About this site

SpecCheck Japanese is a small comparison publication for Japanese learning subscriptions. It exists for one narrow job. A learner who is about to pay for a subscription usually has a short list of two or three products and one question. Which of these fits the way I study?

How we build a comparison

Every comparison starts from the official pages of the products involved. Pricing pages, plan terms, and feature lists are the only sources. We do not copy figures from other review sites, forums, or aggregator listings. If an official page does not state a price or a feature, the comparison does not state it either.

Each article carries the date its figures were checked. Prices in this category change often, and promotions come and go, so treat the date as part of the number.

What we do not claim

We have not purchased the subscriptions we compare. Nothing here is a hands-on review. You will not find phrases like "in our testing" on this site, because there was no testing. What we can do is read the specs carefully, do the plan math in the open, and show which study style each product is built for. Hands-on feel is a real thing, and other sites cover it. Specs and prices are what we cover.

How the site earns money

One of the products we compare, JapanesePod101, runs an affiliate program that pays a commission on sales. The other products in our comparisons, including Bunpro and MaruMori, have no affiliate program that we could find, and links to them earn nothing. Every article states this at the top. The disclosure page has the details.