# German Dictionary for Learners — user reviews

> 84 indexed App Store user reviews of German Dictionary for Learners by Andreas Goebel, rated 4.90/5 from 702 ratings.

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- Rating breakdown: 5★ 632 · 4★ 45 · 3★ 19 · 2★ 3 · 1★ 3

## What do users think of German Dictionary for Learners?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 🚀 Best dictionary app
- 👍 Excellent example sentences
- 👍 Helpful app
- 👍 Great dictionary
- 👍 Superb app
- 👍 Essential for learning German
- 👍 Great word translation/dictionary app
- 👍 Awesome learning helper
- 👍 Excellent app
- 👍 Helpful app
- 👍 Good app
- 👍 Shockingly good dictionary app

**Cons**

- 🐛 Great app with errors & words missing
- 🐛 Rendering issue with web markup
- 🐛 Bug preventing sign-in and missing translations in flashcards
- 🐛 Clunky UI on iPad
- 🐛 Some words not showing examples after update
- 🐛 Offline mode problem with missing words
- 🐛 Crash after app update
- 🐛 Rating nag screen after full app purchase

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Login screen freezes
- Incompatible with older devices

**Most requested features**

- Add phonetic pronunciation
- Add word roots
- Revert dark mode icons to normal
- Improve word search with typo tolerance and dropdown suggestions

## Newest reviews (14 of 84)

### 3/5 — Очень часто не работает

*2026-05-21*

Отличный словарь, очень информативный, но почему работает через раз?? Разработчики, почините, пожалуйста, ужасно неудобно!

**Developer response:** Спасибо за отзыв. Нам жаль, что приложение работает нестабильно. Пожалуйста, напишите на support@netzverb.com и опишите, в какой момент возникает проблема. Мы постараемся разобраться и исправить её как можно скорее.

### 3/5 — Ungeeignete Beispielsätze

*2026-04-19*

Einige Beispielsätze im Wörterbuch sind politisch gefärbt und ungeeignet für Lernende, besonders für Kinder. Bitte überprüfen Sie die Inhalte und entfernen Sie solche Beispiele.

**Developer response:** Vielen Dank für Ihr Feedback. Es tut uns leid, wenn einzelne Beispielsätze ungeeignet wirken. Bitte senden Sie uns die betroffenen Wörter oder am besten Screenshots an support@netzverb.com, damit wir die Inhalte prüfen und bei Bedarf korrigieren können. Solche Hinweise helfen uns sehr, die App für alle Lernenden zu verbessern.

### 4/5 — ИИ очень тупой

*2025-12-16*

Дорогие разработчики! Идея с внедрением ИИ гениальна, но дело в том, что он буквально на каждом шагу ошибается, путает падежи и выдаёт неправильный ответ. Я бы заплатила за подписку, но зачем, если он ничему не учит? И ведь люди, не проверяя информацию, могут выучить неверно?!! К самому словарю нареканий нет

**Developer response:** Спасибо за отзыв! Рады, что словарь вам нравится. Понимаем, что ошибки ИИ-чата могут раздражать. Мы передадим замечания команде. Успехов и удовольствия в изучении немецкого!

### 3/5 — Great app with errors & words missing

*2025-12-11*

I’m a beginning learner of German. I bought the online upgrade of this app and have so far found it very useful! Every entry has a list of different forms of the word, synonyms, etc. and examples in sentences. I also love the unlimited word lists that I can create so I can save new words I’ve learned. The AI chat is handy, if not all that comprehensive. The only problem I have is that some fairly common words such as “Bekannte” are not included. That makes me wonder how complete this dictionary is. I’ll probably need to find a bigger and more comprehensive one later. But for now this one suffices my needs for the most part.
P.S. Some entries are confusing and I (as a beginner-learner) suspect erroneous. For instance, “ziemlich” is categorized in this dictionary as an adjective while it’s more like an adverb. Interestingly, the AI teacher also said it’s an adverb. I don’t know. I’d consult other dictionaries when there’re doubts. “Dschungel” has all three genders but should be only masculine.

**Developer response:** Thank you very much for your great and good review. Words like „Bekannte“ are declined just like the corresponding adjective, because they are derived from them. We have planned to add the most common ones as nouns as well. But for now you can have a look at the adjectives (e.g. „bekannt“).

The decision wether a word is an adjective or an adverb is sometimes fluent. But in this case it is very clear. The word „ziemlich“ can be declined and builds comparison forms. Both characteristics of adjectives. An adverb can’t used in front of nouns and builds no other form. But an adjective can usually used like a adverb as well. A good indicator of this usage is the presence of „Predicative“ at the bottom of the adjective page.

I suspect the chat means exactly this special usage. A good practice is to ask the chat a second time, like this: „Are you really sure?“ In most cases, the chat specifies his previous answer.

### 4/5 — Great app, with some minor annoyances

*2025-11-16*

Very helpful app. However, I’m having a bug preventing me from signing in using Apple account. I’m getting an error 500: login failed message. So I can’t sync across my devices. Also, some words in the flashcard game are missing their corresponding English translation

**Developer response:** Thank you for your review and for bringing this to our attention. We apologise for any inconvenience caused. Please, contact us at support@netzverb.com for assistance.

### 4/5 — Mute the ads by default

*2025-11-01*

It is 4 AM in the morning when I am searching a German word from your dictionary when suddenly an horror ad arrives. I cannot mute it even after pressing the sound option, tried putting my phone on silent yet the creepy voice hawls. I believe this would be a step that might force people to switch to an alternative if one cannot mute the ads.

**Developer response:** Thank you for your feedback. We apologise for any inconvenience caused by the ads. Unfortunately, we cannot influence which ads appear. We show ads in order to offer the app for free. However, you can purchase the app for a one-off payment to enjoy additional benefits and ad-free use. If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at support@netzverb.com

### 3/5 — Проблема

*2025-10-21*

Покупала в 2024-м году. Сегодня не грузится. Помогите что делать?

**Developer response:** Thank you for your review. We apologize for the inconvenience. We would like to support you with this issue and so we'd appreciate it if you could write back to us at support@netzverb.com.

### 3/5 — Great, except for one major annoyance

*2025-09-30*

This app is fantastic in every way, minus one. 

Using this on iPad is really horrible. The UI doesn’t really scale well or lends itself to a horizontal screen. Would love this aspect of the app to be updated. Using it windowed or full screen, it just looks clunky. It’s a little difficult to describe in just text, but if you’re planning on using this on iPad, just know it won’t flow very well. 

The content itself is excellent, and being able to download has been awesome.

**Developer response:** Thank you for your feedback! We're glad you enjoy the content and download feature. We're sorry to hear about the iPad UI issue. Our team is continuously working on improvements, and your feedback is invaluable. If you have more details, feel free to reach out at support@netzverb.com.

### 3/5 — Slow and robotic

*2025-09-30*

I am a regular user of this app and have taken a subscription. The words search is really slow, and most of the time I hear robotic sound along with human like sound overlapping, each other. So it’s like first, I hear the robotic sound and in between, I hear human like sound. While hearing the pronunciation of any word, I am so fed up of this.

**Developer response:** Thank you for your review. We're sorry about the issues with the word search speed and the overlapping sound. Please try restarting the app or checking for updates. If the problem continues, contact us at support@netzverb.com for further assistance. We appreciate your feedback and patience.

### 3/5 — Fehler

*2025-09-25*

Es gibt zu viele unnötige Übersetzungen für ein Wort, die man gar nicht benutzt, und viele sind falsch. Es wird nicht immer angegeben, dass das Wort mit der Partikel „sich“ verwendet wird, aber ansonsten ist es für sein Geld durchaus gut.

**Developer response:** Thank you very much for your review. We are highly interested in improving our app. Could you please give us examples of unnecessary translations and wrong ones. You reach on at support@netzverb.de. Best regards, Andreas from Netzverb

### 5/5 — Thank you for the fix

*2025-09-09*

Vielen Dank!

**Developer response:** Vielen Dank für dein positives Feedback! Wir freuen uns, dass dir unsere App gefällt. Bei Fragen oder Anregungen erreichst du uns unter support@netzverb.com. Viel Erfolg und Freude weiterhin beim Deutschlernen!

### 3/5 — Entwickler, bitte beheben Sie das Problem.

*2025-09-03*

Wenn ein Verb sehr lang ist (zu viele Buchstaben), dann ist das Partizip II gar nicht sichtbar: es wird nur mit „…“ angezeigt.
Egal, ob man darauf tippt oder nicht – die Zeile öffnet sich nicht.

Entwickler, benutzt ihr eigentlich euer eigenes Wörterbuch???

**Developer response:** Hello there!
We are sorry for the inconvenience. It should have been fixed. If not please send us an email at app@netzverb.com
Kind regards, Janine from Netzverb.

### 4/5 — Is it a rendering issue?!

*2025-08-31*

It looks like there’s a small rendering issue in the app. Some metadata/HTML tags (e.g. <q g>...</q>) are being displayed directly instead of being parsed. This seems related to how web markup is handled. Could you check the tag rendering so only the word forms (e.g. eilt • eilte • ist geeilt) are shown without the raw tags?

**Developer response:** Thank you for your review! We're glad you like our app. We apologize for the rendering issue with the HTML tags. We'll look into it to ensure only the word forms are shown. For further assistance, feel free to contact us at support@netzverb.com. We wish you continued success in learning German!

### 5/5 — Sehr hilfreich

*2025-08-15, version 4.7.0*

Eure Wortschatz hilft mir

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Переводчик переводит только на английский.

*2026-04-21*

Раннее проблем не было. Исправьте! Переводит только на английских, хотя задаешь другой язык!в последнее время жутко лагает!!!

**Developer response:** Thank you for your review. We are sorry about the problems you experienced after the update. The translation issues should now be resolved. If you are still experiencing problems, please email us at support@netzverb.com and we will resolve them as quickly as possible.

### 1/5 — Der Übersetzer hat aufgehört zu funktionieren

*2026-03-27*

Die Übersetzung vom Ukrainischen ins Deutsche funktionierte nach dem Update nicht mehr; jetzt wird ins Englische übersetzt.

**Developer response:** Thank you for your review. We are sorry about the problems you experienced after the update. The translation issues should now be resolved. If you are still experiencing problems, please email us at support@netzverb.com and we will resolve them as quickly as possible.

### 1/5 — KI im Chat antwortet fehlerhaft

*2025-09-28*

Die KI im Chat soll als Deutschlehrer funktionieren. Doch man muss Deutsch bereits können, um die Fehler der KI erkennen zu können und somit nichts falsches zu lernen. 
Schreibt die KI z.B. folgende Frage mit Antwort: 
Woran fragst du? Ich frage nach dem Weg. „Woran“ ist hier das völlig falsche Wort. Es muss heißen „wonach fragst du“. Somit ist die KI in der App zumindest unbrauchbar, da man sich nicht auf die Korrektheit verlassen kann.

**Developer response:** Vielen Dank für Ihr Feedback. Es tut uns leid zu hören, dass die KI im Chat nicht die erwartete Unterstützung bietet. Wir arbeiten kontinuierlich daran, die Genauigkeit zu verbessern. Ihr Feedback ist wertvoll für uns, um die App weiter zu optimieren. Bei weiteren Fragen kontaktieren Sie uns bitte unter support@netzverb.com.

### 1/5 — Help me!

*2025-09-08*

I bought a subscription, but my app doesn't work

**Developer response:** Hi there, thank you for your review. We're sorry to hear you're having issues with your subscription. Please try restoring your purchase in the app using the same account. If the problem persists, contact our support team at support@netzverb.com for further assistance.

### 1/5 — Не работает

*2025-09-07*

Купила расширенную версию, теперь приложение постоянно вылетает

**Developer response:** Здравствуйте, спасибо за ваш отзыв. Приносим извинения за неудобства. Для получения дополнительной помощи обратитесь к нам по адресу support@netzverb.com.

### 1/5 — Ich habe nicht verstanden

*2024-10-23*

Ich habe versucht, das Konto zu öffnen, ich habe mich in das Konto eingeloggt, und trotzdem sagt es, dass ich einen Benutzername- oder Passwortfehler habe. Ich hatte die App zuvor gekauft und aus irgendeinem seltsamen Grund habe ich den Zugriff verloren. Die Wahrheit ist, dass ich, obwohl ich es gerne wieder kaufen würde, Angst habe, dass es mir wieder passiert. Und dazu weiß ich nicht, wie ich den Benutzerfehler beheben kann. Was soll ich tun? Danke.

**Developer response:** We apologize for the problem you had with our app. Also for the problem with the App Store, for what Apple is responsible. Our app includes one time purchase. Pay once and use it all the time. There is no further charge necessary and automatically initiated. Please contact Apple to clarify what happened.

Back to the app: can you tell us more about the problem creating use? However, for the most functions no user profile is necessary. Only if you want to synchronize the app’s data.

Regards
Andreas from Netzverb

### 1/5 — Almanca-Türkçe Sözlük

*2024-10-15*

Birçok kelimenin Türkçesi yok. Kelimelerin Almanca telaffuzlarının büyük bir kısmı çalışmıyor.

### 1/5 — App not updated

*2023-03-12*

I purchased this app. But it’s still not updating to full version. Please guide me on this.

### 2/5 — Функционал очень приятный, НО

*2026-08-07*

Но у вас что-то с серверами, поэтому я не могу перевести/загуглить слово длинее 5 букв, потому что приложение пишет, что нет, интернета, хотя во всех остальных приложениях и сайтах есть

### 2/5 — Что случилось?

*2025-05-31*

Классный словарь, нооо последние несколько дней работает безобразно. Очень медленный стал, часто пишет сервер недоступен. И с телефона и с планшета проблемы

**Developer response:** We apologize the issue you experienced with our app. Could you please review if the problem still exists. However, you can always reach out at support@netzverb.com. Best regards, Andreas

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Perfect App

*2026-04-27*

It is very useful and neatly created to help anyone who needs to learn German. It is a package of everything we need to know about the vocabulary.

**Developer response:** Thank you for your wonderful review! We’re delighted that Dictionary German is helping you learn and build your German vocabulary. Wishing you continued success with your studies!

### 5/5 — The best app for german learning

*2026-04-19*

This is a allrounder app. This app translates, chats, shows meaning of the words, shows tenses, examples of the word you are searching, also translates other secondary language. This is the best app I have ever used until now for german learning. And the best part most of the useful features are free.

**Developer response:** Thank you for the fantastic review! We’re delighted that Dictionary German supports your learning so effectively and that you find the free features useful. Wishing you continued success with your German!

### 5/5 — Best dictionary app

*2026-03-18*

Everyone in my German class asks me which app I’m using because they want to download it too! Excellent example sentences, very helpful

**Developer response:** Thank you so much for your lovely review, Nari! We’re really happy to hear the app is helping you so much in class and that the example sentences are useful for your learning. If you ever have questions or suggestions, feel free to reach out to @netzverb or support@netzverb.com. Wishing you continued success and enjoyment in learning German!

### 5/5 — Fanatisch Vokabular

*2026-03-03*

Sehr Sehr helfen

**Developer response:** Vielen Dank für dein tolles Feedback! Es freut uns sehr, dass dir unsere App beim Deutschlernen hilft. Wenn du Fragen oder Anregungen hast, erreichst du uns jederzeit unter support@netzverb.com. Wir wünschen dir weiterhin viel Erfolg und Freude beim Lernen!

### 5/5 — Primaaa

*2025-12-04*

Mega, Ich finde es am besten für Übersetzungen und hoffe, dass es noch weitere Beispiel-Updates gibt, aber auf jeden Fall ist es großartig, großartig!

**Developer response:** Hallo! Vielen Dank für dein tolles Feedback. Wir freuen uns, dass dir die Übersetzungsfunktionen so gut helfen. Wir arbeiten an weiteren Beispielen und Updates. Bei Fragen oder Wünschen erreichst du uns unter @netzverb oder support@netzverb.com. Viel Erfolg und weiterhin viel Freude beim Deutschlernen!

### 5/5 — Gut

*2025-12-03, version 4.8.1*

gut

### 5/5 — Essential for learning German

*2025-11-20, version 4.8.0*

This a superb app ! So much functionality. Absolutely essential!

### 5/5 — Great dictionary

*2025-10-24*

This is a great dictionary, not only it provides translation. It is serving us thesaurus and provide provides translation and other language languages since I’m a Polish speaker and that’s where I learned German it’s very useful.
The more I use it the more impressed I am with it

**Developer response:** Thank you for your wonderful feedback! We're thrilled that you're finding our app useful for learning German. If you have any questions or need support, feel free to reach out to @netzverb or support@netzverb.com. We wish you continued success and enjoyment in your learning journey!

### 5/5 — Sehr gut!

*2025-10-15*

Diese App hat mir in so vielen Situationen das Leben gerettet. Vielen, vielen Dank, dass Sie sie entwickelt habt. sie ist wirklich super hilfreich! Wäre es vielleicht möglich, auch eine thailändische Übersetzung hinzuzufügen? Ich würde mich riesig darüber freuen! 🙏💐

**Developer response:** Vielen Dank für dein tolles Feedback! Wir freuen uns, dass unsere App dir so gut hilft. Wir nehmen deinen Vorschlag für eine thailändische Übersetzung gerne auf. Bei Fragen erreichst du uns unter support@netzverb.com. Viel Erfolg und Freude weiterhin beim Deutschlernen!

### 5/5 — Спасибо! Отличное приложение, очень нравиться

*2025-09-21*

Приложение очень нравиться, очень удобное и много информации по словам, все вопросы по грамматике может решить чат, а также с ним можно пообщаться, жаль только говорить не умеет:) Постоянно пользуюсь этим приложением. 
Хотелось бы свои предложения высказать: -
в чате поменять в диалоге цвет выделения, иначе когда выделяешь, плохо видно что выделил;
-возможность настроить, чтобы экран не отключался во время использования, когда например делаешь конспекты, нужно постоянно разблокировать экран или следить, чтобы он не отключился ;
-возможность сохранять чат в редактируемом формате (пдф), чтобы не делать скрин важной информации или не копировать/вставить;
Раздражает очень, что чат останавливается(зависает, начинает писать одно и тоже)  и приходиться его обновлять,  соответственно вся информация исчезает и хотелось бы конечно, чтобы чат был бесконечный всегда можно было вернуться к предыдущей информации.
- очень часто вылетает ошибка: Status: 200: Превышен лимит времени на запрос. И он не дописывает запрос

**Developer response:** Здравствуйте! Спасибо за ваш отзыв и полезные предложения. Мы рады, что приложение вам нравится. Ваши идеи по улучшению чата и устранению ошибок мы передадим команде разработчиков. Если у вас возникнут вопросы, пишите нам на support@netzverb.com. Желаем успехов и удовольствия в изучении немецкого!

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