Learn Japanese Kanji: Benkyō 4+
JLPT, Vocab & SRS Flashcards
Romain Pellen
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
The smart way to study Japanese!
When you learn Japanese, memorizing vocabulary or kanji takes too much time: Benkyō manages your drills with AI so it's more effective and painless.
Review whenever it’s convenient, leverage AI to organize your studies, and keep yourself motivated with progress tracking.
Fully works offline.
• Browse all Kanji, Vocabulary, & Kana
• Drill with smart, custom and SRS quizzes
• Train using multiple choice, keyboard or even handwriting recognition quiz inputs
• Check your statistics and progress
• Practice drawing, learn stroke order
FEATURED by Apple on the App Store:
• "This week's favorites" (Mar. & Apr. 2021 - France)
• "Widgets: improve your language level" (Apr. 2021 - France)
• "Find a new passion or profession" (May 2021 & Feb./Mar. 2022 - France)
• "Add widgets to your home screen" (Feb./Mar. 2022 - France)
== Features ==
1) JAPANESE DATABASE
- Search and filter more than 10,000 Kanji and 8,000 Vocabulary entries plus Hiragana & Katakana
- Browse by JLPT, category, frequency, grade, etc...
- Listen to prononciations, check writing stroke order & train drawing
- Organise your content with lists
- Search Kanji (and Kana) by simply writing them in the free drawing mode, magic!
2) LEARNING DRILL
Practice makes perfect, Benkyō provides 3 kind of quizzes
• FLEX SRS
An exclusive AI powered algorithm that brings the right quiz questions at the right time to optimize your memory performances and the retention of what you learn
• SMART QUIZ
A quick and easy way to focus on specific flashcards: those you struggle the most with, or that you should review a bit more
• CUSTOM QUIZ
Maximum flexibility for advanced users, choose entries to be quizzed on (by applying filters, and optionally refine selection manually), choose the kind of flashcards (reading, writing, speaking and understanding) for each entry family, and input mode
Plus:
- 3 different quiz inputs: multiple choice (4 propositions), keyboard (type the answer, better to recall the information from your memory), and drawing (draw the kanji or kana with your finger or pencil) with automatic recognition (feels like magic, and you can adjust it's sensitivity)
- If you get a question wrong or pass: you have the opportunity to pause the quiz and review the entry details so you memorize it for the next time. Here you go, learned something new!
- Optionally set quiz reminders at times of your choosing
3) PROGRESS TRACKING
Learning Japanese is a long adventure, visualizing your progress is always a motivation boost
- Quiz scores, streaks and average times, by entry type and globally
- Chart for visualizing evolution over time
- Flashcard rankings by score and streak
- Complete quiz history
- Widgets
Benkyō is designed to allow you to drill Japanese on the train, during coffee, or other spare time you have, so that at the end of the day you made progress in Japanese without effort!
And the app is going to be even better with your feedback.
Try it, you will be surprised!
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PLEASE NOTE:
You need a subscription to access all features.
• After the free trial (if offered) and once your purchase is confirmed, your payment will be charged to your iTunes Account.
• Subscriptions automatically renew unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period.
• Your account is charged for renewal within 24-hours before the current subscription period ends.
• You can manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewals by going to your Account Settings on the App Store.
• Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription to that publication.
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• Privacy Policy: https://benkyo.page.link/privacy
• Terms of use: https://benkyo.page.link/tnc
What’s New
Version 2.4
Learn Japanese more conveniently with Benkyō v2.4
New features for quizzes (for devices running iOS 17 or later):
- Modernized and enhanced user interface (UI)
- Sort and filter questions
- New speed answering chart
- Option to view the flashcards related to the questions for deeper insights
- Manage the SRS status of individual flashcards on the fly
- Option to redo the quiz (with the same scope & settings, questions may differ)
- Interrupting a quiz before the end while saving its progress will now show the quiz results screen
Updated Flashcard screen (for devices running iOS 17 or later):
- Modernized and enhanced UI
- Option to display Furigana
- Added statistics
- Quiz history with a speed matrix chart showing answer times by date
Additional improvements:
- The default app icon now adapts to Light, Dark, and Tinted system preferences (iOS 18 or later)
- Benkyō now adjusts to your system's text size preference on more screens, whether you prefer small and compact or large and accessible text
- General UI and performance enhancements
If Benkyō helps you learn Japanese Kanji, Vocabulary, and Kana more easily, don’t forget to leave a review!
Enjoy!
Ratings and Reviews
Solid And Gets The Job Done
It does the job as a way to learn and remember words. The generated voice can occasionally be difficult to understand. The UI takes a bit to get used to, but for the most part makes sense. It is possible that some words exist in different categories or lists. When you quiz yourself over time you can see multiple of the same flash card. This isn’t ideal, but I guess could be handy to really ensure you know a word. One feature I really really wish is to be able to edit existing flash cards, such as by expanding their meaning. I don’t agree with some of the word translations ( or some words could be said multiple different ways when displayed without any context) so it would be amazing to be able to tweak or add to existing cards. A second feature would be the ability to create my own flash cards. Some words I learn do not exist in the app, so I cannot perform any training on them. This app has very nice data displayed and overall is fun and very handy for learning.
Will be even better once some issues are addressed.
I've been using Benkyo Pro (including the additional content) for a few months. I'm very glad that the developer is continuing to work on the app. That's a big plus. I use this app for the FlexSRS flashcard system. Once I put the things I want to study into it, I really like how it works. It's very smart. Unfortunately, it's being held back by some major issues. This app is organized in a way I'm not familiar with (decks, JLPT, lessons, grades, etc), and it's difficult to use as a normal person who just wants to do flashcards. This app needs ONE unified vocabulary list with ONE entry per term that works with FlexSRS. Common phrase "sumimasen" has four entries across two vocab lists, and two of those only have half the definition. There also needs to be a list of the cards that are in the FlexSRS deck where I can remove individual cards from the deck. As it is now, I have to do it by memory. There problems are ridiculous and difficult to deal with, but hopefully they'll be fixed in a future update. The widget update was very useful. I'm pretty unhappy with the update that makes visually distracting changes to the writing flashcards, like telling what to draw right where I'm trying to draw and alerting me whenever the broken identification system thinks I'm right. The border turns blue too for some reason. I hope the app will become more simple and functional soon.
Everything You Could Ask For
I’ve spent a while trying to teach myself Japanese, but as someone who likes to get into the nitty gritty aspects of things, a lot of my options felt like they were just a few inches short of what I needed.
The likes of Duolingo and Lingodeer spend a lot of time trying to get you to run before you know how to walk and, in my opinion, often feel like they unintentionally make learning japanese more challenging as a result.
Benkyo does a lot more to help break down those building blocks, letting you choose what to study and helping hone your weak spots. They have a library hiragana, katakana, kanji, and vocabulary, all sorted by reading level, with tools designed to help you automatically review what you choose to put in your flash card pool. They also have sections that let you practice your writing, which is really helpful for kanji especially.
The only thing it’s missing is grammar, but the Sensei app has that covered. Admittedly, I wouldn’t mind a more thorough way to review it, but it does more than enough on its own.
The only thing I wish it had that is a way to intuitively look at your pool of flexSRS flashcards after you’ve added them. I’ve had to re-search a lot of my flash cards to put them in my lists.
Either way, it’s well worth your time if you want to learn Japanese. It’s designed to be used in tandem with other courses, but it’ll do a LOT of the heavy lifting for your studies.
App Privacy
The developer, Romain Pellen, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
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- Purchases
- Location
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
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Information
- Seller
- Romain Pellen
- Size
- 152.9 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 14.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, French
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2024 Romain Pellen
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Benkyō Pro $5.49
- Benkyō Pro $34.99
- Benkyō Pro $79.99
- Benkyō Pro $9.99
- Benkyō Pro $2.99
- Benkyō Pro $59.99
- Benkyō Pro $19.99
- Benkyō Pro $129.99
- Benkyō Pro $199.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
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