I agree with the comments about eDict - I personally use it as a last resort, when I can't find a word in my main dictionary.  My favorite:  ウィズダム英和・和英辞典, just had an upgrade to 2.0 - overall, the old GUI was prettier/slicker, but the new one is actually more functional.

They >finally< added a jump feature so the sample sentences are now extremely useful - if you can't read a certain 熟語, you can just select it, and it will automagically jump to that entry.  It also looks like they implemented copy-paste, bookmarks, and history.

They also added several new features that are very useful - the top left button now cycles through 用例 (sample sentences)、見出 (discover) 、and 成句 (set phrase)。All are quite useful.  Most of the time, I just want to see a bunch of sample sentences, but discover will show entries that combines your search with other words.  Set phrase is useful for finding expressions with special meaning.

A bit of a warning, though - this is not a beginner's dictionary - it is best for intermediate learners (about JLPT 2) - actually, this is not as true any more - with the jump feature, even JLPT 3 level learners should also benefit...  ...but beware - there is no furigana (IMHO, that is a good thing), so you should be comfortable with some Kanji.

Click on the Quicktime video in the middle of this page:

http://www.monokakido.jp/iphone/wisdom.html

for a demo of the GUI.

Last edited by kfmfe04 (2009 May 29, 1:37 pm)

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Why would anyone use that instead of Anki?

This is not an app specifically for Japanese....
Also, this is an iPad app.

But I would like to suggest iAnnotate. It allows you to highlight
words and add notes to PDF documents. I subscribed to Hiragana Times,
which is a Japanese-English bilingual magazine that has a PDF edition.

I can highlight sentences that I don't fully understand and add notes
right there in the documents.

So if you have Japanese PDFs (or have any Japanese documents that you
convert to PDF), this would be great for reviewing/studying while on the go.

Yeah, it's 10 bucks, but even iBooks can't compare to iAnnotate in terms of PDF support.

Youtube vids:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy6oamV4pv0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3g_wYr-vDI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NJTwPPH8Fk

I plan to use this for studying my japanese drama scripts on the go.

iAnnotate has a very active forum community. So if there are any features
you thinking are missing, just post a suggestion in their forum board.

Last edited by chamcham (2010 June 27, 7:44 pm)

Tae Kim's Japanese Grammar Guide is now available for the iPhone. Since i haven't seen it being posted on the forums, i thought it wouldn't be bad mentioning it. Looks good as far as i can tell.

Has anyone got any text/audio-heavy games? I have Detective Saburo, which is okay, but it hardly makes full use of the platform. There are a bunch of ones that look good, but they're those horribly geeky dating sims where the guy has no balls and the girls speak like 12 year olds. If it was possible to find anything you don't know the exact name of with the iTunes search, maybe I'd have had some luck myself by now...