Alternatives to Renshuu
A Japanese study app for vocabulary, kanji and grammar, with dictionaries and games. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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Renshuu
A Japanese study app for vocabulary, kanji and grammar, with dictionaries and games.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Renshuu.
WaniKani
A spaced-repetition web app that teaches Japanese radicals, kanji and vocabulary with mnemonics.
WaniKani is web only and teaches kanji and vocabulary through mnemonics on a fixed lesson order, but it does not cover grammar or include dictionaries.
Bunpro
A spaced-repetition study platform for Japanese grammar and vocabulary, on the web and mobile.
Bunpro focuses on Japanese grammar with SRS, example sentences with audio and textbook study paths, on web, Android and iOS.
Anki
Flashcards that schedule themselves, showing you a card just before you would have forgotten it.
Anki is open source and covers any subject with self-scheduling flashcards and shared decks, but you build or download Japanese decks yourself instead of a guided app.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Satori Reader
A Japanese reading service with graded stories, audio and detailed grammar and kanji explanations.
Migaku
A Chrome extension that turns YouTube, Netflix and other sites into language learning material.
Clozemaster
A language-learning game that builds vocabulary through fill-in-the-blank sentences in over 50 languages.
Memrise
A language learning app with courses built around spaced repetition and videos of native speakers.
Language Reactor
Browser extension and toolbox for learning languages from native videos on Netflix and YouTube.
