Rubbish
Use to be a really good app, now it sucks, also paid for the upgrades and they have all been taken away. Really annoyed.
No save word feature
Not having the ability so save words, in a dictionary app, has to be THE stupidest user experience choice in the world
Lost hundreds of saved words over years + fake reviews
They removed without warning the ability to favourite words. I spent years building up a vocabulary list in this app and they deleted them without warning.
Now they’re also paying for fake 5* reviews to drown out the thousands of new 1* reviews from users who are quite rightly very angry at having lost this feature and all their data
Now they’re also paying for fake 5* reviews to drown out the thousands of new 1* reviews from users who are quite rightly very angry at having lost this feature and all their data
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Bring back favorites + adfree
I would literally pay to have an ad free app. I'm trying to expand my knowledge, and being bombarded by irrelevant ads really ticks me off. I paid for ad-free in the past, I don't see why you would remove it. Also I miss so badly being able to favorite words, why would you ever get rid of that. Are you TRYING to piss off your userbase???
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Perfection, just only a few details ~
I appreciate all y’all do, truly — please bring back the ability to hold down a word, highlighting it which bring the user to at least the definition and thesauras. It’s functional.
Not sure how much more I can take
I purchased a pack of add-ons many years ago. Slowly over time it seems that they’ve been phased out so that doesn’t seem right :/ But I still used it because it was pretty good. Lately though, this ad with the highly pixelated rapidly flashing red email icon is soooooooooooo annoying!What is WRONG with advertisers? Do they think annoying the bleep out people gets them anywhere positive?? SERIOUSLY. I’m not sure how much longer I can take this POS red flashing ad. I suspect it will be only days then it will be adios for me after many many many years of using this app.
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Advertisers are running scams on you.
iPhone users see scam alerts, claiming that your iPhone has been hacked.
Mind Expanding
Every word is a concept. This is a fascinating way to learn not just words, but new ideas. Never apologise for using ‘fancy’ words…this will make you cleverer and more interesting.
And it’s free!
So nobody has an excuse for limited vocabulary..it’s really just a limited mind.
But what happened to the tool where you could ‘add to favourites?’
That was essential😟?
And it’s free!
So nobody has an excuse for limited vocabulary..it’s really just a limited mind.
But what happened to the tool where you could ‘add to favourites?’
That was essential😟?
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Useless offline
I have used this for years and Always the same frustrating headache. When Off-line (no cell, no wifi) this App is totally dysfunctional. I am deleting it for this reason. If I have wifi, I can use ANY search engine to find definitions, synonyms, antonym, etc.
I have found this a
dictionary App Useless!😥😥😥
I have found this a
dictionary App Useless!😥😥😥
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Meh
It was ok not de best broski!
No longer works
I have used this app for years. Now all of a sudden it will not bring up the definitions. I resent updates being pushed onto mu phone without my knowledge or approval, because they usually are not improvement. This one in particular, is a disaster, since the app no longer works at all. No choice but to delete.
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Scam
This app claims to be the #1 free dictionary app but the app you get today is a completely different app than the one that got to #1.
The prices of the Power Pack (2013 — $5.99), Grammar & Tips (2014 — $1.99), and Expert English (2014 — $2.99) upgrades were almost unheard of at the time; even if they seem somewhat reasonable today. Back then, each of those upgrades individually cost what a fully paid app cost. And let’s be clear, $10.97 back then is $15.58 today. That’s still a hell of a lot for an English language electronic dictionary. And they just discontinued all those features after pocketing the money without a care in the world. And it’s not just the developer, Apple also allowed it and did nothing. We need a crackdown on app store and developer bait and switch scams. Enough is enough.
The prices of the Power Pack (2013 — $5.99), Grammar & Tips (2014 — $1.99), and Expert English (2014 — $2.99) upgrades were almost unheard of at the time; even if they seem somewhat reasonable today. Back then, each of those upgrades individually cost what a fully paid app cost. And let’s be clear, $10.97 back then is $15.58 today. That’s still a hell of a lot for an English language electronic dictionary. And they just discontinued all those features after pocketing the money without a care in the world. And it’s not just the developer, Apple also allowed it and did nothing. We need a crackdown on app store and developer bait and switch scams. Enough is enough.
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Ads
Too many ads top and bottom between wow eyes sore! I’m old fat thump on screen oh my! Slow down this ads trying to focus my reading too may distract oh my lord!
By the way xAI is way better.
By the way xAI is way better.
still bad Aug 16 update update
The app no longer scrolls up or down on my iphone SE (2022 3rd Generation) running ios 26.6. This app is still useless! Please FIX!
Incredibly upset over the removal of the “favorite words” feature.
I had years worth of words saved in my account that had helped me shape my vocabulary overtime, only for the “favorite” feature to be terminated in a seamless instance, along with my own account. Had I at least gotten a notice in advance, I would have at least written down all the words I had saved up over an extensive period of time. I’m utterly disappointed, along with hundred of users like myself.
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Scam
Where is my refund?
Saved words
Great app ruined by a poorly thought out update, removing core features which every similar app has without explanation was a terrible decision
They Took Back What Was Paid For
I would give zero, or even negative stars, if it were possible to do so in these reviews.
I had the paid, as-free version of this app for years. It used to allow you to download the dictionary database for offline use - something I found invaluable. You also used to be able to favorite and save words, and the developers in their very questionable “wisdom” removed that as well. Basically leaving an ad-ridden shell of the app I previously considered one of the most valuable apps on my devices. I want my money back at the very least, but they won’t even be doing that, you can be sure. I don’t know of the company changed hands, or what, but whoever is currently developing this app is greedy AF, even being willing to steal from their paying customers. Don’t bother with this joke of an app. It is nothing compared to what it once was. Don’t bother with this company, because they are greedy and dishonest. The fact they were able to do this and remain on the App Store is in itself an insult to every honest user/customer. What they’ve done is evil perpetrated by absolute filth.
I had the paid, as-free version of this app for years. It used to allow you to download the dictionary database for offline use - something I found invaluable. You also used to be able to favorite and save words, and the developers in their very questionable “wisdom” removed that as well. Basically leaving an ad-ridden shell of the app I previously considered one of the most valuable apps on my devices. I want my money back at the very least, but they won’t even be doing that, you can be sure. I don’t know of the company changed hands, or what, but whoever is currently developing this app is greedy AF, even being willing to steal from their paying customers. Don’t bother with this joke of an app. It is nothing compared to what it once was. Don’t bother with this company, because they are greedy and dishonest. The fact they were able to do this and remain on the App Store is in itself an insult to every honest user/customer. What they’ve done is evil perpetrated by absolute filth.
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Twinkle, twinkle, ... lost three stars ... tell me if they really are...
First of all: Thank you for creating this app. I prefer it to the other contenders (Merriam-Websters, Oxford, Collin's, etc)
Definitely already headed straight towards: A good and solid app.
A few - cumbersome and unwieldy tending towards "more than annoying" - quirks to usability keep me from giving 4-5 stars:
1) returning results as one endless page ... why not collapsed?
2) "American Phonetic" + "IPA" - nice! - Why can't you simply display both side-by-side instead of a (unnecessary and obstructive) toggle ?
3) Why can't multiple queries be held accessible for rapid switching between terms? Why is there no history or effective bookmarking?
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A true highlight were adding crossreferencing to thesaurus and establishing rapid switching between these for language and word-smithing purposes.
Definitely already headed straight towards: A good and solid app.
A few - cumbersome and unwieldy tending towards "more than annoying" - quirks to usability keep me from giving 4-5 stars:
1) returning results as one endless page ... why not collapsed?
2) "American Phonetic" + "IPA" - nice! - Why can't you simply display both side-by-side instead of a (unnecessary and obstructive) toggle ?
3) Why can't multiple queries be held accessible for rapid switching between terms? Why is there no history or effective bookmarking?
...
A true highlight were adding crossreferencing to thesaurus and establishing rapid switching between these for language and word-smithing purposes.
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Way too many ads
This has way too many ads. The screenshots are misleading as they don’t show the ads.
