Read The Kanji Blog

Hi everyone,

While all great things must come to an end, we here at Read The Kanji must announce the end of our free beta test.  Read The Kanji has come a long way, and we feel it has finally reached a point where we feel comfortable charging money to help fund for our server and development costs.  Our goal is to reinvest money earned back into Read The Kanji in order to create the best possible Japanese kanji resource out there on the web today.  To do this, we are in the process of turning Read The Kanji into a subscription based system in order to help keep prices lower than store-bought study materials

In the meantime, while we are busy coding up a robust subscription payment system, we have decided to begin offering lifetime accounts for the fair price of $10.  These accounts will be one-time payments which will allow full usage of the site forever, even after the subscription plans are in place.  This is a great offer as we are planning on lots of active development and big improvements in the future ahead, so it’s a great way for hardcore kanji learners to still get in early and get a great value.

But how will these new plans affect current users?  Well, in short, in won’t.  We’ve decided that all users currently holding accounts will be grandfathered in with lifetime memberships for free!  We received such great support from everyone while building the Read The Kanji system, so this is our way of saying thanks for all of your feature ideas, bug reports, and word/sentence fixes submitted over the past year.

We hope to still have everyone’s continuing support and ideas to help make Read The Kanji the best kanji study tool out there.