Comparison

Acronym Finder vs Abbreviations.com

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 1 million+ verified acronyms
  • Offline search functionality
  • Category filtering
  • Unlimited bookmarking
  • Sharing capabilities
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Extensive directory of acronyms
  • Search engine for abbreviations
  • Categorized entries
  • Daily expansion of database
  • Covers computing, web, government, medicine, business
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Acronym Finder4 screens
Abbreviations.com4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Acronym Finder sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Abbreviations.com asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Acronym Finder versus Abbreviations.com: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAcronym FinderAbbreviations.com
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (945 ratings) — better1.8 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews92.6% of reviews — better33.3% of reviews
Number of ratings945 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 10 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.09.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB16 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperFarlex, Inc.STANDS4 LTD

Customer experience

Acronym Finder

All ratings919 ratings
Positive97.5%
Neutral1.1%
Negative1.4%
Written reviews94 reviews
Positive92.6%
Neutral3.2%
Negative4.3%

Abbreviations.com

All ratings5 ratings
Positive20.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative80.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%

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

1 purchases

Acronym Finder

One-time1
  • Ad-free upgrade$4.99
None

Abbreviations.com

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Acronym Finder free?
Acronym Finder is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Abbreviations.com free?
Abbreviations.com is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Acronym Finder or Abbreviations.com?
Acronym Finder is rated higher. Acronym Finder averages 4.8 out of 5 from 945 ratings, while Abbreviations.com averages 1.8 from 5 ratings.
Do Acronym Finder or Abbreviations.com have ads?
Acronym Finder shows ads; Abbreviations.com does not.

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