What's New

- Bug fixes

App Description

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
- Spotlight search for kanji
- Speech recognition in English and Japanese (iOS 10+)
- Today Widget showing kanji and their compounds
- Apple Watch app
- Night mode (dark mode)
- Optional add-ons (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.

iPhone Screenshots

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iPad Screenshots

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App Changes

  • June 25, 2011 New version 2.01
  • July 13, 2011 New version 2.1.1
  • July 16, 2011 Price decrease: $19.99 -> $14.99
  • August 06, 2011 Price increase: $14.99 -> $19.99
  • December 04, 2011 New version 2.2
  • December 13, 2011 New version 2.2.1
  • December 17, 2011 Price decrease: $19.99 -> $13.99
  • January 02, 2012 Price increase: $13.99 -> $19.99
  • April 27, 2012 New version 2.3
  • May 17, 2012 New version 2.3.1
  • June 10, 2012 Price decrease: $19.99 -> $9.99
  • June 11, 2012 Price increase: $9.99 -> $11.99
  • June 12, 2012 Price increase: $11.99 -> $19.99
  • September 25, 2012 New version 2.3.2
  • December 20, 2012 New version 2.4
  • February 16, 2013 New version 2.4.1
  • March 03, 2013 Price decrease: $19.99 -> $9.99
  • March 04, 2013 Price increase: $9.99 -> $19.99
  • August 29, 2013 New version 2.4.2
  • December 05, 2013 New version 2.4.3
  • December 17, 2013 Price decrease: $19.99 -> $9.99
  • January 07, 2014 Price increase: $9.99 -> $19.99
  • November 03, 2014 New version 3.0
  • November 17, 2014 Price decrease: $19.99 -> $17.99
  • November 18, 2014 Price increase: $17.99 -> $19.99
  • December 29, 2014 New version 3.0.1
  • December 29, 2014 Price decrease: $19.99 -> $14.99
  • January 05, 2015 Price increase: $14.99 -> $19.99
  • June 03, 2015 New version 3.1
  • June 04, 2015 Price decrease: $19.99 -> $14.99
  • June 12, 2015 Price increase: $14.99 -> $19.99
  • January 29, 2016 New version 3.2
  • January 29, 2016 Price decrease: $19.99 -> $14.99
  • February 06, 2016 New version 3.2.1
  • February 15, 2016 Price increase: $14.99 -> $19.99
  • February 22, 2016 New version 3.2.2
  • March 05, 2016 New version 3.2.3
  • July 04, 2016 New version 3.5
  • July 31, 2016 New version 3.6
  • July 31, 2016 Price decrease: $19.99 -> $14.99
  • November 06, 2016 New version 3.7
  • November 07, 2016 New version 3.7.1
  • November 16, 2016 New version 3.7.2
  • November 23, 2016 New version 3.7.3
  • November 26, 2016 Price decrease: $14.99 -> $7.99
  • November 27, 2016 Price increase: $7.99 -> $14.99
  • December 21, 2016 New version 3.8
  • June 14, 2019 New version 4.1.2
  • September 24, 2019 New version 4.2.1
  • September 30, 2019 New version 4.2.2
  • October 15, 2019 New version 4.3
  • November 26, 2019 New version 4.3.2
  • July 15, 2020 New version 4.3.3
  • October 28, 2020 New version 4.3.8
  • August 06, 2021 New version 4.4.1
  • September 16, 2023 New version 4.4.3
  • March 19, 2024 New version 4.5.2

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