It's been [18 months since we've released Yomitan...
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The original was posted on /r/learnjapanese by /u/maamaablacksheep on 2025-06-09 20:21:50+00:00.

It’s been 18 months since we’ve released Yomitan stable, and 6 months since our last update, so we wanted to give an update on all the cool stuff the volunteers and community have shipped in the past 6 months.

Milestones

  • Yomitan reached 100,000 active users across our supported browsers Chrome, Firefox, and Edge!
  • Our Discord server crossed 1,000 members
  • We’ve passed 5,000 total commits merged in Yomitan/Yomichan’s lifetime

New Features

  • Now you can configure up to 5 different “Add to Anki” buttons to create Anki flashcards with one click. You can configure these settings to have one button for vocab card, one for sentence card, one for furigana, or something completely different.
  • Support configuring specific overwrite behavior for each Anki field, allowing you to skip, append, prepend, fill empty, or overwrite an Anki field value when trying to create an Anki card on top of an existing one.
  • Yomitan now has an API that you can build other apps on top of! Query Yomitan term and kanji entries with your app. Some docs here on how to get started.
  • Add option to reset individual profile settings.
  • New wiktionary dictionary website for downloading wiktionary dictionaries
  • Add preprocessor to convert over 1,800 異体字 to 親字 like 弌 to 一.
  • Allow ordering of audio sources to prioritize preferred audio sources.
  • Support shadow-dom scanning, which enables scanning on websites previously inaccessible to Yomitan (e.g Microsoft Copilot).
  • Significant popup performance improvement by doing SVG rendering via a service worker.
  • New languages: Esperanto, Yiddish, Estonian, Maltese, Welsh, Norwegian, Bulgarian, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, Modern Irish, and Hawaiian.
  • Many bug fixes and UX improvements

Here’s how you can help Yomitan succeed:

  • Install and use Yomitan (Chrome, Firefox, Edge). We have a setup guide in yomitan.wiki. The more users who use Yomitan, the more feedback we get on what to build next.
  • Share your experience using Yomitan with friends and internet friends. Yomitan is one of the most powerful pop-up dictionaries available, but its customizability is quite intimidating to many users. Helping other users discover and use Yomitan is what helped Yomitan get to where it is today.
  • File bug reports, UI/UX suggestions, and feature requests in Github Issues or in the Yomitan discord server.
  • If you’re a native or expert in a language, consider lending us your expertise by adding or improving support to a particular language. We have a guide for contributing language features to Yomitan.
  • Read our CONTRIBUTING.md doc on how to contribute code to Yomitan.

I and other maintainers will be around the next couple of days to answer any questions in the comment section here.