Privacy concerns with app
First of all I love the service and the function it provides. However, the app refuses to do anything without local network access, and Linguee is very dodgy about revealing what it is needed for. They claim it is to access an “integrated network server,” which from what I can tell is basically nonsense jargon to confuse people into clicking ‘yes.’ When questioned in an email they responded that they “cannot disclose any further technical details about our app,” which seemed like a very strongly worded non-answer if it really was something simple and benign.
They won’t even let you use your offline dictionaries. You either grant them unfettered access to your local network and connected devices or you don’t use the service. I’d love an explanation of what could be so important and why they must be so secretive about it.
They won’t even let you use your offline dictionaries. You either grant them unfettered access to your local network and connected devices or you don’t use the service. I’d love an explanation of what could be so important and why they must be so secretive about it.
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Crash often, poor privacy
This app used to be good, but after it starts to require my local network permission it starts to crash frequently. I use my iPhone 8 to study German, now it is to a degree that affected the fluency of my study. A fact that might be relevant is that I use 3D Touch to switch between other apps and this app.
1 As a dictionary app, it requires local network access without explanation.
2 It crashes often.
1 As a dictionary app, it requires local network access without explanation.
2 It crashes often.
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Happy User
In order to keep up with my German, I’ve made a commitment with a friend to read at least five minutes of German every day, and then I sent her a text. She does the same thing except she is reading Swedish. This accountability is fun and it also works. I found the Linguee app extremely helpful, easy to use and very satisfying. I feel like I’m learning so much from it. I highly recommend it to other friends who read foreign languages.
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lonetenorUI freezes up
After a few searches, the UI freezes up completely. Sometimes it recovers, sometimes it crashes. Something seems to be blocking the main thread or just hogging resources. Thing is that it happens even when I’m not searching but just trying to interact with the UI. It also still happens after reinstalling the app. The fact that this worsens gradually over time suggest that there probably a memory leak or some background thread(s) that are running indefinitely. Xcode debugging tools / Instruments are your friends. Use them! I use this app a lot so am happy to help if developers want to reach out.
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Hooray! It’s working again
Hooray, the search field and iOS14 issues have been fixed. Pity it took a hammering from reviews to get the developers to act. I had deleted it and gone to a competitor; glad to see it’s back, but please talk with users.
Innovative app in language translation
I love that feature where you select and copy a word and switch (or in iPad, multitask) to this app and the appears. Of course it also so helpful to be able to compare multiple translations already done by others. The different approaches taken with similar texts allows you to choose the way you want to go in terms of learning phrases or doing translation yourself. Fantastic! It would be helpful if there were a way to easily choose between the set of translations and the dictionary portion—an ability to switch back and forth.
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Doesn’t work anymore
I used to love this app but now when you enter a word to translate it gets stuck it just spins.
Good but average
They have a big dataset, but the search function is very slowand they got no auto suggestions feature. After being in market for so long, and having such a big user base, you’d expect them to pay more attention to quality. And also it’s been almost a week now since ios 14.2, been released but Linguee still crashes and there’s no update yet
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Updated phone now I’m having issues!
Updated my iPhone and now when I copy and paste something from twitter for example, the “copied and pasted from twitter” banner keeps popping up over the search bar and I can’t see what I’m typing. I have tried deleting the app, shutting off my phone, and countless other efforts but nothing seems to work. Love this app, will rate 5 star once the glitch is resolved and the app is updated.
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Doesn’t work anymore :/
Was a great app and it still can be, but it currently does not work at all on my iPhone 11 running iOS14. Please fix it! I’ll even pay a bucks for it!
