Premium. Really.
We have to pay for the thesaurus? I hope no one downloads your parasitic app.
Major update was poorly executed
Want to look up the odd word? This app will be OK. For more complex needs, the programming is poorly executed. If you look up words with wild cards (* or ?), the results are not alphabetical, strange for a dictionary. If you select a word from the results to review and then go back, you often lose your search pattern and have to re-enter it. The app worked fine before the update, aside from annoying and frequent requests for a review. Edit: Still buggy, with no fix of above problems. If you search for for a string of characters and want to delete the last two or more, the keyboard disappears after you delete the last character, forcing you to tap in the search bar to bring it back. Very frustrating.
Edit: some of the above issues have been fixed. However, searches, especially with wildcards such as *, are now painfully slow, taking several minutes at times to produce any results.
Edit: the app had become stable with a very useful wildcard feature. However a recent update has degraded it again. A search pattern such as ‘s???????s’ should produce 9-letter words beginning and ending with ‘s’, but instead produces a list of words of any length, essentially giving the same results as ‘s*s’. A pattern such as ‘a*b*’, calling for words beginning with ‘a’ and including ‘b’ used to yield a list firstly sorted by length and secondly alphabetically, but now the list is sorted only alphabetically. If one’s aim is to find words of a certain length, this renders the feature far less useful.
Edit: some of the above issues have been fixed. However, searches, especially with wildcards such as *, are now painfully slow, taking several minutes at times to produce any results.
Edit: the app had become stable with a very useful wildcard feature. However a recent update has degraded it again. A search pattern such as ‘s???????s’ should produce 9-letter words beginning and ending with ‘s’, but instead produces a list of words of any length, essentially giving the same results as ‘s*s’. A pattern such as ‘a*b*’, calling for words beginning with ‘a’ and including ‘b’ used to yield a list firstly sorted by length and secondly alphabetically, but now the list is sorted only alphabetically. If one’s aim is to find words of a certain length, this renders the feature far less useful.
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Subscription required
I just need a simple thesaurus, which is listed in the features - but you need a paid subscription of €39/yr to access it. It seems all of the features listed (with exception of limited word search) are actually paid features. Full service is €4.99/week. 😅
Thanks, but I’ll just cross the room and use the physical book I bought in 1998 - or the internet, which is still free (ish). 👀
Thanks, but I’ll just cross the room and use the physical book I bought in 1998 - or the internet, which is still free (ish). 👀
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Export words?
Great app! Using it every day, one feature that I think would make it even more useful is to be able to export favourite words or folders into a doc/excel/pdf/etc
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It’s too much better. It’s being better when it’s freely available for poor countries citizens.
