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
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== 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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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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okay so. i’ve been following along with this series of apps (kana, sensei, etc) ever since a friend recommended them to me and literally i cannot express to you just how amazing this is. as soon as i saw how cheap the yearly fee for the pro version was i was like “shut up and take my money” and now that i’m actually getting into using it properly i just HAVE to leave a review.for a little background. this app literally has 13k kanji built into it + vocab all the way up to and beyond jlpt1. you can choose what to quiz yourself on via group settings (eg jlpt levels) or via personalised lists (which is SUPER handy, especially when you’re like me and want to take things at your own pace!) like kana, it has the added benefit of multiple different types of quiz questions (even questions make you write kanji out and helps with stroke order, which, again, literally PRICELESS) + the flashcard algorithm is SUPER helpful. because it requires no wifi connection, it’s also very easy to just take a really quick quiz while you’re taking a walk or waiting in line or sitting with nothing to do.the one potential improvement i could think of is a practice score colour system for kanji and/or vocab like in kana, or even a rating system similar to the lesson rating in sensei. even so, the lack of that doesn’t detract at all from the quality of the app, so i don’t mind too much at all.overall, if you’re looking for a good japanese app for learning kanji, kana, + vocab, this is it. i could not recommend it more to ANYONE for the sheer volume of stuff it has in it, and the fact that so much of it is free is just on another level. ありがとうございます, 先生!!! ( ＾∀＾)
Developer Response
I think your comment is my favorite so far! ✨ Thank you very much! The practice score colour system for kanji, vocabulary & kana is now added to the app (v1.0.5)! I also take note of your idea for the Sensei rating system. Be sure to let me know if you have any other suggestion. Again, thank you so much for taking the time to write such an awesome review, it gives me energy to keep improving the app! Best of luck in your Japanese learning journey!
High quality Japanese learning app
BobbyMcBob23
This app is deep. Only spent a day with it, and haven’t yet fully got to grips with it. But everything about it is well made, high quality, and it’s clear a lot of work and attention has gone into it. Every kanji has several translations for katakana and hiragana. Stats about its JLPT level, stroke count, Korean and pinyin equivalents, and lots more. You can learn kanji, kanas, reading, speaking, sounds, meaning, and lessons are heavily customisable, so you can learn in almost any way you want. Interface is well designed and visually very pleasing to work with, and I repeat, it’s so deep and customisable that after a day with the app I still haven’t got a handle on everything that it offers. I have to admit I’m not sure if there’s a Duolingo-type conversational/sentence type learning lesson structure in there (because again, it’s deep) but there is a free grammar app from the same creator. And even without that, I’d still not hesitate to give it five stars. Very well-made learning experience.
Love it
mikey1114144114
So far ive seen no major bugs and i have been doing duolingo and lingodeer for quite a long time and i say that if you have motivation and dedication to learning japanese like myself then this app is perfect for ticking along with vocabulary kanas and the dreaded kanji to master these because everything is set out before you and you can access and learn these at any time. Furthermore the flashcard system provides an easy way to categorise vocab and kanji to learn. Overall a great app and would definitely recommend to anyone who wishes to become fluent in Japanese
Boosted my Kanji knowledge
Stuo77
Update: it now crashes every single time it asks me to draw a character. It’s very frustrating :( I’m really enjoying using this as part of my mixed method approach. I came to this having already learned hiragana and katakana and some basic Kanji. My understanding of Kanji has measurably improved in just a few days of use. It’s enjoyable to use. The quiz is excellent, I forced myself to use hard mode where you have to type or draw the answer and it’s supercharged my learning. I will say that I’m a dedicated learner and spend at least a few hours a day learning Japanese every single day. It would be difficult to retain if you only work sporadically so that’s where the spaced repetition reminders should help. Great learning tool which is very well implemented.
Developer Response
Thanks for the heartwarming feedback! However I am concerned about your bug report, please engage with me at app.development.rpgmail.com so I can identify and fix the issue
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Information
Provider
App to Learn Pte. Ltd.
Size
171.8 MB
Category
Education
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
