesn’t work. When I go to practice my writing I can’t turn it in and click the check bottom because it simple doesn’t work

15. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Katakana is not tested. I really liked this app a lot when I first started using it. However, after using it for several months, it suddenly stopped testing me on katakana at all, even when I create a custom quiz to only test katakana. Therefore this app is really just for learning hiragana unless they fix this bug. Note that this bug has gone unfixed for at least a year (probably longer). A careful look at this app’s ratings reveals that many other users are having the same problem, which evidently continues to be ignored by the app developers. One star rating due to the app only providing 1 out of 2 intended functionalities.

16. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

    Worked well…. Until it crashing. Worked well for the first 46 hiragana, but when trying to quiz for all hiragana, app crashes. Would be awesome if it didn’t crash.

17. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Great app but lists don’t save. I’ve saved a list and would like to add to it gradually as I learn more characters. However I don’t seem to be able to save the list and have to add them each time, otherwise the list just has the initial 20 kana I saved the first time.

18. ★★★★★mixed experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Kana Kim. Good practice

19. ★★★★★mixed experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    great for Japanese class :D. i really love this app! only thing is, custom quizzes would be great, when your learning a certain set of hirigana. great work regardless

20. ★★★★★a needed feature is missing

    it’s good, but the indicator needs a lot of work. i enjoy using this app to practice my handwriting, but the grading is extremely annoying. i think most of the hiragana are fine, but almost none of the katakana can correctly indicate when i correctly write them. there have been times where i not only wrote something correctly but i was also within the stroke guide and it still needed me to mark myself as correct. on the other hand, the indicator is WAY too accepting for hiragana writing. i’ve had it mark my answer as correct before i could even finish writing and then sometimes i’ll finish and it’ll actually stop recognizing it as correct obviously you can mark your own answers so it isn’t a big deal if it doesn’t mark you as correct itself, but it is a problem if someone is writing hiragana and being incorrectly marked as correct for studying, it’s good, but it needs work

21. ★★★★★mixed experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Its OK. luckily its free and it doesn’t have a limit but I feel like its missing something. They should add something that gives a spark or makes it funner.

22. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

    Great app when functional. The app is fantastic, it has been my primary source for writing practice, however there seems to be a bug that makes the app regularly crash while mid-quiz. Rarely can I get through even a 30 question quiz without the app crashing, causing much frustration. It’s great when it works, though!

23. ★★★★★mixed experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Help. I think the app is great information but no idea how to use it and there are no operational details for people who have not a clue how to use the app

24. ★★★★★mixed experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Quiz customizing scuffed. Website is good but I can’t customize the quizzes to give me only katakana.

25. ★★★★★mixed experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Great app. This help really helped me learn Hiragana quickly. Unfortunately, it doesn’t quiz you on Katakana from Smart Quiz. It would be 5 stars if that worked.

26. ★★★★★mixed experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Plz solve the problem. Katakana can’t be detected if it’s right or not….if i stroke for a while (max 10 stroke) the app stops working…overall it’s good plz solve it asap

27. ★★★★★mixed experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Amazing but flawed. I have used this app for a few months now, but I still cannot confidently recommend it for one reason: you cannot learn hiragana and katakana at the same time within this app. Let’s cover the good: the quizzes are simply formatted, there are barely any advertisements (huge for a free app!), and there are many tools to adjust difficulty and learning pace. There’s also unobtrusive, optional notifications, where you get to specify what time is most convenient to be reminded. All of these are amazing for keeping oneself on track! If you select both alphabets to be quizzed on, it will only show you hiragana. What’s more, if you wish to switch to katana, you need to reset your quiz settings from inside a hard-to-reach menu. Even if you only select katakana after taking a quiz with any hiragana, the quiz will only show you hiragana! This is a frustrating bug that I hope gets fixed.

28. ★★★★★mixed experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Good, but. It frequently crashes before I can finish writing all the hiragana and katakana

29. ★★★★★saving, exporting or sharing the result fails

    Great idea, bad execution. The drawing feature saved my first drawing, but since then it hasnt saved a single one. When I go to make a list to practice, it circles but doesnt generate a list even after a few minutes. Kind of unusable.

30. ★★★★★a needed feature is missing

    Needs more font selections!. Please add ability to customize fonts, when starting out it is really hard to see same character in different fonts as same thing.