imiwa?

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seriously thought of switching to an Android phone, but every time, the thought process gets to “Oh. Wait. No Imiwa on Android. Hard Nope.” And that’s that. By the way, to the reviewer who complained about the example sentences being sentences you’d never use in normal conversation, true. But that’s not the intent. Like any dictionary, Imiwa gives usage examples so you can see how the word is used, not as conversation lessons for Real World Adventures. There are plenty of other apps for that. Granted, some of the examples are peculiar or even irrelevant. To the developer, it might be good to give is a way of reporting these off-base examples.

All I need is Google translate and this! Google and similar translation apps are good for roughly translating whole text, but Imiwa? breaks down the vocabulary so you can make sure that you’re getting it right. It also breaks down the kanji to help you understand it more deeply, recognize patterns to help you remember it and understand similar characters, and get the stroke order right (which is a lot more important than you might think for writing).

It’s good for looking up words/kanji/phrases and works well (it’s a dictionary) when reading along with something else to easily identify characters you couldn’t figure out by using the seen radicals.