Yomiwa - Japanese Dictionary

My favorite Japanese dictionary on iOS. Love the bundled ocr and the browser. The flashcards are convenient- pretty easy to export. Only possible improvement would be direct anki flashcard generation, but I understand it’s an unrealistic ask. Definitely a keeper. Update: lately it’s been crashing a lot. Have to make sure to delete my lookup history constantly

I was having a crash issue with the app and reached out via the contact form. It was totally fixed the very nice day. This is a nice, user-friendly Japanese-English dictionary with several modes. One can search by radical, pronunciation, or finger-drawing.

I use Yomiwa to learn vocabulary from Japanese YouTube videos and articles from Japanese websites. The only downside for this app is that it froze often.

Can you guys make this app show words that or uncommon common and rare please like for all words

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!

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.

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

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.

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.

Does everything you need. It will only get better.