Are there people out there who bought one of these?

The free Eijiro wrapper app is very crashy, it's overflowing with ads and sometimes I want to use Eijiro without online access, so I was looking for an offline replacement.

The number one criterion is that it should do the same as the free app - allow me to look up Japanese words and expressions, including those that only appear in the example sentences. It would be nice if I could update the software independently of the Eijiro DB, but that's a distant second requirement.

Thanks in advance for any 2 cents presented!

iEijirou would be an improvement on the alc website version, thanks to the bookmarks and history, if only it didn't just display entries beginning with the search criteria. If you type 妄想 on the website, you get stuff like below further down the page, which the app wouldn't display unless you typed ～だという妄想 etc. In the case of phrases, it can be the difference between getting any result and nothing at all.

～だという妄想を抱いている
be under the obsession that
～という被害妄想に陥っている
be persecuted by

Javizy Wrote:iEijirou would be an improvement on the alc website version, thanks to the bookmarks and history,

Bookmarks and history are available in the free Eijiro web wrapper app... ( http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/id365874160?mt=8 )

Good news: the developer of HandyEijiro added a full-text search feature in the latest release, so I can finally wave goodbye to the EOW app and the website Freedom!!!

The full-text search works even better than on the website, because the website database is only indexed on word boundaries (or at least some approximation of word boundaries as far as their parser can figure it out ), while the HandyEijiro index is truly complete. So it's easier to search for grammatical structures, not just words.

Full-text search of Eijiro is even more useful than I thought...

I came across the sentence: まるでお殿様になったかのような待遇を受けた. I've never encountered this -かのよう construct, and none of my dictionaries seemed to cover it. Even the ALC website doesn't allow searching for such a substring.

The eijiro app however let me search for it, and I found some very relevant sentences... I could even check if there are other "ったかの" combinations, without "よう". Apparently there are none...

Now I want an app that can search the tanaka corpus and eijiro at the same time... It would be the ultimate grammar reference tool

tokyostyle Wrote:

kerecsen Wrote:Now I want an app that can search the tanaka corpus and eijiro at the same time... It would be the ultimate grammar reference tool

Every EPWING reader can do this. I use EBPocket on the iOS platforms.

Last time I checked EBPocket Pro, it couldn't do full-text search (before I fled to iDict+, which is at least minimally usable). Only the PC EPWING readers seem to be able to do full-text search, and because there is no index for it, it's usually pretty darn slow.

Also, EbPocket Pro didn't open either the Eijiro EPWING database (converted from text with freepwing) or the PDIC database (obtained from other sources).