Ringo is a WaniKani companion for your Mac with the following features:
Notification of when new reviews are lessons are available using the OS X Notification Center with support for custom sounds
A dedicated study window that allows you to review and learn new lessons without a web browser
A quick view of how long it’ll be until the next review along with how many items are coming up
A quick profile summary, showing your level and current progress in kanji and radicals
Study window has a distraction-eliminating fullscreen mode to aid focus
Latest News
April 3, 2014 — Version 0.8.0 is available, adding the option to use your web browser instead of the study window, updating several dependencies, tweaking the full screen exit button, adding missing menu items to the “connecting failed” menu, and fixing connection errors by using HTTPS as outlined in the API guidelines. The internal updater may not work for updating to this version so, please download a new copy at http://www.ringomac.com/.
Download
Ringo requires OS X 10.8 or later and can be downloaded from the link below. http://www.ringomac.com/
Today I'm releasing the first build of Ringo, a little menubar app for OS X that helps you stay on top of your WaniKani lessons and reviews. It's still considered a beta, so there may be a rough edge or two. I'd love to hear your opinions! I only recently started using WaniKani myself, so if there's anything I've missed please let me know.
Ringo requires OS X 10.8 and can be downloaded at http://jwells89.byethost5.com/. A better address is coming soon, I promise!
EDIT: Version 0.5.1 has now been pushed, which fixes a couple of issues. You can update by selecting Check for Updates… in Ringo's menu.
This is a great application. Good work! Definitely saves me from switching back and forth a bunch of times to a window I have my dashboard open in just to see when the next review is.
I actually have a very early-stage version of Ringo for Chrome, but I really hate the idea of tying anything to a specific browser so work on it has halted for the time being. I am, however, working on a Python+Qt version of Ringo that runs on Windows and Linux. There are a couple of hurdles to get past on those platforms compared to OS X so it probably won’t see the light of day for anywhere between a week and a month from now.
I’ll keep both the original version and Windows+Linux version updated but the original is likely going to get more love simply because it’s the one I use.
Unlikely, I’m sure, but I was just wondering if there’s any chance this will ever become backwards compatible? Regrettably my machine was JUST cut off from Mountain Lion, and with this requiring 10.8+, I’m pretty much out of luck with 10.7.5! Either way it looks fantastic - I’ll add it to my piling list of reasons to upgrade my hardware. (笑)
