Contact Midori Japanese Dictionary Support

I could easily recommend this app to beginners, but not for anyone who wants to fill the gaps in their vocabulary. Most of the words I’ve searched don’t show results. Vocabulary related to specific topics (for example, government, science/medical, architecture, math, etc.) is absent. One way I try to acquire new vocabulary is to read books and jot down the words I don’t know, so I can look them up afterwards and commit them to memory. I want to find an app I can rely on without pulling out my denshi jisho, but this isn’t it. For the price, I was hoping for something more sophisticated.

I’ve tried many Japanese dictionaries and Midori ended up being my favorite by far. Great functionality, minimalistic but easy to see design, good speed and the best kanji writing feature I’ve seen so far. However, there’s one thing that’s keeping me from giving 5 stars to this app: it lacks cloud sync, which is something other apps have. It’s very frustrating to have to save my bookmarks in dropbox on the phone and then open, extract and save them in my iPad’s app. This takes out a lot of time since I use both devices often daily. I’ve thought about picking other dictionaries before multiple times due to this particular feature missing. I sincerely hope this will be implemented soon.

I use this app for everything, including the translate section for copy pasting NHK easy articles to gain reading practice. Having the handwriting recognition built in is also super useful. To the developer: it would be great to have support for toggling on a “dark theme” as the white background gets a bit tough on the eyes at times. Update: Downgraded current rating from 5 to 4 stars as the translate lookup functionality has some pretty glaring bugs. A good example is the following sentence: こちらは原先生です。The first word こちら exists in the dictionary itself but isn’t parsed during translate. I’ve seen many cases such as this requiring me to rely on additional apps. Please fix this.