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Competitors are free
This is not a bad APP, but to pay $9.99 is a tough choice to make especially in today's world when competitors like Google and BaiduTrans are free. You should consider Advertising instead.MeenBauChewYan
Absolute Rubbish.
This is a complete waste of time. It couldn't get one word right. It thought chocolate milk was fish sauce, then sea weed before finally stating it was "birth control". Save your money folks, this app is not going to help you. Just use your best intuition when in Japan, we did and it worked out fine.Show lesscolours1
It has limitations but it works... sometimes
If the characters I am trying to translate are at least 1cm tall and black on white, I have had pretty good luck getting an understandable translation. If the text is small and very tightly spaced, not so much. I have taken to carrying a couple of white plastic cards notched so I can use them to letterbox the characters of interest. This helps but the app still struggles. Also, I have best luck with Chinese (writing this in Taiwan) then Japanese and finally Korean.Show lessTheDustyWalker
Bad product
I was bought the Japanese package for a 2 week trip to Tokyo. It was a disaster of an app. It would only translate 10% of the menu items. On a Uniqlo clothing tag it translated a material as pufferfish for a pair of socks. DO NOT BUY waste of money!! Google translate worked better. I gave up on it after a few days. It was good for a few laughsShow lessFrequent traveller 675
Does not work for Japanese
I've lived and worked in Japan for years and have had this app for a long time now. It has never translated anything I needed, ever! Today I needed a few very simple Kanji translated from an appliance. I've studied Japanese for years, but I did not know a couple simple Kanji. My wife (Japanese) helped me, saying these were 2nd grade Kanji and was very surprised an app advertised with this capability could not recognize it.
Try it if you want, just be warned that it WILL NOT help you when you need it and for the love of God don't use it as a study aid as when, if ever, it does give a result, it will either be totally incorrect or very strange. A perfect example of this would be a string a kanji and hiragana but like only recognizing some characters that it translated to make another word, etc. In English, it would be like seeing, "translate" but the app only sees the letters, "ran" in the word and confidently telling you that, "ran" is what that word says.Show lessrebooker
Google translate is free and considerably better
Used it for Korean. Doesn't recognize 90% of text. Won't even recognize the same sign consistently. Great idea, but needs a lot of work. Google Translate won't cost you $10 like this does.Claimp3
Download another app
Not goodWilliam Galipeau
Dr.
This app worked great in China! Did well at getting the main point across, and all the locals were amazed and would hover and watch while the app did its thing. I didn't give it 5 stars because sometimes the translations added in weird words, doesn't do well when the words are written close to each other (vertically), and it doesn't do well at reading some stylized characters.Show lessmountainmanjared
Fantastic worth it
Fantastic idea and product. Has helped myself and friends immensely when lost and at restaurants whilst pointing it at pinyin whilst at bus stops etc.
Please speed up capture features though which can be frustrating, but overall fab product well worth paying for fully!
A MUST NEED WHILST TRAVELLING IN CHINA!Show lessDonna-Marie1
Great app
Super useful on my trip to JapanAdmicro
