The best
I bought the full version last year when I went to Japan the first time. I was already fluent in Mandarin Chinese as a second language, so I had some learning techniques that transferred well from using Pleco to this app. The design is great, pitch accents are included, lots of human voice recordings for words. I love it. The furigana Safari extension is awesome! I’ve never seen anything like that on mobile for Chinese. It’s so incredibly helpful.
The full version is worth every penny!
Things I’m excited for:
Pitch accent markers in the search results list for quick reminders.
Pitch accent markers in generated flash cards.
Being able to search for a sentence or phrase in the regular dictionary lookup tab (without adding it to clippings).
The full version is worth every penny!
Things I’m excited for:
Pitch accent markers in the search results list for quick reminders.
Pitch accent markers in generated flash cards.
Being able to search for a sentence or phrase in the regular dictionary lookup tab (without adding it to clippings).
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Response from developer
So glad you like the app, this review made my day! ☺️ The features you requested are definitely on my roadmap. Can't say when I'll get to them, but I'll let you know when I do!
Very nice app
This app may or may not be the right fit for you, but it is obvious that a lot of effort and love was poured into the app. Personally, I’m a big fan of the app’s flashcards. It’s easy to do flashcard shovelware. This is not that.
Very useful language app
Easily the best free language app I’ve used. Even the free version offers comprehensive functionality.
The Perfect App
This is the best app I have ever used in my life. Have tried other OCR apps to use on manga and they are complicated to use/don’t work well. I love how I can just click on any word and with a tap of a button able to the add the image so I can see where that vocabulary word is coming from/get context. It’s also easy to transfer decks from iPhone to iPad if you are unable to sync. Press share and then email it to yourself as if you click on export it’s in a format only Anki can read. You can even reorder vocabulary so if you accidentally deleted a word just re add it back it and click on the i button by the deck name. I’ve never happy I got the lifetime while it was 50% off. Worth every penny.
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Easy to use and great context sentences
When I look up meanings of kanji or phrases, I get absorbed by the great variety of context sentences. They are varied interesting and I get to completely understand the nuances of whatever Word or phrase I was looking up. I had thought of buying Kenkyusha’s new
Japanese English Dictionary, but don’t need it after all!
Japanese English Dictionary, but don’t need it after all!
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Super helpful
I never write reviews on things, but as someone who’s learning Japanese this is the best app I’ve used like..ever. Not only does it teach you definitions of words, but also shows you the stroke order for the kanji, plus, it’s free, for the most part
Works well for reading manga
I am using this to read manga for learning Japanese. I do a screen capture and load it into the app, which recognizes text. I can then look up words. On the whole, it works quite well, and is the best I have found. It ends up getting about 80% of the text recognized by OCR, particularly good for kanji. The dictionary is good as well. Things that are not working as well as I would like: * It tends to translate word by word (or short phrase), which makes it miss some phrases * The missing 20% of the text that it can’t recognize for OCR, sometimes inexplicably, which exacerbates the problem above of not correctly translating a phrase. * The number of clicks required to read page after page is high. It would be nice if this use case was streamlined. I generally pair it with DeepL for whole sentence translation. That is pretty amazing, but doesn’t do OCR. It would be great to be able to make it easier to e.g. copy all the text found, or do some deeper integration.
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Response from developer
Thanks for taking the time to write up the detailed feedback, this is really useful. FWIW I'm working on a whole new text parser, which should help with a lot of the recognition problems you're having. Full-text OCR is also definitely on my short-list of features to add. Thanks!
Brilliant
とてもいいですね。多分一番いい辞書です。iPadの中に、五辞書があります｡この辞書は便利です。皆さん頑張ってください｡
Time saver
Don’t stop this app is awesome !! It took me forever to find an app with all these features. I’m busy so making y own clashcards is hard.. Quizlet has great learning tools but is time consuming for Vocab. The flash card system is pretty good may need some tweaking as time goes on to ensure older cards get adaquit review but compared to giants like Quizlet who have masted it this app does well. Anyone complaining about the ,only is just cheep this person obviously puts a lot of work and deserves to be compensated.
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Great, but some suggestions..
I love this app. I’ve been using it for a while to store my heard words and use them to make sentences for anki decks.
What I wished was available as a feature is searching words by frequency. For example, having a section for common words, a section for uncommon, a section for rare etc
Also, it would be nice to be able to browse the JLPT words at once by category without having to learn through the integrated in app SRS. For example all N4 words would be in a list to see what you’ll be studying.
What I wished was available as a feature is searching words by frequency. For example, having a section for common words, a section for uncommon, a section for rare etc
Also, it would be nice to be able to browse the JLPT words at once by category without having to learn through the integrated in app SRS. For example all N4 words would be in a list to see what you’ll be studying.
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Response from developer
Thanks for this feedback, I'll consider it for a future update!
