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Want to become well-spoken?
This app is so incredibly user friendly, yet it includes the features you wouldn’t even have realized were essential. I’d been taking screen shots of all of the words I look up while I am reading or watching shows that I find beautiful or that I hadn’t heard before. Now, I just type it into the app, and voila, it’s recorded in my “vault”. Then, I review the words with its awesome review system, and words I get wrong go into the “weak” folder so that I know to work on those ones more until I get them. Long story short, I am actually improving my vocabulary in an effortless and sort of addicting way. I can’t rave enough about this app. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT.Show lessScar-Mann
Almost perfect... and nothing better
I want to track words that I don’t know as I read on my iOS devices. You’d think there would be many apps out there that would do this, but Word Vault is the only one I’ve found that delivers most of what I’m looking for.
What’s good:
- You can highlight a word, then lookup and save in Word Vault from the share menu. Super easy!
- Word Vault prompts you (optional setting) with the words you’ve saved on the lock screen and reminds you to study them.
- The study feature uses spaced repetition, the best way to memorize something.
What could be better:
- Not formatted for iPad. I really don’t like the iPhone screen format on an iPad. For one thing it’s portrait only.
-No syncing between devices. You can backup to Dropbox but that’s not what I want.
I do most of my reading on the iPad and would do most word reviews on my iPhone, if I could. If these two features were added, it would have everything I want. I’m still giving it five stars because no other app out there comes close.Show lessCharlieG2008
Really good app
Hello, if you come back to this app I will be glad I like to use this app it’s really good but I would be to see several options with definitions on english just add from another sources because your standard definitions so much hard to me I try to learn new words every day I think u have guessed that English isn’t my the first language, and yea I’ve seen features like add own commentary on the bottom for words and I’ve bought the extra pack for translate from English to my native language but it’s not helpful for me unfortunately I need English descriptions for understanding and learning. And one asks yet if you can change your repeat system it would be great because now it isn’t working well when I repeat my new words it is impossible all words show random, thank youShow lessMaxvinnikov
Connection to online definition lookup fails all the time
Don’t buy. This app is no longer maintained. More than half of the words don’t have definition found, and the automatic online look up fails every time.jayjayliu
Very disappointed
I am very disappointed in this app. I was looking for a dictionary that can save words from iOS “lookup” feature when you highlight a word in Safari or the News app and Word Vault claimed it does that but IT DOES NOT!
Also the definitions are so short and there are no pronunciation for some words e.g. slumbering... It was a waste of money.Show lessAwesomeArchitect
Favorite Vocab app
I’ve used this for years and love it. Most vocabulary apps are about flashcards and flipping a word with an answer. The ability to look at definitions and type in the spelling has worked well for me. Hope more features are added—like controlling when you want to work on words that you haven’t come across yet. In my word vault I have over 10,000 words I’ve selected from years of reading that I like to keep fresh. However, the app doesn’t allow me to control when it goes back to old words. I’ve had this app for a couple of years and have only gotten to around word 7,000, mostly the result of inactivity for a couple days or so which means I have to go back over words I’ve already learned. If you could provide more control over this or create a feature when the app doesn’t go back over old words at midnight every night that would be great.Show lessWhudson5
Excellent!
Cannot imagine being without this app.
Used ‘every day’ without fail.
Simply, a must have app...Hiza Kite
Good but could be better
Great app to learn vocabulary, but I find the definitions not to be up to par with other dictionaries, and a bit lacking of good examples. For example, for the word ‘ilk’ you get “a kind of person”, which is quite a simplistic definition. For comparison, the Oxford English Dictionary defines it as “a type of person or thing similar to one already referred to”, Collins defines it as “a type; class; sort (esp in the phrase of that, his, her, etc, ilk)”, and Macmillan as “of its/that/their particular type or kind”.
You can add your own notes in the app, but I find that I have to do so with most words I save, which is a big hassle. It would be great if you could choose which dictionary to get definitions from.Show lessjansch0
For lovers of words
I adore this app. Whenever I find an interesting word that I like, I add it to the app and know that it will later pop up testing me on the meaning and spelling. A great way to expand my vocabulary and have a bit of fun doing it.01Dalekboy
One annoyance
While using the review feature - of my list of 191 words it always asks me for the same 9 terms. I can’t figure out if I can change them. So - I’m a master of 9/191 words.Stevied28:
