We just published a blog post announcing that you can now enable kana support in the Android app. This means that Japanese learners now can write complete words and sentences, not just kanji! Read more in this blog post:

http://blog.skritter.com/2014/11/kana-is-here-now-available-for-android.html

Hopefully it will be available for iOS and PC soon too. )

I wonder, is there way Skritter Chinese users can use this to learn the kana?

I've been meaning to learn the kana for a while, but never got past about halfway through hiragana.

Is there a way to use Skritter for both Chinese and Japanese?

@kai, Yes, with an active account you can download Skritter Japanese for Android. You can then login using the same credentials you use for Chinese and you'll be able to start studying Japanese.

You'll first want to enable kana, then browse lists to add hiragana or katakana.

cool, thanks Josh, I will try it!

My next request will of course be Korean ;-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_mixed_script#Visual_processing

Let me know how it goes! It still needs some tweaking, but I'm curious to get feedback about kana that are too strict or lenient. One of the hurdles with recognizing kana is that they tent to be very curvy compared with kanji.

I've actually wanted to buckle down and learn hangul myself, but it seems that each time I start thinking about it the day has passed and the week is already over.

Fantastic... The strictness works great for me, my kana needs a little bootcamp.

I can't write the small circle as in katakana's pa. Am I doing it wrong or is it a bug? My stroke gets never recognized...

It's looking like it's way too strict. If you write a slash from the top-right to the bottom-left in that area it should write the stroke. We'll get this fixed up in the next update.

The main issue at this moment (and this is directly based on complaints from my students) is that it's still not possible to practice words based on kana alone. My students want to learn words, lots of words, but they don't want to learn all kanji belonging to these words yet.

There should be a way to leverage Skritter's great interval training for Japanese without being forced to learn all kanji for the words from say, Minna no Nihongo.