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What are the best Japanese/English dictionary mobile apps?

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Best Japanese/English dictionary mobile apps	Price	Last Updated
-- imiwa?	-	May 22, 2023
-- Akebi Japanese Dictionary	-	May 23, 2023
-- 新和英大辞典第5版 - Kenkyuusha's New Japanese-English Dictionary, 5th Ed	$119.99	Apr 24, 2023
-- Jishop	$16.99	Apr 13, 2023
-- JED	-	Jun 14, 2019

imiwa?

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Ease of Vocabulary Lookup

Lookup by Japanese kanji, Japanese hiragana/katakana, or English alphabetic romaji See More

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Only on iOS

HarmoniousElcmar's Experience

Bad. Don't remember the reason, but it was bad enough that I deleted the app over a year ago. But I see that it has an update. I'll try it again since I haven't found any other acceptable iPhone app. See More

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Offline Use

The entire app is available offline so no internet connection is needs, which is good for when using a device that does not always have a data connection. See More

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Large Size

Since the app can be used entirely offline, there's a large size, 323 MB See More

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Large library of example sentences

Allows users to lookup the dozens of example sentences for each word, providing context to dictionary definitions. See More

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Conjugations

User can lookup conjugations for verbs See More

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Extensive Kanji resources

Organizes kanji by JLPT, jouyou Kanji list, and SKIP See More

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Free

All features are free, no in-app purchases necessary See More

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Sentence Analysis

Automatically inputs pasted sentence on application launch, and breaks down the sentence word by word. See More

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Multilingual Support

Definitions are available in English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish See More

新和英大辞典第5版 - Kenkyuusha's New Japanese-English Dictionary, 5th Ed

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More limted coverage of manga/slang terms

Although this is is significantly larger and higher quality than EDICT, it will have fewer "slang" terms. See More

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Significantly higher quality entries than EDICT

Most of the options on this page are thin interface skins over the freely available EDICT dictionary provided to the public originally by Jim Breen. (http://www.edrdg.org/jmdict/edict.html) Kenkyuusha's, on the other hand, is a professionally curated dictionary by a major Japanese publisher. See More

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That price

Jishop

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Limited free version available for the most common kanji

The free version shows the 1006 Gakushū kanji. Some versions (desktop and android) give a 30 day full version trial before reverting to the limited version. See More

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Kanji dictionary entries are separated by 'theme'

There is often a slight correlation between pronunciation and shades of meaning for kanji, which most dictionaries don't seem to show you. Jishop will try to tease these connections out, helping to significantly clarify some rather broad kanji. See More

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Different (and better) radical lookup mechanism than the typical radkfile indexes

Most EDICT skins use the radkfile mechanism, which is 1) riddled with errors and 2) rather incomplete. Jishop has its own non-bushu lookup mechanism that is significantly easier to use once you get used to the slightly quirky interface. See More

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