Midori (Japanese Dictionary) App Reviews

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Superb! Fantastic! Makes learning Japanese a joy!. Every time you search for a new word, you go down a wonderful rabbit hole and can get lost as you bounce from one new word to another. I especially love how you can drill down into a kanji to see the basic radicals that compose the whole. Also, thrilled to have the stroke order for kanji. Everything is laid out so clearly and neatly. I love using this dictionary!

A Godsend for Class & the Wild. Midori has been my go-to for Kanji look-up, organizing bookmark sets by chapter from my text book, translation, and verb conjugation. My favorite two features are: 1) the draw-kanji input: when drawing a character by sight, the recognition is so generous it’s scary, and is the biggest help of all when trying to decipher kanji I can’t recognize. 2) the list of example uses and breakdowns of multi-character words. Most of the examples from my text book are in the first few examples of the kanji I’ve bookmarked in this app.

Roundabout dictionary. I love the organization and content of the app but When you look for a word in the search a whole list of sentences with the word appear and not the word itself. Can you make it so that when I look up a word that’s what appears and make the sentences an extra feature that accompanies the word?

Excellent dictionary!. I have had this dictionary for years. It’s only improved since first getting it. The most useful thing for me is the kanji drawing app, which is by far the most accurate and smartest I’ve come across. It has tons of example sentences, which you can search either by English or Japanese. It also include some slangs and more modern words. I’m very very happy with this dictionary!

Almost perfect. This app is really amazing. The multiple ways to search (romaji, hiragana, or kanji radicals, is incredibly convenient. I use it almost every day, primarily for inputting new words to the bookmark/flash card section. The only problem I have is not about content, only usability. The flash cards only allow you to see the Japanese first, instead of offering English first as well. If there was the option to use either Japanese or English first, I feel like the language-learning benefit would be improved. Again, despite my tiny usability issue, overall this app is incredibly useful, and anyone interested in learning Japanese will definitely benefit from it!

Still the best, now with a Safari extension.. There really are only 2 good Japanese dicts in the AppStore. One is named Japanese, and never gets updated, and this one. Fun tip: try the Safari extension in other Apps. If they use the same mechanism Safari does, it will work. Love the new features.

The BEST tool for studying Japanese. I spent ten dollars on this app wondering if I would actually use it. This app is the absolute best offline dictionary. It was extremely helpful when I went to Japan and didn’t have cell phone service. It has clear definitions, tons of examples, and you’re able to examine each kanji in detail. It also includes kanji and vocabulary lists for every JLPT level. Best tool I have ever bought for Japanese language study.

Incredible. This is the best dual language dictionary I’ve ever used. I have heavily studied 4 languages and never seen anything like this. Because Japanese is so complex, with multiple alphabets, so many sounds meaning so many different things, so many different ways to say things, it’s overwhelming. But this app is highly organized. You can approach from grade level, to most used words, can save words in different folders, make notes, it breaks down how to write characters step by step…I just keep discovering more abilities with this app, it’s so cool. One of my favorite things is that you don’t have to switch keyboards to look up a Japanese word, you can write out the sound/characters of the word/syllables using the English keyboard and it will present you with the Japanese characters

💯 Best Japanese dictionary app. Why? なぜ？ ✨ fast and easy to look up words, names, characters with handwriting, romaji and now Safari extension: no more copy and pasting 💌 exporting lists to e-mail, csv to backup lists 📝 easily translate long blocks of text at once 🔥 always being updated and improved 🌏 fully-available offline 💮 quiz function for those studying One of my most-used apps. Thank you 💘

The Best. I've tried many free and paid Japanese dictionaries. Out of all of them, I'd say Midori is the best. Name dictionary, multiple options of display for information regarding kanji study systems, examples, and more.

Ridiculously useful. I came for the dictionary, I stayed for the flashcards. That’s not true – the dictionary is actually amazing. It’s hard to imagine a better layout for a Japanese dictionary than this; or with more functionality than this.

My Favorite. I’ve been using Midori for about seven years now, and it has been consistently one of my most valuable tools in learning Japanese. Other dictionaries have similar features, but something about this one just feels and flows better. It gets out of the way and lets you just learn. Feature request: could you add WaniKani level information for kanji and vocabulary? That would be AMAZINGLY useful for a lot of people, and would likely attract new users from the large pool of WK users. Edit: While I’m at it, how hard would it be to add pitch accent information?

Best Japanese dictionary app on iOS!. Been using this dictionary app for years, definitely the best dictionary on iOS.

This app is so good. This app is so amazing I cannot understand why it has so few downloads. The flash cards, the examples, the ability to translate and have hiragana written over the kanji is incredible!!!

Speaking function no longer works on IPhone. Please fix this issue. It works on the iPad but not iPhone. Please fix this soon and I will change to 5 stars.

Does Everything Japanese Does. I bought this at the suggestion of a friend. After a day of using it I discovered it’s just a paid version of the free Japanese Dictionary App that has everything it does, but even a few more functions that I’m looking for like listing what JLPT level each word is on the dictionary entry. Not really the all inclusive app I was hoping for. I don’t find the flash cards very useful without a voice playback either. Not really helpful for my ADHD learning style.

extremely helpful!. I love the bookmark function to be able to save words for later review. Conjugations for the win! Some of the example sentences are a little odd but help put in context how to use words grammatically. I would love to see antonyms as sometimes searches don’t net what you need without some digging. If you are studying Japanese this a great tool and works offline which is awesome.

Awesome App, happy they still update. I have had this app for over 8 years and is always my go to. While there had not been any “crazy new look” or “ special new pink elephant “ type updates, the app/dictionary keeps working well and I haven’t been charged for an update or forced into some useless subscription schemes so 5 stars from me.

Essential for anyone using Japanese. This app is absolutely brilliant. I use it everyday and recommend it to all my friends that use Japanese for work or leisure. Its database is huge and very detailed. The “paste from clipboard” functionality is extremely handy. To the developer: iCloud sync would make this app a 5 stars app. It would be fantastic, specially for people who uses this app in more than one device. Being able to add a word to more than one bookmark at a time would be a great time saver too.

For years, still the best. 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 iPhone and iPad. 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.

Amazing app, my go to for all studies.. I use this app for everything, including the translate section for copy pasting NHK easy articles to gain reading practice. Having the handwriting recognition built in is also super useful. To the developer: it would be great to have support for toggling on a “dark theme” as the white background gets a bit tough on the eyes at times. Update: Downgraded current rating from 5 to 4 stars as the translate lookup functionality has some pretty glaring bugs. A good example is the following sentence: こちらは原先生です。The first word こちら exists in the dictionary itself but isn’t parsed during translate. I’ve seen many cases such as this requiring me to rely on additional apps. Please fix this.

Super useful for Nihongo reference. This app is simply amazing. It not only has vocabulary but also many Kanji and their components. Everything is very clear. The examples are very helpful, too. I love that I can scribble something and get the Kanji that I'm after. I use this app every day.

Superb tool for Japanese language study. Midori is an extremely comprehensive and effective tool for Japanese language study. The best out there in my view. The example sentences, range of vocabulary, ability to customize lists and share them and the eye-friendly layout are just a few of the great features. The responsiveness and support from the developer are also excellent. Highly recommended.

Love this app. I use this every day and love how it’s so versatile. I wish there was an option to back up notes and settings or choose to export to iCloud or Google Drive. That would make it more awesome.

Good but with some errors. This is a very extensive dictionary! However there are some issues: when I was looking up the verb nagusameru, it did not show up, even though it is a valid verb. In general it can sometimes not display all the possible words for a given definition (like not listing oyatsu as a word for snack) so it definitely needs some work.

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

Indispensable for JLPT exam preparation. It’s my favorite Japanese app! I’m using it now to prepare for the upcoming exam and love every feature of it: words and kanji lists for each level, ability to add bookmarks and practice only selected words. It has flash card option too. I love plenty of examples and how easy it is to see the compounds of a word or kanji. I don’t know what I would do without this app!

Great but one downside. Firstly, I really appreciate this sleek app. It makes looking up words and seeing examples so easy, and I really love the writing support. However, there is one thing that feels like a bug. I mainly use this app while using my ipad. I open Midori as a Slide Over app. When writing kanji, a fantastic mini window pops up for me to start writing, however when I use the apple pencil, after one stroke the window immediately expands into the full writing window taking up the bottom part of my screen. If I only use my finger to write in the mini window, there is no problem; it only happens when using the apple pencil. This isn’t the biggest deal, and I think you deserve 5 stars regardless. I’d love it if the apple pencil didn’t make the mini writing window expand, but it’s not going to stop me from using the app. Thanks again for the great app!

The Best. I love this app, I’ve used it for years and it helped me greatly in Japan. I’m only giving four stars because I’d like a sync across devices feature, but that’s my only complaint, after over 5 years of use.

Excellent. Fantastic app & dictionary, though I just have one issue - the iPhone version has pitch accent information, but I don’t see it anywhere in the iPad version. If this could be fixed, the app would be perfect for my uses!

Good features, lacking vocab. 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.

Exceptional. I have been using this app for years it is my go to Denshi jishou. (電子辞書) The new camera scan features rocks. 20 out of 10.

Absolutely terrific!. This is hands down the best Japanese dictionary app out of all the ones I checked out for iOS. It does everything I would want out of an electronic dictionary. Look up words in English or Japanese by entering characters, or selecting radicals, or drawing the kanji. It automatically saves everything you look up to the history so you can refer to it later. You can also bookmark useful entries and organize them into folders. Each entry is very detailed: gives the definition, shows stroke order, gives example sentences, shows the relevant kanji's meaning, and let's you add notes. All words are cross-linked so you can easily jump to another entry. What a wonderful job this developer has done! Worth every penny!

a truly magnificient app. i've been using this app for longer than i can remember (well over 10 years) and it has been wonderful and rock solid every time i've used it. the ruby text enhanced translation mode is a super power for anyone wanting to learn japanese and the kanji writing system. i give it 5 stars but it really deserves 5 hearts.

Great but translate function needs improvement. The app is a great dictionary and reads drawn kanji well. The translate function only works on kanji which is annoying but other than that this app is great. For translation function it is better to get imiwa that app translates hiragana as well

Its good but quite inconvenient. Overall it’s good, it’s like a combination of Japanese and Imiwa. But it’s quite inconvenient because there is no option for an account. I get it that the users are able to save the words on the app on the device they’re using. But if I use both my phone and ipad, whenever I switch the device, I dont have any words to practice. Hopefully, this issue will be noticed and updated.

Flash card upgrade and syncing. I love this app. I use it all the time living in Japan and often bookmark things I look up to review later. It’s incredibly handy. The only thing I wish it had is a way to limit daily new words to study. I also wish there was a way to sync between devices. I usually study in my iPhone, but read Japanese books on my iPad. Most of the new words from reading wind up saved on the iPad, so I never get around to studying them.

Got buggy,and no update. 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.

If you are learning Japanese dont think twice and get that app. I always have it open in front of me when studying. It’s very well done, and super useful. Along side with Anki a must have to learn Japanese.

This app is fantastic. Not only the best Japanese dictionary, but the best of any foreign language dictionary that I’ve found. UI is clean and easy to navigate. The flash card system is fantastic for learning vocabulary and the adaptive recall system is the perfect amount of functionality without bombarding you with endless options that you need to configure. Using the flash card system I was able to learn almost 1000 words in about a month, by simply reviewing the recommended cards for each day. Only thing that’s lacking - please make an equivalent app for Chinese! :)

Great app. Please add bookmark syncing!. This is by far the best English-Japanese dictionary out there. Do not hesitate to pay for this app. It is well worth the money! If the app offered syncing of bookmarks across devices it would be perfect!

Camera Function is a significant upgrade. I have been using Midori for years but have to say that the “scan/photo” function that I have been using more recently has transformed its effectiveness

Great Learning Tool for Japanese. I use this app about everyday for learning how to read Japanese involving kanji. It’s great that there are multiple ways to look up unknown kanji with this app. The way I use it is to use the multi-tasking feature of my iPad to open up the Google Translate web page with Safari on the left side of the iPad screen, and then to open up Midori on the right side of the screen. Then I can look up individual kanji and Japanese words with Midori, and then either cut-and-paste or type the words into Google Translate on the left side of the screen so I can quickly translate entire Japanese sentences into English.

Great dictionary but lacks something invaluable. I’ve tried many Japanese dictionaries and Midori ended up being my favorite by far. Great functionality, minimalistic but easy to see design, good speed and the best kanji writing feature I’ve seen so far. However, there’s one thing that’s keeping me from giving 5 stars to this app: it lacks cloud sync, which is something other apps have. It’s very frustrating to have to save my bookmarks in dropbox on the phone and then open, extract and save them in my iPad’s app. This takes out a lot of time since I use both devices often daily. I’ve thought about picking other dictionaries before multiple times due to this particular feature missing. I sincerely hope this will be implemented soon.

I wouldn't survive in Japan without Midori. I've passed the JLPT N1 and have lived in Japan for the last five years. However, I use Midori wash l each and everyday whether to check the newspaper, to confirm the meaning of a sign I see outside, or to double-check a word that I heard during a meeting. It's so easy to use. One small improvement I would like to see is the ability to put a folder within a folder in bookmarks a little easier. I come across so many words that I bookmark thanks to Midori and would love to be able to organize my lists a little better. Otherwise, this is an amazing app!

Fantastic on so many levels. I’m in love with this app. Being able to draw a kanji in a dictionary is infinitely helpful. No more looking it up by strokes in a book. Best $10 I have ever spent as someone who is learning the language.

Best App. It's the best app with tons of features worth of 9.99$. With that I can do almost everything concerning with japanese language. Similar kanji, translate, easy bookmark, kanji with JLPT level, Grade level, loanwords and so many features to use. Almost every feature is useful.

I use this app everyday!. As an English speaker living in Japan for the past year and a half, I have found this app extremely helpful. I bought it when I had zero Japanese ability and now am studying for my n2 exam. I utilize almost all the functions of this app daily from studying vocabulary to looking up words I don't understand in daily life. I love that I can save words in my own lists for later study. The new updates including the additional "common" label for words as well as being able to write any stroke order have made this app even more convenient. When learning new vocabulary, I love that most words have multiple example sentences. Adding sentences to more words can make this excellent app even more outstanding. I think this app is worth every ¥$€£. Thank you!

Terrific becomes even more useful. This app is both a terrific Japanese dictionary and a tool for helping one learn Japanese. You can do almost anything you'd want to do with Japanese, from looking up words, studying Kanji, studying example sentences, etc. This version adds a Safari extension which makes it even more useful - you can now translate Japanese web pages directly from Safari.

Best Dictionary app out there. This is the only dictionary app you will need. I’m bummed that they don’t seem to be active with updates anymore, not active website etc I wish that sentences could be added to entries manually so they could be bookmarked and studied :)

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The best iOS JP dictionary!. Took me from beginner to studying for JLPT N1. A million times better than using anki all the time, fast to look up words, you can save to lists and your saved words are highlighted later in kanji word listings. All around amazing.

A good English <-> Japanese dictionary. This is a good English <-> Japanese dictionary, with not only a good explanation of the words or idioms but also with good examples of the usage. I find it useful to have the listing of related words (which is handy to just jump to) and also the stroke orders of Kan-ji. The handwriting input of Kan-ji from the trackpad is also particularly useful for me.

Lame.... Does not write the word in English alphabet. Completely useless for communication if it does not tell you how to say the word. If I knew Japanese then why would I need a dictionary?

Fantastic resource, pity no romanji!. This is a really great app that is use full for anyone just wanting to brush up on Japanese or beginners like myself. I bought it to use as a reference as I study Japanese but am slightly disappointed that the entries do not have a translation into romanji, but other than that the ability to look up words by drawing hiragana, katakana or kanji is awesome! すごい！

Deceptively Powerful. I have to finally write a review for Midori because though I've had it for a while, truth be told I'm only JUST discovering how amazing it is. The kanji drawing function is outstanding: it's easily able to detect characters perfectly regardless of stroke order or accuracy (to an extent, of course) - even if you're travelling to Japan with no knowledge of the language, this app will allow you to draw any kanji you see using the 'search' function and instantly provide you with English translation/s. This is equally as useful when reading books or manga and you've forgotten/don't know particular kanji. Almost everything in the app is able to be highlighted for 'copy/paste' and/or 'speak' if you can't read Hiragana (Japanese pronunciation in this app is NOT in Romaji but honestly, it can take only a few hours to memorise all of Hiragana using mnemonics so I'd highly recommend doing that and saving yourself a world of trouble later). Bundled together with Google Translate, this is the perfect combination for covering most needs regarding Japanese to English translation. Both have their pros and cons, but together all cons are almost nullified. I'll definitely be using this regularly, so thank you for making such a great app!

Best Japanese dictionary on the App Store. Great app, really fantastic dictionary. Shows verb conjugations and example sentences. Kanji search is particularly helpful.

Fantastic app!. Probably one of the best Japanese dictionary apps available. Very simple to use, and the interface is well presented. It even allows you to write in kanji and find the meaning. Great for all levels of Japanese learners. When I need to use a Japanese dictionary, this is the one I use most.

Highly recommend. Very thorough and easy to navigate. I get a lot more out of my study time with this handy little gem. Thank you

Go Midori. I am in awe of this application. I was sceptical at first because of the price, but now feel I have gotten a bargain. Well played Sukolsak Sakshuwong.

Great. I especially like your translation feature, but it would greatly enhance the feature if i could select words without kanji to add to the vocab list. It would also be great if i could adjust where word boundaries are set, like 夢のつづき shouldn't suggest the name yumeno. Instead of yume and tsuduki seperatly

Still going strong since 2011. I’ve been using Midori since 2011 and I still found this is the best dictionary. It accompanied me through out university life. I could make folders according to my classes and make flash cards out of it ready for my tests. The radicals help me when I don’t know the correct stroke order. I just hope that Midori allows iCloud save my favourites so I can keep my saved kanjis throughout my devices.

great app!!. Fantastic app! well worth the money! A couple of feature requests: 1. more lists, preferably by topic. What would be great is if you could search for a topic list which you need and then download to the device as necessary rather than having all the lists pre-loaded. 2. text to speech, so that pronunciation can be learned. 3. speech to text, in case all other input methods fail (perhaps 2 and 3 can use Japanese siri??) 4. more grammar references, especially particles. one of the best features of the app is that words in example sentences are hyperlinked. it would be great if particles were too so you could learn how to use them better!

Best Japanese dictionary available!. This app is one of the most comprehensive Japanese dictionaries I've used, and has helped me countless times with my learning of the Japanese language!

Best Japanese dictionary. Hands down best Japanese dictionary I've tried (Kotoba, "Japanese" now Midori). English to Japanese mode provides a second word to specify the meaning you are looking for instead of having trawl through many example sentences. Using Japanese kanji instead of the built in chinese character keyboard for the handwriting recognition is also a big improvement. Switching between handwriting component and phonetic methods of searching in japanese to english mode is very convenient, and the translation feature is also very handy. Overall, a fantastic dictionary as long as you have learnt your kana! A must if you are living here.

Great app but crashes on opening. Fantastic application! But, as of 2016-05-13, it crashes upon opening.

Best jap dictionary on ios. Used this app while studying a year in Japan. It's well supported with updates and worth the money .

Great app (4.5 stars). This app strikes a good balance with features and UI, and has a unique feature of highlighting bookmarked words that appear throughout, which is a nice reminder. When entering compound kanji, it seems to offer popular choices for the second kanji, which is useful. I wish the history appeared under the text entry area (like most other apps do) instead of being buried in a menu, and some kanjis are not recognised in handwriting mode. Notwithstanding, still recommend and use this daily. Thanks.

Brilliant. Seriously this app is fantastic, the translation part is especially useful when reading a large piece of Japanese text such as a newspaper article. I now use it everyday and have stopped using my other iPad dictionary.

The best app for Japanese language learners. Personally I have not found anything better than this app. Please update the app for iPad Pro 11 and enable the app to be full screen!

Scott. This is a very effective dictionary to use for serious Japanese to English translation and also English to Japanese translation. The conjugation lists are very helpful and the two methods of looking up kanji are quite effective (either by radical or by drawing them). If you want to draw them you need to know the correct stroke order though or it doesn't work so well. I have been studying Japanese for 3 years and found this app very useful when visiting Japan recently.

Best Japanese dictionary app for iPad. I have been studying Japanese for years and I love this app. Great for beginners and advanced Japanese learners.

Marvelous. First of allI would like to thank and congratulate the developer(s) of this application for making such a master piece. I am an Austalian exchange student in Japan and this app has been one of the few things elements that have lead me to the road of success. It is the best I have seen on the market so far and was worth what I paid for I am a very happy customer. The flash card feature is very useful and helped me learn many Kanji. Thank you again, I am grateful of your efforts.

Love it. I use this all the time for uni.

Best Japanese dictionary app available. I've used this app for over 7 years and it has been very useful throughout my Japanese studies. It's fast and great for on the go usage and can even translate blocks of text.

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すばらしいです. wonderful app to help learn and understand an amazing language!

Awesome app. The ability to look up kanji by drawing them is incredibly useful.

Best Jisho yet!. A complete japanese dictionary. Blazing fast and plenty of flashcard for vocab and kanji! Simple and clean!

Midori, sugoi!. App très complète avec écriture des kanjis, explications des clés etc. Même dictionnaire des noms propres.

Great reference. While not that unique or beautiful, this app provides a universal app that has an easy to use dictionary with a good number of sample sentances, flash cards and kanji stroke order. A great reference on both ipad and iphone. It could use a bit of design love, but sticks to a native ios experience, which is pretty key to its ease of use. I find the kanji handwriting recognition can be a bit hard to use for complex stroke orders that I am not as comfortable with writing, however it offers the more common radical lookup as well. This app seems to have frequent updates and has been the best app of its kind on the apple store that i have found.

I love this app!. This app is truly great! I'm living in Japan and I use this app daily. And it's constantly getting updated with the latest phrases in use. Also, the ability to look up Japanese names is a VERY useful feature for me, and one I've never found in another dictionary. You can't go wrong buying this app!

Much better than expected. Very good tool for beginners.

I love this app. I use it almost everyday. But if the flashcard function could also have some example sentences/conjugations along with the definition I think it would be a lot more useful.

First Impression: Excellent. I've been using another iPhone Japanese dictionary for some time now (the one with the Japanese and British flags on a cube-icon) and this one blows it away. I'm still fairly new to the Japanese language but I found that the search engine on Midori is far superior to the other app's. Also, being a real beginner, the hiragana above kanji really helps with the examples. The other app does not provide this. I'm actually learning more about grammar because of this, as I can (finally) understand what the examples are saying! I will give a more thorough review as I get to know the app better. For now, I think it's great!

Midori. I have already commented once about my love of this app (in September). It has now been updated with neat additions (like the animated kanji - yay!) and a vocabulary list by JLPT-levels (double yay!)... It is, in my books, the best kanji app out there... the only other thing I would like (and I hope it gets added in another update) is a FORWARD button so one can move from one kanji to the next when using the lists (so one does not have to go back to the main window to get to the next kanji).

Good for kanji learners. This is a great dictionary, which recognizes handwriting as well and is quite sensitive to the order of strokes. The latter feature is helpful for kanji learners like myself so I would say it corresponds to most of my needs and is worth the price.

Incredibly useful!. I have used many Japanese dictionary/translators over the years and this is the best. It has a large dictionary including many specialized terms that other apps don't have. It is very versatile and I really like being able to add notes to bookmarks. The only feature I wish it had is the ability to personalize it with my own words and definitions. Other than that, highly recommended!

Nice, but could be more useful if settings and bookmarks can sync across devices. I use Midori to learn Japanese and I use the bookmark feature to help me organize what I like to revise. It works well but I find it somewhat frustrating when I switch between my iPhone and iPad and I cannot have the same bookmarks. I wish Midori can sync settings and bookmarks across devices of the same iCloud account so no matter which device I pick up I can continue learning.

Beautiful. Oh, wow. I downloaded the app just now and I'm totally blown away by the layout. This is definitely something I'm going to use... All kanji are viewable by grade, and organized simply with the kanji themselves, pronunciations in kana, and meaning. Definitely a beautiful, convenient, and complete app.

Amazing!. i couldn't have ask for more! all the particles on my iphone! that's amazing! :D ありがとうごさいます

Wonderful app to learn Japanese!. It's my favourite Japanese - English dictionnary. I Highly recommend it! Superbe application pour apprendre le japonais. C'est mon dictionnaire favori et il est très complet, je le recommande fortement!

Awesome!. This app is awesome. I use it all the time and use the flash cards for N3 kanji practice. 素晴らしいです！five stars. :)

Junk. Wow! Beyond disappointed, I can’t believe they can get away with charging money for this. I look up 信用 and the only answer is the name of a credit union! 突然　produces no answer even if I try totsuzen. This is junk don’t waste your money. No stars

Rather splendorous piece of app. A nice app for those in need of a exceptional Japanese dictionary app. A wider variety of conjugations would be nice, such as hortative conjugations. The stroke order for kanji is nicely written, easy to access, large varieties of example sentences. Overall an okay app.

Great and keeps getting better. A great Japanese dictionary dictionary. The most useful features and the handwriting recognition and the many example sentences. One request that I have though is for an example sentence search field to find all the sentences that contain a certain word (either Japanese or English). Definitely recommended for studying Japanese.

LOVE IT. I absolutely love this app. Full purchase was totally worth it. Keep the example sentences coming. =]

Worth every penny. Best Japanese dictionary. I am very happy with my purchase. The app is a pleasure to use.

Kanji recognition weak. This program is useful, however the handwriting recognition is not very good. The kanji lookup is based on number of strokes as opposed to the how the kanji actually looks. So this program cannot recognize natural handwriting which makes it very difficult to look up unknown kanji. However the other features of this app are amazing. You can organize kanji into bookmark folders. These folders can then be reviewed as flash cards. A great feature for anyone studying kanji.

Perfect for learning. Very complete and useful. A must!

Can't say enough great things!. This app surpassed my expectations! There are countless phrases & examples of word use for both formal and colloquial circumstances, which are easily searchable by any word. The context these examples provide are invaluable to learners of any skill level. The kanji search tool is also fantastic and extremely helpful if you find yourself in a situation where the hiragana is not present. Simply clicking on a word in the definition will take you to that definition, without having to type or copy and paste it into the search bar. Verb conjugation is another useful feature. Very recommended to all students of Japanese!

Amazing!. I was unsure about buying this because of the price. It is worth every penny. I highly recommend it for those studying Japanese.

Brilliant.. Took a chance on this one, since there weren't many reviews. This app is now the one I'll use for school. When drawing kanji, searches Japanese kanji, NOT chinese kanji. Has newspaper kanji assorted by most commonly seen. NAME AND PLACE DICTIONARY. This app is perfect.

A must have. Wether you are learning Japanese or just traveling, this is the tool you need. I use it every day. Suggestion: I wish there was a link between transitive and intransitive version of a verb

The best Japanese Dictionary. Thank you for this amazing dictionary! It's easy to use and very comprehensive. It is one of the best paid apps I've purchased so far.

Excellent translator!. Great app!

excellent app. occasional search oddities using hiragana for On-yomi that are n katakana in the dictionary e.g. て　gives me 手 but しゅ　does not give 手 which is シュ Could be an iPad iOS quirk of this Version of 16

I use this every day for study.. Midori is a fantastic app. There isn't much more I can ask for other than an update to stroke order recognition. Sometimes they are slightly off or correct but the stroke search function doesn't recognize what I am looking for. Otherwise fantastic. One thing that I would suggest is offering the a ability to create your own flashcard sets. I've tried other apps that focus on this as a main feature and fail to do it properly. Considering how great this dictionary is, the ability to construct flashcard sets out of it would be superb. Thanks for everything!

Better than imi wa?. 「緑」は「意味は?」より便利な辞書ですよ！ For the longest time, imi wa?/kotoba! was my dictionary of choice; it worked and for free. Seeing this dictionary's excellent reviews, I was still extremely wary of purchase if it did not outdo imi sa?. I finally gave in and made the purchase. This app has practically everything imi wa? lacks. First, while searching in english, it lists all words pertaining to the phrase as one result near the top. It can also search japanese names and when you click a word in example sentences, it takes you to that entry. Second, the entries are very clean and have all relevant information on the main page without cluttering it (conjugations, examples, meanings). Like imi wa?, it includes kanji links. This alone makes searching and translation quicker. Speaking of which, searches are faster and less prone to lag; you can instantly switch between keyboard, character and radical searching. When you click search, results appear instantaneously. This app also can take a paragraph of japanese and automatically parses it with translations for all the words you probably don't know as well as their pronunciations. Very useful if you read japanese on the web and miss rikai-kun/chan. Finally, one of the features I have wanted in imi wa? is to make notes in entries. Have a useful mnemonic, example sentence or related word that isn't in the entry? add it using a note at the bottom of the page ^_^ Also includes flashcards, lists and favourites for organizing your studying. Anyways, I was really wary of not getting my money's worth on this; if you have $10 that you aren't using elsewhere, this app won't disappoint. Among all other dictionary apps I've tried, imi wa? is the only one that can compare to the features midori has. Every other dictionary was basically google translate.

A Six Star App. If there were a sixth star available for this app, I would award it. It’s the only dictionary I could find that is 100 % reliable in deciphering drawn kanji (unlike Jisho, which I also use). Moreover, you can in your drawing build a kanji, piece by piece, checking for meaning at each stage, which makes remembering the kanji much easier, as the meaning logically develops. And because you download the whole program, you can use it offline. Can’t recommend it highly enough!

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Delightful. I am using this on the iPad, your mileage am vary. Using this app gave me one pleasant surprise after another. First, earlier reviews stated that the app didn't show you how to draw the kanji, so I was surprised when I tapped the large kanji on the kanji page and an animation of the kanji stroke order appeared. The kana lists allow you to display stroke order in a similar fashion. (This information can be difficult to find in other sources.) When I updated to the iOS with a system wide dictionary, I discovered that I could hold my finger on a non-highlighted word in the translation page and a drop-down dictionary would appear. This strong integration with iOS greatly increases my reading speed. I copy a section from a book I am reading into the translation page and read it there. I was also surprised to learn that I could drill down to the kanji from anywhere in the application and then backtrack to my starting point. The kanji page allows you to drill down to the radicals used to form the kanji. The sample sentences can also speed the learning of Japanese language syntax. I meant this to be a short review, but am having trouble listing the strengths of this product , even in a review of this length.

Excellent dictionary and flash card feature. The interface is great and makes the dictionary very easy to use. The handwritten kanji recognition works well. You can bookmark definitions/kanji and add your own notes. And bookmarked entries can be grouped into folders and sub folders which is great when using the flash card feature. The flash card feature is basic but works very well and has some configuration options for studying. Occasionally I still use the free "imiwa?" application to look up words. I've run into a few entries in midori that are inaccurate or incomplete but that's rare so it's good to have imiwa as a backup. The one feature that imiwa has that is superior is the translation tool. I don't want to explain the details but it's much better than midori. Otherwise, midori is the better application and well worth the cost.

Excellent!. Best Japanese app in the store, in my opinion. Extremely useful as a dictionary, and can also be used to practice how to write kanji. My only wish for an improvement would be to have the possibility of writing it in romaji and seeing the kanji options for that show up as you type, when searching for a word. It's already the case if you write the whole word, but for words made of more than one kanji it's less simple because sometimes you remember the kun reading and not the on reading or vice-versa, so if you could type either reading and see the kanji for it before picking one and then putting together your composed word before searching, it would be nice. You can always search for the kanji separately that way then come back once you realize how to write, to then search for that word you were looking for, but it takes longer that way.

Awesome Japanese language app. It's expensive but I think it's totally worth it. I used kotoba for the iPhone for a long time but an iPad version never came out, so I got this app. It's universal, so I can use it on both devices. I love the kanji animations. The preset list for jlpt level and grade level is awesome. The most useful feature is flashcards which you can use on any of the preset lists or your own bookmarks. Also being able to export/import your bookmarks is a nice feature, this way I can keep bookmarks "sync'd" across both devices. It would be nice if it supported iCloud backup to keep them synced automatically, but I'm not going to downgrade a star for that. Anyone wanting to learn Japanese on any level needs to get this.

Amazing. Must have for traveling!

最高！. I use this dictionary countless times a day. I do a lot of Japanese self-study, and have downloaded many other dictionaries to see if there's one that I'll like better or use more than Midori. I've never found one. Midori got me through all 60 levels of WaniKani, and has been very helpful in my kanji studies beyond. It has the most appealing and user-friendly format of any dictionary app I know. It's possible to look kanji up by Romaji, radical, and drawing. I have tons of bookmark categories, and use the flash card feature to study within them. Oh, it also has lists of kanji by usage frequency and grade level plus lists of vocabulary by grammatical type. I'm going to remember even more features later, so please believe me when I say that Midori is an invaluable tool for studying the Japanese language. \( ¨̮ )/

Very little. This app has very little, about 50% of the time I can find something.

Worth your money. For any serious student learning Japanese, this app is worth the investment.

Great app. Please add verb-たい form to the conjugation list for verbs

Best software I've ever used. I have stopped using my Canon Wordtank electric dictionary! This is a really useful software. I watch Japanese TV and can rapidly look-up new words AND save them in files "bookmarks" for future flash card review. BEST of all there is no Romaji to inhibit learning, and every kanji has furigana. Everything works with cut/past into and out of other programs. Fast & easy! Lots of example sentences. This software will also translate large bodies of Japanese text & at the same time provide a side-bar of explanations of various words/wordings.

Really Helpful For in Japan Use. This app just keeps getting better and better! Please keep the updates coming!! The flash cards are something that I use a lot to help me learn words, so I really find the updates to the spaced repetition setting useful. Although, being able to turn off cards in a deck so that they don't show up in the flashcards would be helpful. As I've said before though, there are conjugation forms of verbs and adjectives that just aren't there. This app could be better if they were added. Also, I know adding audio is a BIG project, but get on it! It would give this app a HUGE advantage over other apps of it's kind.

Love it!. As a Japanese learner, this app has everything that I need. Easy to use. Fast. Clean and simple interface. Comes with handy features like animated stroke orders, kanji lists with highlighted bookmarks, flashcards, especially the handwriting recognition. You can actually write down the kanji and have it matched. It does match pretty well. Also the translation, even though not always accurate, it can extract most of the compound words that I tried. There are still rooms for improvements and more features. Hopefully, the wonderful developer is going to make it even better in the next updates. Considering all that you got at this price, I would say it's worth every penny.

Welcome to the future. I've been studying Japanese on and off (mostly off) for more than 25 years and have shelves full of Japanese dictionaries. I've owned a couple WordTanks and smaller electronic dictionaries and used a variety of software like JEdict on the Mac (which is also great). But the combination of an iPad and Midori is truly amazing and useful. It looks fantastic on the new iPad's Retina display and the progressive radical search is brilliant and effective. The handwriting recognition works great, and the general look and layout of the app is clean and functional. A couple small suggestions: stroke count or SKIP lookup might be useful for when all else fails, and the J/E button on the main search screen might be better represented by three tabs to save a tap. Thanks!

Excellent Resource for Students of Japanese. This app performs as it claims and exceeded all of my expectations. I wish I had found this earlier in my studies, but it's still so helpful. My favorite feature, beyond the excellent handwriting recognition for Kanji lookup, is the bookmark tool. You can easily bookmark words you look up, and from the list, create flash cards or email the list to yourself for later. For class, I can make a quick list of words I might forget or not remember how to read during discussion and they're all there, with examples and definitions. This app outperforms most free alternatives, and is well worth the $9.99 asking price. If you are learning Japanese, you should have this app.

My go-to Japanese dictionary app. I've had both imiwa and Japanese but midori is pretty much the only app I use on a daily basis. Layout is nice and clean and it's easy to use (and imo looks better overall than the other two). Would be nice to see it on other platforms such as Mac. A minor issue I have with it is that the speed of the speech function is quite fast and cannot be controlled even when I try to change it in the speech accessibility settings. Another thing I'd love to see would be an addition of a radicals list similar to what Japanese by Renzo has. For now I guess I'll have to manually make my own but I think it will be a useful tool to others as well.

Work of art. This app is one of the most impressive pieces of software I've ever encountered. It does everything you could possibly want in a Japanese dictionary, and it is beautifully designed and extremely intuitive to use. I use it all the time but I still occasionally happen on a delightful feature I hadn't noticed before. For example, I just discovered that tapping the kanji stroke order brings up an actual animation of writing the character -- and you can even fast forward and rewind it! Since the static stroke order chart already provides the needed information, this kind of additional polish just feels above and beyond. It's lovely to see such care put into an app. Highly recommended.

Incredible they still update!!. I first purchased Midori in 2010 for my study abroad experience. Then I liked it because of -user friendliness -ability to look up vocab in English/Japanese, Kanji, romaji, or hiragana only -pre-set flash cards for JPLT, kanji/vocal according to Japanese school system -ability to easily create your own sets -offline Full-functionality -best of all --> kanji look up by drawing it, stroke number, radicals, reading (worked much better than other free apps I tried then) -word conjugations -loads of example sentences! It's been 6 years and the newest update is still so sweet!! New features I really dig: -ability to see right away which words are already in your study deck without clicking too far in. -you can now see how common a word is in the language right in the word guide -during your study session you can now click on the flash card to get to that vocab's word guide without having to go look it up on a separate screen. New feature for developers to consider: -making it possible to shuffle all cards in a deck and then allow it to be set to SRS for review. Especially for the pre-set 3,000+ words where a person ends up having to the going through all the あvocabulary first and then all the か. You guys are awesome!!' Thank you for helping me so many years!!! I will continue to recommend to all my friends!!!

Amazing. This app is amazing, the only thing that would make it better is if it supported full text search on the large database of example sentences. For example I can look up the word 限り, but it only searches the word database, and it is almost certainly used in example sentences for *other* words in the database. Furthermore, this means you can't search for things like 限りに, wherein you're interested in examples where a word appears with a specific particle. Don't get me wrong, one couldn't possibly *expect* a feature like that to come out of the box, just saying that that would bring this app from 7 stars to 10, but either way it deserves more than 5. Overall it's easily the best Japanese dictionary app on the iPad / iPhone.

Fantastic app. It's so wonderful when an app does everything you hoped, and more, at such high quality. This app is way more than a dictionary. It's a learning environment. I love the flashcards. I love how you can go seamlessly from word, to a particular Kanji character (with the stroke order shown immediately so you don't have to go hunting for it). I LOVE the example sentences. I just keep hitting More at the bottom and they keep appearing! The lists of JPLT vocabulary are very useful for me too, since I'm studying on my own, and they give me a good sense of the words I should know. Thank you very much for making this app!

I've been using this app around 2 years now.. This app has been indispensable for me while studying. The update also has made it better, because when it comes to kanji that you may not get the stroke order right for, you can now have options pop up. Where earlier, if the order was wrong, you had no chance. This caused me to have to jump back and forth between this and Google Translate, just to find the character I needed. Also, I love the fact that the example sentences are now an option along with the names and words. It makes everything so much smoother and I'm loving it!

This app has it all! Super!. This app is awesome as a Japanese - English dictionary, for looking up kanji and as a study tool. I love how you can look up kanji by typing in the reading or by actually writing the kanji with your finger. This is really helpful when you don't know the reading of a character and don't feel like searching through the lists of radicals to find it. In addition to definitions of words and phrases, there are usually plenty of examples of how they are used in sentences. You can create your own lists of vocabulary words for studying as flash cards. There are also kanji lists/flashcards for each level of the various exams you might be studying for. I love this app! It's everything you need for studying kanji or just looking up words.

Words of a million mouths. This dictionary is among the best that I could find a year ago for the price. The very same statement is still true for me. Since I've purchased this app, I have not used either of my Japanese to English dictionaries or my Kanji dictionary. Midory essentially and effectively replace them without sacrificing any quality that could be offered by a paper dictionary. With all of the Kanji neatly organized and explained through examples, stroke orders, and readings, this app is the most beneficial addition to my library as a student. Yet, it offers a great amount of functionality to anyone from a tourist to an advanced student who is trying to look up a difficult kanji.

Best $10 I've ever spent.. Throughout my classroom studies, study abroad, and continued independent study and correspondence with Japanese friends, this app has been an invaluable tool that has made my life so much better and enabled me to learn and communicate much more easily than I could otherwise. I'm especially grateful that things continue to improve, and always impressed by the amount of seemingly obscure slang that is included as well. There have been many times when a Japanese friend, stumped in trying to explain a word to me, will wave a hand dismissively and say いや、辞書に手間てこないよ。only to have their jaw drop when Lo and behold, Midori did in fact know the word. Thank you so much to the people who make and maintain this app. It has made my life so much better. At my friend's suggestion, I still lovingly and sincerely refer to it as 『ベストフレンド辞書』。

Unforgiving handwriting input is a serious flaw for second language learners. You know there's a problem with the handwriting input if your strategy to get the app to suggest the kanji you were looking for is to purposely write it incorrectly, and it actually works. The overwhelming majority of the users of this app will be non-native, second language learners, like myself, so expecting us to get the stroke order perfect is rather unreasonable, especially when we all know that, like grammar, those rules about stroke "order" don't always apply. At least Pleco returns enough suggestions that you can find the character you were looking for better than fifty percent of the time. Midori only returns about twenty suggestions meaning that you will rarely have success looking up a Kanji that you have no clue how to pronounce, and that's really the whole point of having either Midori or Pleco. The developers of both apps seem unable, or unwilling, to design these apps to recognize the fully-rendered character, as is, on the screen, in spite of whether or not the user got the stroke order right. Without a handwriting input that actually works, there's no reason to buy this app before you buy any other Japanese-English dictionary on the market.

Best Japanese dictionary in app store. Midori is one of my two most used tools for Japanese study, the other being Anki. This is one of the best polished app I've seen in the App Store. I also love that Midori lets you hyperlink to dictionary entries or the translate tab. I've set up my Anki flashcards with direct links to Midori, which is very helpful for studying. I've also used Midori extensively while traveling in Japan to look up words. I can't imagine not having it when I was traveling. The developer is also amazingly responsive to address issues that are raised, which is much appreciated.

Such a great tool. I am a half-Japanese student trying to improve my vocabulary and learn kanji. This app increased my motivation to study by so much because I have gotten results just in the last couple weeks. For example I'm not discouraged to do challenging homework because when I see a kanji I dont know, now i dont have to look in a kanji dictionary which takes me forever, I just write it with my finger and with just one or two tries I find out what it means. Also the flash cards are very helpful. Before I thought it was hopeless for me to try to learn advanced kanji let alone remember how to write them but I just sat for 15 minutes with a notepad and used the flash cards to learn 12 new kanji that I can now write. I have not used any other app so I cant compare but I have absolutely no complaints on this one.

Awesome app but need features. Awesome app but please let me practice kanji on the iPhone app just like the iPad app. Also, provide most common words used by kanji list

There aren't enough superlatives. I'm one of those people who never writes reviews, which is not to my credit. However, I have felt increasingly guilty about not supporting this app given how superb it is as well as how essential it is to my study of Japanese. I use it every day, many multiple times a day. The handful of other reviewers all outlined the beauty of this apps' capabilities far more eloquently than I ever could. Read those 7 other reviews for specifics. But I can tell you, there is nothing better out there for the serious student of Japanese. Everyone who sees this app wants it, not least of all because it is gorgeous and works so incredibly well. Many thanks to the developer, and many apologies for not having written a review sooner. This app has saved me, entertained me, and taught me more than I could ever list. どうもありがとうございました！✨💫

I've been looking for something just like this!. I took Japanese for four years in high school and ever since I've wanted an easy way to look up kanji while I'm reading. Book dictionaries take forever, online dictionaries are too time consuming. Honestly, it never occurred to me to DRAW the kanji on a touch screen, but seriously that's the best part of the ap. So long as you know enough Japanese to know the stroke order of most kanji (or can deduce it from its radicals), then you'll love looking up kanji in two seconds using this thing. My kanji dictionary is going to goodwill!

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

Great all-in-one Japanese dictionary!. Thought it was expensive at first, but quickly found it to be well worth it. I've spent over $800 on various electronic and paper dictionaries in my life, and this is the best value and most convenient--always with me! The handwriting recognition is really what sets this one apart from the rest. Anytime I see a kanji I don't know (in the store, on the street, or in a book) I can figure it out quickly. This is important because kanjis are the biggest obstacles to learning & reading.

Awesome app..rivals some of the more expensive alternatives!. I must say that I was a bit hesitant at first to check out this app as it had no reviews when I first purchased it, but I was looking for a natively sized app for my ipad (as many others weren't and still haven't been updated). I took a leap and must say that i have been pleasantly surprised! I love the fact it can translate conjugated verbs! makes reading so much easier. If there is one thing to fault, although I'm not sure how it could ever be addressed, it is the translate screen. You can copy and paste whole sentences (and more) here, but many times it misses words to translate (because it's slang or only found in regional dialects) or assumes the hiragana form of the word is performing grammar function. Anyway, not sure how this could be fixed, but it is a minor point for me sometimes. Overall 5 stars, especially as it is much cheaper than any of the other alternatives!

A Daily Necessity. I live in the Japanese countryside and I use this app every single day. The translate feature is great for more advanced learners, it doesn't just throw random English sentences at you like Google Translate and forces you to use your own grammar knowledge to get the best translation. I also love the bookmark and flash card options, they have been so vital to my Japanese studies (just passed N3 thanks to this app's help!) I took a star off because sometimes kanji won't be recognized in the handwriting screen if the stroke order if off, and some slang words and regional dialect words are left out. I would really like to see those in later editions, but it's definitely not keeping me away from this app! The best app I've ever bought, hands down.

100th rating!!🎉. Love this app!! You have no idea how easy drawing the kanji itself makes it to look it up! There are some words missing though, that don’t come up when I search: Reputable Legwarmer 某君

Best Japanese study tool ever!!!. Feature request 1 - Please add the ability to save text that has been pasted into the Translate section. I copy/paste books from 青空文庫 and having the ability to save these (or better yet - sort them by grade and import them directly like I can in the Wakaru app) would be even more of a time saver, particularly if it would be possible to also save the translation results. Feature request 2 - Please add more kana-only words/phrases to the Translate section (it picks up some, but more would be outstanding). I have been self-studying Japanese for ~12 years and have used many, many apps (Windows, Palm OS, iOS) and this is *by far* the best Japanese app I have ever used. These days I'm quite busy and don't want to take the time to build word/kanji lists to study endlessly - I just want to *read* and get help with the handful of kanji and words that are unfamiliar. The Translate part of the app is *exactly* what I've been looking/hoping for for *years*, as I no longer need to spend so much time looking things up, copying/pasting words, etc. I don't think I've ever been this happy about a Japanese study app since I discovered PADict for PalmOS a year or two after I started (sure beat flipping through the huge dictionaries). Thanks very much and keep up the absolutely outstanding work!!! John （＾∇＾）

Midori-incomparable!. Midori is the very best kanji and Japanese dictionary I have found anywhere. I have deleted all my other kanji dictionaries. I don't even use my paper dictionaries anymore. I have been studying Japanese for 40 years (sad, I know...), and I have never used anything better. I have been waiting for this technology all my adult life. For some more hyperboles... This app is the best app I own on my iPad and iPhone. . The iPad was designed for solving the problem of looking up kanji. It works smoothly; I have never experienced any glitches. Aesthetically, it is a beautiful app. With a tap, you can view the kanji drawn, stroke by beautiful stroke - teaching you how to write the kanji. Congratulations to the developers. Thank you. Update: more on amazing service As always the developer is of such great help. He always respond so quickly and his directions are clear and easy to follow. Thank you again for a great product. I recommend Midori to all my colleagues. June 2014 - Breathtaking! Another amazing update! Now I can read Safari in Japanese, tap the up button and ask for Furigana to be place on the kanji and/or choose Midori to translate and then all of the article is automatically transferred over to my Midori app to be translated! (Was that completely incomprehensible? Midori will explain this new service step by step.) I don't know how the other apps can compare. This is the most amazing app. It is hands down the best I app I have for ANYTHING!

Midori app. Have been using for 3 years. OUTSTANDING app. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Japanese dictionary. The best, hands-down. Couldn’t progress without it.

great for student of Japanese. Midori is an excellent electronic dictionary for the student of Japanese. While more comprehensive electronic dictionaries are available (e.g., Casio and Canon denshi jisho), Midori has a feature that is extremely useful for me (lifelong Kanji student!): when you look up a compound, Midori gives you a quick display of that compound's Kanji and rough English meanings. Clicking on those Kanji take you to the the Kanji entry, which contains a list of many of the important compounds formed from that Kanji. While many denshi jisho include this capability, it usually requires quite a few clicks to obtain the same information. If it weren't for the inconvenience of typing in Japanese words on the iPhone keyboard, I would probably toss my pricey Casio XD-B9800. Well, maybe not - the Kanji entry capability of the Casio is extraordinary....

Finally I can read manga in Japanese!. I'm a newbie to Japanese language, only know half of kana and basics of grammar. Turns out that is all you need to be able to read manga in Japanese if you have this app. For me it works like this: I'm drawing kanji and kana symbols from the book, usually it works, if not I can try to search kanji by keys, or by pronunciation, which is provided in a book. There are several places where UI is hard to use: I can not check kana tables when I'm in kanji writing mode, I can not draw katakana at all, it's hard to check the right order of strokes in kanji I've just drawn, I'm translating sentences but can not use translation mode for that so I type several characters and hope to find boundaries somehow. Overall it still an excellent app and it deserves five stars.

Good. It’s good but the speaking button no longer works for sentences. Using latest iOS on iPhone XS.

Most essential app for learning japanese!. I first got this app when I began yo study Japanese about a year ago. Since then it has been hands down the most used app on my phone. Besides just a dictionary, I use it mostly to learn the jouyou kanji through the flashcard system in the app. If you are trying to learn kanji, this is an excellent resource. People seem to think that the price is a lot, but when you consider that if you are a student of Japanese you will use it everyday, this price is nothing compared to and books, lessons, or other programs you could be paying for. Oh yea, and stay away from Rosetta stone, it's pretty useless :)

Not joking... This is one awesome app.. This app has far exceeded my expectations. I really believe this is such a rare gem for people wanting to tackle down Japanese. Not only does it contain the dictionary aspect of it with example sentences like Kotoba, but it let's you click on the words used in those sentences and let's you go straight to the meaning of that word. You also get a nice translating tool that allows you to click on any words unknown to you. In addition, you get to use a drawing mode which let's you draw out kanji you might see out in the real world and wonder what it may mean. If the strokes are done correctly, it should pop up your needed kanji.... Very useful! And for those who like kana written above kanji (furigana), it's even a bigger reason to get the app. I highly recommend this app and you'll probably end up saving hundreds o dollars just with this app alone. One thing I'd like to see is a toggle (such as a double tap on the screen) to turn off furigana at will. I constantly find myself reading the furigana before trying to read the kanji. But, that's not a reason to bring it down in rating. Hopefully the authors of this app see this and find a way to toggle furigana off and on.

Totally worth the money. This is one of the two best dictionary apps available for iOS. Like Imiwa (formerly called Kotoba), Midori allows you to look up kanji using text (kana, kanji, and romaji), multi-radical look-up, JLPT level and School grade level. They both feature search history and favorites. Midori only takes up 183mb of install space versus Imiwa's 580mb, so it's a nice size for smaller capacity iPhones and iPads. It is also optimized for the iPad. Its dictionary isn't as large where regular vocabulary is concerned, but the ability to look up names and their spelling variants makes up for it. Midori gives a step-by-step stroke order versus the animated stroke order of Imiwa. The biggest differences between Midori and Imiwa is that the latter also allows you to look up kanji using the SKIP and Bushu methods, but Midori earns its value by letting you look up kanji by writing it down (which does require a basic knowledge of stroke order), searching instantly as you type, giving the stroke orders of both kana alphabets, and it has a built-in flash card function. It also seems to run quicker and cleaner than Imiwa. I enjoy using both, but if I had to choose just one, I'd give the edge to Midori for having some very useful tools for both beginning and intermediate learners of Japanese.

Click buy now. I never write reviews, actually this is my first one. The only reason I'm writing this is because I'm crazy happy with it. This is the only Japanese dictionary app I've purchased because I've never needed to look for another. I have all kinds of physical dictionaries that I haven't touched for like 6 months because I have Midori. Midori has everything, seriously. I have it on both my phone and iPad and I would gladly spend double the price if I needed to. The UI is clean and easy, they have all kinds of learning tools if you're a student. Killer app. I really want it on my mac as well. Japanese is my second language and I also live in Japan, so I end up using this almost everyday. Everybody here in Japan has one of the electronic dictionaries. Gross. They are ugly and ridiculously expensive. $10 for this app is a steal. If you want the best, hook yourself up.

The best, better than Kotoba/Imiwa. I'd be remiss if I didn't review this app. I'm currently in a 3rd year Japanese language class and I used Kotoba/Imiwa for a while, because of the price. For as cheap as it was, it got by, but it wasn't Midori. Imiwa has errors, I've found, many common words missing, and it lumps the verbs and kanji readings together!! Big no no's there, because I need to use specific kanji or completely different verbs, but there are several bunched into one entry! Midori rarely does this with as many kanji & verbs, it has more of the common words you might hear, that awesome kanji writing recognition, and it has an excellent flash card maker!!! Kanji by 5 categories, and even custom lists of kanji and/or words made into flash cards? Awesome, if you're serious. The only thing it could add to be perfect is an addition to flash cards, where you could write the kanji to check yourself against the actual writing.

Kanji search by drawing kanji is possible.. I wanted an app that would let me draw the Kanji. I have a basic working knowledge of stroke order and rules. This app works well. I know that mistakes in my stroke order cause a different Kanji to be pulled up. However, varying my strokes inevitably pulls up the correct unknown Kanji I am trying to look up. This app is great for searching and getting the meaning. Kanji LS does NOT have this search by drawing feature, but Kanji LS is better for learning kanji with lessons / tests. The Kotoba! app is great for detailed meanings and multilingual vocabulary beyond English. All together Midori, Kanji LS, and Kotoba! are three must have apps for the serious student or person living in Japan who is not a native Japanese language speaker. Update: after using all 3 apps, Midori is the best. I am doing clinical rotations at Imakiire General Hospital, Kagoshima and this app has extensive scientific and medical terminology that I use everyday. Hands down the best app.

5 Stars+. Simple and fast but very comprehensive. Good for casual learning up to serious academic studies. Great support, constant improvements and updates.

Please add SRS feature to "bookmarks" for 単語 flashcard study. Otherwise, it's #1 !!. Midori has been my "go to" since it debuted. It's gone from good, to great, to "wow", amazing how it keeps getting better and better. But I *so* hope to see a way to drill my "bookmarked" lists of terms. I can do this with various 漢字, but **not with the vocab words themselves**. The "lists" feauture is kinda cool, but I'd prefer to see a re-design combining *my* lists with the app creator's, as these terms are confusing. (these are rightly called "lists" in Anki, Memrise, Skritter, etc.) Anyway, currently, my "bookmarked" (lists) are are not yet available for SRS flashcard study. I feel this is **key** for re-inforcing kanji / vocab, and would make a **perfect** study tool -- so, could you do that, next? ((お願いします！))...

Great Dictionary with Useful Features!!. This is more than just a simple English-Japanese dictionary. For someone who is seriously studying Japanese, Midori has been extremely useful. The ability to find kanji based on stroke order (writing it yourself) is extremely useful. Living in Japan, I often find words that I don't now how to pronounce or the meaning to. I can't insert the romaji or hiragana because, well, I don't know how to pronounce it. Using Midori, I can write the kanji and the word/meanings will show up. The example sentences for each word is a helpful tool to learn exactly how the words should be used in a natural sentence. Furthermore, each example sentence has links to other vocabulary words that you can press and see the meaning for. I like how I can create decks to categorize the different words I come across. The kanji lists for the JLPT tests as well as Japanese public education are also useful. I really recommend Midori for anyone who is serious about learning Japanese.