Chanary App

Features

• Multi-lingual dictionary support
  Look up words across languages in one app.
• Yomitan-compatible dictionaries
  Import your own Yomitan-compatible dictionary files.
• Anki integration
  Send example sentences to AnkiMobile on iOS, AnkiConnect on macOS.
• Share extension
  Share sentences or images from other apps to Chanary.
• Safari extension
  Look up words and create Anki cards from Safari.
• Apple Intelligence
  Optional local-only AI for OCRing images and suggesting readings.
• Image lookup
  Snap a photo or select multiple images from Photos or Files.
• Custom OCR
  Import your own OCR models to arbitrate lookups alongside Apple's Vision
• Dictionary export
  Export dictionaries in Yomitan-compatible form in case you lose the source
• Offline-first
  No account necessary.

Japanese language support

• Kanji cards
  Import Yomitan-compatible kanji dictionaries and create kanji cards.
• Pitch-accent support
  Import Yomitan-compatible pitch-accent dictionaries to display in the app and add to cards.
• Advanced parsing
  Tategaki, homoglyph disambiguation, and specialized tokenization support. The app is built with a polyglot architecture but is currently specialized for Japanese.

Availability