# Word Lookup Pro — user reviews > 328 indexed App Store user reviews of Word Lookup Pro by Peter Hunt, rated 4.80/5 from 6,427 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/word-lookup-pro/id406150030/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/word-lookup-pro/id406150030.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 5,542 · 4★ 638 · 3★ 133 · 2★ 46 · 1★ 68 ## What do users think of Word Lookup Pro? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Excellent - 👍 Love it! - 👍 Maximize Crossword Fun! - 👍 Fantastic tool for logophiles - 👍 Great app - 👍 Incredible! - 👍 Levels the playing field! - 👍 Quick and easy - 👍 Wonderful Words!!!! - 👍 Encourages me to keeping striving for the answer - 👍 Excellent game - 👍 Superb app - 👍 Handy - 👍 Great resource - 👍 Fantastic! - 👍 Love this game! - 👍 Excellent! - 👍 Great help - 👍 Brilliant - 👍 Excellent app - 👍 Helpful and quick - 👍 Reliable app - 👍 Saved me! - 👍 Terrific and fun! - 👍 Awesome - 👍 Super Word App - 👍 Awesome - 👍 A Scrabble 'Must Have' **Cons** - 🐛 Constant freezing - 🐛 Blocked words - 🐛 Incomplete word lists - 🐛 Unacceptable words - 🐛 Too many inconsistency in acceptable words - 🐛 Missing a lot of words - 🐛 Misses words - 🐛 Not liking the highlighted buttons - 🐛 Except for all the time-consuming interruptions! - 🐛 Ioo - 🐛 We - 🐛 It quit working - 🐛 Left side cut off on iPad - 🐛 This was a useful app but now it's useless. - 🐛 Needs better instructions - 🐛 Crashing problems - 🐛 Screen problem. - 🐛 Problems on iOS that I can't fix **Commonly reported bugs** - Login screen freezes - Incompatible with older devices - Words that are not excepted by the game - The keyboard appears and disappears when it likes, not when I want it - The screen shifts to the left so that about half of each word is visible **Most requested features** - More on positions and more that two blanks - Pronunciation and a way to say words ending in ( up or u) in certain letters - Increase the anagram length to 12 or 13 - Dark mode option - Advanced analytics dashboard ## Newest reviews (18 of 328) ### 5/5 — Perfect! *2026-05-16, version 2026.1* Like the simplicity of app ### 5/5 — Learning new words… *2026-04-30, version 2026.1* This app has introduced me to new words I don’t use in everyday conversation, which is interesting and informative. Plus, it helps me win at word games. ### 5/5 — Great App *2026-04-24, version 2026.1* I have always enjoyed this app ### 5/5 — Great app *2026-04-16, version 2026.1* I use these daily to decipher obtuse wordage in many puzzles. I cannot recommend it highly enough. I seldom give five stars in any review but here is one of the very few. ### 5/5 — Super little app *2026-04-16, version 2026.1* Great for cryptic crosswords! ### 5/5 — Maximize Crossword Fun! *2026-04-12, version 2026.1* After traditional Scrabble was destroyed by Hasbro, I despaired. Word Master is so much better in every way! I’ve played 1000s of boards against the computer to keep my mind engaged during times like waiting for an appointment. Get it. Enjoy! ### 5/5 — Constant freezing *2026-04-08, version 2026.1* Great game keeps my 78 year old brain active ### 5/5 — Excellent help!! *2026-04-02, version 2026.1* Have used this site for years and have always found it to be the best. Would recommend. ### 5/5 — Great! *2026-03-28, version 2026.1* I love playing many different word games and use the app all the time, Not only for Words with Friends. ### 4/5 — Fun game mostly *2026-03-11, version 2024.3* My disappointment is the cost of the ‘extras’ I paid out money for years until I could no longer afford to. Then in your wisdom you introduced extra restrictions to gaining free offers to swap letters. Disappointed to say the least. ### 4/5 — Fantastic but Needs update *2026-03-06, version 2024.3* No update since 2024. Please update the word list. Example missing word: vivre ### 5/5 — Crazy good *2026-02-09, version 2024.3* Such a clean interface with word finding help. Increasing my knowledge as well as helping me visualize more possibilities. Love that it has a dictionary to increase my vocabulary. Thanks for a great tool. ### 5/5 — So Helpful! *2026-02-06, version 2024.3* I have learned so many new words and it has definitely improved my scores. ### 5/5 — Anita Lorraine *2026-01-03, version 2024.3* Use this app a be lot never let me down ### 5/5 — Very helpful *2026-01-01, version 2024.3* It makes my mind work in different ways and I’ve learned a lot of new words. ### 5/5 — Work okay *2025-12-31, version 2024.3* 👍 yes ### 5/5 — Shouty-Shouty *2025-12-30, version 2024.3* My best mate... Superb, 1st class. ### 5/5 — Vv *2025-12-12, version 2024.3* Trrrific! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Awful *2026-03-31, version 2026.1* Go back to the old format ### 1/5 — VLL *2026-03-11, version 2024.3* Changed point system and very hard to earn points and then capped it at 1500. Let us play the game and earn the points we deserve. ### 1/5 — Ioo *2025-06-06, version 2024.3* Ok ok l Z I’ll lo” l Mo ### 1/5 — It quit working *2023-06-14, version 2023.3* Used to be great but even though I updated it no longer works ### 1/5 — Left side cut off on iPad *2023-02-06, version 2022.2* Not working properly ### 1/5 — This was a useful app but now it’s useless. *2022-11-14, version 2022.2* This app is hopeless. It used to be very useful but since an update a few months ago, it no longer works. A total waste of money now. ### 1/5 — Screen problem. *2021-11-29, version 2021.3* In the past few weeks the screen keeps widening in as much as the magnifying glass symbol in the header disappears too far to the left and the anagrams are no longer visible. Can this be rectified and if so how please. ### 1/5 — WWF 2 *2021-10-11, version 2021.3* Very, very unhappy with the way I lost my original game by trying to access rewards owed to me, then began a new version WWF2 only to be bombarded by ads and not able to access any of my original friends ### 1/5 — Jan @ Maraylya *2021-06-07, version 2021.1* This is a ripoff - I was encouraged to upgrade and did so in good faith. Now I type in a word and get no response! I want my money back please! ### 1/5 — Needs an update *2019-03-30, version 4.8.1* Words with friends has combined UK English and US English so now there is a poor correlation between what is allowed on the board and what Word Lookup Pro suggests. PLEASE UPDATE! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great mind exercise *2026-08-15, version 2026.1* I love this game! ### 5/5 — So Helpful! *2026-08-15, version 2026.1* I have learned so many new words and it has definitely improved my scores. ### 5/5 — Great tool! *2026-08-02, version 2026.1* Super for anagrams and playing scrabble and doing crosswords. It also gives word meanings. It’s a great app. I paid for the Pro version which wasn’t very expensive and it was well worth the cost. ### 5/5 — Very Useful Tool *2026-07-24, version 2026.1* Perfect app, easy to use. Just wish you could use 3 blanks. ### 5/5 — Very helpful *2026-07-17, version 2026.1* I appreciate the suggestions and guidance. ### 5/5 — Words *2026-06-22, version 2026.1* The one problem is the number of foreign words used by words. It’s data base is endless so how can you compete evenly when playing words itself. ### 5/5 — Don't Leave (Or Stay) Home Without It. *2026-06-04, version 2026.1* Without a doubt, this is the best word-game dictionary available. It's actually far more than a dictionary; it's a nimble, lightning-fast, multi-featured, web-scouring, extraordinarily perspicacious word-finding wizard - like your brain, only 500-billion-times faster. You may have some ethical compunctions about using this app because it CAN be used to cheat (which I do not advocate or recommend) but it can also be used in a perfectly acceptable manner, both while playing a game and between games. Check out the word lists in this app, like 2-letter words, 3-letter words (etc), words without vowels, words containing Q w/o U, and many more. Study them to increase your vocabulary and become a better player. (Cheating won’t grow your brain at all; learning new words will.) Check out the anagram feature and learn to unscramble words that could be hiding in your letter rack. Don’t do this while you’re playing a game, which would be cheating, but do it to exercise and challenge your brain to learn new skills you can employ while playing a game. Enter a string of random letters and see just how many words can be made from them. [You could also start playing Boggle, although Boggle won’t teach you new words, like (for example) the names of foreign currencies, coins and bills, and those come in very handy when you’re playing word games. Still Boggle will give you practice unscrambling words.] This app is indispensable for anyone interested in playing well, playing smart, and scoring big, but it's also a fascinating app for discovering little surprises, sparkling gems of meaning and sound from the language in which we blithely declare ourselves fluent. Many, many of the words in word game lists will not show up in Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary app, so if you’re looking for definitions, you can either search online or open this app. This dictionary - or word lookup - attempts to give as much documentation as possible to legitimize the inclusion of each word in its collection. I must say it has opened my eyes to the considerable breadth of English usage across time and national boundaries, as word games now seem to allow any English words, including slang, that appear in publication – whether by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, by Zadie Smith, J.K. Rowling, Stephen King, those used by bloggers, rap artists, lyricists, or in the flood of so-called “street novels” - as well as words in colloquial and/or formal usage not just throughout the UK and America, but everywhere that the political or cultural influence of those nations has reached. An extensive territory indeed. If I were to be critical of anything, it would be of these four things: 1.) (My #1 pet peeve) After a word’s definition, this app gives a series of usage examples, but often NONE of those examples actually uses the word they are supposed to be clarifying! They use a synonym instead. For example, for clarification on how to use the word “allot,” this app will use something like “The coach said we each get two jerseys.” “Mr Daniels said we are allowed 20 minutes to complete each task.” “The government budgeted two million dollars for the project.” How does that explain to anyone how to use the word “allot”? [Learning English as a second language? This won’t help!] It’s completely baffling! It should go without saying that all sample sentences clarifying how to use a given word should actually INCLUDE that word! If further clarification were ever needed, a synonym could appear inside [brackets] or (parentheses.) But this app doesn’t even indicate where or how the given word could be substituted for the synonymous words or phrases in their sample sentences. 2.) One can still come across words for which "no definition is available." That's really not good. Sometimes it’s just a plural form of a word that IS listed (with definition) but you wouldn’t know this unless you a) know Latin, or b) searched the internet. 3.) Simple pronunciation guides would be really helpful. 4.) Finally, I would note that the developers have more work to do in general to clarify some of their extensive efforts at documentation, as not all of it is clear. In particular, after the definition of a word, a list of links to synonyms is often given. It is not uncommon, however, for there to be no obvious connection between the original word and the link. Often that’s because the link is a synonym for a different definition of the word, which does not appear in the app, so to make sense of the link, you’d have to search a real dictionary. It may seem a formidable task, but all the definitions of a word really should be listed in the app, at least all those for which you provide a linked synonym. Check out, for example, at the word "scot." Still, this app has come a looong way since I started using it. The improvements are impressive. I have no reservations about giving this app 5 stars. If you use it a lot, as I do, it's definitely worth it to upgrade to the ad-free version. You get a LOT for your money with this app. ### 5/5 — Use it Every Day *2026-05-27, version 2026.1* This app is great for helping me with puzzles I do every day. And it works offline! Super useful app! ### 5/5 — Rare *2026-05-23, version 2026.1* Five star ### 5/5 — Quick to use ! *2026-05-20, version 2026.1* Not yet used the updated version ..... Can’t fault the earlier version .... very useful . --- *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 2026-08-26.*