I made a small app/tool to display JLPT words on your home screen using a home screen widget. (Only on Android).
I wanted something super passive. When I mindlessly unlock my phone, a word is on screen and it just helps me review/expand my vocab if I happen not to know the word displayed.
Maybe it’ll be useful to others too.
This looks awesome but it seems I can’t download it.
Both on a French and a Japanese Google account I get an error message saying that it is unavailable in my country. Maybe there is a setting somewhere for you to enable in order to share it worldwide?
I wonder if it would work for you through a VPN.
This app is not available for your device.
I also can’t seem to install it. My device is relatively recent (3 years old), and is running on Android 13.
I see.
I don’t have it published to the Japan or France Play Store but I can!
It just takes a while for Google to review the changes. So it might be a few days.
I’ll update when the changes go through for that!
Android 13 should be supported since the minimum API for the app is 33
I wonder why it doesn’t allow you to download it. What sort of phone do you have?
Oh thanks, I thought it wouldn’t work and only depended on my Google account’s country, but it worked!
Good to see it worked. Some things have some sort of IP/regional filtering. I heard Netflix is like that too where something might only be available to certain regions and a VPN can get around that. Like having a VPN for Japan to watch something not available in the US.
I actually already use a VPN to see my home country’s Netflix while in Japan, but didn’t think it would work with Google Play since I’ve seen people saying it was linked to the billing country of the account!
My phone’s a Xiaomi (Redmi Note 9S), and to be more accurate, it’s on MIUI 14, based on Android 13. I’m from a South East Asian country.
It’s odd to me that you needed to publish a specific French version or Japanese version; is this a specific thing for those countries? I’ve handled a couple of Android apps in the past for work, and we didn’t need to specify any country restriction/whitelist for our app to work locally. 
The developer console makes you select the countries where the app will be available.
I only had the US and a couple others but I should just select all of them. I just wasn’t thinking global.
Hahaha :\
This looks great!
Can you select which JLPT you want to see the words for?
Do you intend to also make it available for ios?
Sorry for all the questions!
You can select the JLPT level N5-N1 and turn them off and on to adjust to your level.
I don’t have plans for iOS yet…
The dev account for iOS is a 100 bucks plus I need a Mac for development. Maybe in the future.
Don’t want to spend those 100 bucks on a dev account hehe
Thank you for your reply!
I can completely understand why you don’t have plans for iOS at this point.
On that note, any plans for Windows computer systems? I’d love to have a random new Japanese word pop up when I’m at work 
Hmm didn’t think of PC at all when making this but maybe in the future. I’m not actually an app developer but I do work as a web developer so this was a side project for my benefit haha. I wanted to share it out cause I didn’t seem something like this in the play store.
