Yep, if you really want to learn kanji, then lifetime is the only option. I wish I had gone for that from the start, rather than wasting my money on annual subscriptions first. Well, at least I eventually got my lifetime in a Christmas sale.
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Exactly, I see WK as a resource like a dictionary. Even after L60, you’ll want to dive back in and check-up vocab and kanji. Also, people seem so time-focussed, “I only want to use this service for a year, two years” etc, why the short-termism? Kanji learning is a task which takes a lifetime, even for native speakers. If you’re serious about learning, I feel you should just suck it up, pay the lifetime, trust the SRS, do ya REPS and move on imo. Peace. Mic drop*
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Thanks. I have WK stats just now but this looks pretty good too so will check it out!
You’ll reinforce the Kanji by consuming native material. WK is not the end goal of learning Kanji, consuming native material is. That’s why people are time focused, they don’t want to spend time on WK when you could be using it for something better. WK is a stepping stone, not the end goal.
You can check Vocab and Kanji on multiple online dictionaries, Jisho being one of them. If you just want to use WK, then even after the subscription has expired, you can still use the site to search for vocab and Kanji.
You don’t internalise words by going through a dictionary, you do so by using them.
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Kanji Learner’s Course as well, with a free SRS in Memrise
Hey this talk about subscriptions has gotten me wondering
Say I got a month subscription, and during that month I made it to level 5 (for example). Then that month ended and I didn’t renew my subscription, so the next day I was back to only being able to access levels 1-3
Would I still be receiving reviews for levels 1-5? or will my reviews only be the free level reviews (1-3) ?
I just faced this after my annual subscription ran out a couple days ago lol. I logged in only seeing 5~ish reviews when I’m used to seeing 100+. So yep, you’re reviews get cut down to levels 1-3
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awwwww thats so annoying ;-;
Thnx for letting me know anyways :'D
Your level stays where it is, though. The items from level four and up will still be there waiting when you continue your subscription.
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Yeah thats really good
imagine such a thing didn’t exist and you would have to go from level 3 to the more upper levels once, then lose ur progress. Then start again. Then lose your progress. Then start yet again. . . etc 
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If you have a completely perfect run you can do the whole thing in 1.5 years. I’m talking never getting anything wrong and never leaving a single review or lesson hanging for more than 1 second here. Consider how much you will deviate from that.
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The lifetime usually gets a pretty significant sale near Christmas time. For me it was from $300 to $200
but people say it goes all the way down to $100 these days.<= Forget that bit -
There is a secret 50% off promo code floating around applicable for the annual subscription, that lasts forever. So you would be paying roughly 50$ per year if you found/used it. It doesn’t work for Lifetime.
So it all comes down to: do you think you’re a good enough boy to complete the whole thing in under [math] years? If yes go annual if no get lifetime.
A completely perfect run takes somewhere around a year and ten days, give or take a few depending on how many fast levels we’ve got at the moment. However, the only way to manage that would be to live by a 23.5-hour clock for that whole year. 
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Excuse me since when has it gone down to $100?
I’m pretty sure he was including the fact that you still have level 60 items and below to burn.
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Ah, that’s a fair point.
Just goes to show, people are often wrong.
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So, still $200?
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Yes, I’m afraid so! If it had ever gone to 100 dollars I’d have noticed it, and remembered it! That’s for sure! (I mean, who knows, perhaps someone somewhere somehow got it for that price, anything is possible, but I have never heard of it!)
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Alright, thanks. I’ll see if I can edit that bit of misinformation then
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I would say though that it’s always worth waiting until the sale though. Even if you bought the annual subscription right at the beginning of the year and used the whole thing up before buying lifetime during the sale, you’d still have saved $10 compared to buying lifetime full-price.
It doesn’t sound like the OP is seriously considering buying lifetime right now, but worth mentioning.
(this is obviously a comparison with annual, not monthly, where you would be down ~$10 - but if one is planning to buy lifetime there’s no reason not to first go annual anyway)
Thanks Pabbles - any hints on where to source the annual promo code? - that sounds like a great offer if it’s available and then I can consider upgrading to lifetime at xmas.
Definitely not going for a speedrun - but also not sure if I will keep going after level 30-40, so completion time isn’t my main driver.
Thanks 