Have you tried cram? It’s not srs, but still a great way to test listening with bunpro and have the sentences to check
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One thing I’ve missed coming over from another app (iKnow!) is being tested on my listening comprehension in reviews, particularly with vocab words. Often I’ll get a word right over and over and feel like I “know” it, but then I hear it somewhere and don’t understand 
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I would love to see a deck that focuses on the most frequent kana-only words. I use WK for learning kanji but every tool I’ve found that includes kana only words also includes kanji words. Even just a way to filter to only kana would be great!
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Can you give us some examples of what you’re looking for? Also, if you’re opted into beta youre able to make your own deck if you’d rather
Sure, happy to! An example word would be あなた. Of course, there is a kanji for this but according to jisho.org, it is “usually written in kana alone.” There are lots of words I’ve run into like this. Eg, いくら. Does that make sense? Happy to find other examples.
As for making a deck, yes, that’s true but it’s a lot of effort since all the words already exist in other decks. It seems like filter them should be easy but maybe not?
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Ahh I see. You want words usually found in kana, even if a lesser used kanji exists for them. Not words like さて or でも with really no kanji
Yeah, even if you did make your own bunpro deck, the vocab itself will still have kanji attached. although bunpro usually does throw in example sentences using it in both forms
Honestly in those cases like 貴方 and 幾ら it’s still nice to be able to recognize it as あなた and いくら. Their kanji is used, just less, but still common enough depending on the content. Not the answer you’re looking for, but I would recommend just taking them as they are kanji and all. You don’t have to force yourself to learn the kanji, but after a while of seeing it, youll just sort of know it and recognize it anyway. Cheers
That’s fair. So maybe what I really want is just “top 5000 words” but with all words in the WaniKani database excluded. Basically, I like WK and finds its approach very helpful but because it is focused on the Kanji rather than the vocabulary, it leaves out a huge number of the most useful words. I could just use an existing deck but sync against WK but that causes other issues (particularly if you already have a substantial number of known words from WK—I’ve posted about this before) and it would result in some WK words being introduced first in BP which would (for me) be less efficient.
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Thanks for the response. I know you can go into the deck itself to master a card.
For convenience sake, I think it would be nice to be able to “master” new vocab words while going through your learning queue, like on desktop.
So instead of having to leave the learning queue, you can stay on this screen and master it.
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I personally wish there was a more clear statement on connection of a certain grammar point to another. There’s antonyms and synonyms, sure. But there are plenty of grammar points that seem to have a system level of casual | polite | super polite etc.
I started supplementing Bunpro with youtube channels that explain grammar point, and after using Bunpro for entire N5 and some N4, only on those channels did I learn that some of the points/forms are actually casual abbreviations of the polite versions I learned on Bunpro. Once you know that, you link them in your brain, and it’s much easier to remember them together with the nuance of which one is polite/casual. Very often until the point of “linking them”, I tend to treat each of them separately, which is much harder to learn.
I know on some grammar points it is explained, but very often it is just vaguely mentioned inside of a wall of text in the description. Sometimes the polite/casual version is not from the same level, as some points in N5 has their polite version in N4, for example. And that’s fine, but I think making a clear link to it, like two divs showing the two points, displaying in one color the one ur viewing and in another color the one that’s linked to it (polite/casual) but you have/haven’t yet leared, would be quite nice.
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Ohhhhhhhh I understand now. That would be a nice feature to add.
Very niche suggestion here.
I was moving through a review rather quickly and input an answer I knew was correct. I didn’t pay attention to my IME changing the kana to kanji and had already moved onto the next question by the time I realized the android app both accepted the kanji (I thought it wasn’t supposed to? The desktop site seems not to) and marked it as incorrect. There was no longer a way to fix the review that should have been correct but was recorded as incorrect.
Some means to manually fix niche errors such at that from the review summary screen (e.g. “mark as correct/incorrect” or something) could be nice for those rare instances.
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When you get the answer wrong, hit backspace to try again before going to the next question. @MaxChaotic
That works if you do not accidentally continue past the question. My suggestion is for the relatively uncommon case where you input an answer and click to move onto the next question before realizing the app registered it as incorrect for whatever reason (e.g. a typo, kanji conversion etc). At that point you can no longer go back to the previous question, at least as far as I can tell. Perhaps I missed a feature.
The closest functional solution to this I have found is manually adjusting the SRS level of the incorrectly-marked item to what it would be had the app marked your answer correct, but it’s quite awkward and imprecise to do that.
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This. No missed feature, you can’t correct it after you’ve moved on. Tho I would rather have a way to just undo and go back to previous question instead of correcting it at summary. I often get in a speedy grove and miss mark questions as right/wrong when they’re the opposite. By the end of the session there’s no way I’d remember which ones lmao
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Date badge awarded. You can always go back and check your personal feed to see what date a badge was awarded, but it would be nice if this information were also displayed on the badge page.
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Thanks! My hero! 
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I don’t know if it’s been suggested before but I’d like to be able to bookmark vocab the same way I can bookmark grammar points.
The only options I have right now are : adding the words to my reviews (which I don’t always want to do) and adding a note to those words (which can be time consuming and frankly a bit annoying).
It would be amazing to have a bookmark feature for vocab too !
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You can, just not on the app. Web/mobile web let’s you bookmark vocab and easily find them under content>bookmarks>vocab
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I know this is a few days old now, and I agree a deck like that would be great in Bunpro, but in the meantime, Torii SRS has what you’re looking for. There’s a kana-words only mode.
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Maybe a way to go back a question in reviews. Sometimes I’ve hit enter too fast and skipped seeing what the correct answer is, and would like to go back and see it before it comes back around in the wrap-ups.
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