Australian Oxford Dictionary User Reviews

Name: Australian Oxford Dictionary
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)

Australian Oxford Dictionary

Enfour, Inc.

📚 Education

🔍 Reference

Customer Experience

Positive experience51.2% of reviews

Neutral7.0% of reviews

Negative experience41.9% of reviews

~ Based on 43 written reviews from the US App Store.

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I am unable to access, “ Word of the Day!” It was something I formally could access, but now unable to? Also some words no “listed.” Such as : akathisia? Overall I am happy 😃👍👌

john@popla

a year ago

Excellent app

It really handy when you need translation with in your mobile no required internet used
I love this app

palmmy449

3 years ago

Theasaurus problem

I purchased the in-app addition of the Theasaurus but cannot locate that additional content anywhere in the app - please help.

Georgia Breakspear

4 years ago

An excellent source of meaning

This has to best dictionary for Australians of any age!

Bike bloke

5 years ago

Response from developer

Cheers

Not a software thief!

I am offended because I allowed the AOD app access to twitter without really questioning why it would need/want access to twitter and it sent a tweet from my account saying that I am a software thief. I have a legitimate copy. Rude.

Update: I received a reply from the developer EIGHT YEARS later saying the bug “was fixed within 24 hours”. Amazing.

Update 2: Developer replied “Just clearing up the facts”. Sure, but the fact still remains this developer did the most irresponsible and despicable thing I’ve ever encountered an iOS developer do - ever.

adrianlynch

5 years ago

Response from developer

Interesting comment. Developers make equally bad mistakes all the time. I wish I could tell you about the the really bad ones Apple has made (causing financial and data loss to users), but we were forced to sign an NDA. As for the tweets, we asked Twitter to remove the tweets the same day, but they refused. If you owned a shop, and had more shoplifters than customers, you might put in an alarm -maybe a tongue-in-cheek one- maybe not a perfect one. We had A$20mil taken by pirates. Our answer was a tongue-in-cheek tweet, but he decided against it and thought it was completely removed, but one bit of it sent out false positive tweets for 1000 people. We did what we could, as soon as we could. Sorry you were one of them. Anyway, thanks to an inaccurate online article (months later) and personal complaints to Apple execs by a certain tenured professor, the third-party review of the case (in which we were cleared) was overturned. I lost my office, my staff, my house, and my family. So, I guess we are even..

Original post about IOS8 support answered in an iOS 14 world !

Original post from years ago, received note today that issue was fixed all that time ago, but guards what?! Thanks for getting back to me Dev, as I have now reinstalled the app, it’s working and I have changed my score. 👍

Have used reliably for years but hasn't worked since iOS 8. Crashes when try to search, no updates to engine for years now😠 so not holding out much hope of a solution

anaithesceal

5 years ago

Response from developer

This was a bug after the release of iOS 8. It was fixed. We couldn't reply to reviews back then, but we are glad you are up and running now. We are here to please.

Can no longer use dictionary

Appalled by the company. The app worked okay for a year but for the past 6 months I have only had it working intermittently. I have had two interactions with support staff, both requiring detailed complex information from, including emailing the receipt to prove I'd bought the dictionary! For goodness sake how hard can it be to keep a simple dictionary app running. Strongly advise against this company.

FlyingStefan

11 years ago

Response from developer

We are sure this is working for you now.

It can not use

I spent $31.99 for this app and I can not use it. How can I get my money back???

Sara Tran

11 years ago

Such a shame

I have used this app for years but since the iOS8 update it crashes every time I want to search. And as a dictionary, it's pretty useless if you can't search for anything. Such a shame. This used to be an awesome app. I hope it gets fixed soon.

Ricki958

12 years ago

The second severe bug in less than a year. DISAPPOINTING.

After having lost all my bookmarks some months ago after an update, now I'm plagued by a notification which says "Continue". It appears every few minutes and it's related to the audio file download. When I acces the screen where you download the audio file, it does not allow me to resume the download (or to abort it, in case it's running: this is not clear, because there is no progress bar and no information about it) so the notifications just keep coming. This app is disappointing.

Mastazi

14 years ago

Response from developer

The sound was a bug in iOS 8. It was fixed. As for your bookmarks, there is an auto-backup feature now, as well as many export options we have added since.

Avoid this app

Because my previous review was deleted due to alleged TOS violations, I'd like to reword it.

This app has a built-in anti-piracy mechanism which posts, without the user's consent, with their Twitter account, "outing" them as a software pirate.

This system recently had a bug which caused this system to spring into action for paying customers like myself, which also, for a time, rendered the app useless until the "bug" was fixed.

As a result, I recommend people avoid apps by this developer.

Horseloverfat88

14 years ago

It's a waste of money

It's definitions are poor and sparse in examples and explanation.

The macquarie dictionary is in another (excellent) universe by comparison. Go there instead.

tamajamma

14 years ago

Reprehensible anti-piracy checks

This version posts libellous (and incorrect) claims on users' Twitter accounts claiming that the user has pirated the product. As a legitimate purchaser of this app, I am disgusted by Enfour's behaviour regarding this most recent update and piracy checks. Not only is the piracy checking code wrong, but the developer has no right to post libellous public comments about its own users. I won't be buying any more Enfour products.

WzDD

14 years ago

Frozen screen on the search box

Time to time I have this problem and even after updated problem still exists.

Amir Riahi

14 years ago

Good dictionary please fix software thief notification!

I keep getting the notification: " I am a software thief!" when I have bought this app from iTunes.

karinaschofield

14 years ago

Software thief????

I too am getting this notification constantly on my iPhone. I am very annoyed about it. I have paid a lot of money to get this app. I do not appreciate the offensive notifications.

OKernel

14 years ago

Good app but got abusive notification.

I got a notification from the app saying 'I am a software thief!' when I have bought this app. I find this offensive.

vutuannguyen

14 years ago

Great dictionary.

Love this app but latest version on 4th gen ipod touch with ios 5.1.1 is constantly showing 'run in safe mode' error msg and crashing. Please fix.

Also, still no landscape keyboard.

Clintoxxhj

14 years ago

Response from developer

That sounds like a license issue. Our Support Desk will fix it for you. Landscape is now supported.

AOD

The update will not load and the whole app is unavailable!
Not good enough for a $32 purchase.

Peter 82

14 years ago

Could be much better

The dictionary works well enough, but definitions are somewhat lacking - Illustrative examples are few and far between, which is disappointing. Also, the version of the dictionary used seems several years out of date and lacking in lots of proper nouns and persons of note that could be expected in even a single dictionary (Australian Prime Ministers, for e.g.). Oxford should do better for $25, I think this is a much reduced version of the single volume print version.

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