and barely works.

Save your money

I live in Japan and can read kanji to a certain degree and this app would be fantastic IF IF IF it would provide the reading for the kanji instead of just providing the English translation. In Japanese there is a phonetic alphabet called kana and all kanji can be described using the phonetic alphabet. If the kana for each character or groups of characters were provided then this would actually be a fantastic study tool. As it stands it simply provides a quick fix and that may prove to be helpful at times but not nearly as much as if it provided the kana. Here's an example: The kanji 行く means "to go" and you read this "iku". If the reading "iku" were provided in the kana form like this, "いく" I could then study and learn how to read it in Japanese as well as know what it means.One last detail... Most kanji have two ways to read them, on-yomi (Chinese reading) and kun-yomi (Japanese) reading and both are used and important so both the "on" and "kun" yomi should be provided. Here's one simple example: 山 is the kanji for mountain. The "on-yomi" is "san" or "さん" and the "kun-yomi" is "yama" or "やま". Usually, when two or more kanji are put together side-by-side, they are read using the "on-yomi" and when they are on their own they are read using the "kun-yomi". PLEASE keep this in mind for a future upgrade!!!

Worldictionary is really an amazing app for those of you who plan on traveling abroad or who do frequest business trips to other regions. Even if you are around multicultural environments with different language groups or are simply learning a new language yourself, you should grab this app. The amount of different languages supported is staggering. Translations of texts from 21 different languages (including English) is available to users. The app is automatic so you do not need to look a word up. All you do is point the camera at words from different languages around you -- like a traffic sign or a segment in a book -- and the app does the translation automatically. If you want only a segment translated from a block of heavy text, simply snap a picture of the segment of writing and drag your finger around the words or sentence syou want translated.I have fmaily living in different countries and continents around the world, so this app is perfect for my needs. I am glad to know an app like this exists making me not have to rely on traditional and slow processes like using a dictionary to look word sup by hand. If you are even a video game fan of Japanese role-playing games, for instance, an app like this could make translations so much easier and the games so much more enjoyable to play. There are many uses for the app and am glad to have found it.