Oboeru | Japanese Vocabulary 4+
Learn Smarter, Not Harder
Niklas Peil
Designed for iPhone
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- Free
iPhone Screenshots
Description
Unlock the power of efficient language learning with Oboeru. Whether you're a beginner or preparing for the JLPT, our app is designed to make your learning journey smooth and effective.
Why You'll Love Oboeru:
• Spaced Repetition and ChatGPT: Take advantage of SRS and ChatGPT to optimize your study sessions for maximum efficiency.
• Predefined Collections: Begin your learning journey right away with 400+ flashcards in ready-made collections. These cover a wide range of topics including Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji, Expressions, Travel, Family, Animals, and many more.
• Flashcard Customization: Freely customize your flashcards. Choose to display kanji, kana, romaji, or translations on either side of the flashcard.
• Comprehensive Information: Access example sentences, radical explanations, and mnemonics for any flashcard.
• Customizable Learning: Utilize predefined flashcards or create your own tailored sets.
• Text-Based Collections: Easily generate collections by simply providing a text.
• Anki-Import: Import your existing decks from Anki - Simple and quick.
• Efficient Tagging: Organize your terms with predefined tags or personalize your tagging system.
• Term of the Day: Effortlessly learn a new visualized term every day. On Japanese public holidays, the term of the day will feature the holiday, offering a detailed description and background information to enrich your cultural understanding.
• Daily Reminders: Set up daily push notification reminders to keep your learning on track.
• Public Holiday Push Notifications: Set up push notifications for public holidays.
• Free: No Ads / No In-App Purchases
Download now and start your journey to fluency in Japanese. With Oboeru, learning Japanese has never been easier! Happy learning!
What’s New
Version 3.3.1
Minor fixes and improvements.
We value your feedback! If you have any questions or suggestions, please reach out to us at support@oboeru.io.
Ratings and Reviews
Pretty flashcard app with room for improvement
The AI generated sample reading excercises are an interesting idea, but there is much that can be done to improve the experience further:
1) There should be a button or affordance to have iOS read the sentence out loud slowly. AVSpeechSynthesizer is an easy API to use.
2) A user tap on a word should put that word on the PasteBoard to facilitate looking up a particular word in a dictionary app; your users probably already have "Shirabe Jisho" or "imiwa?" already installed (these apps appear to be frontends to public JMDict content).
Some kanji words are drawn in bold red and some are in plain white. I understand the intent to help with associating the Japanese word to the Engish translation, but I can't figure out why certain words are given this treatment and others are not. The limitation to one color seems unnecessary. Also, correspondence to the english translation is often not what I need; I need to know how to say the word and can't read the Kanji. Best would be to place furigana over the Kanji, but since the sentences are generated by AI, I see why that might be difficult. Tapping on a word to put it on the paste board would cover 90% of the need for furigana, and be very easy to implement.
The "explanations" (also via AI I assume) are typically not very helpful as instruction, though in recent builds of Oboeru.app the explanation appears to contain furigana of Kanji, so that's helpful.
The app bug where reviewing flashcards consumes too much iPhone energy (heating up the phone) is still present.
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Information
- Seller
- Niklas Peil
- Size
- 4.3 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2025 Oboeru
- Price
- Free