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Kanji Loop

Learn Japanese characters straight from your lock screen

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iPhone lock screen with a Kanji Loop widget showing the character 氏
The lock-screen widget — kanji, readings and meaning, sitting next to the clock
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What I did

  • Lock-screen widget for learning kanji
  • WidgetKit widgets on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch
  • UX mixing traditional Japanese type with a modern iOS feel
  • Payments and authentication
  • In-app bonus reading and meaning exercises

About the project

Kanji Loop turns the screen you already glance at fifty times a day into a study tool. You choose the Japanese characters you want to learn and Kanji Loop cycles them through a widget on your iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch — so the learning happens in the gaps, without opening an app.

Bonus exercises inside the app then test the readings and meanings of whatever is currently on your loop.

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How a Widget Can Make Your App Explode

Lock screen widgets are some of the most valuable real estate on a phone — and paired with the right marketing, they can do more for an app than a feature list ever will. Kanji Loop is built around that bet.

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