United StatesYomiwa is a dictionary, translator and optical recognizer designed to help you read, write and learn Japanese. Yomiwa's powerful offline Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine can recognize more than 4000 Japanese characters in your pictures or with your device camera. Yomiwa will help you read newspapers, books, menus, signs or your favorite mangas. Yomiwa's dictionary is extensive, intuitive, fast, and delivers Japanese word details into more than 20 target languages. You can input words in any language, alphabet, or even by drawing. Yomiwa helps you improve your Japanese with flashcards. Flashcards are a powerful and enjoyable way to learn new words. You can use flashcards to learn new words from the built-in lists or from your history. Then, based on your learning statistics, you will be shown everyday a deck of flashcards tailored for you. Yomiwa features advanced Japanese text analysis. Paste or write some Japanese and the text analyser will break sentences into words, describe conjugate forms and display furiganas. Unique social feature: whenever you have trouble with some Japanese, you can always ask a question or post a picture on the Yomiwa wall. Yomiwa's users, from beginner to advanced level, will come to help you. EXTENSIVE DICTIONARY: • Detailed information about words (~ 200K entries) and kanji (on-yomi, kun-yomi, meaning, stroke order, compounds etc.) • Huge database of example sentences (> 250K) built from numerous sources • Search definitions in any kind of alphabet: Kanjis / Hiraganas / Katakanas / Romajis. • Bidirectional dictionary: you can search from both Japanese words or from foreign words • Look up conjugated forms, even if they are incomplete • Pitch accents for more than 60k words • Handwriting Recognition • Intuitive Radical search • More than 20 target languages available, such as English, French, German, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Hungarian, Chinese, Dutch, Slovene, Swedish etc. • For advanced learners and natives: an extensive Japanese-Japanese dictionary • Build vocabulary lists of Japanese words, kanjis or sentences (which you can share as files or text in many ways) • Browse the numerous pre-built kanji and word lists, order by JLPT levels, school grades and topics • Listen to the Japanese pronunciation of words and example sentences through the "Speak" function OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION (OCR): • A powerful OCR engine which lets you recognize instantly Japanese characters in your pictures or from your camera • Yomiwa can recognize more that 4000 Japanese characters • Works for both horizontal and vertical Japanese text OFFLINE TRANSLATOR: • Translate whole Japanese sentences to English STUDY WITH FLASHCARDS: • You can learn words in a fun way with flashcards. Pick up any deck from the pre-built lists or from your own lists and history, then start learning them with flashcards • Everyday, a new deck is built based on your learning statistics in order to optimise your memorising power TEXT READER: • Paste some text, or import it from the OCR modes, into the Text Analyzer • Furiganas are displayed automatically • Tap any word to see its definition in a pop-up OPEN SAFARI WEB PAGES: • In Safari, tap the export button to open the web page in Yomiwa. All Japanese words will be added furiganas and you will be able to tap on each of them to have a popup definition FURIGANAS SAFARI EXTENSION: • Whenever you are browsing on a web page with some Japanese text, tap the "share" button at the bottom and select "Yomiwa Add Furiganas" to display all furiganas AUTOMATIC WORD LISTS FROM THE NEWS: • Keywords appearing in the daily news are displayed in the app everyday. You can open the source news article and add Furiganas in order to read it with ease YOMIWA WALL: • Get help from the user community by asking questions and sharing pictures on the Yomiwa Wall We are very responsive to your feed-back and suggestions: [email protected]
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Can you guys make this app show words that or uncommon common and rare please like for all words
United StatesLiterally THE best and most comprehensive language tool
Usually you try out different apps to see which one you like for the purpose you need. With Yomiwa, there’s no need to try out any other app. It’s got things I didn’t even know I needed but come in major handy as a returning language learner. Yomiwa does things the overpriced denshi jisho of my day could never! I purchased the pro version but I’d happily continue to donate for all the good and variety of learning tools this app has brought me.The only problem I’ve had is with the translator screen either not word-wrapping text or being unreadable when my phones dark mode is on. Sometimes it’ll correct itself, sometimes it doesn’t and it’s a struggle, but that’s the most annoying thing I’ve encountered. Thanks for a great product!
United StatesI WOULD GIVE 0 STARS IF I COULD
The app is a waste of money and doesn’t give you an accurate translation from pictures. I travelled to Japan and used the camera translation option and it was USELESS! It could only tell me the individual meanings and not the full, overall translation. I tried to use this app for translating menu items in Japan and it would only give me the basic meanings like “water” or “cold”, not even telling me if menu item i was translating was beef or chicken or etc. IT WOULDNT EVEN TELL ME THE TYPE OF FOOD, IT WOULD JUST SAY A BASIC MEANING LIKE “hot”. Complete waste of time.
United StatesUpdate made reader less usable
An update made it so that definitions don’t completely fill out reader pop up dictionary making it impossible to see the hiragana in some cases
United StatesBest one I’ve found so far
I pibe that this app has the option to do flash cards, and the way it does it is much more convenient than other apps I’ve tried. You can also draw kanji, so that’s super cool
United StatesBest Kanji Jisho
This is the best Kanji dictionary I have ever used. Looking up words is super easy using either romanji or hiragana. The kanji lookup isn’t bad either. Whenever I draw a kanji it does a decent job of figuring out what I’m trying to draw. It also supplies other guesses if the first guess is not what you wanted. The best part by far is the Outlier dictionary which is available for nearly every kanji. It is an additional one-time purchase of $30 but I think it is well worth it (about 30 or so entries are available for free, such as 後). Outlier will break down the kanji into its radical components and show how they explain the original meaning and on-yomi pronunciation. Sometimes the original is far removed from the modern, but even then it is helpful to see the components as I often know how to draw those. At a minimum this is a great reference tool. Add the Outlier dictionary if you are seriously studying kanji and it’s an indispensable study tool (paired with a good kanji textbook such as “Kanji in Context”). I just got to 250 kanji and I wish I had used Outlier from the start. Update: I’ve now studied 900 kanji over two years. The quality of the Outlier dictionary remains very high! I also recently purchased the optical reader to help with unfamiliar kanji in manga. It scans text and allows me to easily look up any kanji or word. It works like magic, even in lackluster lighting. I highly recommend it if you want to read kanji in media.
United StatesGreat app, but needs furigana/romaji settings
Love the app, and it’s become my daily Japanese dictionary. My only complaint is that the text analyzer defaults to showing the romaji/furigana above the words on every new paste, when I’d like to have a way to leave it off unless enabled, since I like to read in the analyzer and don’t want to rely on furigana or romaji above the word.
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