Kanji draw vs WWWJDIC for Android
Side-by-side comparison of two open source alternatives
Kanji draw
A simple application that lets you draw Japanese characters (kanji) using the touch screen. It is intended for Japanese language learners who might need to enter characters in order to look them up in a dictionary or enter them on a website. It identifies the character you have drawn using a special form of handwriting recognition. You can select the correct character from a list. After entering one or more characters, you can copy them into the clipboard as text for use in a dictionary. Note that this will NOT work - at all - if you don't know basically how to draw kanji. If you just draw something any old way that looks like it, it certainly won't be recognised. You have to draw characters basically the official way. This is a fork of the Kanji draw application from https://github.com/quen/kanjirecog/ which is no longer maintained and was removed from F-Droid. Two of the included icons were taken from the Android SDK and are licensed under the Apache License 2.0. The kanji stroke data is based on the KanjiVG data set from http://kanjivg.tagaini.net/ and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license.
WWWJDIC for Android
Frontend for WWWJDIC. For more details, see the FAQ. Dictionary search supports romaji lookup, but you need a Japanese IME to use all features. * Full tablet support * Japanese pronunciation (via a separate, non-free app) * Text to speech for kanji and dictionary entry translations * Multi-radical kanji search * Kanji of the day widget * Japanese sentence translation * Example search with approximately 150,000 examples (Japanese/English pairs) * Example word breakdown/translation * Animated stroke order diagrams for over 6000 kanji * History and favorites with backup and restore * Favorites export to CSV and Anki * Handwriting recognition (via a separate, non-free app) * Optical Character Recognition (WeOCR; author's server) * OCR-based handwritten kanji recognition, does not require correct stroke order A proprietary analytics library was removed before building, so the analytics switch in the preferences isn't relevant. Anti-feature: Tracking. Crash reports are sent by default, though that can be disabled.
| Feature | Kanji draw | WWWJDIC for Android |
|---|---|---|
| License | GPL-3.0-only | Apache-2.0 |
| Install sources | F-DroidGitHub | F-DroidGitHub |
| Categories | ProductivityTranslator | ProductivityTranslator |
| Features | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking |
| Platforms | Android | Android |
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