local.ch vs dict.cc Dictionary
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
local.ch
Discover over 500,000 Swiss businesses, book restaurant tables, and schedule appointments online. Find contact details, locations, and even block spam calls.
- Find Swiss businesses and contact details
- Book restaurant tables online
- Schedule appointments with service providers
- Search for locations and addresses
- Caller ID and spam call blocking
- Filter by restaurant categories
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On local.ch, you will find over 500,000 businesses from every kind of sector, with all the contact details you need. You can also book tables and make appointments quickly and easily online. Are you looking for an available table on a specific day? And would you like to make the reservation immediately? • With a single search, you can find every restaurant with available tables on the desired date, at the desired time and in the desired location, and then book the table immediately online. • Vegan, family-friendly, with a terrace or wheelchair-accessible? Thanks to the broad range of categories, you can find the right restaurant and make a reservation quickly and easily. • Over 9,000 restaurants throughout Switzerland can be reserved directly online with the click of a mouse. Looking to book an appointment online with no hassle? • Book your appointment online quickly and easily – for example at hairdressers, garages, beauty institutes, physiotherapists and countless other services and businesses. • You can also make bookings outside of opening hours or around the clock if you so wish. • Providers in almost every kind of sector can be booked directly online with the click of a mouse. • The categories range from "Food, Dining & Gastronomy" to "Medicine, Aesthetics & Wellness" to "Crafts, Construction & Industry", "Leisure, Education & Sport", "Living, Home & Environment" and "Security, Business & IT”. Looking for something specific in your area? • Find useful locations in your area such as ATMs, petrol stations, car parks, public toilets or hotspots, including map listings. Are you looking for a telephone number or do you want to block irritating spam calls? • Find telephone numbers and addresses of private individuals and companies in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, including map listings. • Thanks to caller ID, you will always know who has contacted you, even if the number is not in your address book. • If desired, the app can also automatically block known and verified advertising callers. In line with the requirements of today’s users, local.ch has evolved from a digital phone directory to become the largest Swiss booking platform, with over 500,000 business profiles. And you can still search for home addresses and telephone numbers using the search field.
dict.cc Dictionary
This app provides translations for 53 language combinations, functioning as an offline dictionary. Downloadable vocabularies are updated daily, and users can suggest new translations. An ad-free version with extra features is available via a free trial.
- Offline dictionary functionality
- 53 language combinations
- Bidirectional translations
- Daily vocabulary updates
- User-suggested translations
- Ad-free version with extra features
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Dictionary for 53 language combinations, usable with or without an internet connection (offline dictionary). Vocabularies can be downloaded and updated within the app for free. German-English dictionary: more than 1 million translations All dictionaries are bidirectional, so German-English doubles as English-German. Just type in your keyword in either language. The following languages are available in combination with German and English: Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Finnish, French, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian New translations and corrections can be suggested at http://contribute.dict.cc/. Every translation gets checked by several other contributing users. The downloadable vocabularies are updated daily. This version shows ads, but you can unlock the ad-free version with additional features, such as "Recent Searches", Quiz Game" and "Vocabulary Trainer" within the app. Try it for free for one week! URL scheme information: http://www.dict.cc/iphone.php
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: local.ch at none against dict.cc Dictionary's 1. local.ch also leads on review sentiment (92% vs 84%) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). dict.cc Dictionary's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 weeks) and ratings volume (134 vs 16). On price, rating, ads and monetization model 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. dict.cc Dictionary sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. local.ch asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for local.ch against 4.5 for dict.cc Dictionary. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: dict.cc Dictionary has 134 ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 92% of local.ch's written reviews are positive against 84% of dict.cc Dictionary's.
local.ch ships an update every 6 weeks, dict.cc Dictionary every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | local.ch | dict.cc Dictionary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (16 ratings) | 4.5 (134 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 92.3% of reviews — better | 83.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 16 | 134 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Swisscom Directories AG | dict.cc GmbH |
Customer experience
local.ch
dict.cc Dictionary
Bugs and requests
local.ch
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
dict.cc Dictionary
Reported bugs
3 issues- App crashes on older iOS devices
- Keyboard doesn't show up in some cases
- Dictionary downloads sometimes fail
Requested features
4 requests- Add search history and ability to save words
- Improve verb conjugation and noun gender display
- Implement landscape mode
- Introduce a word-of-the-day feature
In-app purchases
local.ch
No in-app purchases
dict.cc Dictionary
- Plus Pack for 1 Year$3.99








