Jishokun vs Nihongo

Jishokun brings Japanese and English dictionaries, kanji tools, and vocabulary practice together in one app. Look up unfamiliar words, explore their meanings, and turn what you discover into your next study session. • JAPANESE & ENGLISH DICTIONARIES Search Japanese–English, English–Japanese, Japanese–Japanese, and English–English dictionaries. Explore example sentences, synonyms, and antonyms, or translate between Japanese and English. • KANJI MADE EASIER Draw an unfamiliar kanji to search for it, check stroke order, and display furigana to help you read Japanese text. Explore Japanese names and proverbs with dedicated lookup tools. • YOUR PERSONAL WORD BOOK Save words and their definitions for later. Search your saved vocabulary and revisit previous lookups through your search history. • FLASHCARDS & SPACED REPETITION Turn saved words into flashcards and review them with a schedule that adjusts to your answers. Practice from word to meaning or meaning to word, edit your cards, and listen to pronunciation as you study. • LISTEN & PRACTICE Hear words spoken aloud with adjustable playback speed. Use speech practice to compare recognized speech with the phrase you want to say. • LEARN FROM YOUR HOME SCREEN Discover a Word of the Day, review flashcards, check how many cards are due, and open your preferred dictionary with Home Screen widgets. • APPLE WATCH COMPANION Look up words through your paired iPhone and review synced flashcards from your wrist. • MAKE IT YOURS Adjust text size, enable furigana, and sync your Word Book and flashcards with iCloud. Optional purchases unlock offline dictionaries and an expanded kanji dictionary. An optional subscription includes both dictionaries and removes ads. Whether you’re studying Japanese, reading, or looking up a word on the go, Jishokun helps you keep learning.

Nihongo is an offline Japanese dictionary, picture-to-text translator, flashcard app, and reading assistant. Our app helps you learn Japanese naturally, using the words you encounter in daily life—on menus, signs, manga, emails, books, and more. In addition to the dictionary, you can take a picture of Japanese text or paste it from any source. Nihongo will then translate the text, add furigana or romaji, and create flashcards so you can study and steadily build your vocabulary. Here are the complete features of the app: DICTIONARY * Over 200,000 words, 205,000 example sentences, and 6000 kanji entries. * Every word clearly marked as common, uncommon, or rare. * Add your own notes to any dictionary entry. * Quickly identify transitive/intransitive word pairs. * Audio pronunciations of words and example sentences (Requires Nihongo Pro) PHOTO LOOKUP (OCR) [Pro] * Look up words just by taking a picture. * Uses Google Cloud Vision to provide high-quality text recognition. * Just tap on a word to look it up. CLIPPINGS (READING ASSISTANT) [Pro] * Adds furigana or romaji to text pasted into the app. * Tap on any word to see its definition without leaving the clipping. * Flashcard deck automatically created so you can study the new words in a clipping. * Display text horizontally or vertically. * Have Nihongo read any clipping out loud. FLASHCARDS [Pro] * Flashcards automatically generated from words you lookup in the dictionary or paste into the app. * Nihongo learns what words you know, and won't bother you again with words you've mastered. * Built-in kanji flashcard decks up through Middle School. * Intuitive spaced repetition flashcard system for vocabulary and kanji drawing. * Level up flashcards by studying every day. * No penalty for missing a day of study, come back anytime. SEARCH * Search using English, Japanese, or romaji. * Supports searching for conjugated words in both English and Japanese. * Search for kanji using radicals and stroke counts. SAFARI EXTENSION [Pro] * Add furigana or romaji to webpages. * Tap on words to see definition within Safari. Nihongo Pro Terms of Use Read our full Terms of Service at https://nihongo-app.com/terms_of_use.html. This app is only possible because of the JMDict (edrdg.org) and Tatoeba (tatoeba.org) projects. I highly encourage you to support these incredible projects that make apps like Nihongo possible!