Vocabulary User Reviews

Vocabulary - Learn words daily

Monkey Taps

Education

Reference

Reviews Summary

Positive highlights

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This app hasCustomizable backgrounds and themes

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This app hasWide variety of vocabulary words

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This app hasHelpful daily notifications with new words

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This app hasAbility to add your own words

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This app hasWidgets for easy access to words

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This app hasIntegrated with Google for more information

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This app hasEffective for improving vocabulary

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This app hasDecent text-to-speech functionality

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This app hasUseful for learning new and advanced words

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This app hasCustomizable reminder frequency

Negative highlights

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This app hasPaywall for many features

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This app hasRepetitive words, not enough advanced vocabulary

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This app hasLimited internal dictionary functionality

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This app hasPoor text-to-speech quality

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This app hasDifficulty in managing disliked words

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This app hasInconsistent definition quality and accuracy

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This app hasSome sentence examples are subpar

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This app hasLack of language customization options

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This app hasAggressive advertising and subscription prompts

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This app hasDifficulty in restoring purchased content

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one word a day or one word a week

i love this app but can you make it a feature so that i am only learning/exposed to one word a day or one word a week? i think it would be very beneficial to people who are only looking to improve gradually and would be more easier to learn one word at a time, practice it for maybe a week, rather than forcing yourself to learn 20 words a day which is a bit unrealistic at least for me. hi! just following up on this suggestion, just wondering if this update will be implemented soon! thanks 😊

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Owen Jiang

8 months ago

Response from developer

Thank you for your feedback, Owen! We appreciate your suggestion for a feature that allows for learning one word a day or one word a week. We'll take this into consideration for future updates to make learning more manageable and effective for users like you.

Fixed and now it’s good

Widget wasn’t working on Lock Screen for some reason but now it is

httpvix

8 months ago

Response from developer

Hi there! We’re really sorry you had issues with your widget and apologize for any inconvenience or frustration this may have caused. Please contact us at hello@monkeytaps.app so our team can help you get your widget working once more.

Ads are extra annoying

This app is serious about annoying you into making a purchase with their ads. Often and loud! If you’re using the free version, do not open this app if anyone is sleeping by you. Then they want $5/month. If you can afford that, great, but for anyone on an extremely limited budget– well, i guess they think a one time payment of $30/year bringing the cost down to $2.50/mth is the answer (it’s not). I would do $2.50/mnth if I could pay monthly, otherwise, there are free options or even simply reading books and using the tap: dictionary that comes with your phone or kindle in order to learn these words. I’ve only seen 5 words i haven’t read in books so far. That said, if you use the daily alerts, that’s almost good enough. That’s free. You get the definition of good words there, and if you need anymore information, like sentence examples, then you can google them. 3 stars because most free apps with ads aren’t this annoying. Sometimes all it takes is a single scroll and you get a long, noisy ad, which i think is plain rude to those of us who have more important things to spend $5/month on. End rant.

Update: after talking all this smack here, i realized if you deny the $30/year it offers $15/year. I still had to decline, even though it said “last chance” (had it been tomorrow when i got paid, i would’ve done it), but still, the offer was there.

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khlomaki*

Great app; some sentence examples need improvment

I’m happy with this app. I’ve been using the free version (I think) for a long time now. I appreciate getting daily notifications of new words and being able to change the background of the app to one of their beautiful selection of pictures. I agree with some that the advanced words could be more advanced, but it’s nice to be reminded sometimes, and it helps me realize that while I know some advanced words, I’ve been adding a positive or negative connotation to them for years without realizing. My one and only complaint is the sentence examples. Many of them are clunky with unnecessary info. They should be clear and concise. Some sound as if they were written by a high schooler trying to sound smart. We don’t need a short story. Also, some sentence examples have a bit of gender stereotyping to them, going both ways. I’d love concise and objective sentences. Thanks!

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HmstrH485

9 months ago

Response from developer

Thank you for your feedback! We're glad you're enjoying the app and finding the daily notifications helpful. We'll work on improving the sentence examples to be more clear, concise, and objective. Your input is valuable to us!

Loquacious readers & writers beware

I really love this app, the layout is great, widgets, pronunciation guides are helpful, and the reminders I really do love. However, if you are an extensive reader, or an advanced writer, the dictionary is quite limited. Too many times I find myself searching for words to add only to discover they don’t exist in this app—and yes they are real words found on legitimate dictionaries.

I will continue to utilize my subscription, however, if more advanced words aren’t added, I may search for an alternative when my sub expires.

Hopefully the creators find away to expand their dictionaries or find a speedier solution for importing new words they lack.

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Princessa3

9 months ago

Not very useful

Tried multiple apps and compared but this is not very much helpful. And all of sudden they charged me for 1 year subscription like a scam. I requested a refund as I did not enjoy using this app but declined. I’ve never used this after 3 days trial and deleted it but I still got charged for their subscription.

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bmju94

10 months ago

Response from developer

Hi there! We're sorry for any inconvenience caused by this subscription issue. Please contact our team at hello@monkeytaps.app so we can resolve this.

Brilliant

This app just keeps getting better. They are always sending me new words to learn in my notifications. You can add it as a widget within your home screen and the lock screen as well. I love that so much! Today I opened the app to look more into how a word was used and a pop up showing me a how to for adding a word to the app from an external source was brought to my attention. I thought the app couldn't get any better, but that just did it for me. Mind you, I haven't paid a penny - so this is all free. This is probably the best free app I've ever downloaded, by far. Thank you Vocabulary :) This is not a paid review either, for anyone wondering. 😂

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k adrianna

10 months ago

Response from developer

Thank you so much for the kind words! We're thrilled to hear that you're enjoying the app and finding it helpful for expanding your vocabulary. We're always working on adding new features to make your experience even better - stay tuned for more updates in the future!

not free

why make it free to download from the app store if we then have to pay?

JoJalbert

a year ago

Response from developer

Thanks so much for your feedback! Because of the time and resources we need to create and maintain our apps, we do offer a paid Premium membership. But if you cancel at least 24 hours before your free trial period ends, you can continue using our ad-sponsored version for free.