# Shirabe Jisho — user reviews > 1,536 indexed App Store user reviews of Shirabe Jisho by Blazej Stanek, rated 4.90/5 from 8,742 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/shirabe-jisho/id1005203380/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/shirabe-jisho/id1005203380.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 8,121 · 4★ 440 · 3★ 99 · 2★ 61 · 1★ 21 ## What do users think of Shirabe Jisho? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Comprehensive dictionary with many features - 👍 Easy to use and intuitive interface - 💡 Ability to draw kanji for lookup - 🚀 Offline functionality - 👍 Detailed word information including conjugations, example sentences, and JLPT levels - 👍 Useful word lists and flashcard system - 🚀 Fast and responsive - 🚀 No ads or in-app purchases **Cons** - 🐛 Search history can get cluttered - 👎 Lack of pitch accent information - 👎 Some example sentences are of poor quality - 👎 Font size can be difficult to read on smaller screens **Commonly reported bugs** - Occasional crashes or freezes - Inconsistent font sizing in search results **Most requested features** - Ability to sync bookmarks/lists across devices - More customization options for flashcards - Integration with spaced repetition apps like Anki - Addition of pitch accent information - Improved search history management ## Newest reviews (19 of 1,536) ### 4/5 — Useful *2026-08-15, version 1.10.7* Decided to try this one and a couple of others after Imiwa destroyed itself in its last update. This is the one I kept ### 5/5 — Easy and simple *2026-08-14, version 1.10.7* Easy and simple ### 5/5 — Good Jisho *2026-08-10, version 1.10.7* Much better than the other Jisho I was using. The handwritten congee function is not as forgiven as the other Jisho I was using, but it has much fewer bugs and much more examples sentences so overall it’s a better jisho ### 5/5 — I log this app *2026-08-08, version 1.10.7* Awesome super ultra cool !! お疲れ！！ ### 5/5 — The best *2026-08-07, version 1.10.7* The best on iPad and iPhone, also works well on macOS. ### 5/5 — Indispensable *2026-08-05, version 1.10.7* Nothing flashy and exciting, but simple to use and enormously useful. Would absolutely recommend. ### 5/5 — Excellent japanese app *2026-07-31, version 1.10.7* Good app to look up kanji with detailed examples Should be one of the tools to enhance learning Peter Lo ### 5/5 — Great tool *2026-07-21, version 1.10.7* Great app for those of us who are intermediate- advanced learners. Love all the different ways to look up and learn about kanji. ### 5/5 — Awesome app *2026-07-18, version 1.10.7* I’ve just started learning Japanese and I came across this app, after looking at a few others. This for me, has everything I could ask for. A fantastic app. ### 5/5 — I love this app *2026-07-12, version 1.10.7* This app has brought me through so much. The fact that it’s free, offline, and offers many features is just .. amazing. I love this app; I wish they had more, but that’s just me being greedy :) ### 4/5 — Great app, one improvement *2026-07-07, version 1.10.7* Have been really enjoying this app. So helpful. When reviewing Kanji, if there was an ‘erase last stroke’ option on the scratchpad when practicing it would be so good. I have to delete all my progress on each word if I make any mistake ### 5/5 — Easy to Use *2026-07-07, version 1.10.7* This dictionary app is easy to use! ### 5/5 — Awesome *2026-07-07, version 1.10.7* Love that I can save sentences ### 5/5 — User-friendly menu *2026-07-06* Large dictionary is easy to search through. It clearly labels frequent words that are most likely to meet your demand. This function helps exclude less relevant words from queries. Integrated example sentences helps to learn word outside of definitions. It imagines specific scenarios where the word could be used. The challenge of searching a word with forgotten spelling is made easy. Passive autocorrect helps to find these words even with characters missing. ### 5/5 — Best dictionary app *2026-07-06, version 1.10.7* I use this every day and it is by far the best dictionary app out there for Japanese. My favorite feature is that it records and dates words you have looked up. ### 5/5 — Terrific way to accelerate learning of Japanese *2026-07-03, version 1.10.7* Really helpful and easy to use. It’s great for Japanese because there are so many different words that sound the same. I especially love the favorite feature which lets me build my own vocabulary practice pack. ### 4/5 — Examples are not helpful for beginner level learners *2026-07-02, version 1.10.7* The dictionary is great overall. Does most things jisho.org has, but offline. However, the example sentences are not helpful at all for a beginner learner (~N4, ~A2) because they do not give simpler examples that highlight the entry’s most basic usage. So the app is great for a quick translations or kanji lookup, but you’ll need to dig further somewhere else for how a word is used. ### 5/5 — It’s more than I thought *2026-07-01, version 1.10.7* This app really had me surprised when the app had the listing you can make it’s helping me so much in my journey! ### 5/5 — Awesomesauce *2026-07-01, version 1.10.7* So awesome and cool 10/10 I use it alongside my physical dictionary also. すごいですよ👍 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Need to update *2024-03-08, version 1.9.5* This new update is horrible. I can’t copy paste anything in this app which takes extra time to get the task done. Fix this please. ### 1/5 — arayüzü japonca ve düzeltilmiyor *2023-11-22, version 1.9.5* program süper, lakin arayüzü ingilizce olsun bari, japonca arayüz hiçbişey anlaşılmıyor. ipad air2'de arayüzü ingilizce fakat ipad 10. nesil'de yükledim arayüzü japonca, ne yaptıysam düzeltemedim. ### 1/5 — Is Shirabe Jisho app support the country that supports terrorism? *2023-01-16, version 1.9.2* Is Shirabe Jisho app support the country that supports terrorism? From what I see - yes, it is unacceptable: It shows me the translation of “Ukraine” as “little russia”… That is the reason to be deleted from the App Store for sure ### 1/5 — Only japanese *2021-09-02, version 1.8.10* How to change the language to English?? ### 2/5 — Help us in using Intonation *2025-01-20, version 1.9.6* Hi Admin , pls help us on how to use intonation as we just don’t understand the lines on top and bottom of a word. ### 2/5 — No problems *2024-04-13, version 1.9.5* It’s great ### 2/5 — Cannot change writing settings in split-screen mode on iPad *2023-07-27, version 1.9.4* As the title suggests, you cannot change your search style while your are in split-screen mode anymore. For example: if you want to search a kanji and want to use the handwriting setting it doesn’t show right up the keyboard like it used to. Please fix this! ### 2/5 — So-so *2022-06-18, version 1.8.10* Some words aren’t pronounced correctly. And what do you mean by defining Ukraine as “little Russia” lol? ### 2/5 — On screen keyboard doesn’t work *2019-10-27, version 1.8.3* On screen keyboard doesn’t work when I detach my iPad keyboard case !!! Plz fix it ### 3/5 — Cannot fully recommend until certain issues are addressed *2026-07-27, version 1.10.7* I am a paid, frequent user of Shirabe Jisho. While it is a very good overall app, it has some notable flaws: 1. Bookmarks/saved entries cannot be attached to an account and used between devices. I have 400+ entries saved in my Shirabe Jisho iPhone app, but when I use Shirabe Jisho on iPad or Mac those saved entries do not transfer. 2. There are only two color themes, green and blue, and the blue is actually purple. Purple has poor contrast on a dark background. More colors, please. 3. Font/UI scaling on the Mac OS app is awful. 100% is too small. 200% is broken. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — La meilleure application *2026-09-01* Pendant que j’étais en étude de langue au japon c’était mon doudou, ma bouée de sauvetage, ma marraine la bonne fée ### 5/5 — はい！ *2026-08-31, version 1.10.8* I needed this app in my life. Thank you for this (totally free) eternally useful little gem. 11/10 ### 5/5 — The best Japanese-English dictionary available *2026-08-31, version 1.10.8* Top marks, does exactly what I need and never lets me down. Missing some net slang but otherwise extremely comprehensive and great UI. ### 5/5 — Very comprehensive and easy to use *2026-08-29, version 1.10.7* My favorite Japanese dictionary. You can be offline and have it work. ### 5/5 — Amazing *2026-08-29, version 1.10.7* Very good dictionary I am able to look up what I need quickly then move on with my day something I did see with other’s I had used ### 5/5 — One stop shop for all things Japanese *2026-08-29, version 1.10.8* For the most part, at least. As a native Japanese speaker who did not know much about reading nor writing in Japanese, Jisho has been a priceless treasure to me. Fantastic app! ### 5/5 — すばらしい *2026-08-28, version 1.10.7* I use this app more than any other app on my phone. It has a GREAT interface and many different tools and features. Plus it’s free! I almost always decline writing reviews but I appreciate this app so much I just had to. ### 5/5 — Best dictionary *2026-08-27, version 1.10.7* Has all the features you could want, and is very lightweight to download offline. Never had an issue, and the hand-drawn kanji is amazingly good ### 5/5 — To the developer *2026-08-21, version 1.10.7* I love you ,thank you so much for making this ,it really helps with learning Japanese, it being free is just yet another reason for me to love you more ### 5/5 — good dictionary *2026-08-16, version 1.10.7* i like how it has stroke orders and direction for all kanji --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-08.*