Comments on: Review: Japanese for iPhone: Japanese-English dictionary

By: Putting “Japanese” through its paces « ディエゴの日々

Putting “Japanese” through its paces « ディエゴの日々 — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:53:43 +0000

[...] Prior to the major improvements that were rolled out with version 2.0, Japanese offered few advantages over the free dictionary app Kotoba! (with which it shared a number of features such as handwriting input and the use of the massive JMDict Project database). While Kotoba! remains an excellent and reliable option for those on a budget, Japanese has now pulled well ahead in terms of features and performance. (For a general overview of what the app was like before version 2.0, check out the great review of a previous version on iPhoning Japan.) [...]

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The iPhone: an essential tool for anyone living in Japan | iPhoning Japan — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:27:18 +0000

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By: Putting “Kotoba!” through its paces « ディエゴの日々

Putting “Kotoba!” through its paces « ディエゴの日々 — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 04:27:36 +0000

[...] This is easily the best free Japanese language reference app I’ve come across so far. User friendly and comprehensive, it should hold its own in the face of competition from paid reference material such as the expensive (but, to be fair, quite impressive) Japanese offered by codefromtokyo. (For anyone interested, there’s a great review of that paid app on iphoningjapan.) [...]

By: admin

admin — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:39:20 +0000

Thanks for your comment Eerk. As they both use Jim Breen’s database I don’t think there’s much between them when it comes to the main database. However, Kotoba! lacks the additional databases, the kanji flash movies, has no separate word groupings, and doesn’t allow one to make ones own word lists. It also gave me ‘どうも’ as the first translation for ‘hello’!
Still, for a free app its fantastic.

By: henk duivendrecht

henk duivendrecht — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:53:18 +0000

It looks almost identical to “Kotoba!” which is free. Does this dictionary contain more words?