1.5-year WaniKani user here. WK has been excellent for recognition and readings, but I noticed my handwriting kept falling behind. I could read a kanji perfectly and have no idea how to write it, mnemonics help, but not always. Notebook drills were too boring to stick with daily.
Built https://kanjidraw.com/ to fix that for myself. It’s drawing-focused: stroke-order puzzles, guided tracing, then free drawing, with progress unlocking more as you go. Uses KanjiVG data.
Wanted to share in case any WK-ers have the same gap. Not trying to replace WK, more of a complementary “now actually write it” tool. No account needed.
I wonder if you have looked at other apps that do this already? I use Ringotan on iOS (also available on Android). You can set it to use the WaniKani order of kanji (and give your API key so it knows where you’re at). I tried a few characters on your site, but Ringotan seems much better overall. For example:
start / end stroke points are shown, and practiced before putting it together
when a mistake is made, it takes you back a step (showing start points, or as far back as the character to trace) instead of showing a blank canvas
the font to trace looks like standard handwriting, instead of a brush font
the stroke order, starting position, errors in direction etc are checked as you write (on your site I could put in the wrong order and it would accept it)
Thanks for the advice! I’ll give it a try. I’ve tried some popular ones on web and mobile, and it didn’t work for me in many cases: design, built-in collection of kanji, kanji info, gamification, “variety” of kanji repetition. So that’s the reason I’m developing KanjiDraw.
