# Kanji Garden Japanese

> Grow your kanji knowledge

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1338967114](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1338967114)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1338967114`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** kyle coburn
- **Category:** Education
- **Rating:** 4.70 / 5 (803 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.3
- **Last updated:** 2020-12-16
- **First published:** 2019-06-16
- **Size:** 17 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-05
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kanji-garden-japanese/id1338967114)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://kanji.garden/privacy](https://kanji.garden/privacy)

## Description

Kanji Garden Japanese makes kanji learning engaging with a personalized study plan, adaptive reviews, and spaced repetition. It starts from your current level and sets daily goals, scheduling reviews to reinforce memory and prevent overload.

The app emphasizes building kanji from components, using phonetic hints and common readings, and tests you in context with vocabulary built from learned kanji. It tracks your progress visually with streaks and history graphs, helping you stay motivated while you master hundreds or thousands of characters.

## Rankings

- #59,746 — Overall

## Review summary

Kanji Garden Japanese is praised for its effective, memory-friendly kanji learning, engaging progress visuals, and rich content that supports JLPT study. However, it suffers from notable downsides: long-standing lack of updates and support, audio issues, usability and stability bugs, high pricing, and content gaps with outdated or uncommon terms. Overall, it’s valued for learning efficiency and design, but concerns about maintenance and reliability temper enthusiasm.

### Pros

- Effective kanji learning: users report it’s one of the best tools for memorizing multiple kanji readings and understanding readings (on-yomi/kun-yomi).
- Engaging progress visuals: features like the animated grid, progress map, and plant metaphor are repeatedly praised for motivating study.
- Rich, multi-faceted content: includes radicals, meanings, etymology, example sentences, and stroke order, offering a deep learning experience.
- Helpful for JLPT prep and rapid lookup: many reviewers find it useful for fast kanji lookup, vocabulary context, and building long-term memory.
- Perceived value versus alternatives: some users view it as cheaper or less restrictive than competing apps (e.g., vs. WaniKani).

### Cons

- Lack of updates / developer inactivity: many reviews say the app hasn’t been updated in years and support is unresponsive.
- Audio issues: several users report audio not playing or audio files no longer being available.
- UI/UX and stability problems: confusing flow, non-intuitive navigation, missing search, and various bugs (black screens, input non-responsiveness, crashes).
- Pricing concerns: recurring complaints that pricing is high (monthly or lifetime), and that value does not match maintenance/updates.
- Content gaps and outdated material: missing kanji (e.g., N1/N2), archaic or rarely used words, and calls for more current, common vocabulary.

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