Android version is still in beta. Progress has been quite slow to catch up to the iOS version, unfortunately.
The app was featured recently in Tofugu’s Japanese learning resources:
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Ohh I see! Thanks for the clarification. I hope the android version will catch up soon; the SRS would be a huge help.
I went through all of N5 yesterday to try it out. There were way less grammar points than I’ve seen on other N5 resources, so it seems it’s not just N1. I’m guessing all levels are probably lacking a bit.
Unrelated : The OP says there is a paid version that unlocks additional features but I don’t see anything about that anywhere. Anyone else find that? I don’t plan on paying for it, but I was curious to see what it would unlock if I did and was unable to find anything about it in the app or otherwise.
As far as I know only the iPhone version has a paid version to unlock additional features. It unlocks SRS and if I’m not wrong also offline reviews.
About the “grammar points”, I am not sure about how many is enough, and I think that Japanese learning textbooks and websites have a tendency to consider “grammar point” stuff that is just vocabulary. I wouldn’t call a “grammar point” a lot of things that in many resources I’ve seen so far are classified as such (including Bunpo).
I think that actual grammar is better studied in a structured way, but vocabulary is acquired more effectively through exposure and immersion. For this reason I wouldn’t bother learning stuff similar to 好きです or 欲しいです on textbooks and apps, but I prefer to see them in stories and similar resources and eventually memorise it. What I want from a grammar resource is to know how sentences are built, how verbs work and stuff like that.
So it’s only the iOS version that has a paid version? I’m on Android, so if that’s the case, it makes sense I was unable to find it.
@Ryouki I’m wondering the same thing. I’m on Android as well and there is no option to pay for additional features. SRS would be great though!
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I had the same question and support only mentioned iOS and never got back to me about specifically Android. Nothing is locked so I’m assuming everything is there without needing a subscription.
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I saw the app, and wondered if it was made by the our friend the Bunpro dev… But then the screenshots looked too different.
What level of grammar are you at and how do you find the lessons?
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Do you get all the grammar lessons free? I’m starting a language learning club and this may be the perfect app. I’m going to play with it now but from what I’ve seen it may be as good as Lingo deer
I believe all of the grammar lessons are completely free. Will your club be online?
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I think all those grammar apps are garbage, better to stick with the classic method, just sit down and study lol.
Not quite. The students meet up in school once a week. Every few weeks twice a week. We will use genki as well
Ah got it! That sounds fun 
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Oh wow, I’ve been using this app for awhile now and totally thought it was Bunpro. Someone told me all about Bunpro and how good it is so I researched it in the appstore and must have gotten Bunpo by mistake. A nice mistake though, I likely never would have noticed until reading this. From experience with websites and blogs in the past I will say that the similar name is likely intentional to help get traffic from competitors with similar names.
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I think it’s more related to the fact that both play on the Japanese word for “grammar.” Bunpo just the romaji, and BunPro throws a fun pun in there.
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I’m excited to get them started. There were a lot more interested than I expected. I can’t wait to see what happens
Mr. Yamada would always appear rectangular face and a pair of glasses through out all apps, textbooks, and mangas xD
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As of the 15th, the app now lets you buy a lifetime membership and all of the perks like offline review, dark theme and access to everything etc on Android
I want to know if you got time to check the app after this post.
I recently started using it, seems good for a beginner. But would you recommend using it? For now N3 is my target and since using books is difficult for me, I rely on mobile apps.
They renamed the app to just ‘Japanese’. @Walter-it Maybe you should change the title somehow to reflect that.
Personally I don’t like such a general name and it was clearly done for it to be more discoverable in the iOS app store. The dictionary I also use is called that, too. This I kind of understand, though, since you can’t find anything in there.
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