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Learn Japanese: HeyJapan

Language Skills Studio · 246,603 ratings · ★ 4.6

4.6
★★★★★
246,603 ratings
5 ★
189,207 (77%)
4 ★
34,476 (14%)
3 ★
11,557 (5%)
2 ★
2,599 (1%)
1 ★
8,717 (4%)
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Top complaints - extracted from 10 negative reviews

Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.

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"getting"
3 negative reviews mention this · 30% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I have a paid version, lifetime subscription. The app is getting pathetically slow day by day and nowadays nothing happens while moving across learning, alphabet, conversation etc. tabs. There is no option within the app to report an error …" - Arijit Das
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"lessons"
3 negative reviews mention this · 30% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Its pretty good for learning and has been helpful to pick up on the characters quickly, but on certain questions it keeps saying I'm getting them wrong and then shows me the exact answer I had written. I literally don't know how to get the …" - Javier R

📋 All 10 negative reviews

Every 1-2★ review we fetched. Use the copy button to grab them all for your own analysis (paste into ChatGPT/Claude with a prompt like "summarize core user problems, group by theme, ignore bugs, focus on missing features").

★★★★ Sebastian Cook 5/2/2026 v3.5.1
Konnichiwa, watashiwa Sebastian desu, I was enjoying this until it hit me with "if you wanna speak Japanese you need premium" don't listen to the 5-star people, if you don't wanna spend money to learn Japanese, pick Airlearn or, dare I say, Duolingo.
★★★★ Lexi Holbrook 4/23/2026
the first like 2 lessons seemed great, but then it just stopped teaching me?? it literally would just put something in front of me and expect to figure out what it means on my own instead of y'know... teaching, the thing the app is supposed to do. Disappointed cause so many people said they loved it, also the voice feature is really bad at hearing you.
★★★★ Raju Sant 4/12/2026 v3.4.10
nice
★★★★ Fox Berry 4/5/2026
App is broken, it's showing katakana instead of hiragana during hiragana lessons.
★★★★ SEPTIAN GHIFARI PRATAMA MULYA 4/4/2026 v3.4.9
there's lot of bug, if you want the detailed just email me then
★★★★ Sagal Siyad 4/3/2026 v3.4.9
nice
★★★★★ Arijit Das 4/27/2026 v3.5.1
I have a paid version, lifetime subscription. The app is getting pathetically slow day by day and nowadays nothing happens while moving across learning, alphabet, conversation etc. tabs. There is no option within the app to report an error either. Developers - please look into this.
★★★★★ Javier R 4/25/2026 v3.5.1
Its pretty good for learning and has been helpful to pick up on the characters quickly, but on certain questions it keeps saying I'm getting them wrong and then shows me the exact answer I had written. I literally don't know how to get the answer correctly because I've re written it plenty of times copying exactly what it shows as the right answer. I think this is a bug, but it's making it hard to continue with the lessons and quizzes.
★★★★★ Mark King 4/9/2026
There is no English language option for selecting what language to learn in. Only American option, which is different in not only spellings but word meanings.
★★★★★ dylan cueto 3/29/2026 v3.4.8
Been speaking right words and grammar , Kept getting try again

Sentiment summary

91%
Positive (4-5★)
5%
Neutral (3★)
5%
Negative (1-2★)

✓ Strong positive sentiment - clone path is harder, users like the existing app.