[iOS] Tsurukame - native app with offline lessons and reviews

A heartfelt thank you for creating this app. This might as well be the official WK app because it’s that good. I also especially like that you have the option to have the on’yomi readings in katakana. Thanks again for your hard work!

…Now if only my phone would stop offloading my apps right after I use them

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welcome cakeat :partying_face:

I have tried three of them but I couldn’t recognize the Kanji in the reviews. maybe I started this feature with the wrong ones? :smiley: it’s a very neat feature though.

Thanks both for your replies about the fonts, I didn’t realise you could change the fonts back mid review that’s great!

Now that the Jakeipuu app appears to be dead in the water, can you guys steal the cherry-picking feature? It is very, very nice.

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I shifted my workspace from my iPad Pro to a new MacBook Air. I was very happy to discover that Tsurukame can be used on Mac OS Big Sur too. Guess there’s no need to download a bunch of plugins. This app has everything I need. Thanks again for all the work you’ve put in to this app! :smile:

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Thanks again for this awesome app. I only work with the app. I have two requests:

  1. the daily endless phone typing was detrimental to my health. I got an Epicondylitis that’s been bugging me for a year now. Therefore I don’t type the English answers anymore. I type „e“ and then cheat. No need to practise English, really. So PLEASE add Anki mode. We‘re grownups, no need to tell us not to cheat.

  2. it would be great to add a feature where you can cap the number of apprentice. Let’s say, max 100 apprentice and the app automatically won’t let you add new lessons if you hit that number. So instead of fumbling around with the lesson batch size daily, you just enter the max number of apprentice and the lesson batch size adjusts accordingly.

Thank you again!

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This app is wonderful! It works smoothly and has so many helpful features. Thank you very much!

You’re not the first to request these. You can follow up on the requests here

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That’s great, thanks a lot. Your app is my lifeline, just fantastic.

Absolutely love the app! It’s been wonderful and I use it every day.

I am noticing a strange issue, though. For some reason the word イギリス人 never shows up in my reviews on TsuruKame? I never got the lesson for it either, had to do the lesson on WK. I have it due in my reviews on WK but it never shows up on the TsuruKame app.

Any help would be appreciated! Thanks.

An Anki mode would be great. Ever tried to type on the phone under minus ten Celcius? Not fun at all!

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If you search the item, you’ll find that Tsurukame still believes that the item is Level 17.

I just got to give props to the one who made this app. Its allowed me to do my reviews everywhere and at a specific order that is conducive for me. Thank you very much!

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Ahhh that explains a lot. I just started level 17 and noticed I had a single Enlightened vocab word on Tsurukame even though I hadn’t even Guru’d any of the kanji yet…sure enough, it was イギリス人.

Edit 2: When you get a word or kanji wrong on the Mac, the cursor leaves the entry box and you have to click back in the entry box to type again. Minor annoyance, but I just wanted to say it existed.

Edit: I guess the app downloads and opens. Maybe I just don’t understand what not verified for MacOS means. It’s obviously not a Mac app. lol

Is there a possibility to tick the box that adds Apple Mac M1 functionality to the iPad app? Would be nice to use the app instead of the WaniKani website on a Mac. Thanks for all that you do. Truly the best app I have found for using WaniKani.

Hello, I’ve downloaded app few days ago, and it’s very nice.

In my setting “allow cheating” is disabled. Today I accidentally burned vocab 薬 - I’ve entered kanji onyomi, and instead of failing review as would be vanilla behavior for vocab entry, the text shook, which prompted me to remember くすり, and burn the entry. (now I’m facing moral dilemma should I resurrect this item, or accept one small gift and move on with my life :slight_smile:)

So my question - it is documented feature of the app? Is it possible to change the setting?
I understand that I can theoretically pay extra attention during reviews (vocal vs kanji) and fail occasions of incorrect onyomi readings for vocabs myself, to override undesired behavior, but for me it seems like a deal breaker, because I’m sure I have tons of vocab for which I repeat similar mistake.

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Yea, that and the wrong-okurigana shake are currently not possible to turn off. I intentionally miss the next review if I get one of those two shakes, as a way to bypass the issue. But I do wish we could turn them off. I prefer my WaniKani experience to be strict when it comes to marking answers wrong.

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Thanks for the awesome app! I currently live without Internet (oh, so calming…!) so it’s a life-saver to have all this for a reference.

I was wondering if all the reviews that show up on the WaniKani review forecast are automatically downloaded in the app? There always seems to be more listed on the website than what I end up doing on the app over the week (I normally get Internet during the weekends, so my reviews done with Tsurukame get uploaded and new lessons and reviews get downloaded then for the rest of the week).

I’d also like to request the ability to input personal notes and mnemonics on the app. I’ve read that if you do so on the website, it gets added to the app, but that’s not really helpful for me as I use the app much more often than the website.

Thanks!

Will there be an Anki mode any time soon?

I’m suddenly unable to do any reviews or lessons in the app. Trying to do either brings up a blacked out screen with the input box but it immediately sends me to the Home Screen. I’m running the latest version of the app.