J-Tool

J-Tool is a small and handy utility created to offer simple ways to analyze Japanese words, sentences or bigger text parts. It also features readings, meanings and synonyms.

It's wrapped in a modern and self-explanatory interface that comes packed with a Japanese text analyzer and a Kana/Romaji converter.

The app can serve as a language analysis assistant for Japanese words and phrases. However, J-Tool doesn't offer a simple help file, where all the functions should be explained in short in order to get familiarized with how the app works.

For the analyzer, all you have to do is load the text in the application main window and press the "Start Analysis" button, which initializes the scan. Every character or word combination is highlighted in red, which means that the term is followed by detailed information, such as readings, sense or Kanji info.

The main purpose of the app is to help novices to know when a word ends and another starts by highlighting them in a default tone and providing an English translation for each one. J-Tool also comes with a character conversion tool, which can handle Hiragana, Katakana and Romaji conversions for the text you wrote or pasted in the field.

The transformation is done almost instantly, but the waiting time can vary from a computer to another. You have the option to export the translated and converted text to PDF, and print it out.

Taking everything into account, J-Tool is a basic piece of software that helps you analyze Japanese content while providing basic translation details, as well as convert content from English or Japanese languages to Hiragana, Katakana and Romaji.