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Notes join Search, color-coded lists, uncapped search results, faster ways to import your existing dictionary, and a more capable Kanji stroke order viewer. FASTER NAVIGATION Double-tap or tap again on a tab to jump right into action — start a search (2x Search), cycle through Kanji's lookup modes, or open your Vocabulary Lists (2x Learn) — from anywhere in the app. SEARCH YOUR OWN NOTES, TOO Your personal notes are now part of Search, right alongside Dictionary, Kanji, and Examples — write a note on a word and it'll surface again whenever you look that word up. Notes on example sentences now show a readable preview too. Typing in romaji is also more reliable everywhere, including the Analyser and Example sentences. COLOR-CODE YOUR LISTS Give your vocabulary lists a color of your choice, then spot at a glance which lists a word or kanji belongs to — right from search results, example sentences, and Kanji cards, no need to open the list to check. SEE MORE SEARCH RESULTS Dictionary and Example searches used to quietly stop at 50 results with no way to see more. Scroll past the last entry now and imiwa? keeps loading. Recently Visited entries also get the same quick swipe-to-favorite search results already have. BRING YOUR OLD DICTIONARY WITH YOU Switching from another Japanese dictionary app? imiwa? can now import a few backup formats. STROKE ORDER, LEVELED UP The Stroke Order sheet is now resizable and plays through every stroke automatically, so you can watch a character being written without tapping through it one stroke at a time. FLASHCARDS Jump straight from a flashcard's back to its full Word or Kanji entry, and enjoy a fairer shuffle of new cards each day so similar-sounding words in JLPT and other decks stop showing up back to back. AND SEVERAL FIXES We listen to your feedback and have fixed a number of problems in this release too, including long proverb headwords no longer clipping off their romaji, the camera now showing clear loading feedback (instead of looking stuck) while fetching an iCloud photo, and more reliable list sorting and drag-to-reorder.

New ways to study, find kanji, and copy what you need — plus a cleaner interface throughout. KANJI KENTEI (KANKEN), BUILT IN Study for the Japanese Kanji Aptitude Test with dedicated Kanken level lists and flashcard decks for all twelve levels — plus a new Kanken widget so today's character is always one glance away. YOJI JUKUGO Explore Japan's very cool four-character idioms (七顛八起、一石二鳥...) with a new browsable Yoji Jukugo collection and a matching flashcard deck, right alongside your other Learn tab tools. FOUR CORNER CODE SEARCH Look up kanji the traditional way. A new Four Corner search adds an intuitive quadrant-assembly picker, so you can find the character you're after by shape alone. LOOKUP AS YOU COPY (old feature reintegrated by popular demand) Turn on auto-lookup in Settings and imiwa? will look up Japanese text the moment you copy it in any other app on your device — no need to switch apps or paste it in yourself. COPY, SPEAK, SHARE Every piece of dictionary text now has its own Copy, Copy and Add, Speak, and Share menu, so you can act on exactly the word or meaning you tapped — nothing else. FLASHCARDS See the reading right on the front of the card, and grade cards from the front side with a swipe without flipping first. Watch the details appear as you swipe the card away KANJI Choose which foreign readings are displayed. AND SEVERAL FIXES We listen to your feedback: corrected verb search matching, restored proper romaji and furigana behavior for alternate spellings, darkened handwriting guide lines for better visibility, and a few adjustments for large accessibility fonts.

This update improves accessibility and Dynamic Type support across the app, including a new simplified layout option for iPad and Mac. Kanji search now finds fragments appearing anywhere in a word, not just at the start. Rare and alternate kanji spellings are easier to find again in search and word details, with a new advanced setting to always show them. Fixed several romaji search and furigana display issues for words with alternate spellings.

imiwa? has been rebuilt from the ground up for iOS 26. Every screen, every interaction — reimagined. This isn't an update. It's a new beginning. UNIFIED SEARCH One search. Dictionary results, kanji matches, and example sentences — all at once, all in parallel. Switch between them with a tap. KANJI, DEEPER THAN EVER Stroke order animation, decomposition view, font variants, multi-radical visual search, SKIP lookup — every tool you need to truly understand a character. EXPLORE THE ROOTS OF EVERY RADICAL The Bushu radical browser has been rebuilt with animated stroke-order diagrams that cycle through every variant form of a radical. Tap any radical to read about its etymology — where it came from, what it originally depicted, and how it evolved. THE ANALYSER Paste any Japanese sentence and the Analyser breaks it down word by word: morphology, dictionary entries, example sentences, AI translations. Everything in one place. POINT YOUR CAMERA, READ THE WORLD (beta version) Hold your phone up to any Japanese text — a sign, a menu, a page — and imiwa? reads it for you. Live text recognition overlays translations directly in your viewfinder. Tap any word to look it up instantly. Or import a PDF — a textbook, a manga chapter, an article — and bring the same analysis to any page. SIRI, SHORTCUTS, AND QUICK ACTIONS Ask Siri to search imiwa? without opening the app. Add home-screen quick actions for your most-used features. imiwa? is now a first-class citizen of the iOS shortcut ecosystem. DRAW WHAT YOU CAN'T TYPE Can't find the kanji you're looking for? Draw it with your finger. imiwa?'s on-device handwriting recognition matches your strokes to the right character — no internet required. PITCH ACCENT, FINALLY See exactly how words rise and fall with pitch accent diagrams in word detail view. Essential for natural-sounding Japanese. AI-POWERED TRANSLATIONS imiwa? now uses Apple Intelligence to translate dictionary glosses on-device — privately and instantly — in Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese, Russian, Korean, and more. No subscription. No server. Just your device. FLASHCARDS WITH SPACED REPETITION Study smarter. Build custom decks or study by JLPT level. imiwa? schedules your reviews automatically so you remember more with less effort. WIDGETS A Kanji of the Day and a Word of the Day, right on your lock screen or home screen. Learn something every time you pick up your phone. BUILT FOR EVERY SCREEN Full sidebar and column-browser layout on iPad. Dual-pane word and kanji details. imiwa? feels at home whether you're on iPhone or iPad. AND MUCH MORE iCloud sync, vocabulary lists with smart merge suggestions, conjugation tables with furigana and romaji, Markdown personal notes, Backup & Restore, dark mode — and full localization in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Russian. — A NOTE ON AI imiwa? uses Apple Intelligence to provide on-device translations for select languages. AI-generated content can make mistakes. Always verify AI translations before relying on them for important, professional, or formal purposes.

March 2021 dictionary and example updates Various bug fixes