Hello!
I started learning Japanese late June. I’m not sure if I’ve made steady progress since I still can’t form my own sentences, but I’m starting to recognize more and more words from the content that I consume.
I’m just wondering, how do you deal with learning the kanji for the vocab?
Currently I use another app called Ringotan for drawing kanji, but I wanted to hear other people’s thoughts…
Should I even bother this early on?
Cheers
Yep, use Ringotan! 
I use Kanji Study by Chase colburn. For me it’s well worth it. I started practicing with kanji about 20 words in my vocab journey. I never learn a vocab without being able to at least visually recognize it as such. And for me, writing the kanji helped me actually remember it better. So if you’re up to it, it’s never too early. The sooner you jump in the sooner it gets easier and the sooner you come to hate any sentences without it 
I have never heard about this app, and just downloaded it. It’s so much fun lol, especially when you can connect the app with your wanikani account 
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I use a pen and paper. I definitely believe in the saying “The hand is the visible part of the brain”. Writing the kanji helps me visualizing and breaking down the kanji into smaller components, and I find it really conducive for quickly memorizing kanji in a way that makes it stick properly long term.
Look up the kanji on Jisho to learn the proper stroke order, that’s the order you should follow when writing it yourself.
Using a proper pen is, for me, crucial though. Sitting for longer periods writing kanji with a ballpoint pen is just a huge pain. So I think a gel pen is more appropriate.
The gel pen i personally use is Zebra Sarasa Clip (both 0.5 mm and 0.7 mm). It’s affordable, very pleasant to use, and if you write with care and intent the result can look very nice.
How am I just learning of this app haha. I already have my own system in Anki, but I would have loved this app 5 years ago!!!
Other options:
Jitaku, Kanji!, kanji garden, nintendo ds kanji kentei games
The Nintendo games use sentence context questions.
Another really good option is to use some kind of sentence mining setup that captures the picture, pitch accent pronunciation, audio sentence, and definition from content you have a strong interest in. This takes a lot of setup work, though.
https://arbyste.github.io/jp-mining-note-prerelease/setup/
You can get the Nintendo Switch Kanken game too, though it’s very much focused on the Kanken kanji exams.
Apologies for the late reply, but thanks for the suggestions!
I am a bit biased towards Ringotan in the end, I just wish it was more powerful, something like custom words for specific kanji, or being prompted to write more than one kanji per ‘question’ (like 勉強, 病院, etc.)
I prefer to keep things digital, but I might need to resort to pen and paper after all… the suggested games also look interesting!