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About Bandal: Korean Dictionary

Meet Bandal, a simple and beautiful dictionary for Korean to English, Japanese and Chinese. (More languages coming soon.) Bandal offers 55,000+ Korean entries, sourced from Korea's official NIKL dictionary. (National Institute of Korean Language) 270,000+ Korean example sentences help you contextualise and understand each entry. PLUS, Bandal features English translations of all example sentences. Highlights: 100% offline: The entire dictionary is built in and works instantly. No ads or tracking: No distracting ads or sneaky paywalls. No lock-in: Easily export your folders and favourites to CSV and JSON (e.g. for making flashcards in Anki) Stargazing: Watch random dictionary entries gently fall from the night sky and get inspired Instant search: Find any of the 55,000+ entries instantly. Filter results by nouns, verbs, expressions etc. Listen to pronunciations with on-device text-to-speech Example sentences: 270,000+ examples help you understand each entry (Currently only in English) Favorites: Save your must-learn words and phrases into folders for when you need them. Clean design: A beautiful, easy-to-read layout. Note on In-App Purchases (IAP): There are no paywalled features, but a "Bandal Supporter" IAP allows you to support the maintenance of this app. You also unlock these bonus visual features: 1. Custom background image on the search screen 2. Set emoji labels for your Favorites folders 3. The stargazing bear gets a coffee cup! (How nice of you!)

What’s new

Version 1.1 · Updated July 8, 2026

A huge update! Added 270,000 example sentences (Translated from Korean -> English) Now supports iOS 18 and MacOS. (Previously only iOS 26 and up) Filter search results by nouns, verbs, expressions etc. (Very fun, please try it!) Romanization for each entry added Listen to pronunciation with on-device text-to-speech Korean to Japanese and Chinese dictionary support added Word/Expression of the day widget iCloud sync can now be enabled For Anki / flashcard users: Added functionality to export your favourites and folders as JSON or CSV files Fixed certain search results not appearing (homonyms) Adjusted sorting method for search results (exact matches rank higher)

App privacy

The developer, Oscar Sjostrand, reported these privacy practices to Apple.

Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

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