🦜 Introducing Tokki — Turn Wanikani & your JP notes -> Flashcards & Playlists

WaniKani API And Third-Party Apps
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Hello WaniKani Community!

I’m David (long-time WK user), and I’ve been building Tokki — a web + iOS app that turns your WaniKani vocabulary (plus any other study materials) into instant** playlists and contextual flashcards** so you can level up your listening and speaking alongside reading.

It is not an AI Language Tutor… It’s more like Anki but imagine you just put in your words → get looping playlists & great flashcards. It’s meant to complement a teacher vs. replace it.

Try it here: mytokki.com — Free trial, $5/month after, iOS TestFlight.

:glowing_star: Why I Built Tokki

When I was around WK level 40, I noticed my reading was improving fast… but my listening comprehension and speaking skills lagged behind.

I wanted a way to use the words I was learning in WaniKani to also improve listening and speaking — without spending hours making flashcards or hunting for audio. I also wanted a way to just get the words in a simple sentence since I’m not as advanced.

That’s why I built Tokki — the tool I wish I had from day one.

Note: I am NOT a Japanese language teacher. I am not a language teacher at all! I just love learning languages and spent A LOT of time with Anki and wanted something better…

:bullseye: What Tokki Does

And a more in depth video for using it with Wanikani

:vs_button: Why Not Just Use Anki?

I used Anki for 10+ years — it’s great, but:

  • Manual card creation is slow

  • No playlists - can’t “loop” your cards

  • No way to use AI to go deeper from any flashcard

With Tokki: Import your words→ Instant flashcards + playlists → Learn faster with context & audio → Dive deeper with ChatGPT. (e.g., Import 50 tricky WK words → Seconds later, you have playlists and flashcards ready to use)

:speech_balloon: Feedback Welcome

I’d love to hear your thoughts, suggestions, or bug reports.
Try Tokki with your WK studies and let me know how it works for you.

Happy learning! 頑張って！

Note: Tokki is a third-party application not affiliated with WaniKani or Tofugu. Tokki only uses your WK API key in read-only mode.

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Btw, do you have plans to hire developers in the future?

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If people end up using this - then yes :slight_smile: But that’s TBD right now :smile:

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I sort of stumbled through the setup. It felt a little un-guided, and at most steps it wasn’t real clear what I should be doing. Then it told me I needed to create a playlist. I tried to do that, and got the following error…

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Oh no! Thank you very much for telling me and sorry that happened… That’s not a good experience. I look into the bug and I think I fixed it…

In the meantime, if you go into Settings you can make sure you have the right language setup and then try again. I’ll also give you premium for free so you can use all the features.

Thank you!

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You can create cards with video image, pitch accent, full sentence and full sentence audio with 1 click with Memento+Anki. For free.

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Thank you for sharing! That’s really cool and I hadn’t seen that before. Great tool for advanced users!

I’m earlier in my Japanese journey so this wouldn’t work for my exact use case since I often have specific words, grammar and phrases I’m trying to learn and it’s harder for me to find them automatically in a good format with audio.

For example, I had a Japanese class this morning and there were some phrases I’m less comfortable with so I took my notes and added these words to my Tokki:

郊外
初めて会った時
出身はどこ
血液型は何型ですか
結婚してるか、聞いても良いですか
個人的な
二回目

Here is what some of these now look like in Tokki

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This is now a playlists I can internalize and the checkmarked items are flashcards I saved in Tokki.

Thanks also for sharing the cost issue. I made Tokki as a passion project to help language learners so I lowered the price significantly since I don’t want that to be a barrier…

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Wow, great app! I’m currently trying it out on iOS and so far I’m enjoying it. One thing though, during the initial set up, it asked whether I want the male or female voice. I’d love it if there is an option to mix it up though. Break the monotony a bit. Also, I noticed a small mistake in the AI-generated mnemonic (see pic, the reading’s supposed to be やくどうてき), not sure if it’s helpful but I thought I’d point it out. Anyway, great app! Loving it so far.

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Thank you Anya! I’m so glad you like it.

Thanks for the suggestion on mixing up the voices - I’ll work on adding a randomization option. Hopefully can get that out by early next week.

As for the mnemonics - I’ll work on improving them. I had an AI model that was more accurate but it took a long time in producing them… I’ll work on another solution since I’ve noticed it’s also more like 95% accurate (e.g., sometimes there are also multiple pronunciations).

Will keep you posted and thanks again!

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I found the sentence looping to be particularly helpful feature, thanks! I agree with the previous poster that it would cool to be able to switch it up between male and female voices. Out of curiosity where are these voices from? Are they TTS?

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Hi, I tried signing up for the premium but after I paid, I wasnt being redirected back to the app and I am still in the free user category. Please help. Ty!

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Hi Anya - I see you are Pro on my end so I’ll email you right now to debug.

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yes it works now. TY so much!

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Thanks fenderdesu - great to know you like the looping feature and would like the multiple voices - hopefully can tackle that this week.

As for the voices, they are TTS (I use Google voices). There are a number of choices to choose from so I’ll see if I can add more variety as well.