Ultralingua Portuguese User Reviews

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Muito bom!

Recomendo o uso, inclusive por dispor de tempos verbais associados aos verbos pesquisados.

UL PT-EN

I regret buying this.Thirty percent of the words I look up are not in this dictionary.Find something better.Useless

UL PT-EN

I regret buying this.Thirty percent of the words I look up are not in this dictionary.Find something better.

UL PT-EN

I regret buying this.Thirty percent of the words I look up are not in this dictionary.Find something better.

Brazilian pronunciation

It is disappointing to say the least to discover that the speak function uses Brazilian pronunciation. This should be clearly stated as sone if us are learning European Portuguese.

Quick, local (offline), easy, reliable

I have been using this app for around ten years (first bought on an old iPod touch). I bought it then because I needed something that didn’t require internet when I was in remote parts of Brazil. It has always been fast, thorough and reliable. The conjugation tools are a treasure. A big thank you to the developers for creating this, it has been a great investment for me.
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Not Brazilian Portuguese

The fact that the 200 million speakers of Brazilian Portuguese far outnumber speakers of other variants of Portuguese has escaped the producers of this app. This app is of little help to those interested in Brazilian Portuguese, particularly the "verbs" section. Tu (you) is seldom used in Brazil, yet the equivalent "você" is missing (verb tenses are not the same for both). At least specify that this is oriented toward Portuguese of Portugal so potential buyers can make an informed choice.
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Portuguese-English translator

Not very useful with Brazilian Portuguese. I find it in general very basic.

Lacks lots of vocabulary

let me start off by saying I had bought the Ultralingua spanish-english dictionary app, and loved it.

unfortunately, the same can't be exactly said for this portuguese-english dictionary.

this dictionary is simply missing a fair amount of vocab, including some verbs?? how can that be? I was expecting the same quality i got from the span-eng, and its just not there with this one. They need to add a lot more vocab and usages from Brazil, by far the biggest and most influential country for Portuguese.

The equivalent would be not including words colloquial to the United states and Canada in an english dictionary (for ex omitting words like 'dude', , buddy, and only putting in Friend, guy).

the software itself is good, they just need to add way more vocabulary from Brazil. If they update the amount of words from Brazil in the dictionary i would bump this up to fivestars because it is good software, just lacks vocab.
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Excellent dictionary

I particularly like being able to enter part of a verb & so get to the root. Then all the tenses are there fully conjugated.

Terrible waste.

Don't like it at all. Very limited. Hardly enough words. Mainly hate it because definitions are so skimpy. Want my money back.

Muito bom, mas...

O dicionário e funcionalidades são muito bons, porém o aplicativo me decepcionou quando deixou os ícones dos dicionários EN, ES e FR iguais!! Confunde muito na hora de consultar. Preferia o ícones que identificava o dicionário pela bandeira do país.

Waste of good money

I had the Collins Portuguese-English dictionary and thought it missed words sometimes, so I bought this on the recommendation of one Kit Eaton in the New York Times. I'll give her a piece of my mind also. This dictionary lacks many very basic words and mistranslates others. Today I found an entry duplicated. Is no one proofreading? I'm going back to Collins and will attempt to get my money back from the iTunes store, good luck with that.
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Good but not great

I got this before a recent trip to Brazil, and I was disappointed in how many times I tried to translate a word and didn't find it in the dictionary. I also was disappointed it didn't have the gender of the word (masculine or feminine) - at least that I could find.
On the other hand, it does a great job with all the verb conjugations - that part works really well. And it is nice that it's a complete package - you can use it without having to have any connection (wi-fi or otherwise) to the phone.
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Latest update has ruined what was a perfect app

Just as the title suggests. App was really good up until the latest update. The app is no longer cohesive, difficult to navigate round and is less user friendly.

Next update should give users the choice to revert back to the precious format of the app. Until then, I'm only rating this app 1 star

I wish all apps were this good

Shortly after buying my iPhone two years ago I bought the Ultralingua Portuguese-English dictionary app for it. Although I was hesitant given the price, it turned out to be a well-spent $20. The dictionary quality itself is as good as a medium to large-sized dictionary (not as good as the two-volume reference dictionary I have), but the UI is what makes it worth it -- making it easy to switch between definitions and verb conjugations -- everything is linked the way you want it to be. And they have made regular updates to the app as needed. When I bought my iPad, I was very pleased that they turned their dictionaries into "universal" apps so it had a special UI for the iPad without requiring a separate purchase. I can't recommend this app enough.
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Better functionality, homely look

First impressions weren't good - the Edwardian style font seems like a step backwards from the last version's crisp design. However, improvements in functionality outweigh this gripe. Typing in a verb in any tense will now show the infinitive root, and the verb declensions can be viewed as a list of tenses - new on the iPhone. In addition, the number converter is now an integral part of the main dictionary - just key in directly in the search bar.
This upgrade is a case of function beating form - hands down.
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Happy

I'm so pleased with the new updates now I think this application is worth the price !

Why oh why?

Quite shocked by the new look, thought it was a complete new app at first. It seems dumbed down compared to the last version. Really don't understand why the changes have been made.

Regrediu

Com atualização ficou muito ruim. Deviam voltar ao original