FAQ

Windows 10 or Windows 11.

Download the installer, activate your license key, and start a run.

Download the installer from your purchase email, run it, and follow setup.

Not yet. The current release is Windows only.

Choose one source. Jiwami runs smart selection, normalizes, adds definitions, pitch diagrams, supported media, and exports an Anki deck.

Processing time depends on source length and your computer.

Manual mining makes you pause and build one card at a time. Jiwami turns a full source into an Anki deck in one run.

Pre-made decks use someone else's content. Jiwami builds cards from what you watched or read.

Cards need stable meanings and readings. Jiwami uses dictionary data instead of generated definitions.

Yes. You can edit exported cards and mix Jiwami with your existing Anki workflow.

Video files, supported video URLs, subtitle files, EPUB books, manga, pictures, and plain text.

Each run uses one source.

Yes. Paste a YouTube URL. Jiwami works only when Japanese subtitles are available. Auto-generated subtitles are not recommended, and the same applies to any currently supported streaming service.

Yes. Use a plain text file. Text runs still get words, definitions, pitch diagrams, kanji breakdowns, and context.

Jiwami supports manga and pictures with Japanese text. Accuracy depends on image quality and font style.

The first manga run downloads two small open-source models.

No. Run episodes one by one.

Cards include the word, definitions, readings, pitch diagram, kanji breakdown, and source context.

Video clips or images appear when the source supports them.

Smart selection is powered by a small custom fine-tuned Japanese model trained on over 106,000 manually reviewed token labels, and is then run through a complex normalization layer.

Jiwami ranks dictionary matches and shows the best definition for the context.

Yes. Jiwami generates pitch-accent diagrams from a local pitch database with over 380,000 entries when the word is covered.

Cards use the Vintage Scholar theme by default. New themes are currently in the works.

Deck generation runs locally. Jiwami does not upload your media or text for processing.

Network access is used for licensing, updates, supported streaming URLs, and first manga setup.

It depends on source length, clip extraction, dictionaries, and your computer. Later runs can be faster because repeated words are skipped.

Jiwami can run on CPU, and on supported Windows hardware it can use GPU acceleration when available.

Jiwami remembers generated words and skips them in later runs.

You can reset it in Settings if needed.

Your content, settings, cache, and exports live on your machine.

Purchase, activation, and update checks use Jiwami's licensing services and Lemon Squeezy.

Yes, choose how many cards Jiwami selects, or leave it uncapped to get every possible word from the source.

Yes, set a JLPT level in Settings and Jiwami selects that level and easier, while kana-only cards always stay in.

Yes, export them from Anki as .apkg files, then import them in Jiwami. Jiwami stores those words as known so they are skipped in later runs.

MDX dictionaries.

Jiwami includes built-in English definitions powered by JMDict, so it works out of the box.

For richer monolingual cards, supported MDX dictionaries are bring your own for now. Each supported dictionary has custom scoring, rendering, and cleanup work: 日本国語大辞典, 広辞苑, デジタル大辞泉, スーパー大辞林, 明鏡国語辞典, 新明解国語辞典, 三省堂国語辞典, 岩波国語辞典, 日本大百科全書, Wikipedia, 使い方の分かる類語例解辞典, Weblio類語辞典, Weblio対義語辞書, 類語玉手箱, 実用日本語表現辞典, 複合動詞レキシコン, 日本語表現活用辞典, 語源由来辞典, 日本語俗語辞書, 全訳古語辞典, Pixiv, and 名称発音大辞典.

Yes. Add your MDX files in Settings and Jiwami uses them on the next run.

Every plan includes the full app. No Pro-only feature split.

Choose monthly, annual, or lifetime on the pricing page.

Yes. Subscription plan changes happen in Lemon Squeezy. Use your Lemon purchase email or Lemon My Orders to switch monthly or annual plans. Lifetime is a separate one-time purchase.

Refund requests go through Lemon Squeezy. Use your Lemon purchase email or Lemon My Orders.