Midori (Japanese Dictionary) for Android

Truly the best JP dictionary app. I learn a lot through this. Worth every penny. Thank you dev for your hard work.

Couple months ago, when translating a text, the "delete" option dissapeared and now it has to be selected manually and then deleted. Next after that the feature of automatic jumping to translation when tapping on the word totally dissapeared. Now I have to manually search it by scrolling. I paid for this app and now I can’t use it normally for translation, as I used to. Contacted the developer by mail, no reply. I hope they can see the review and take care of the bugs.

I have used several dictionaries over the years. This is best one.

I could easily recommend this app to beginners, but not for anyone who wants to fill the gaps in their vocabulary. Most of the words I’ve searched don’t show results. Vocabulary related to specific topics (for example, government, science/medical, architecture, math, etc.) is absent. One way I try to acquire new vocabulary is to read books and jot down the words I don’t know, so I can look them up afterwards and commit them to memory. I want to find an app I can rely on without pulling out my denshi jisho, but this isn’t it. For the price, I was hoping for something more sophisticated.

Ignore dictionaries that try to be too much (imiwa? Shirabe? Japanese?). I’ve tried them all, still prefer the smooth efficiency of Midori. The pros: fast, reliable, good handwriting, stroke and radical lookups, bookmarking, pitch accent guides, click-through to dive deeper. Works fine on on Android and Mobile. I was able to easily integrate it with my massive hand tuned Anki decks (10,000+ cards I’ve used for a decade), so I have the best possible integrated flash cards, too. If you want kanji writing recognition flash cards, get Skritter. It’s worth it. But for a dictionary, the only thing you need after Midori is DAIJIRIN, when you’re ready to learn Japanese in Japanese. Forget the rest. Cons: Can’t sync word lists (bookmarks) automatically. It does have a reliably functional export-import that I use to mail myself to manually sync once/week. It’s a workaround that works, and not ridiculously cumbersome, but automatic direct sync would be nice.