Show HN: My app just won best iOS Japanese learning tool of 2025 award

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Welcome to the award show everyone! Hosted by your favourite bee... Bee! 🥳I wanted to summarise the best tools etc out there in 2025, and what better way then to put on a fake award show!And like all true award shows and Christmas themed events, let's get into the spirit of giving.Best OverallThis category features 3 tools.If I could only pick 3 to learn Japanese with, it would be these 3.The best overall winner of the 2025 Japanese Learning Awards is....🏆YomitanYomitan is the go-to dictionary application.It works in all browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Edge) and even on mobile browsers.YomitanPowerful and versatile pop-up dictionary for language learning used by 90,000+ language learners.You install it easily and just select your language and some dictionariesIt supports:Many dictionaries across many languagesAnkiNative audioYomitanPowerful and versatile pop-up dictionary for language learning used by 90,000+ language learners.Even if you don't use any of the fancy features, having a dictionary you can use at the click of a button is useful.AnkiIf you use Yomitan, you must also use Anki too.Anki is the premier flashcard software.You see a word you don't know, and create a flashcard for it in Anki.Anki solves the issue of forgetting, mostly. You will still forget things, but significantly less.Anki - powerful, intelligent flashcardsAnki - a program which makes remembering things easy.GSMhttps://github.com/bpwhelan/GameSentenceMinerGame Sentence Miner (GSM) is an all-in-one toolkit to turn any visual media into Anki flashcards. 1. Look up words natively in game. 2. Click Add to Anki. 3. Anki card automatically made in the background with game audio + a gif of the game Use the overlay to directly look words up (using Yomitan) in your game, anime, or manga without needing to go to another website to look it up. Anki card created with GSM Create flashcards in one click with the real audio used, and a gif of what happened on screen.Analyse your statistics to help you learn to ...