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Text-to-Speech

Get ready to improve your pronunciation and listening skills, audio is now available for all sentences, words, and kanji readings!

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Handwriting Recognition

You can now input kanji and kana by drawing them directly in the app!

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On-device Translation

Let Google translate your sentences directly in the app!

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Sentence Analyzer

Excited to announce the release of the Sentence Analyzer in Kanjiverse! This powerful tool allows users to search for whole sentences at once, providing detailed information about the vocabulary used in the sentence.

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Full-fledged Offline Dictionary

Sayonara loading time, latency, and "server is unreachable" errors, all dictionaries can now be searched offline!

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Dark Mode Is Here

Probably the most requested feature, should come in handy for those late night studies :)

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Basic Export Features

You can now export your lists of kanji, words, and sentences as CSV files. #app #android #ios #indiedev #kanji #Japanese #dictionary #flashcard

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Can you trust Tatoeba sentences?

To quickly assess the trustworthiness of a sentence, Kanjiverse is introducing a 5-star rating system based on its author's fluency and the sentence's difficulty. No more risk to learn sentences that do not sound natural!

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Tatoeba, by Kanjiverse

A fresh coat of paint for Tatoeba sentences with color-coded and hyperlinked words, authorship attribution, difficulty rating, bookmarkable, shareable, and more!

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Meet the New Kanji Keywords

All kanji and their components have been assigned new keywords inferred from their etymology or most common usage in Japanese. This article presents the methodology used to select those keywords.

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New kanji keywords and dictionary updates

v0.7.7 brings a complete rewrite of 3997 kanji and components keywords, fixes character decompositions, updates the dictionaries, and more than a few bug fixes and performances optimizations, especially to the web app.

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The Web App is in Open Beta!

Kanjiverse is finally available for beta testing on all platforms through its web app!

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Now available on iPad and Android tablets

Beta v0.7.0 improves the UX for tablet users and fixes other accessibility issues such as color contrast.

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Terms Update and Profile Page

The Privacy Policy and Terms of Service have been updated to clarify usage and give users greater control over their personal data.

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New Material You Design

v0.6.0 improves the look & feel of the app, adds a detailed About page, and fixes a few bugs.

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Landscape Mode, New Design and Improved Performances

Version 0.5.0 adds a proper landscape mode, bug fixes and speed improvements from startup time to animations.

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Downloadable Japanese Dictionaries

Version v0.4.1 brings us one step closer to a full offline app, you can now pre download dictionaries for Kanji and Japanese words!

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Breaking Changes, Cache and Offline Mode

Version 0.4.0 is a mandatory upgrade that brings a bunch of performance improvements: cache, offline mode, better navigation, iOS gesture, and other bug fixes.

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Cloud Sync and Custom Fonts

New beta version 0.3.2 provides full support to save your Preferences, Lists and History to the cloud and sync between your devices. It also let you customize the Japanese fonts.

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History Can Now Repeat Itself

The History tab is finally functional and will keep track of everything you've browsed. On top of that it is sync'ed with your other devices if you are signed in.

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Search UX Redesign

This long overdue release brings a complete redesign of the search features for a faster and less confusing experience: one-tap search, realtime completion, verb deinflection and more!

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Sharing is Caring

Introducing shareable content: tap the share button on any page or custom list to share it with the world!

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Sign in with Google / Apple

With the latest version available on both Android and iOS, you can now sign in with your Google account or Apple ID instead of the current email+password.

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iOS Beta is Live!

The first beta version of the iOS app is finally available to all the testers!

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Autocomplete Fixes and Sort By Filters

This update fixes (all?) issues with the autocompletion's suggestion list and adds a bunch of new filters including the convenient Sort By filters :)