Handy dictionary
A good dictionary with a useful conjugator. I would love for the entries to be a little more comprehensive. It's a little buggy and slow; fingers crossed that it will be fixed in an update.
Good, and very useful, but could be much better still
Being able to carry around a French-English dictionary in your iPhone is fantastic - throw away your heavy paper version. However, it's also frustrating to see so little use of the electronic format. They should add some sound (common words pronounced), have better one-touch links between entries, add in a phrase book. This application could be the gold standard. At the moment there is plenty of opportunity for a competitor to leap-frog over ultralingual's app.
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Must-buy for language students
As a language student at the university of Glasgow, I must say that I was somewhat anxious about downloading one of the bilingual dictionaries, as their reviews had been poor. But I have to say that this dictionary is sublime! I know there are many free online dictionaries out there, but when your on the train doing homework, having this is a God-send! It's also really good for classroom work, as you get the same great quality as a conventional dictionary in nanoseconds! This is a must-buy for language students.
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Great product
I bought this and the Italian version of the dictionary. While some reviews said that you could always use the free dictionary online, I find that having an offline access is a good enough reason for spending $20 since very often I am at the location where neither wifi or data network is available (subway, airplane, abroad, etc). That coupled with a relatively good interface and built in conjugator makes this product worthwhile. I do agree with some reviews that if you don't particularly need the offline access that the online dictionary is perhaps sufficient. Otherwise, you should try this product. It is better I think if Ultralingua could give us the demo version so that people could try it out first before giving bad review solely because of the price.
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What a great app!
Installed this 10 mind ago and have to say I love it. Should help my French no end.
Would have got 5 stars if it had an English(UK) option.
Not only a dictionary but fantastic verb conjugation
Would have got 5 stars if it had an English(UK) option.
Not only a dictionary but fantastic verb conjugation
Very good. Does exatly what I needed
Very handy application. Easy to use and powerful!
It's not bad but needs bug fixes.
This app looks good but it often crashes with no messages and then you need to restart... Offten is like every 5 min.
Great App
Very useful for people with a working or basic knowledge of French, but not fluent. I use it to help me translate words or find a word to use that I don't already know. This is not a learning app or a phrasebook, there are other apps for that... it is a great reference though which is what I need. Who doesn't have 20 bucks anyway, children?
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Great App!
I have always been a fan of the Ultralingua French dictionary, and have had it as a desktop application for as long as I can remember. It is absolutely wonderful to have it on my iPod Touch, so that I can translate things even if I am away from my computer. I would have given it 5 stars for content alone, but there are some irritating things about the interface. After you search for a word, it would be great to just be able to click into the search field and it were automatically blank ready for your next search. (You have to click the "x" to clear the field, which is easy enough, but sometimes you do forget and you get something that looks like this, bonjourprendre. So, that would be a nice fix.) Also, it is easy to accidentally switch between languages and not be aware of it, which can be mildly irritating when you can't figure out why there are no results. All in all, I love this application and when the interface becomes a bit more user-friendly, I will have no qualms about giving it 100 stars! I recommend this for any French student, Francophile, or serious traveler. I have had a lot of fun with this app and will be enjoying it until my iPod dies!
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Pretty Good
This application works well and is user friendly. However, it does not translate phrases. It will translate both ways and provide modern examples of the word used phrases and idiomatic expressions. Also, it will conjugate words in all tenses both for English and French. This is pretty cool.