Kanji and iOS: Gripes

Kanji and iOS. N'e'r the twain shall meet.

Oh sure, there are plenty of apps for "learning" kanji. But so many of them are just plain LAME.

I don't need to "recognize" what a kanji is and what it means. Well, I do, but I also want to be able to WRITE a kanji, then have the iPad/whatever tell me not only whether I wrote it correctly, but how it SHOULD be written, if at all differently -- here, where a SINGLE NIT of a line can make the complete difference between meanings.
Take, for a great example, 牛 -- ushi, meaning "cow" -- and 午 -- go,  meaning "noon." ONE TINY EXTENDED LINE and we have a completely different word.

Well, have a look at THIS:  同 -- 何 -- 伺. The first, "onaji," means "same." The second, "nani," means "what." And the third, "ukagau," means "inquire." Whaaaaa????? To the untrained (AND trained!) eye, they look virtually identical. An extra blob here, a tiny extension there -- and they are totally different words. It's as if I wrote the letter "A" as "A," "A" and "A" and they all were pronounced completely differently.

So far, I can find not a single app that takes into account the writing of kanji and the learning of kanji. There is no app, for example, where you can WRITE two kanji to form a compound (word) which will recognize it as such.

So, for example, 英語, which just means "English," is not possible to write as two kanji ("EI" and "GO") and be recognized by the app.

So you can only learn kanji one by one, and badly, at that. The pathetic programs that DO allow you to write kanji just allow you to draw in thin, unchanging lines that don't reflect the stroke angle, where it begins and ends, so you could be writing it upside down as far as stroke order goes and the program wouldn't know the difference. Other apps are so strict that if you mis-write a single stroke by a hair -- leaving, say, the end of one line unbent as it would be with a brush, it refuses to recognize the entire kanji at all.

So far, the iPad and kanji studies are, uh, "Kan't Ji."