Japanese learning resources - Mobile

Educational tools

NihongoUp

$4.99

Not available on Windows Mobile Not available on Android Available on iPhone

A Japanese educational game and reviewing tool that will help you learn hiragana & katakana, improve your reading speed, review JLPT kanji, vocabulary & grammar in context. NihongoUp is a Serious Games Showcase & Challenge winner.

KingKanji

$24.95

Available on Windows Mobile Not available on Android Not available on iPhone

A Japanese flashcard program. Included are lessons based on Japanese workbooks (Basic Kanji Book, Genki, RTK, Minna no Nihongo and many more) as well as on the JLPT and additional kanji lessons can be created using the included Lesson Editor or a word processor.

iKanji touch

$9.99

Not available on Windows Mobile Not available on Android Available on iPhone

Learn to recognise, read and write Japanese kanji characters with iKanji touch. Study on the go with the built-in tests, use the spaced repetition based Teach Me system to learn new kanji and quickly look up characters with the powerful search mechanism.

iKana touch

$4.99

Not available on Windows Mobile Not available on Android Available on iPhone

Are you studying Japanese and looking to take the pain out of learning Hiragana and Katakana? iKana touch is the fun and easy way to learn these phonetic alphabets with tools to help you memorise, speak, read and write both.

Human Japanese

$9.99

Not available on Windows Mobile Not available on Android Available on iPhone

A Japanese language learning software that starts at square one and presents the Japanese language in a warm, engaging tone. The program consists of a very well written basic Japanese textbook, 1800 audio recordings of vocabulary words and example sentences, and several interesting mini games and articles on Japanese culture. A free Lite version with the first 8 out of 40 lessons is also available.

A complete solution to help you master reading and writing the two Japanese kana syllabaries hiragana and katakana with flashcards, a Japanese pronounciation guide with audio recordings, stroke roder practice mode and progress statistics.

Kanji Fuda

$0.99

Not available on Windows Mobile Not available on Android Available on iPhone

Kanji Fuda combines the card game Concentration (Memory) with Kanji flash cards to helps students of Japanese quickly memorize Kanji characters with confidence.

Anki

FREE

Not available on Windows Mobile Available on Android Not available on iPhone

A spaced repetition system (SRS). It helps you remember things by intelligently scheduling flashcards, so that you can learn a lot of information with a minimum amount of effort. There are many user created decks and new decks can be easilly created in the program. One can also create an online account and synchronize decks between different computers.

Reference

A Japanese↔English dictionary with search history, wildcard search, romaji support, flashcards and example sentences with furigana. Th Windows Mobile version has OS integration (translate unknown words without leaving your active application) and a multilingual interface. The price is $9.95 for the Android, $9.99 for the iPhone and $24.95 for the Windows Mobile version. Oxford based (3,785 E→J and 6,491 J→E entries).

Japanese↔English dictionary with grammar help, verb conugation tables, search history, multilingual interface, background information on lifestyle and culture, tips on etiquette and interaction in the language, and a phrasefinder for use when travelling. The price is $9.95 for the Android and $24.95 for the Windows Mobile version. Oxford based (approximately 10,000 entries).

A Japanese↔English and English↔English dictionary with search history and bookmarks. Approximately 50,000 E→J and 40,000 J→E entries.

Kabuto

$22.95

Available on Windows Mobile Not available on Android Not available on iPhone

A Japanese↔English and kanji dictionary with search history, stroke order animations (for the 1,945 Joyo kanji), radical and stroke count search, romaji support, and KingKanji flashcard export. 103,000 general, 34,000 medical, 14,000 computer entries, and 6,300 kanji definitions.

JISHOP Mobile

$39.99

Available on Windows Mobile Not available on Android Not available on iPhone

A Japanese↔English and kanji dictionary with multi-radical and stroke count search, flashcards, and kanji study groups synchronizable with the Windows version of JISHOP. Jishop based (4500 kanji).

A free Japanese↔English dictionary with support for any Edict format dictionary, suffix/prefix matching, romaji support, multi-radical kanji lookup and search history. EDICT based (approximately 130,000 general terms, 720,000 names and 160,000 entries in specialized dictionaries).

iEijiro

$8.99

Not available on Windows Mobile Not available on Android Available on iPhone

A Japanese↔English dictionary with incremental search, example sentences, abbreviation unified search, flashcards and a Google Docs backup/restore feature. Not all of the kanji have furigana. Eijiro based (1,670,000 E→J, 1,950,000 J→E entries, 120,000 example sentences and 30,000 abbreviation entries).

Kotoba!

FREE

Not available on Windows Mobile Not available on Android Available on iPhone

A free Japanese↔English, Russian, German, French dictionary with romaji support, example sentences (from Tanaka Corpus and Tatoeba projects), search history, verb conjugation and stroke order animations. JMDICT based (over 130,000 J↔E, 74,000 J↔G, 14,000 J↔F and 6,000 J↔R entries).

Japanese

$19.99

Not available on Windows Mobile Not available on Android Available on iPhone

A Japanese↔English dictionary with romaji support, stroke order animations, topical lists and verb conjugation. JMDICT & KANJIDIC2 based (approximately 150,000 E↔J vocabulary and 12000 E↔J kanji entries).

PRG Eng-Jpn Dictionary

$7.99

Not available on Windows Mobile Not available on Android Available on iPhone

A Japanese↔English dictionary with example sentences, bookmarks, verb conjugation, landscape mode and a crossword (6,000 words/clues). Pocket Progressive Dictionary based (85,000 E→J, 100,000 J→E entries).

ptsEijiro Viewer

$9.99

Not available on Windows Mobile Not available on Android Available on iPhone

An English → Japanese dictionary with bookmarks, search history, landscape mode and example sentences. A counterpart of the ptsWaeijiro Viewer Japanese → English dictionary. Eijiro based (1,670,000 E→J entries and 120,000 example sentences).

ptsWaeijiro Viewer

$6.99

Not available on Windows Mobile Not available on Android Available on iPhone

A Japanese → English with bookmarks, search history, landscape mode and example sentences. A counterpart of the ptsEijiro Viewer English → Japanese dictionary. Eijiro based (1,950,000 J→E entries and 120,000 example sentences).

The Wisdom Japanese Dictionary

$23.99

Not available on Windows Mobile Not available on Android Available on iPhone

A Japanese↔English dictionary with landscape mode, tons of example sentences and audio pronounciations for some of the words. One of the best dictionaries content wise, but the UI is lacking. WISDOM based (90,000 E→J and 88,000 J→E entries).

Japanese Dictionary Lite

$0.99

Not available on Windows Mobile Not available on Android Available on iPhone

A Japanese↔English, Russian, German, French and English↔English dictionary with multilingual search and romaji support. A Pro version is also available. JMDICT & WordNet based (247,645 J↔E, 143,035 E↔J, 141,242 J↔G, 102,853 G↔J, 31,559 J↔F, 19,367 F↔J, 13643 J↔R, 8,281 R↔J and 87,379 E↔E entries).

Japanese Dictionary Pro

$4.99

Not available on Windows Mobile Not available on Android Available on iPhone

A Japanese↔English, Russian, German, French and English↔English dictionary with multilingual search, romaji support, search history, examples sentences with words linked to their translations. A Lite version is also available. JMDICT & WordNet based (247,645 J↔E, 143,035 E↔J, 141,242 J↔G, 102,853 G↔J, 31,559 J↔F, 19,367 F↔J, 13,643 J↔R, 8,281 R↔J and 87,379 E↔E entries).

Japanese Dictionary Pro

$20.99

Not available on Windows Mobile Not available on Android Available on iPhone

A Japanese↔English dictionary targeted at Japanese natives with instant search, example sentences, related words, conjugations, pronounciation, audio clips, related idioms, notes about formality, error notes, search history, wildcard search, bookmarks and illustrations. One of the best dictionaries for advanced speakers but very slow due to it's size (327MB). Longman based (102,000 entries, 83,000 example sentences, 63,000 collocations and 500 illustrations).

A Japanese encylopedia with a very nice, award winning user interface, tons of interlinked, categorized articles, bookmarks, history, suffix/prefix matching, and a Japanese↔Japanese dictionary. Daijirin based (255,000 entries and 2,700 images).

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