Yomiwa Japanese Dictionary

Yomiwa is a fast and complete offline Japanese dictionary, including all modern features. Yomiwa also comes with powerful Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology which lets you recognize over 4000 Japanese characters (Kanjis, Hiraganas and Katakanas) in your pictures or with your device camera, providing translations and detailed word informations into many target languages. The app displays a pop-up with translations and definitions of words and kanjis as soon as you point to Japanese characters with your iPhone or iPad. You can also take a picture or pick one from your camera roll and navigate it to translate chosen characters. Yomiwa also has a built-in drawing feature for you to draw and translate Japanese characters on your touch-screen with very high accuracy.

Category	Price	Seller	Device
Reference	Free	Nomad AI OU	iPhone, iPad, iPod

Yomiwa Japanese Dictionary Screenshot on iOS

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) algorithms have been developed in-house and continuously improved over the past 6 years in order to run efficiently on any iOS device without requiring an internet connection.

Features:
• A complete and powerful built-in dictionary with full informations about words, kanjis (on-yomi, kun-yomi, meaning, stroke order etc.) and example sentences.
• Several target languages available: English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Hungarian, Dutch, Slovene, Swedish and Hungarian.
• Search definitions from any kind of alphabet: Kanjis / Hiraganas / Katakanas / Romajis. You can search from Japanese words or from foreign words.
• Input characters by: Drawing / Radical search / Keyboard
• A powerful Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine which lets you translate Japanese characters with your camera or from your camera roll pictures
• Furiganas with the Text Analyzer: Paste some text, or import it from the OCR modes, into the text analyzer to get furiganas and definitions of each word in the text
• A proper names database (such as people names, places, locations...)
• Japanese pronunciation of words in roman letters (romaji) or hiragana / katakana.
• Draw characters on the screen to translate them and practice writing Japanese
• Read either horizontal or vertical Japanese text
• Build vocabulary lists of Japanese words and Kanjis (which you can share as files or text in may ways!)
• Get help from the user community by sharing pictures on the Yomiwa Wall

Yomiwa is perfect for:
• Use as a dictionary
• Read and understand Japanese text (newspaper, manga, books,...)
• Learn and study Japanese Kanjis (meaning, reading, drawing, writing)
• Translate Japanese words in everyday life situations
• Instant on-the-go translation when travelling in Japan
• Overcome the language barrier!

Video visible on the link below (developer website). However, the app has been greatly improved since the last video footage.
Feedback and suggestions are very welcome: [email protected]

Reviews

Great for my needs
Chriskurisu1983

I travel to Japan every 3 months. I use this constantly when I encounter new words. Words also are used in example sentences which helps tremendously. The camera picture function has potential to be stellar, and the developer is working hard to make it better! They are responsive to feedback and ideas. Well worth the paid version!

It really works and keeps improving
Calenril_i

At first it was somewhat useful but had too much trouble recognizing text. Today it is fast, good at recognizing text, and has a better dictionary and other tools. When the text can’t be recognized I use the Kanji drawing tool. It is effective and flexible — you don’t have to get stoke order right and you can be sloppy. The dictionaries keep improving and even include a name dictionary. It’s becoming an important part of my Japanese learning tools.

Absolutely amazing for OCR and playing games
Pcsjxi3

I use this to look up kanji I’m unfamiliar with when playing video games. It is insanely useful.

Good app, new bug
Shinya Dokusho

I love this dictionary, but the latest update as of July 10 has the handwriting input crashing the app every time I attempt to use it (iPhone 6S with iOS 11.4).

Pretty good translator
Vorselon

It does a great job of translating text, but it has a hard time with words that are considered slang.

The perfect app
SuchiiruRein

I got this app in order to play through FF7 in Japanese and its camera works perfectly for it. There are occasions with other things where it won’t work, but writing out the kanji works just as good as long as you know strike order. The dictionary is fantastic and works both ways perfectly. They recently added all conjugations for verbs and it’s so helpful. This is a must have app for both students and tourists visiting japan.

An indispensable translation and study tool
toromei

I don’t even know what to say. This app is so much faster and compete than the already great Google Translate app. I don’t know how I ever lived without it! <3

Very satisfied
alaniwahashi

Experience so far with Yomiwa has been great: Very affordable (for its capability) Love the camera feature Offline capability makes it very travel friendly Very happy with this app!

Often fails to recognize kanji
Onemorebit

Printed kanji with serifs, printed kanji with thick lines, and vertically printed kanji consistently confuse Yomiwa in camera or photo reading mode, even with hi-res images. I end up not using the application in between updates as it doesn't perform as advertised. With each update I try again but so far these issues are still unresolved.