Best for: Setting up Yomitan
Free Japanese-English dictionary file for Yomitan, built from JMdict with cleaner layouts and extra notes. One of the most common first dictionaries to install in Yomitan.
Android app for learning kanji, with stroke-order writing practice, flashcards, multiple-choice quizzes and spaced repetition, plus kanji and word search. The beginner kanji, radicals and kana are free with no ads; a one-time purchase unlocks the remaining kanji and custom study sets.
Free online Japanese-English dictionary. Search in English, kana, romaji or kanji, draw kanji by hand or by radical, and see example sentences and a JLPT tag on many words (taken from older unofficial lists, since the JLPT has not published official word lists since 2010).
Japanese-English dictionary app for Android that works fully offline, with example sentences, kanji details and the option to save words to lists.
