Japanese
Japanese for Android is a comprehensive, user-friendly japanese dictionary.
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4.39
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spammy, or outdated. Pros
- Minimal ads and good for studying with a flashcard feature
- Helpful for learning Kanji and a wide range of vocabulary
- Easy to use dictionary with English and Japanese definitions
- Good for both beginners and intermediate/advanced learners
- Allows saving of words in separate folders
Cons
- Crashes frequently and has performance bugs
- Lacks features present in the iOS version, like draw to search for kanji
- Incessant prompts to review the app even after user requests to stop
- No way to back up or transfer study lists between devices
- Search functionality is limited and not user-friendly
Most mentioned
- Differences between Android and iOS versions
- Frequent app crashes and bugs
- Lack of a backup feature for study lists
- Unwanted prompts for app reviews
- Missing features like the ability to draw kanji
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| Date | Author | Rating | Comment |
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| 2024-05-01 |  | | i like this one bc it has hardly any ads and allows you to study with a flashcard feature. i've been using it for a few years now. the only problem i run into is sometimes i'm trying to memorize a kanji, but it refuses to show me the kanji just because the kana (or a different kanji) is more common way to write it. well, if i encounter the kanji in real life i'd like to be able to study it in my flashcards. there is a handful of words like this and i wish they would fix that. |
| 2023-10-21 |  | | I am not a native-speaker of Japanese, but I've been speaking Japanase for over 30 years. This app is extremely helpful for those instances when I can't remember the stroke order of a particular Kanji or remember an obscure word. I used to use the Japanese English Dictionary (JED), but it's no longer supported by later versions of Android. I first encountered this app when I briefly used an iPad for work. This app is very helpful! |
| 2023-06-26 |  | | I've been using this app for the past 2 years to study Japanese Kanji alongside my Japanese classes in college and I am very happy with it. I can organize my kanji in lists, which I can put into folders. I do wish I could transfer some lists to other folders, but still 10/10 I had the option to rate my experience with the ads in the app. I has to open the app back up to see where the ads were, because I had never really noticed them before. They only show up in 1 place and are not invasive. |
| 2023-05-06 |  | | It's a pretty decent app. You can have saved sets to study, and it's has a plethora of vocabulary in there. Two things that I would add is the ability to draw in the kanji and look from their and out in better images for the strok order. Update, it's keep sending me review notifications despite already reviewing it, and closing the app every time I try to select never. It's becoming a tad inconvenient. |
| 2023-01-26 |  | | A wonderful everyday Japanese dictionary. There are however words that may be confused with words no longer in common use, so be sure to do more research about a words uses, grammar rules, and definitions. Overall a very easy to use and wonderful app for beginners and intermediate/advanced level learning. This app can also be used by natives for English as well! |
| 2023-01-21 |  | | Great quality for a free dictionary. I do have some problems with the app crashing sometimes but it's better since updating. I wish some of the grammatical structures had examples of how to use them. That's my biggest complaint with this app. Otherwise it's really good. I like being able to search with the beginning or ending of the word. |
| 2022-05-12 |  | | Constantly bugs you to review the damn thing even when you've paid for it and told it to "never" ask you again. Other than that, it's literally the same as every other JDIC dictionary, which is to say it's passable for looking up the occasional definition, but nothing special and certainly not a serious study tool. If that's all you're looking for, Takoboto is better even without paying for it. Not only does it not incessantly bother you with pop-ups asking for a review, it also has a better-designed interface. |
| 2022-02-23 |  | | Not as good as the iPhone version, but still my favorite Japanese study app. I love the convenience of adding any word I look up to the study list. Complaints: I miss the feature in the iPhone version that would add all kanji in a word to my study list. I upgraded, but when I changed phones, the upgrade was lost and I'm now getting ads again. The app prompts me to leave a review every time I open it, and closes if I don't. |
| 2021-09-11 |  | | Search only returns live results from the top search screen, on other screens you have to hit enter. Search results truncated making it hard to browse for the right word if you only know one kanji. Study timing algorithm is poor, intervals are nonsensical (10 seconds followed by one day) and reviews are clumpy (30% of all words due on a single day). Can't hide English when studying. The list I spent years studying didn't transfer to my new phone, backup feature missing. Wasted effort. |
| 2021-05-02 |  | | This is a really, really good app, but quite frankly, this version of the app is inferior in many ways to the apple version of this app. This one doesn't have the draw to search for kanji function, which is extremely limiting and required me to download a separate app. The other version allowed to search for multiple words in the search bar at the same time (like copy pasting a whole sentence) and the results would show each word in order. This one only allows searching for one word at a time. |
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