Yomiwa - Japanese Dictionary 4+

with Optical Recognition

Nomad AI OU

Designed for iPad

    • 4.7 • 82 Ratings
    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

Yomiwa 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: kanji / hiragana / katakana / romaji
• 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: feedback.ios@yomiwa.net

What’s New

Version 5.6.2

• Bug fixes and stability improvements

Ratings and Reviews

4.7 out of 5
82 Ratings

82 Ratings

Finny_Attridge ,

Five Star Study Buddy

Truly a fantastic Japanese learning resource! When I first got this app I didn’t know how much of a life saver it would become. I’m currently studying Japanese at university, and since recommending Yomiwa to my classmates, we are now all using it every day to make studying Japanese a breeze.

The camera and analyser tool puts Yomiwa far above other Japanese dictionary apps. Real-time kanji scanning saves so much time, and is not only useful as a study aid, but also for real-life situations like reading street signs, maps and instructions. The drawing tool also works so smoothly and is more efficient than other applications in my opinion. The analyse feature is also something I’ve never seen before and is so useful for picking apart sentences with difficult words. You can even type your own sentences and use text-to-speech which works as both listening and pronunciation practise!

If you are studying Japanese, Yomiwa is an indispensable tool which will help you immensely. I cannot recommend it enough. No really. I can’t stop telling all of my friends. Please help me!

Fedup1 ,

Very useful

I really like this app, I’m using the Anki deck
Japanese vocab plus images and sometimes copying and pasting into Yomiwa to get a better understanding of the words, I’m finding it really useful and use it everyday, I hope to use all of the other feature as I need them.

makasete ,

Almost perfect

I really like the reading view. As well as the excellent OCR feature and easy look up features, it gives you access to many reading resources.

One thing lacking is that I can’t store documents on the app. I can import a pdf, for example, but I can’t save it.
It seems strange that you can import documents but only one at a time and you can’t save them, so I have to keep importing the same documents .

Edit after developer response:

Thank you for replying and explaining the reason behind the missing feature of saving files. I don’t actually need to edit my pdfs or text docs, just read them, and have easy access to them.

For example, I have a lot of pdfs from my audio listening that have the transcripts, and it would be nice to have them all in one place without having to import them each time.

I have also converted my purchased ebooks into in text format, and so if I am reading a book importing them all the time is frustrating, and makes me keep looking for other apps.

Perhaps the feature I need is not a popular one, and if so, I’ll just have to accept it.

I might check out the feedback site - thank you for that as well.

Developer Response ,

Hello. Thank you for your review. Edit: Ok I understand now. We have several design ideas for that. If you want to help us decide between them, please feel free to contact us at feedback.ios@yomiwa.net.

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