New ways to study, find kanji, and copy what you need — plus a cleaner interface throughout. KANJI KENTEI (KANKEN), BUILT IN Study for the Japanese Kanji Aptitude Test with dedicated Kanken level lists and flashcard decks for all twelve levels — plus a new Kanken widget so today's character is always one glance away. YOJI JUKUGO Explore Japan's very cool four-character idioms (七顛八起、一石二鳥...) with a new browsable Yoji Jukugo collection and a matching flashcard deck, right alongside your other Learn tab tools. FOUR CORNER CODE SEARCH Look up kanji the traditional way. A new Four Corner search adds an intuitive quadrant-assembly picker, so you can find the character you're after by shape alone. LOOKUP AS YOU COPY (old feature reintegrated by popular demand) Turn on auto-lookup in Settings and imiwa? will look up Japanese text the moment you copy it in any other app on your device — no need to switch apps or paste it in yourself. COPY, SPEAK, SHARE Every piece of dictionary text now has its own Copy, Copy and Add, Speak, and Share menu, so you can act on exactly the word or meaning you tapped — nothing else. FLASHCARDS See the reading right on the front of the card, and grade cards from the front side with a swipe without flipping first. Watch the details appear as you swipe the card away KANJI Choose which foreign readings are displayed. AND SEVERAL FIXES We listen to your feedback: corrected verb search matching, restored proper romaji and furigana behavior for alternate spellings, darkened handwriting guide lines for better visibility, and a few adjustments for large accessibility fonts.

This update improves accessibility and Dynamic Type support across the app, including a new simplified layout option for iPad and Mac. Kanji search now finds fragments appearing anywhere in a word, not just at the start. Rare and alternate kanji spellings are easier to find again in search and word details, with a new advanced setting to always show them. Fixed several romaji search and furigana display issues for words with alternate spellings.

imiwa? has been rebuilt from the ground up for iOS 26. Every screen, every interaction — reimagined. This isn't an update. It's a new beginning. UNIFIED SEARCH One search. Dictionary results, kanji matches, and example sentences — all at once, all in parallel. Switch between them with a tap. KANJI, DEEPER THAN EVER Stroke order animation, decomposition view, font variants, multi-radical visual search, SKIP lookup — every tool you need to truly understand a character. EXPLORE THE ROOTS OF EVERY RADICAL The Bushu radical browser has been rebuilt with animated stroke-order diagrams that cycle through every variant form of a radical. Tap any radical to read about its etymology — where it came from, what it originally depicted, and how it evolved. THE ANALYSER Paste any Japanese sentence and the Analyser breaks it down word by word: morphology, dictionary entries, example sentences, AI translations. Everything in one place. POINT YOUR CAMERA, READ THE WORLD (beta version) Hold your phone up to any Japanese text — a sign, a menu, a page — and imiwa? reads it for you. Live text recognition overlays translations directly in your viewfinder. Tap any word to look it up instantly. Or import a PDF — a textbook, a manga chapter, an article — and bring the same analysis to any page. SIRI, SHORTCUTS, AND QUICK ACTIONS Ask Siri to search imiwa? without opening the app. Add home-screen quick actions for your most-used features. imiwa? is now a first-class citizen of the iOS shortcut ecosystem. DRAW WHAT YOU CAN'T TYPE Can't find the kanji you're looking for? Draw it with your finger. imiwa?'s on-device handwriting recognition matches your strokes to the right character — no internet required. PITCH ACCENT, FINALLY See exactly how words rise and fall with pitch accent diagrams in word detail view. Essential for natural-sounding Japanese. AI-POWERED TRANSLATIONS imiwa? now uses Apple Intelligence to translate dictionary glosses on-device — privately and instantly — in Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese, Russian, Korean, and more. No subscription. No server. Just your device. FLASHCARDS WITH SPACED REPETITION Study smarter. Build custom decks or study by JLPT level. imiwa? schedules your reviews automatically so you remember more with less effort. WIDGETS A Kanji of the Day and a Word of the Day, right on your lock screen or home screen. Learn something every time you pick up your phone. BUILT FOR EVERY SCREEN Full sidebar and column-browser layout on iPad. Dual-pane word and kanji details. imiwa? feels at home whether you're on iPhone or iPad. AND MUCH MORE iCloud sync, vocabulary lists with smart merge suggestions, conjugation tables with furigana and romaji, Markdown personal notes, Backup & Restore, dark mode — and full localization in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Russian. — A NOTE ON AI imiwa? uses Apple Intelligence to provide on-device translations for select languages. AI-generated content can make mistakes. Always verify AI translations before relying on them for important, professional, or formal purposes.

March 2021 dictionary and example updates Various bug fixes

Dark mode support November 2020 dictionary and example updates Fixed crash on start in iOS 14.2 affecting some users Various bug fixes

- Italian language in dictionary definitions - Similar kanji information - Faster dictionary and example search - Kanji lookup by external reference number - くれる and いい conjugation - Images search shortcut (tap and hold Japanese word in dictionary display) - Save backup to cloud services

New in this version: **Hotfix** Fixed: Personal notes could not be viewed/edited Fixed: Favourited entries not always "starred" correctly in the interface ** Previously in version 4.1 New: 64 bits support (yes iOS11 ready!), all iPhone and iPad geometries, iPad split view, 3D touch quick actions as well as peek & pop support. Fixed: Export of lists to tab separated values files (TSV) no longer crashes.

New in this version: 64 bits support (yes iOS11 ready!), all iPhone and iPad geometries, iPad split view, 3D touch quick actions as well as peek & pop support. Fixed in this version: Export of lists to tab separated values files (TSV) no longer crashes.

New in imiwa? 4.0.1 This is a maintenance release addressing the following: * Correctly layout screen when using Accessibility > Large text system setting * Correctly clear recent searches if history is completely deleted * Fixed a couple of crash reasons * Minor interface adjustments Previously in imiwa? 4.0 As of now and going forward, imiwa? is iOS7 only. If your device runs an older version of the system the App Store now allows you to download a version compatible with your device. imiwa? is free as always, does not bother you with advertising nor does it request you repeatedly to rate it on the App Store. Major changes : **************** * iOS7 look and feel * Left side menu replaces tab bar * QR magic see www.imiwaapp.com/qrmagic * AirDrop dictionary entry, kanji entry or full vocabulary list/backup * Share by flashing a QR code * Open lists in external applications supporting the format (e.g. Kanji flow - flash cards) * You can now nest vocabulary lists to better organise them * Personal notes for dictionary and kanji entries Implemented a « jump to dictionary search » shortcut at top of side menu: From any screens you are at most 2 taps away from starting a search * Russian interface localisation Enhancements: *************** * Implemented swipe to favourite on example sentences * Multiradical search is much much faster * Preview a few compounds in kanji view * Offline voice synthesis thanks to new iOS7 feature when no network connection * Use of dynamic fonts, lighter fonts used throughout (font size control is now in system settings) * Added button on every screen to unwind screen stack to top view * Implemented recent searches when search field is being edited * Removed 2 finger swipe to pop-up in view hierarchy (replaced by iOS7 swipe right from edge) * Increased history retention to 150 items (was 50) If you like imiwa? please consider leaving a rating on the App Store review page.

Welcome to a brand new imiwa? As of now and going forward, imiwa? is iOS7 only. If your device runs an older version of the system the App Store now allows you to download a version compatible with your device. imiwa? is free as always, does not bother you with advertising nor does it request you repeatedly to rate it on the App Store. Major changes : **************** * iOS7 look and feel * Left side menu replaces tab bar * QR magic see www.imiwaapp.com/qrmagic * AirDrop dictionary entry, kanji entry or full vocabulary list/backup * Share by flashing a QR code * Open lists in external applications supporting the format (e.g. Kanji flow - flash cards) * You can now nest vocabulary lists to better organise them * Personal notes for dictionary and kanji entries Implemented a « jump to dictionary search » shortcut at top of side menu: From any screens you are at most 2 taps away from starting a search * Russian interface localisation Enhancements: *************** * Implemented swipe to favourite on example sentences * Multiradical search is much much faster * Preview a few compounds in kanji view * Offline voice synthesis thanks to new iOS7 feature when no network connection * Use of dynamic fonts, lighter fonts used throughout (font size control is now in system settings) * Added button on every screen to unwind screen stack to top view * Implemented recent searches when search field is being edited * Removed 2 finger swipe to pop-up in view hierarchy (replaced by iOS7 swipe right from edge) * Increased history retention to 150 items (was 50) If you like imiwa? please consider leaving a rating on the App Store review page.

Bug fix for analyser crashes This is the last version supporting iOS5 & iOS6

This is mostly a maintenance release addressing annoying application crashes. Thank you for your patience. Details of the changes in this version: Added: Remembering the Kanji 6h edition index in kanji view Added: Option to activate/deactivate furigana on sentences and conjugations Fixed: Pesky crashes particularly affecting iOS7 users and to a lesser extent iOS6 users Fixed: Missing hyperlinks visual cue on last line of example sentences Fixed: Some analyser hick-ups, now ever more useful Fixed: Restore nanori readings in kanjis Fixed: Deletion of Kanji entries by swipe in lists was not working Fixed: Invalid abbreviation of causative-passive form for Godan-す verbs Fixed: Short lead to list picker in swipe to favorite on iPad landscape

This version contains an iOS7 compatibility fix New in this release: Furigana everywhere Sentence analysis to help with translation tasks Auto clipboard search: open imiwa? with Japanese text in the clipboard and it will automatically be looked-up or analysed Favoriting from dictionary result list (swipe right/left to favorite/un-favorite in last used list) Smoother stroke order diagram animations Drilldown on components of a kanji in the kanji view Auto-hide navigation and tab bar when scrolling to dedicate more estate to application content Improvements in the speech synthesis accuracy (speaking individual japanese entries) Implemented male/female voice toggle right from speech screen New URL scheme to invoke the analyzer externally (imiwa://analyser?text=あいたっ！足が！) imiwa? is now localised in Korean language and Portuguese Fixed in this release More accurate entry cross-referencing Invocation by external URL did not always display the correct page

New in 3.1.1: Addresses a list migration issue introduced in 3.1 for some users, your previous lists will be recovered if you did not delete the app at some point. Apologies for the inconvenience New in 3.1: iOS6 & iPhone5 support Backup and restore of lists Font size selection in the preferences for users with challenged sight, works with iPhone but mostly aimed at iPad (especially the largest size) Share with friends now using a file instead of a URL (allows sharing large lists) Uncluttered the list action menu, made export functions clearer to understand Hints pop-up messages Added volume slider in Speech screen to control the output sound (physical volume control in iOS is not controlling the application volume when no sound is playing in the application, controls ringer instead) Improved supports for very large list (> 1000 entries) Latest iSpeech version Latest dictionary/example sentences Fixed: Romaji cell not copyable in dictionary entry display Disabled single latin character search in example sentences to avoid endless lookups (single kana and kanji search is still ok) Fixed a display glitch when kanji has no KUNYOMI Prevent Merge and delete on the History list Conjugation of the Yodan-る(e.g. Gozaru) Conjugation of the Godan-る verb special class (e.g. 問う) iOS4 support temporarily discontinued due to inability to test with this iOS version, support for iOS 4.3 and above will return when I can test again.

!!!! Some users are randomly loosing lists while upgrading to 3.1. If you rely on your lists, either do not upgrade or back-up each and every list by using the "Share" function in the list action menu !!!! New in 3.1: iOS6 & iPhone5 support Backup and restore of lists Font size selection in the preferences for users with challenged sight, works with iPhone but mostly aimed at iPad (especially the largest size) Share with friends now using a file instead of a URL (allows sharing large lists) Uncluttered the list action menu, made export functions clearer to understand Hints pop-up messages Added volume slider in Speech screen to control the output sound (physical volume control in iOS is not controlling the application volume when no sound is playing in the application, controls ringer instead) Improved supports for very large list (> 1000 entries) Latest iSpeech version Latest dictionary/example sentences Fixed: Romaji cell not copyable in dictionary entry display Disabled single latin character search in example sentences to avoid endless lookups (single kana and kanji search is still ok) Fixed a display glitch when kanji has no KUNYOMI Prevent Merge and delete on the History list Conjugation of the Yodan-る(e.g. Gozaru) Conjugation of the Godan-る verb special class (e.g. 問う) iOS4 support temporarily discontinued due to inability to test with this iOS version, support for iOS 4.3 and above will return when I can test again.

Release targeted mostly at iOS4 devices, fixing a problem with the kanji detail screen not displaying and the multi-radical view layout incorrect. Other issues addressed by this release: - Spurious tool bar appearing in multi radical search screen in some circumstances - Lists not initialising for some users - Truncated meaning cell under some rare circumstances.

Apologies to those having installed v3.0 and the trouble caused. This version fixes the issue where no results were ever found The hilight of this release is the native iPad support at long last ^_^. /!\ Tap and hold a cell to access the local menu (speak, copy...) *** This version is no longer compatible with iOS 3.x devices as previously advertised. *** It does contain a number of minor tweaks for iPhone/iPod touch as well based on feedback received. Enjoy this new release.

The hilight of this release is the native iPad support at long last ^_^. /!\ Tap and hold a cell to access the local menu (speak, copy...) *** This version is longer compatible with iOS 3.x devices as previously advertised. *** It does contain a number of minor tweaks for iPhone/iPod touch as well based on feedback received. Enjoy this new release.

Various fixes ** 2.9.x are the last releases supporting IOS 3.x **

** Beware this is the last version supporting iOS 3.x ** - The application has a new name - Speech synthesis: Imiwa can speak japanese words, translations and example sentences! - New list engine with sharing functionality (send your favorite lists to your friends, they can import with a click of a button) Fixes: - Single kanji searches were broken in Kotoba! 2.8.0, now they are fixed - Conjugation of 来る was erroneous

Search by conjugated forms of verbs and i-adjectives New JLPT levels for Kanjis Some comestic changes Various minor bug fixes including: Fixed lists/favorites crashes Fixed spanish localisation

More iOS 5 fixes Faster dictionary entry display Fixed empty result list Some comestic changes Fixed Stroke order diagrams for older devices/OSes

iOS5 Fixes Landscape mode In app settings Spanish and Italian localization of the application interface

Fixed recurring crash affecting a few users Fixed retina compatible application icon Fixed List re-ordering bug

iPhone 4 retina display support iOS 4 "multitasking" Fixed keyboard overbar for multi radical input and SKIP on iOS > 3.2 Fixed e-mailing lists crash in OS4 Fixed stroke animation for 貫 and possibly others affected by the same issue