One of the biggest features I wish WaniKani had was the ability to choose when you level up.
I am a completionist, I want to get through all of the items on a given level before moving to the next one. It’s why I created a userscript to show my vocab progress on the homepage. However WaniKani pushes you through once you complete just 90% of the kanji for that level, and all your progress bars reset. Now if you continue to do the rest of the kanji and vocab you can’t see your progress. This absolutely kills my motivation. Truely it’s the reason I’ve been stuck at such a low level for so long (well that and that I’m doing kaniwani alongside it and learning how to write all the kanji… oh and my life is hella busy haha).
The solution, now that they have the advanced tab, is to stop before hitting 90% of the kanji, but what happens if you accidently do just one additonal kanji? LEVEL UP! I wish there was a way to select what triggers a level up. A nice drop down in the app settings that has options like “90% Kanji (default)”, “100% Kanji”, “100% Kanji & 100% vocab”, ect.
The other option is to just reset your level if you accidently go over, but that resets your kanji progress as well for that level. Maybe worth it since you could just do all of the lessons again and review them quickly, but that’s still a lot messier than simply being able to select when you level up. I believe vocab is equally if not more important than the kanji itself. Learning how and where the kanji are used is the whole reason you learn the kanji in the first place. Knowing 交 means “mix” and 番 means “number in sequence” doesn’t help you when you’re faced with 交番. Is it “mix numbers in a sequence”? Nope it’s “police box”.
Can the next (script breaking) quality of life update be for us to choose when we level up? Please Tofugu, I beg of you! 
