In the wild
It looks at home, at home.
kanjiframe greets you every morning with a new character — a quiet nudge to keep learning, do your reviews, and fall in love with the script itself. No screen glow. No apps begging for attention. Just paper-like ink on your shelf.
At the times you choose — once at breakfast, again with your evening tea. Each refresh is a tiny, welcome surprise.
JLPT N5 to N1, the official kanji-of-the-day, exotic rarities, anime & manga favourites, corporate-life survival kanji. Mix freely.
Turn on vocabulary mode and compounds like 竜巻 or 残業 appear — built from kanji you have already met.
E-paper emits no light and needs no power to hold an image. It is a picture first, a teacher second.
Three ordinary AA batteries. The frame wakes, refreshes, and goes back to sleep in seconds.
Picture mode turns it into a classic e-paper photo frame — crop, rotate and send any image from your browser.
Show only the character for a purely aesthetic frame, or add readings, meaning and an example word. Toggling refreshes just those lines on the e-paper — instantly, without a flicker.
The full ladder, from your first 日 to the last stretch before N1. Combine levels freely.
A curated daily pick — the frame’s own little editorial page.
29 strokes of melancholy, roses (薔薇), lemons (檸檬), mythical beasts. Kanji as conversation pieces.
Blades, curses, ninjas and souls — the characters you keep seeing in your favourite series.
残業, 会議, 締切 — the survival vocabulary of the Japanese office, with a wink.
Whole compounds instead of single characters, drawn from the pools you enabled.
Join the frame’s setup Wi-Fi with your phone — a page opens by itself and asks for your home network. Two minutes, once.
Pools, layout (1, 2 or 4 characters), portrait or landscape, refresh times — all from your browser.
Shelf, desk, wall. No cable required — it runs on three AA batteries for months.
Every morning, a fresh character is waiting. Curious? The readings are right there. Busy? It’s still a lovely picture.
All sizes run the same firmware: identical pools, schedules, picture mode and battery life. Only the wall presence differs.
*estimated, one refresh per day — final figures with production hardware.
Grand (13.3″ in an A3 frame) is the statement piece you hang on a wall and read from across the room. Classic (7.5″ matted in A4) has the framed-print look for shelves and desks. Mini (7.5″ filling an A5 frame) is the most affordable and fits anywhere — it makes a lovely gift. The electronics and features are identical throughout.
No. The frame serves its own settings page to any browser on your Wi-Fi. Press the button on the back, open the page, done.
The frame deep-sleeps between refreshes and only wakes for seconds. With one refresh a day we target several months on three AA cells; more refreshes trade battery for variety.
kanjiframe isn’t a replacement — it’s the gentle daily cue that gets you to open Anki in the first place. And on the days you don’t, you still met one character.
The content format already carries script and language tags — hanzi/HSK pools and more interface languages are planned as free content updates.
Switch to picture mode, crop and send any photo from your browser — it’s stored on the frame and survives battery changes. Switch back whenever you miss your kanji.
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