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
Sponsor
It’s too much better. It’s being better when it’s freely available for poor countries citizens.
Full of ads and slow
Not even full dictionary.
Thank you
It is very good and helps me with all the meaning and synonyms/antonyms that I need…it should succeed in the future; it is amazingly easy to neavigste your way through the app!
‘It’s the most physical of languages’
So Jorge Luis Borges said in an interview seen on TokTok. Frankly, I agree as I dream away all the days in splendor.
Favorites not saved
I love this app, but the app crashed and had to reinstall to get it working again. Great that’s it works again, but all my favorites have been removed and that is very frustrating. I wouldn’t have had to reinstall if it worked normally. I even had my dictionary downloaded but the crash didn’t let it work.
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Who coded this app?
Upon opening, unlike other iPhone dictionaries such as Collins and Chambers, there is no cursor and no keyboard to enter a word… without a second press to go to page 2, to allow entry into the word field.
Also, other dictionary apps allow shaking the phone to clear the form field, or open with a clear form field even when not swiped away.
Finally… the word “naïf” is not in the dictionary but in all others!
Also, other dictionary apps allow shaking the phone to clear the form field, or open with a clear form field even when not swiped away.
Finally… the word “naïf” is not in the dictionary but in all others!
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Exceptional
Excellent in all respects except rather expensive. For some, such as I, it is worth it. For casual users, perhaps not.
Basic features locked behind paywall
Absurdly greedy to charge a subscription fee for a thesaurus and pronunciation audio while still having banner ads and a pop-up reminder to subscribe whenever you open the app. This is just a laughable excuse for a dictionary.
Can’t change dictionary
I updated it to the recent version. Since then, I can't change the dictionary from "Oxford Dictionary of English" to any. I delated downloaded ones, then downloaded them again. I also signed out and signed in. Nothing works and big pain as a premium member who is in France and need French dictionary NOW.
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The error message always shown is "SqliteException(1): while executing, duplicate column name: uuid, SQL logic error (code 1)
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Not Worth It & Way Overpriced
The Oxford brand isn’t worth $49.99 a year. Don’t be fooled by clever marketing. This dictionary & thesaurus isn’t particularly useful and is exorbitantly overpriced. There is no etymological explanation of words, which would have been very helpful. Googling words is a far superior method and costs nothing. Needless to say, I am not renewing with Oxford for another year.
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Don’t
Awful! They charged me twice, and it’s too much for the most basic dictionary. Don’t waste your money.
Ugh
The ads are unbearable without the subscription but it’s a great dictionary.
UNUSABLE
I was again disappointed today with this app as now I can’t even launch unless I download the App Etoro. It just gets worse so I have now deleted the App. I just feel gutted and don’t understand what is going on and why, but nothing has changed from my last review and today I couldn’t even launch the App… I will update my paper copy…..
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:)
Better use Cambridge webs.
This one has Atrocious incessant intrusive ads.
Ads galore
I wish that the plain dictionary just worked without being bombarded by ads. Give me ads for extras, not for looking up a word.
