# Roget's II: New Thesaurus — user reviews > 113 indexed App Store user reviews of Roget's II by Enfour, Inc., rated 4.70/5 from 360 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/rogets-ii-new-thesaurus/id286861782/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/rogets-ii-new-thesaurus/id286861782.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 315 · 4★ 24 · 3★ 4 · 2★ 3 · 1★ 14 ## What do users think of Roget's II? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🚀 Comprehensive thesaurus - 👍 Easy to use interface - 📚 Invaluable tool for writers - 🔍 Helpful search options - 🔖 Useful bookmarking feature **Cons** - 🐛 Crashes and stability issues - 🔍 Limited search functionality - 📚 Incomplete word coverage - 🖥️ Poor user interface design - 💰 Overpriced compared to alternatives **Commonly reported bugs** - Constant 'Total Failure' error message - Crashes on launch after recent updates - Incompatibility with newer iOS versions - Inability to contact customer support **Most requested features** - Sort synonyms by part of speech - Add more comprehensive word coverage - Improve search and filtering capabilities - Integrate with other writing apps - Provide customization options for font and layout ## Newest reviews (10 of 113) ### 4/5 — The First Go To Word Source *2024-12-26* I want to update my review of a year ago of app “Roget’s II The New Thesaurus-Third Edition”. My clue should have been the rebranding of it as “Moby Thesaurus II” which in reality, is The Roget’s Thesaurus Light. I just queried the word “seismic” and nothing came up after repeated tries in different contexts. I then consulted my real Roget’s Thesaurus in my paperback Penguin Reference copy, edition of 2004, and sure enough, it was in there with loads of related words. Moby II is okay as an app, but it’s not the real (and thorough) McCoy! I’ve reduced my former 5 star rating to 3 stars. ### 2/5 — Kludgy and unhelpful *2024-03-23* I’m not a fan of the UI. It’s not clean or modern, but if the app works, I can live with clunky UI. The problem is that I need the thesaurus to be useful. Roget’s II lists a hodgepodge of obscure words as synonyms. Look up “wet”. Asinine, brainless, drunk, disguised, impregnate… Are these British slang? I just want another word to describe something sopped with moisture. Shouldn’t a thesaurus let me filter for meaning? Shouldn’t it limit itself to adjectives like the original word? In this app, nouns, adjectives, and verbs are jumbled together. “It’s wet outside” is not the same as “It’s evening mist outside” or “It’s foolheaded outside” or “It’s guzzle outside.” I could live with associated words and phrases as long as they were filtered for meaning, but this output is chaos. Now type this into ChatGPT instead: Give me ten synonyms for “wet” in the sentence “It’s wet outside.” Instant gratification. My suggestion isn’t to incorporate AI into your app and tack GPT to the name, but to offer a more sensible output with more relevant results. Filter by meaning. Filter by the parts of speech. Please be more innovative. That’s something computers can’t mimic yet. ### 2/5 — Not impressed *2023-03-14* More often than not, it fails. How is ‘snide’ not found.? ### 2/5 — hard to use *2023-02-04, version 13.1* options are listed in one dense paragraph. Hard to select individual word. ### 3/5 — 不具合 *2023-02-01* 3日くらい前から、アプリを開くとtotal failure というメッセージが出たあと、ほかのアプリの購入画面へ飛ぶようになってしまいました。検索などが何もできない状態です。 iPhone se バージョンは16.2です。 いろいろと便利そうで、これから使いこなしていきたいと思っていた矢先なので、残念です。なるべく早い改善をお願いいたします。 2023.2.1 アップデート後正常に使えるようになりました。これで勉強も捗りそうです。迅速に対応いただきありがとうございました。 **Developer response:** 最新版にアップデートしてください。 ### 1/5 — Crashing *2023-01-29* Also getting download new version followed immediately by crash. Same with Oxford English Dictionary. Crash sends me directly back to App Store **Developer response:** Please upgrade to the latest version. ### 1/5 — Total Failure *2023-01-28* I use this app all the time now it is frozen with the words total failure on the screen. It then takes me to the App Store to buy a new Unidict thesaurus. Now it tells me to download the latest Roget’s thesaurus but it is the same one version and all. **Developer response:** Please upgrade to the latest version. ### 1/5 — Total failure message why? *2023-01-28* Have always liked this app now suddenly it’s useless 😒 **Developer response:** Please upgrade to the latest version. ### 1/5 — No good ! *2023-01-28* Total failure message appears every time I try to load the app. Please help. Ttgyno. **Developer response:** Please upgrade to the latest version. ### 1/5 — Current versions crashes on opening *2023-01-28* Until 3 days ago, the app worded very well, even after update for iOS 16. All of a sudden it throws up a ‘Total Failure’ message and takes you to the App Store to download. On download, the problem continues. **Developer response:** Please upgrade to the latest version. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — terrible user interface, unuseable *2026-07-23, version 17.0* just splatters words on the screen; no organization whatsoever ### 1/5 — No display options on Tahoe 26.5 *2026-05-24, version 16.0.2* The search results are displayed in 8-pt font, and the Settings control merely changes the spacing of the display. I would like to see the results 12-pt font for easier reading, or maybe even bigger. But you’ve got no options with this. ### 1/5 — Roget's II: new thesaurus *2026-01-25* This is a bad product. Can't say enough how lousy. You will be surely disappointed, don't waste your time. See for yourself right now: Example: word I researched: "carnivore" App supplied these supposed "synonyms": amphibian, aquatic, biped, board-and-roomer, boarder, bon vivant, Brillat-Savarin, canine, cannibal, Chiroptera, connoisseur of food, consumer, cosmopolite, diner, diner-out, eater, eater-out, epicure, feeder, feline, flesh-eater, fruitarian, gastronome, glutton, gnawer, gourmand, gourmet, grain-eater, graminivore, granivore, herbivore, high liver, hungry mouth, insectivore, invertebrate, lactovegetarian, Lagomorpha, Lucullus, luncher, mammal, mammalian, man-eater, marsupial, marsupialian, meat-eater, mouth, omnivore, omophagist, pantophagist, phytophage, picnicker, plant-eater, predacean, primate, Primates, quadruped, reptile, rodent, Rodentia, ruminant, scavenger, trencherman, ungulate, varmint, vegetarian, vermin, vertebrate ### 1/5 — User Interface needs improvement *2025-03-10* paid $4.99, had a lot of other options which were free... bad decisions is all I make :-) ### 1/5 — Disappointed *2024-05-16* Really disappointed it’s not a Roget thesaurus organized with themes ### 1/5 — Decent data, terrible interface *2023-10-03, version 14.7* The thesaurus is unusable: all words dumped into a single window of tiny print, and you can only change the line spacing of that print but not the font itself. ### 1/5 — Frustrating *2023-02-23* The app keeps crashing and any link to contact support is so well hidden I can;t find it. It needs some bugs fixing ... please! ### 1/5 — Not working *2023-01-29* The app has a “total failure” since last update. **Developer response:** Please upgrade to the latest version. ### 1/5 — Broken *2023-01-29* This used to work perfectly. Now it doesn’t work at all. It continuously sends me prompts to download a new version but… THERE ISN”T ONE. There also isn’t anyone home at customer support. This has been going on for weeks. Tragic, because it used to be a 5 star product. **Developer response:** Please upgrade to the latest version. ### 1/5 — Won't work at all after upgrade *2023-01-29* iPhone 12 max pro "total failure" message. Works OK on iPhone 13. Can't contact develper for advice, and Apple no help...... ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Dab *2026-03-14* A radioactive Demon core. ### 5/5 — Roget’s Thesaurus *2026-03-02* This is a writer’s thesaurus, sort of a reversed dictionary, and is most definitely different from your typical thesaurus. It’s supposed to inspire ideas, and it gives you conceptually related words to the one being searched. That being said, this is my 3rd(?) copy of the book; the bad reviews are those who don’t understand the purpose of the thesaurus. If you’re looking for a basic thesaurus, this is not it! However, I will say that this is 100% my most used tool and provides exactly what it is intended to do. ### 5/5 — Roget's Thesaurus: A Must Own for Every Writer. *2025-08-29* Roget's Thesaurus gives a writer the essential tools needed to publish polished prose without the need to repeat the same word(s) over and over and over again. It's not as if the cost of Roget's will break the bank. It might even create the conditions that make publishing possible. ### 5/5 — ….. *2025-07-29* …….,, ### 5/5 — Antonyms *2024-10-07* How can I find antonyms to a word on this app? ### 5/5 — helful enough as always *2024-08-18* very helful especially when looking for a more proper word to use in translating ### 5/5 — Use every day *2024-06-15* This has been my go to program for writing and editing for about eleven years, thrilled I found it, love the search options, the history search, everything. No, I'm not just saying this to ear myself (read myself??) A few programs stand out in my long hx of cmputer use, and this, along with Quicken, do everything I might want thm to do, almost reading my mind. ### 5/5 — a suggestion *2024-03-24* it would be very helpful to me if the list of synonyms was sorted by parts of speech… separating nouns, verbs, adj, etc. now i must search a list of 200 words (of all types) to find one of perhaps 40 nouns i’ve quit using roget because of this ### 5/5 — Use every day *2023-06-28* This has been my go to program for writing and editing for about eleven years, thrilled I found it, love the search options, the history search, everything. ### 5/5 — Karin *2023-02-09, version 13.1* I'm a writer. The Thesaurus is Roget's gift to all writers! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-02.*