EBPocket

If you have any EPWING dictionaries, this app will get them on your iOS device. Truly a great app.

This is the only dictionary I know of that can read EPWING format. For that I'm pretty grateful it exists. It is one of my most used dictionaries. It needs a little polish (e.g. it doesn't tell you under what entry a search result is found) however I overlook that considering how useful it is overall.

Can't connect from server to transfer files

I have just updated it for IOS 7, but i have found that it dose not fit for IFAD MINI... please check it on Ipad....and make the improvement for user...

EBPocket is one of a kind, as another reviewer wrote. This app is an indispensable tool when translating between Japanese &amp; English. I disagree that the customization options are unnecessary and awkward. I feel that the more preferences an app has, the better you can tailor it to your liking. I especially like the complete control over the interface color scheme and font selection. I would however like to see finer control over the font size. There is a slider bar to select the size, but the predefined buttons only offer the most common even sizes. Perhaps a numerical display could be added to show the exact size when using the slider?<br/><br/>As an example of its usefulness, there are several apps available which provide a current copy of Eijirō. I bought my own copy of the Eijirō dictionary, and created an Epwing version of it using Freepwing that I use in this app. I have not yet tried using the pre-formatted PDIC versions of the 4 dictionaries provided with the Eijirō purchase, but I believe from the help section that they should work just fine.<br/><br/>The only real gripe I have with this app is in fact the help section, which is located in the preferences pane. The help section appears to be very large and comprehensive, including screenshot images of key features. Unfortunately, the help section is written in Japanese only. Not having a bilingual help section is a major oversight in an otherwise very useful app. For example, it is not really clear how to set up an additional web search, but this may be completely covered in the help. Overall, I give EBPocket 5 stars unconditionally.

This application is of course not for everyone, but if you know what EPWING dictionaries are and you want to read them on your iPhone, this is the application you need. There were a few bugs in the first release (with reordering groups) but with the new version everything's been ironed out and there are also some nice new features and settings. The interface is quite nice and it's very quick and responsive even with large dictionaries. I'm running Kenkyusha Waei, Kenkyusha Eiwa, Eijiro, and Waeijiro and it reads them all with no problems. The gaiji-unicode map is also a nice addition, but sadly it hasn't been implemented for Kenkyusha yet.

Firstly, if you don't want it to crash when accessing half of your custom dictionaries, use `ebshrink` on them (that is, on the ones that aren't preshrunk). The _features_ are advertised, so let's jump to the limitations (which seem to be common in software of this sort): - zero clipboard support, which can be _extremely_ annoying. - supports bookmarks, but not lists of bookmarks - no &quot;jump&quot; feature, unlike your 電子辞書. Only jumps to EPWING xrefs. This wouldn't be so irritating if it had clipboard support. - supports lookups that _begin_ with your kanji, but not lookups _containing_ your kanji (e.g., 文 will find 文字, but not 例文). This is hard to do efficiently, though, and it isn't usually such a big deal. - does not find exact matches first. Instead, it relies on the order that results are returned from the index. This is a HUGE problem when using the included version of EDICT. You're at the mercy of the order of items in your dictionary. - the included ftp server library seems to be broken on iphone OS 3.1.1. Access to it only works some of the time, but if you're persistent, it's usable. Additionally, there is zero authentication, so be careful about starting the ftp server on public networks.

I can load up my old electronic dictionary EPWING files and search them all at once, and copy text from them too. 5/5<br/><br/>I’m all the more amazed this exists since I seem to recall that all the EPWING readers on PC use a single bug ridden closed source x86 32bit Windows DLL that hasn’t been updated since the 90’s, yet this app can open every dictionary I throw at it, on 64bit ARM, and without a single crash or bug so far. <br/><br/>Keep up the great work!!