wishoTouch Japanese dictionary Apple

wishoTouch Japanese dictionary

Fast Kanji Lookup, Widget, OCR

Overview

Rating:
4.20
(14)
Version:
4.8.1
Last updated: 2025-11-05
Ranking
#296,954 ▼ 39
Overall

Features & Capabilities

Save time looking up Japanese with wishoTouch. This universal app turns your iPhone/iPad into a powerful, easy-to-use dictionary that packs some unique features.

wishoTouch comes with its own full-screen kanji handwriting pad. You need to know the stroke order, but results are sorted in such a way that most of the time you don't need to draw the whole character. You can also find kanji by radical, number of strokes, meaning etc., rotate the device to quickly thumb through related characters, and watch interactive stroke-order animations for 6,355 kanji.

And that's not all. Tight integration with a word dictionary lets you seamlessly jump between a kanji and its compounds. This integration makes use of multitouch gestures: touching a kanji shows its details, while touch-holding gives you other options.

Hunting for Japanese words and kanji has never been simpler or more enjoyable!

NOTE: Basic knowledge of hiragana and kanji stroke order is recommended.

FEATURES include:

  • Incremental search in English and Japanese
  • Autocorrect in English and romaji
  • Bookmark, annotate and share entries
  • Split View/Slide Over Multitasking Mode (iPad)
  • Jump to other apps and web dictionaries
  • Share Extension to look up from other apps
  • Share Extension to add cards to Anki
  • Speech recognition in English and Japanese
  • Night mode (dark mode)
  • Apple Watch app
  • Home Screen Widgets
  • Lock Screen Widgets

OPTIONAL ADD-ONS include:

  • Kanji OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
  • Watch Handwriting
  • Example Sentences
  • JLPT Flashcards

(Add-ons are one-time purchase, NOT subscription)

This app uses the JMDICT, KANJIDIC2 and RADKFILE Japanese dictionary files. These files are property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group at Monash University and are used in conformance with the Group’s licence.

KanjiVG is © Ulrich Apel and used under the CC Attribution Share-Alike license.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App
By:
sazanami software
Rating:
4.20
(14)
Version:
4.8.1 Last updated: 2025-11-05
Version code:
879212729
Creation date:
2009-05-15
Compatible devices:
Size:
360.11MB
Price:
14.99
URLs:
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Full description:
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Source:
Apple Apps Store
Data ingested on:
2026-08-08
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Contact the developer

Chrome-Stats does not own this Apple app. Please use these information below to contact the Apple app developer.
Developed by:
sazanami software
Apple Apps Store
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wishotouch-japanese-dictionary/id307753116
Website:
http://sazanamisoftware.com/

User Reviews

Audio playback is getting cut off; only the end of a word or sentence is heard. I have purchased the Enhanced Audio add-on. I think the free iOS system voices for Japanese text to speech sound better. Can we have an option to just use those instead? Will update review after this bug is fixed.
by Za*****, 2020-09-27

I have had this app for years now and it has served me very well. I don't use the dictionary all that much, I'm more about the handy kanji writing dictionary- perfect for on the fly readings- no knowledge of radicals needed at all, just simply write the character out in the correct way and you'll get the apposite hit before you know it! This is what makes this app worth the price in my opinion- it's a cut above. Purchase it without any fears, it will most definitely serve you well, whether you have an advanced or rudimentary knowledge of Japanese and Kanji characters alike!
by Pf*****, 2017-09-22
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