For the SRS, I think Anki is the most popular and famous? There’s ready-made WK decks on there already
For a more round website, I personally suggest https://www.kanshudo.com
But there’s honestly soooo many options available, and you can check them all out on the Resources thread (linked on the first reply here). Good luck!!
PS: so the US does not have any lotteries at all…???
I’d love to take part in something like that. I also come from a struggling background, so it’s something close to my heart. I’m no rich by any means, but I could donate a little every once in a while ^v^
me, too, and back when a lot of people said the same, I thought about how to make it work. But unfortunately, we need a community pool to make that work. and they said no:
We need at least a community gift certificate account or a similar way to pool a sum of services that we can then allocate to certain users for it to work respectfully imo.
Otherwise who deals with the awkward consequences when it goes wrong (donations don’t come through, life happens, etc):
Ideally we could have an account where WK users buy collective services credit, and then WK users decide where to allocate it, but ultimately, perhaps it’s admin or legal hassle they want to avoid. The US is pretty litigation heavy, maybe they’re really worried someone is out to sue the crabigator.
And as for personal donations - this is a lovely thought
Let’s say I want to offer someone annual. I open a thread, offer it, get 10 responses. I give it to the first person who responded. 5 other people say they could donate. Then they choose 5 users to receive that donation. Meanwhile. 3 of those users have left because they thought the original gift was gone and they made other plans, so 3 of the donations are wasted. And then one person who wanted to donate gets the flu and doesn’t send theirs, so a 4th person is just disappointed they thought they would get something and don’t.
9 months later, someone who got a donation but didn’t realise it randomly logs into their account and mysteriously discovers they have 3 months of WK support remaining.
If there isn’t some organised way to allocate things centrally, it’s really hard to organise gifts among strangers. And someone new to the community who needs a WK community scholarship will be a stranger to the regulars here who will be most likely to donate.
And it’s out of the question to privately collect the money and pay money to WK, we don’t know each other that well, and you can easily end up with an unwelcome tax bill
Also, it’s really awkward and unbalanced for me personally to put myself forward like that in the community. I don’t want to make a really showy single post to donate to just one stranger every 5 years and get a lot of other people’s hopes dashed. I would feel self serving and awkward, and it doesn’t solve the problem that most people (including me) would really rather donate regularly with more impact as a group (but individually low key)
I’d also love to chip in, just shout me out in case you guys figure a legal way to do that 
(This is derailing the thread now lmao, oopsie)
Would it work if we all chose a user that is trusted in the community. That user would ‘deal’ with the money and manage the ‘money account’.
As for the money account, I don’t know, surely there’s a website out there that offers ‘community money pot’ services where we can do it?? Perhaps we can just open a gofund me account just for this?? We’ll have to think on it!
Then, users just donate to that pot whatever amount they can. Once we reach the amount of money that is enough to get an annual subscription, we can offer the ‘lottery’ in a thread here in WK community?
Just some ideas 
Yeah, it’s actually pretty fun 
I like using it when I want something more playful and game like, when I want a more classic and serious study approach I usually use Algo instead
although that would be awesome(!) i think that sounds a little too complicated for anything like that to realistically happen LOL. i really appreciate all these thoughtful responses, it makes a broke teen like me feel appreciated :^)
i think the most feasible option would be for someone to send the money outside of WK (like a “settled outside of court” kind of deal lol). but again, i don’t really know. i might just put a hold on my japanese learning journey for now, as i have a bunch of classwork to deal with plus my inaccessibility to paid services holding me back a little ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
i do wanna bring up the “freemium” idea again because that could possibly work depending on how much money WK would get from ads. it would be annoying, but i think it could work for people like me, aka people who can’t really shell out the money for a monthly/yearly/lifetime subscription but still think WK is the best way to learn japanese !
it would still be totally awesome for a pure-of-heart person to magically send 300 dollars my way… in my dreams LOL
I think it would be good if wk has it available for free for a certain amount of time, like a week in the summer, then people will keep coming back every summer to level up. I don’t know if wk would want to do that as a business stand point tho. Just wanted to put it out there.
Look at us working out the details haha
That just might work! It seems it’s possible to even send the money directly to a business if wk would be willing: https://support.gofundme.com/hc/en-us/articles/204532398-How-to-transfer-funds-to-a-business-or-organization-bank-account
If someone at wk says yes to that I’ll set it up.
If someone is willing to manage it personally that’s another option, ie, money is collected on go fund me. They take it to a personal account and pay wk. but we would need a volunteer, ideally someone pretty active here. I wouldn’t want to be in charge of it personally due to my situation and the taxation and reporting requirements but someone in a different situation could be fine with it
Maybe we’ll manage to support you. Or by the time we make it you’ll be employed and our top donor 
Sounds good. Hopefully WK mods are ok with doing that? (Should we at them 
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Otherwise, a personal one shouldn’t be too bad either. I think the organiser can just check the pot once a week to see if there’s enough in there to release a prize or not. Shouldn’t be too complicated 
kanji garden, kanjidon, kanjiverse
I don’t want to open the pandora box again, but I do love these ideas. However, I am also a bit pessimistic about the legal matter. It is always tricky when it comes to donations (unless it is done totally informally, between us).
I don’t want to come back to what Michael said because I think it is loud and clear. But I do wonder whether a community pool falls under ‘lottery’ regulations even if it is not a lottery but a collective fund (of the company) that can be attributed, through individual basis and after certain conditions met, to individuals in need. In that case, this neglects totally the part of “luck”, and it is solely focuses on one-by-one case of social need.In my mind this what Bunpro does. But it is also true, that Bunpro is based in Japan, not the US.
If not, what would be helpful, but I think that was mentioned previously, to have an option to gift a “subscription” to another person, whether one, or more months. And if that would be cumulative, I could imagine multiple people gifting one month-long subscriptions to a member in need ( and this totally eliminate the need to have a third person that collects money from other members).
I think probably the best way to do this is for wani kani to just allow gifting memberships between users. Which I think they already do and this allows a clean non legally risky way to help out others.
I’d also be fine with a basket of funds held by wani kani used for students primarily in colleges and what not. So you’d need a school email ending in .edu and then its not a lottery at all. Because its a specific user, who is also a student.
Try kanjidon
Hey! So probably not exactly what you are looking for, and not completely free but definitely much cheaper…
If I didn’t use Wanikani I would use Remembering the Kanji + Tango Vocab Books. RTK is your kanji, broken up by radicals and using mnemonics to remember them, and the Tango books would be your common vocab / readings / reinforcement. This is a similar setup that ToKini Andy recommended awhile back. Plus both do have free Anki sets you can find. Might not be for you, but maybe someone seeing this will take interest!