Flashcard and spaced repetition (SRS) tools for keeping vocabulary and kanji in long-term memory. Compare them on scheduling, ready-made Japanese decks, audio support, and how easy it is to add your own cards.
Free on desktop and Android, with thousands of shared decks. Yomitan and asbplayer can send new cards straight to it.
Android app for learning kanji, with stroke-order writing practice, flashcards, multiple-choice quizzes and spaced repetition, plus kanji and word search. The beginner kanji, radicals and kana are free with no ads; a one-time purchase unlocks the remaining kanji and custom study sets.
Open-source spaced repetition flashcard program and the most widely used SRS tool among Japanese learners. Use shared decks or build your own, with audio, images and custom card layouts. On Android it's called AnkiDroid (free); on iPhone, AnkiMobile (one-time purchase). All sync through free AnkiWeb.
Free Anki deck of the 1,500 most useful beginner words. Each card shows the word inside an example sentence with it highlighted, plus the reading, meaning, and audio for both word and sentence; pitch accent can be switched on. Download it from AnkiWeb or GitHub.
Free, open-source app for practising kana and kanji writing and reading, with stroke-order practice, flashcards and spaced repetition. Study by JLPT level, school grade or WaniKani level.
All-in-one study app covering vocabulary, kanji and grammar with spaced repetition, quizzes and ready-made lists for JLPT levels and textbooks.
Free Anki add-on that lets other tools, such as Yomitan and asbplayer, create Anki cards for you in one click.
Flashcard and spaced repetition app with a cleaner interface than Anki and ready-made Japanese decks, including community decks.
