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24 alternatives to Neural Net Writes Fake Kanji in Your Web Browser, Stroke-By-Stroke
This tool uses a neural network to generate artificial kanji characters stroke-by-stroke directly in a web browser. It addresses the challenge of kanji writing, which is more difficult than reading for learners of… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Neural Net Writes Fake Kanji in Your Web Browser, Stroke-By-Stroke launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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sketch-rnn model trained to write kanji.
2018 · otoro.net · its alternatives →
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Can neural networks transliterate Romaji into Japanese correctly? - GitHub - Kyubyong/neural_japanese_transliterator: Can neural networks transliterate Romaji into Japanese correctly?
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Realistic handwriting generator. Convert text to handwriting using an in-browser recurrent neural network. Choose from various print and cursive styles. Customize the outputs and download as SVG.
2020 · calligrapher.ai · its alternatives →
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QWANJI▲174Hey HN! I've built this bit of cuteware (software not solving a problem but just for fun) inspired from the patterns made by swipe typing on mobile devices. To me it seemed like the closest thing to an English version of Kanji and it would be cool to consistently recreate those patterns. The implementation is vanilla js to keep things simple (and from a bit of framework fatigue) I'm keen to see how people use qwanji. Any and all feedback welcome!
2024 · byronicalpatrick.github.io · its alternatives →
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Handwriting.io▲353Real handwriting without the pen – no robots, all software
2015 · its alternatives →
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Sketch2Code▲407Turn hand-drawn design into a HTML with AI. By Microsoft.
2019 · learn.microsoft.com · its alternatives →
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An experimental text editor with an embedded neural text synthesizer.
2017 · cyborg.tenso.rs · its alternatives →
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The idea is actually quite simple. As a Japanese learner and a coder, I've always wanted there to be an open-source, 100% free for learning Japanese, similar to Monkeytype in the typing community. Unfortunately, pretty much all language learning apps are closed-sourced and paid these days, and the ones that are free have unfortunately been abandoned. But of course, just creating yet another language learning app was not enough - there has to be a unique selling point. And then I thought to myself: why not make it crazy and do what no other language learning app ever did by adding a gazillion…
2025 · kanadojo.com · its alternatives →
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Cyborg Writer▲114A text editor with an neural text synthesizer
2017 · cyborg.tenso.rs · its alternatives →
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I'm a long time lurker that recently quit my job to work on my own projects, a lot due to the inspiration from Hacker News. Now I have published my first serious project, an app for learning how to write Japanese characters. It's the app I always wanted but couldn't find when I was studying. It tries to be simple to use, you just start the quiz and go with the flow. There's no need to plan and manage your studies, and it uses spaced repetition for better retention. There's a promo page with more details up at http://www.kanjibyhand.com. It's only for Android so far. The free version includes…
2012 · kanjibyhand.com. · its alternatives →
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Released for Hangul Day 2026: how I collected 4,500 lines of handwriting with a smartpen, adapted Alex Graves
15d ago · hangul.ink · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, Just wanted to share a tool i've been working on to help with my own study routine. It’s a browser extension called Lingoku. The idea is simple: we spend hours browsing the web in English every day. This tool replaces some of the english words with Japanese vocabulary based on your japanese level (Similar to Toucan, but with a better user experience). It’s basically an attempt to make the "i+1" method actually passive, you understand the sentence because it's mostly english, but you pick up Japanese words naturally from the context. It uses an LLM in the backend to make sure the…
Dec 2025 · lingoku.ai · its alternatives →
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During the hype of llama.ttf months ago, I was speculating the potential of WASM shaper for even crazier purpose, one that fitter to a font shaper's duty -- to synthesize font at runtime. This project as proof-of-concept implements a synthesizer that generates and rasterizes handwriting-style font, backed by a super-lightweight RNN model (~14MiB).
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Encodes (and decodes) data as emojis. Contribute to keith-turner/ecoji development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Learn kanji by actually writing them, stroke by stroke
Jul 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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NovelAI▲85AI-assisted authorship, storytelling & virtual companionship
2022 · novelai.net · its alternatives →
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An artificial machine learning program that attempts to impersonate the writing style of any given text training set - JacobPlaster/ann-writer
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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KanjiLens▲120Kanji Lens is a Japanese manga translator and learning tool.
Jan 2026 · kanjilens.com · its alternatives →
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AI Anime character generator for iPhone
2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Customizable, animated stroke order for Japanese characters.
2017 · mbilbille.github.io · its alternatives →
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