iKanji is an easy to use Mac application that will allow you to learn over 2,000 Japanese kanji characters.

If you are studying Japanese then you need iKanji - the most comprehensive kanji study tool available on the Mac, designed with all the care and attention you expect.

Here are some key features of "iKanji":

· 2230 kanji are built-in, and you can easily add your own.
· Covers Japanese school grades 1 to 6, JLPT levels 1 to 4 and 214 kanji radicals.
· Contains nearly 20,000 example words in kanji and kana.
· Many kanji have stroke animations and you can easily record your own.
· Quickly sort kanji by stroke count or radical.
· Search by kanji, meaning, radical and example words.
· Get an 'at a glance' overview of your kanji proficiency by looking for kanji marked with bronze, silver and gold stars.
· See your test performance over time plotted as a graph in each of the testing areas.
· The kana input palette makes it easy for a novice to enter kana characters without needing to enable Japanese text input.
· Simply mark any kanji to quickly build a subset to practice yourself on.
· Freely add notes to each kanji to aide your own learning techniques.
· Kanji are rendered using the beautiful built-in Japanese fonts, not ugly bitmaps as used on many websites and in competing products.
· Designed to take advantage of features in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard including Core Animation.

Requirements:

· 1024x768 minimum screen resolution.
· A basic understanding of hiragana and katakana is needed if you want to learn kanji readings.
· 20MB free hard drive space.
· Broadband internet access.

Limitations:

· This demo will allow you to test only grade 1 kanji.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· A quick fix for iKanji 1.3 that addresses a problem using the test modules under Snow Leopard (only a blank window would open when choosing a test).