wishoTouch (Japanese-English word and kanji dictionary)
By sazanami software
View More By This Developer- Price$19.99
- CategoryReference
- Versions2 archived
- Installable1 of 2
- AvailabilityStill on the App Store
- Sellersazanami software
- Bundle IDcom.sazanami.wishoTouch
RequirementsCompatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
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Report an issueSave 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 Over Time
| Date | Version | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 2010 | 1.81 | — | 12 | $19.99 |
| January 23, 2011 | 1.9 | — | 24 | $19.99 |
From archived App Store listing data, captured by the Wayback Machine.
Archived Reviews
8 of 15ok well this app.. is the possibly the greatest japanese app out there in general! It has every kanji that anyone could ever come upon (6000 about), i see some negative reviews for this app and i wonder what the hell were they looking at???? this is clearly the best, i use it just about every day to study kanji and words! if you dont like it then you have something wrong with you.
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.
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.
This is a great app for finding kanji and the dictionary aspect is great as well. My only wish is that it had a deeper bank of ancient japanese kanji.
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.
Sadly, this app only recognizes kanji if its written in perfect stroke order and with really neat writing. For twenty bucks? What did I just buy? I'm assuming most people who use the app are just learning Japanese, so probably don't know perfect stroke order! Also the app layout is difficult to navigate to see kanji meaning in hiragana. Please make an update to make kanji more recognizable based on the end product rather than stroke order...otherwise I sadly just wasted my money and want a refund!
Needs voice recognition so a person could say a word and it's kanji is looked up, kind of like google voice search.
As a freelance translator, I usually have digital files to work with. For cases when I need to translate from hard copy or PDF and can't just copy and paste, this app is a lifesaver for fast, accurate kanji and vocabulary lookup.
Period reviews recovered from Apple's customer-review feeds via the Wayback Machine.