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FWIW, on Android at least, there's Google手書き入力 which does a pretty fantastic job in my experience. It's good enough that funky stroke order, missing strokes, and full-on cursive still usually Just Work.

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I normally use the Kanji draw [1] application which is also surprisingly good at recognizing what I'm trying to input. Not nearly as forgiving as Google's solution [2], which I sometimes have to fallback to, but usually it works if I can at least roughly guess what the official way of drawing a character is and check for inexact matches. Plus it's FOSS.

[1]: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/ch.seto.kanjirecog/

[2]: "Note that this will NOT work - at all - if you don't know basically how to draw kanji. If you just draw something any old way that looks like it, it certainly won't be recognised."

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