Once you've got hiragana and katakana down, the best app for starting N5 kanji is Kanji Puzzle https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microlancer.kanjipuzzle

But that's just my opinion because I made the app.

The ones I use are Renshuu, iKnow and Kanji Study. All the three are pretty popular among students

Hi there! It's great that you're exploring different apps to learn Japanese. Variety can definitely make learning more engaging. 😊 That said, I understand your worry about accuracy. Many apps focus on simplicity, which can sometimes lead to inconsistencies.

Self-study apps are great for memorising kanji, vocabulary, and expressions, but they're not the best for improving speaking skills. If you'd like more personalised guidance, you might want to try online lessons with a tutor. For example, SuikaTalk offers tailored lessons with professional tutors who can help you practise speaking and explain things clearly.

https://suikatalk.com/

Sign-up is free, and a lot of tutors offer free trial lessons, so it's definitely worth checking out!

I would recommend studying the grammar from grammar textbooks (you can just look up the name of the textbook and add “pdf” at the end) and then use anki or some similar tool to memorize vocab. A mix of kanji and kana is good. I would recommend learning the main kana for new words and then kanji for words you already know. Maybe 10-15 new words a day and 5-10 new kanji a day. The numbers really only depend on how much you want to put in.

If you are trying to memorize Hirigana and Katakana, I recommend an app called “Japanese!” (Also called “Learn Japanese!!” Some places)

I cannot recommend YuSpeak enough, I don't like paying for apps, especially for subscription type of things and that app has a free option, but I got so into it, I regret nothing! This app is best for understanding grammar, speach, reading and so on. 

Aside that I like Kanji Dojo, Learn Japanese Kanji for Kanji learning, Kanji Toon is good too. 

I also like LingoLegend and LingoDeer. 

Apps can be pretty limited with how much they can teach you (for a reasonable price anyway), what is it specifically you want to study? Grammar, vocabulary, kanji, for example?

Hiragana/Katakana/Kanji: Kanji teacher

Vocabulary: AnkiApp (with premade jlpt csv list from the internet)

Grammar: Bunpo

Reading: Todai easy japanese news

Hello Talk. I enjoy the 10 minute phone calls with people in Japan.

Human Japanese, LingoDeer.

For kanji, Kanji Study for sure.

I'm looking for a good app for vocabulary myself, if anyone can recommend one.

Renshuu on the AppStore has been phenomenal. It’s a better version of Duolingo. And they also have a very active discord where they host free live classes a couple times a week for all levels from beginner to advanced of reading, grammar, vocab.

Aside from flashcard apps (I also highly recommend Anki), most (web) apps like Duolingo, etc are very inefficient and will waste your time if you are a serious learner. At most use them on the side or better don’t use them at all. Notable exceptions: The “From Zero!” online course as well as the “Human Japanese” app are good resources that can each effectively replace a physical textbook.

Duolingo is pretty good

Bunpro - best srs system, grammar and Vocab. Graded readers, community involvement, it’s really good

Anki - https://apps.ankiweb.net/

Single best flashcard app. Very customisable with addons made specially for using it to study japanese. The interface isn't very pretty as it reminds one of excel but it gets the job done. People shilling worse alternatives pretend it's hard to use because of ton of features you can safely ignore, but it's simply not true if you only use it to rep your cards and not fiddling with settings.

Yomichan or any other popup dictionary for your browser

Makes it much easier to read stuff on the internet thanks to very quick lookups. Can be used to generate anki flashcards too if you set it up. Some people find it useful.

/r/LearnJapanese

/r/Japaneselanguage

I liked Memrise. They’ve changed everything on there now so I have no idea if it’s still good or not

I am based in the US and I am using Mango that I get access through my local library for free.

I believe Renshuu is free with some limitations, and then it's not crazy expensive if you want the Pro features

Google Maps.

WaniKani, LingoDeer, Bunpro, JA Sensei, NHK Easy News, noFluffKatakana, and Anki decks. :)

App are good for reviewing stuff but they won’t replace a textbook, a notebook and a pen.

If you missed it a few months ago, the Glassbow English/Japanese bilingual 36 book collection is on sale this weekend for $9.

https://www.glassbow.com/collection

wanikani.

Duolingo has been good! There's also a series of free apps that have more generic names like "Kanji Study" "Japanese Grammar" but the icons all have the word "Poro" on them, they're good but they're more for reference rather than active learning.

I also liked the app "Memrise" because it taught some stuff I hadn't encountered in Duolingo yet, but it's a bit more ad-y.

r/learnjapanese >> wiki >> starter's guide

10 minutes of looking at vocab will not teach a language, pick up a gammar book like genki1 or tae kim online. words are important but they aren't a language

If it’s available in Australia, try Wagotabi. So far it’s been immensely fun and I’m actually learning a lot.

if you like video games, you can try WonderLang

It is an RPG that teaches you and gets you to practice as you play. It has a proper story and introduces new vocabulary words during NPCs chats and you review them in spaced repetition based combats. It has modes for beginners, A1 and A2 levels. Overall a fun way to practice.

No matter what you do, if you only do it 5/10 mins a day it's going to be really hard to see progress!

Also to answer your question, try Anki. I'd recommend the Core 2000 deck.

Pimsleur Japanese - honestly great just to start getting speaking and getting to hear pronunciation, 30minute daily listening lessons

Bunpro - Grammar & Vocab spaced repetition system

Wankani/Kanwani - Kanji & Vocab spaced repetition systems

There are a lot of Anki decks that will just show you the top 1000 commonly used words but I didn't find them as useful as the above three apps.

Wanikani+bunpro is a good combo but costs money

Renshuu is a good allrounder app, free

Free genki(+quartet?) download as pdf + tokini andy yt channel is a nice combo, free

As extras: Comprehensible input yt channel is good, free Nihongo con teppei beginner podcast is good, free

Try a few things out and see what format and style you enjoy

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"How to Learn Japanese?" : Some Useful Free Resources on the Web

guidetojapanese.org (Tae Kim’s Guide) and Imabi are extensive grammar guides, designed to be read front to back to teach Japanese in a logical order similar to a textbook. However, they lack the extent of dialogues and exercises in typical textbooks. You’ll want to find additional practice to make up for that.

• http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/ (Tae Kim's Japanese Guide)
• https://imabi.org/ (“Guided Japanese Mastery”)

Wasabi and Tofugu are references, and cover the important Japanese grammar points, but in independent entries rather than as an organized lesson plan.

• https://www.wasabi-jpn.com/japanese-grammar/wasabis-online-japanese-grammar-reference/ (Wasabi Grammar Reference)
• https://www.tofugu.com/japanese-grammar/ (Tofugu Grammar Reference)

Erin's Challenge and NHK lessons (at least the ‘conversation lessons’) teach lessons with audio. They are not IMO enough to learn from by themselves, but you should have some exposure to the spoken language.

• https://www.erin.jpf.go.jp/en/ (Erin's Challenge - online audio-visual course, many skits)
• https://www.nhk.or.jp/lesson/english/ (NHK lessons - online audio-visual course)

Flashcards, or at least flashcard-like question/answer drills are still the best way to cram large amounts of vocabulary quickly. Computers let us do a bit better than old fashioned paper cards, with Spaced Repetition Systems (SRS)… meaning questions are shown more frequently when you’re learning them, less frequently when you know them, reducing unnecessary reviews compared to paper flashcards or ‘dumb’ flashcard apps.

Anki and Memrise both replace flashcards, and are general purpose. Koohii is a special-purpose flashcard site learning Kanji the RTK way. Renshuu lets you study vocabulary in a variety of ways, including drills for drawing the characters from memory and a variety of word games.

• https://apps.ankiweb.net/ (SRS 'flashcard' program; look for 'core 10k' as the most popular Japanese vocab deck).
• https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks/japanese
• https://www.memrise.com/ (another SRS 'flashcard' app).
• https://www.memrise.com/courses/english/japanese-4/
• https://kanji.koohii.com/ (RTK style kanji only srs 'flashcard' web app)
• https://www.renshuu.org ( Japanese practice app, with gamified SRS drills and word games)

Dictionaries: no matter how much you learn, there’s always another word that you might want to look up.

• http://jisho.org J-E and kanji dictionary with advanced search options (wildcard matching, search by tag)
• http://takoboto.jp J-E dictionary with pitch accent indications
• https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/ J-E / E-J / J-J / Kanji / Thesaurus
• https://weblio.jp/ J-E / E-J / J-J / Kanji / Thesaurus / Old Japanese / J-E example sentences
• https://sorashi.github.io/comprehensive-list-of-rikai-extensions/ (The rikaikun, yomichan, etc., browser extensions give definitions on mouseover).

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ToKini Andy teaches everything Genki1 does hes on youtube

Minna no nihongo on the wayback machine

I cant stress this enough but Japanese from Zero!!!

I am also newbie in learning japanese. While searching for apps or any kind of resource to learn Japanese, I found these -->

1. Genki grammar book. You can find this book pdf version for free from sites like lingen.

2. kanji study is a good app. Also, i asked to some person on social media. He also suggested this app.

3. This suggestion is a youtube channel which is "learnjapanese with Japanesepod101.com

I hope this helps good luck :)

What I’m currently using mainly is Renshuu, but many people also say Anki

I highly recommend Lingodeer to get the basics, LingQ for reading skill, and wanikani for kanji.

I do like lingodeer for vocabulary, memrise for grammar and yomiwa for translation and Kanji writing.

I am now using Takoboto as my main dictionary. I can export search history / 'favorited' words as flashcards in AnkiDroid (Anki for Android). I also can click on the Kanji and open them in Kanji Study to learn the proper strokes.

Anki is the best thing created by man and I can’t be convinced otherwise.

Takoboto. In my opinion one of the better dictionary apps.

I think this vocabulary is just amazing. Try it out, it has a lot of options.