wishoTouch Japanese dictionary

Name: wishoTouch Japanese dictionary
Price: 14.99 USD
Rating: 4.2 (14 reviews)
Author: sazanami software

Fast Kanji Lookup, Widget, OCR

$14.99 · In‑App Purchases

14 Ratings
Ages

16+
Years
Category

Reference
Developer

sazanami software
Language

EN
+ 1 More
Size

377.6
MB

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Japanese Dictionary Collection

Reference

Save time looking up Japanese with wishoTouch. This universal app turns your iPhone/iPad into a powerful, easy-to-use dictionary that packs some unique features. wishoTouch comes with its own full-screen kanji handwriting pad. You need to know the stroke order, but results are sorted in such a way that most of the time you don't need to draw the whole character. You can also find kanji by radical, number of strokes, meaning etc., rotate the device to quickly thumb through related characters, and watch interactive stroke-order animations for 6,355 kanji. And that's not all. Tight integration with a word dictionary lets you seamlessly jump between a kanji and its compounds. This integration makes use of multitouch gestures: touching a kanji shows its details, while touch-holding gives you other options. Hunting for Japanese words and kanji has never been simpler or more enjoyable! NOTE: Basic knowledge of hiragana and kanji stroke order is recommended. FEATURES include: - Incremental search in English and Japanese - Autocorrect in English and romaji - Bookmark, annotate and share entries - Split View/Slide Over Multitasking Mode (iPad) - Jump to other apps and web dictionaries - Share Extension to look up from other apps - Share Extension to add cards to Anki - Speech recognition in English and Japanese - Night mode (dark mode) - Apple Watch app - Home Screen Widgets - Lock Screen Widgets OPTIONAL ADD-ONS include: - Kanji OCR (Optical Character Recognition) - Watch Handwriting - Example Sentences - JLPT Flashcards (Add-ons are one-time purchase, NOT subscription) This app uses the JMDICT, KANJIDIC2 and RADKFILE Japanese dictionary files. These files are property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group at Monash University and are used in conformance with the Group’s licence. KanjiVG is © Ulrich Apel and used under the CC Attribution Share-Alike license.

Ratings & Reviews

4.2

out of 5

14 Ratings

Works great
06/04/2013

RedTincture
Easily worth $20 if you're not a complete noob at kanji and can draw the radicals with the proper stroke order. If you *are* a complete noob, I recommend Skritter. I only wish it were easier to look up words formed from multiple kanji more easily. Thankfully at least you can copy+paste individual kanji into Denshi Jisho. Slow, but it works. I also wish there were a "by Radical" function like Denshi Jisho, but without having to search for the radicals visually. Then it would be 5 stars.
Works great
06/04/2013

RedTincture

Easily worth $20 if you're not a complete noob at kanji and can draw the radicals with the proper stroke order. If you *are* a complete noob, I recommend Skritter. I only wish it were easier to look up words formed from multiple kanji more easily. Thankfully at least you can copy+paste individual kanji into Denshi Jisho. Slow, but it works. I also wish there were a "by Radical" function like Denshi Jisho, but without having to search for the radicals visually. Then it would be 5 stars.
Well made and very accurate app
09/22/2017

Pf1220
I have had this app for years now and it has served me very well. I don't use the dictionary all that much, I'm more about the handy kanji writing dictionary- perfect for on the fly readings- no knowledge of radicals needed at all, just simply write the character out in the correct way and you'll get the apposite hit before you know it! This is what makes this app worth the price in my opinion- it's a cut above. Purchase it without any fears, it will most definitely serve you well, whether you have an advanced or rudimentary knowledge of Japanese and Kanji characters alike!
Well made and very accurate app
09/22/2017

Pf1220

I have had this app for years now and it has served me very well. I don't use the dictionary all that much, I'm more about the handy kanji writing dictionary- perfect for on the fly readings- no knowledge of radicals needed at all, just simply write the character out in the correct way and you'll get the apposite hit before you know it! This is what makes this app worth the price in my opinion- it's a cut above. Purchase it without any fears, it will most definitely serve you well, whether you have an advanced or rudimentary knowledge of Japanese and Kanji characters alike!
Great but bugs in audio
09/27/2020

Zak MacKracken
Audio playback is getting cut off; only the end of a word or sentence is heard. I have purchased the Enhanced Audio add-on. I think the free iOS system voices for Japanese text to speech sound better. Can we have an option to just use those instead?Will update review after this bug is fixed.
Great but bugs in audio
09/27/2020

Zak MacKracken

Audio playback is getting cut off; only the end of a word or sentence is heard. I have purchased the Enhanced Audio add-on. I think the free iOS system voices for Japanese text to speech sound better. Can we have an option to just use those instead?Will update review after this bug is fixed.
Almost Mediocre
02/06/2010

Thrashre
With Jishop being released, this app better cut it's price by about $12, and that still might not be enough, because it has twice as many kanji (and then some), and tons of compounds, and so much more depth to the meanings / definitions than this app. This is a so-so beginner kanji app, no more than that. There's only one Japanese app that costs as much as this one, and that's "Japanese" by Codefromtokyo, and it is in a class by itself. There is no possible way that anyone could justify the price of this app. Unfortunately I got ripped off because the interface looked pretty cool, and I had hopes for it, which it fails to meet, spectacularly. If you want an app that does what this one does, and plenty more, try something like Shinkanji, and save yourself $14, or the above mentioned Jishop. Which by the way has a free version with 1000 kanji, and a $5 version that is waaayyy better than this.
Almost Mediocre
02/06/2010

Thrashre

With Jishop being released, this app better cut it's price by about $12, and that still might not be enough, because it has twice as many kanji (and then some), and tons of compounds, and so much more depth to the meanings / definitions than this app. This is a so-so beginner kanji app, no more than that. There's only one Japanese app that costs as much as this one, and that's "Japanese" by Codefromtokyo, and it is in a class by itself. There is no possible way that anyone could justify the price of this app. Unfortunately I got ripped off because the interface looked pretty cool, and I had hopes for it, which it fails to meet, spectacularly. If you want an app that does what this one does, and plenty more, try something like Shinkanji, and save yourself $14, or the above mentioned Jishop. Which by the way has a free version with 1000 kanji, and a $5 version that is waaayyy better than this.