Acronym Finder vs Abbreviations.com
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Acronym Finder
Access the world's largest verified database of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms. Quickly find meanings across various categories, even offline. Save and share your findings easily.
- 1 million+ verified acronyms
- Offline search functionality
- Category filtering
- Unlimited bookmarking
- Sharing capabilities
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Acronym Finder is the world's largest database of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms: 1 million+ acronyms and their meanings, all verified by our editorial team. Quickly find any acronym's meaning with our category filter: Medical Military Government Science Technology Business Texting and Slang and more WHAT YOU GET: * 1 million+ acronyms and their meanings, all verified by our editorial team. * Search offline anytime. No connection or additional downloads required. * Save an unlimited amount of acronyms in your bookmarks for easy reference. * Share acronyms and their meanings via social networks, email, and more. Praise for Acronym Finder "An exponentially expanding dictionary consulted by bureaucrats, translators, doctors, weapons designers and anyone else who needs help decrypting the wide world's daily output of acronyms." - The Wall Street Journal "An astounding array of explanations for things like HRT and NASP." - USA Today Powered by AcronymFinder.com: If you can't find it here, you won't find it anywhere.
Abbreviations.com
This app serves as a vast directory and search engine for acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms. It organizes hundreds of thousands of entries across diverse categories, constantly expanding its database.
- Extensive directory of acronyms
- Search engine for abbreviations
- Categorized entries
- Daily expansion of database
- Covers computing, web, government, medicine, business
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Abbreviations.com is the world's largest and most comprehensive directory and search engine for acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms on the Internet. Abbreviations.com holds hundreds of thousands of entries organized by a large variety of categories from computing and the Web to governmental, medicine and business and it is expanding daily.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Acronym Finder at 93% against Abbreviations.com's 33%. Acronym Finder also leads on rating (4.8 vs 1.8) and ratings volume (945 vs 5). Abbreviations.com's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On price and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Acronym Finder sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Abbreviations.com asks for nothing beyond the download.
Acronym Finder holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Acronym Finder has 945 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 93% of Acronym Finder's written reviews are positive against 33% of Abbreviations.com's.
| Parameter | Acronym Finder | Abbreviations.com |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (945 ratings) — better | 1.8 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 92.6% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 945 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Farlex, Inc. | STANDS4 LTD |
Customer experience
Acronym Finder
Abbreviations.com
Bugs and requests
Acronym Finder
Reported bugs
2 issues- App getting stuck on splash screen for some users
- Compatibility issues with newer iOS devices
Requested features
3 requests- Add ability to save custom acronyms
- Implement filtering and sorting options for acronyms
- Improve user interface and visual design
Abbreviations.com
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Acronym Finder
- Ad-free upgrade$4.99
Abbreviations.com
No in-app purchases
Questions
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