Excellent tool!
Thank you very much!
Incomplete
I generally like the app’s functionality with some niggles. However the biggest issue is the absence of some relatively common words eg acuity.
Also the linking seems faulty eg if a search for ‘recant’ gives a list including ‘disavow’ then shouldn’t it also be vice versa? Real shame.
Also the linking seems faulty eg if a search for ‘recant’ gives a list including ‘disavow’ then shouldn’t it also be vice versa? Real shame.
Favourite
Buy to support a developer who doesn’t collect any data and offers their product for free as well. Nice QOL additions for the price.
Small annoyances
I have been using this Thesaurus App for many years with mixed success, more and more recently a word that I enter is not recognised. I check the spelling so I know that is not the issue. I enter the same word into its sister dictionary and it comes up . It is not as though the words are obscure, the latest was crustacean, not an obscure one I would have thought. I don’t know what the developers can do other than increase the stored words. But I suspect that is easier said than done. I will just keep my fingers crossed. Apart from that an excellent App.
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The faulty interface irks
The search field is not immediately available unless triggered. It opens to a random entry and searching requires a few unnecessary clicks.
Surprised and disappointed....
...that this excellent application no longer works on my iPad running OS12.4.5, needing instead OS13. Since it worked perfectly well before, I can't really see any reason for the new OS requirement. I hope that it’s companion, the Chambers Dictionary, will not likewise become inoperative.
ダウンロードできない
使えません。お金を返して。
Broken
After the latest update it now crashes when opening. It was a great app, but the update has rendered it useless.
Latest iPad OS update broke app
This app now refuses to open and immediately crashes with the latest iPad OS update. I’ve tried to get help via the developer website but there is no troubleshooting or help section at all.
App now useless. Such a pity because it used to be great.
App now useless. Such a pity because it used to be great.
Not convincing
It’s been about 4 years I’ve been using this app however the thesaurus is not that much persuasive. I expected something more.
MY “WORD PALETTE”
As a prolific writer of lengthy “letters to the editor”, I am often dipping into both Chambers Dictionary & Thesaurus to add more literary variety - “colour” - to my pieces.
Occasionally I will refer to the Oxford equivalents, but Chambers has been my favourite word reference source for many years now.
I also like the access both the apps give (I bought the apps separately a few years ago) to the handy free WordWeb app - which also offers an international audio pronunciation facility.
However, when looking up a word in the thesaurus, it would be nice to see the identifying heading “Thesaurus” (or its abbreviation) at the top of each page - likewise with the pages of the dictionary.
When flipping back and forth, via either app, it is not always immediately obvious as to whether one is reading from the thesaurus or the dictionary - especially when researching at speed.
Identifying headings would also look good.
Occasionally I will refer to the Oxford equivalents, but Chambers has been my favourite word reference source for many years now.
I also like the access both the apps give (I bought the apps separately a few years ago) to the handy free WordWeb app - which also offers an international audio pronunciation facility.
However, when looking up a word in the thesaurus, it would be nice to see the identifying heading “Thesaurus” (or its abbreviation) at the top of each page - likewise with the pages of the dictionary.
When flipping back and forth, via either app, it is not always immediately obvious as to whether one is reading from the thesaurus or the dictionary - especially when researching at speed.
Identifying headings would also look good.
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Fabulous (like a all WordWeb’s desktop software)
This Chambers app is an amazing app, like all of Word Webs.
Here are my recommendations to the developer for mobile:
(1) Just as with your desktop software, let you switch in tabs between all the dictionaries and thesauruses you purchase. That is a critical feature in your desktop applications and increases their value and makes it sensible to buy ALL your dictionaries. This would be a moneymaker for WordWeb and great for users.
(2) Why not sell your other desktop dictionaries on mobile? No work and more revenue, and your users would benefit.
Here is my recommendation regarding Desktop:
(1) Please make the spacing and placement of lines of text consistent as one switches between the tabs of WordWeb books.
(2) Please use MacOS built-in support for graphics card acceleration for more natural resizing on the wide variety of displays. It looks really bad as you resize and for a business to purchase this app for this users, that raises questions of longevity.
Here are my recommendations to the developer for mobile:
(1) Just as with your desktop software, let you switch in tabs between all the dictionaries and thesauruses you purchase. That is a critical feature in your desktop applications and increases their value and makes it sensible to buy ALL your dictionaries. This would be a moneymaker for WordWeb and great for users.
(2) Why not sell your other desktop dictionaries on mobile? No work and more revenue, and your users would benefit.
Here is my recommendation regarding Desktop:
(1) Please make the spacing and placement of lines of text consistent as one switches between the tabs of WordWeb books.
(2) Please use MacOS built-in support for graphics card acceleration for more natural resizing on the wide variety of displays. It looks really bad as you resize and for a business to purchase this app for this users, that raises questions of longevity.
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Good Support
This is not only a good app but the Support is also good
A must have app
Very useful and I definitely recommend it to everyone
Lost for words
Never again. This and the related dictionary are perfect. Gone are the large heavy tomes that need £35+ updates every year or so. No longer the scrabble player's bible, but who cares, they are great.
Hhhhh
Awful upgrade
Paltry vocabulary
This app feels like they just repurposed Apple's stock thesaurus and strapped a price tag on it. Very disappointed with the meager vocabulary this thesaurus offers. A waste of time and money.
?
Why is this now in American English? Also, no option to change it...
Update Fault
I've been using this app for a number of years on my iPhone and iPad without a problem but, the latest update will no longer download onto the iPhone The iPad is fine but please repair the bug for my iPhone.
Superb app.
A great British English version. Support for iOS 9 multitasking a wonderful addition.
