Jisho 3.0 Released

I am returning to the States in less than a week after a year in Japan, and I think a major release of Jisho is a perfect way to commemorate my return. Today I would like to announce the release of Jisho 3.0!

Jisho 3.0 doesn’t look too different on the outside, beyond the nice shiny toolbar icons. But on the inside it is a completely different animal. With Jisho 2.1 I pretty much rebuilt Jisho except for one major component. I left the database alone (minus updating data of course).

Today marks the day that I can say that this is no longer true. I’ve rewritten the database portion completely. From scratch. With this comes a lot of advantages: speed, accuracy, multiple parts of speech.

The prior releases’ speed wasn’t as fast as I would have liked it, so I made it a major focus in this release. I am please with the results and hope that you are too. Most queries (on the exact setting) come up instantly or close enough to it. Moreover, more searches now yield more results. Giving you more data, faster.

Another great feature, many thanks to Sugisaki-san for making this a reality, is a *complete* localization into Japanese. That is the parts of speech are all now translated into Japanese and are looked up on the fly. Pretty incredible stuff.

Here’s a list of all the changes:

• Completely rewritten the database
• Increased the amount of data in the database
• Improved accuracy
• Instant Search Results (for Exact setting)
• Displays multiple parts of speech
• Complete Japanese localization
• Icons for the Smaller / Bigger buttons

On top of all this – Jisho 3.0 is a free upgrade for existing users. If you have Jisho installed already you can update from within Jisho by going to Jisho -> Check for updates. Give Jisho a whirl and support its development by purchasing your copy today!