I’ve made a minor update to Jisho, 2.3.1 available today. Of note in this release is something I meant to get in the 2.3 release but had forgotten about it until afterwards is the main window now reappears when you click dock icon. Purchasing has also been moved solely to the web store, which should [...]

Happy Earth Day Everybody! To celebrate Earthday, we are offering a discount of 20% to all customers who enter the coupon code ‘Earthday’ at checkout through the 22nd. This means you can getByōyomi for $9.60, Jisho for $12.00, or both apps for the bargin of $21.60!

I fixed the Appcast for Jisho today. Users who were getting an error when trying to upgrade Jisho via Sparkle (the regular update method within Jisho) should be able to do so without any problems.

We have just released an update to Byōyomi. This update includes: – A launch on login option – Notification sounds Both of these features were user requested and so if you have any features or requests then please leave us a comment. If you have yet to try Byōyomi then give it a go today [...]

Although recently all the buzz on the blog has been about Byōyomi, I am still hard at work on Jisho. With Jisho 2.1 I completely rewrote the way Jisho interfaced with the dictionary file. Now I’m working on completely rewriting the dictionary to allow for even more data, more information and more goodness. Today though [...]

It’s been over a week now since we launched Byōyomi 1.0 and we wanted to just thank everybody for their feedback and suggestions. Byōyomi is still a very new product and we are working hard to add new features and functionality, whilst still keeping to the main goal of being a simply simple kick-ass timer. [...]

It’s a sunny day here in Tokyo. Blue skies and Cherry blossoms everywhere. A perfect day for the introduction of Sugoi Software’s second program that also has a weird Japanese name, Byōyomi. I guess the next thing I’m supposed to do is tell everybody what it does, which doesn’t sound like much fun as you [...]