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Also a bit disappointed
While much Japanese text is written vertically and is not easy with this app, it does seem to “work” by turning the phone horizontally, as long as you don’t mind wrenching your neck to read the screen sideways. But it really needs a rotated camera mode.
I also got “corpse” a lot, but as my main sample was the title of one of my wife’s mystery books (which I can’t read, alas), “corpse” may be appropriate in this case :-)Show lessscottyo3921
Huge Potential
An amazing little app that packs a lot of wow! Still cutting it's teeth on the accurate translations but has massive potential! Well done.bbwoods70
CAnnot download. Wtf
Well if it was downloadable I would rate it betterHirofdhfsx
It works VERY well, with a few caveats
The translation is pretty fast and quite accurate (as far as I can tell) as long as: 1) the lighting is good enough (turn on flash if required), 2) contrast of the characters against background is high, 3) you hold it steady. It takes a little practice, but once you have it figured out it is fast and accurate. I am in China on a very short notice business trip and have used it for probably about 50 translations already. Dead accurate on today's lunch menu which had no English on it nor did anyone there speak English.
The $2 cost for a week of translation is great. I just do not understand why anybody complains about $2 for something you couldn't even dream of having a few years ago.
Downside: it uses a LOT of battery power very quickly. Use it judiciously.Show lessmk9s
Why didn't I buy this earlier?
So I've been in China for two weeks now and I have one more to go and I finally decided to try this app. In restaurants it works awesome! I love going to local places that don't have English or picture menus and this app allows me to find out what I am getting into and actually get the food I am craving. I wish I could go back in time two weeks and buy it then!Show lessJohn around the world
Absolutely useless...
Not worth the download. The text appears inconsistently on the screen making it impossible to read, And not worth your time.Piano man '84
Disappointing
Tried this app on holiday in Japan. Just looking at some characters causes the translations to cycle rapidly so it's impossible to read and the '10' translations were used up in less than a second of real world use looking at a single picture without giving a single useful translation. The developers need to only translate when they are 100% sure of what they are looking at. And only change the translation once every couple seconds to the one that was most likely in the last few seconds, not just in the instant it's looking.
I can't recommend this app as anything to rely on for translation.Show lessKevinYau
Trial is a joke
If you want to "try" this, be aware that 10 presses of the freeze button pretty much is your trial for the day! Trying to lock in a word, one would try to press the "grab" or "pause" button. I tried a single word, pausing 10 times, and never got a valid translation; therefore I never really got to "try" this app out. The developers really needs to rethink the number 10 if they wish to sell this product. I was so frustrated with the "end" of my trial never really giving me a "trial" that I gave this app no further consideration and deleted it -- might be a good app, but I'll never "trial" it again to find out!Show lessanonymous10000001
Useful little app!
Really awesome little app. Haven't used it a lot but so far has managed to work perfectly well.shawn_0x54
Bad
This app does not work in the way you would want it to. It said the character "love" was "hair". The character "hello" was made into a direct translation of "you good" which is not what you need. This app needs fixing.$$$5
