English Usage Dictionary vs Advanced Dictionary
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
English Usage Dictionary
This reference app provides comprehensive guidance on English usage, covering grammar, syntax, style, and word choice. It offers practical advice with extensive examples and quotations from renowned authors, supporting both British and American English variations.
- Grammar, syntax, style, and word choice advice
- British and American English coverage
- Usage examples and author quotations
- User-defined entry groups
- Search and bookmark entries
- Daily learning feature
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The English Usage Dictionary is the guide to English usage, loved and used by writers of all kinds. The dictionary gives comprehensive and practical advice on grammar, syntax, style, and choice of words. It gives in-depth coverage of both British and American English with reference to the English of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa. The dictionary includes wide-ranging examples of usage from a broad selection of newspapers, journals, and books from across the globe, and features illustrative quotations from authors such as Agatha Christie, Chinua Achebe, Iris Murdoch, Harold Pinter, and Noel Coward. ● User-defined group - Create group and add entries into a group ● Study tools: - Search an entry - Bookmark an entry - Learn 5 entries daily - Built-in dictionary - Featured entries
Advanced Dictionary
Enhance your English with a comprehensive vocabulary and grammar resource. Access over 150,000 examples, learn key word lists, and improve pronunciation with British and American English audio. Write and speak more fluently with integrated thesaurus and collocation tools.
- Complete vocabulary and grammar resource
- 150,000+ corpus-based examples
- Communication 9000 and top word lists
- British and American English pronunciation
- Integrated Thesaurus and Collocations Dictionary
- Offline access after initial setup
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Advanced Dictionary LDOCE 6th is the best Dictionary free app with complete vocabulary and grammar resource that will enhance your learning of English. ● Support for iPhone, iPod and iPad. ● Require iOS 13.0 above - Improve your English with the full content of the dictionary at your fingertips, with integrated Grammar, Thesaurus, and Collocations Dictionary. - Over 150,000 corpus-based examples of natural English show words in context and how English is really used. - The Communication 9000 – helps you learn them first. - Top 3000 spoken words. - Top 3000 written words. ● Write and speak fluently - Learn word combinations to use the correct words together. - Helps you improve your writing by using more precise and high level words. ● Improve your grammar - Avoid making common mistakes and get extra help with grammar patterns and using the correct tenses. ● Improve your pronunciation - All headwords pronounced in both British and American English Main Features: ● Support full content of word. ● Search engine very fast and suggested words ● Write your note on the word ● Creat new group for words ● Speech in search helps you with spelling as you look for words ● History to help you find recently viewed for words ● Bookmark your favorite words ● Word-of-the-Day update everyday ● Easy to use and easy to understand ● Can use offline after remove ads and has loaded content before.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Advanced Dictionary at 91% against English Usage Dictionary's 0%. Advanced Dictionary also leads on rating (4.9 vs 1.0) and update cadence (every 6 months vs every 39 months). English Usage Dictionary's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $14.99) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On monetization model 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
English Usage Dictionary costs $0.99 and Advanced Dictionary $14.99 up front. Advanced Dictionary sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. English Usage Dictionary asks for nothing beyond the download.
Advanced Dictionary holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Advanced Dictionary has 25 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of English Usage Dictionary's written reviews are positive against 91% of Advanced Dictionary's.
English Usage Dictionary ships an update every 39 months, Advanced Dictionary every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | English Usage Dictionary | Advanced Dictionary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $14.99 |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 4.9 (25 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 90.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 25 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 39 months | Every 6 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #193 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 86 MB | 379 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Trung Nguyen | Nguyen Thi Hoai Thu |
Customer experience
English Usage Dictionary
Advanced Dictionary
In-app purchases
English Usage Dictionary
No in-app purchases
Advanced Dictionary
- Offline and Remove Ads$8.99
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