Merriam vs Advanced Dictionary
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Merriam
Access America's leading dictionary with over 15,000 extra entries for people and places. Enjoy offline access, voice search, and daily vocabulary builders. This app offers expert word guidance with a thesaurus and example sentences.
- Ad-free experience
- 15,000+ premium entries
- Offline dictionary access
- Voice search functionality
- Daily Word of the Day
- Vocabulary-building word games
- Integrated thesaurus
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Get America's most useful and respected dictionary, optimized for your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Continuously updated with the newest words and meanings, this is the premier iOS app for English language reference, education, and vocabulary building. Key Features: * No ads! * Premium Content: Over 15,000 additional entries covering people and places * Offline access: Complete access to definitions and synonyms whether or not you're connected * Voice Search: look up a word without having to spell it * Word of the Day: learn a new word every day * Word Games: fun, fast quizzes to test your vocabulary * Favorite Words and Search History: keep track of the words that are most important to you * Favorite Word Syncing Through iCloud: share your favorites between devices and on the Web * For Tablets: browse the entire dictionary with a scrolling index * Apple Watch Extension: see the Word of the Day and find watch-sized definitions with voice search Expert Word Guidance: * Integrated Thesaurus: more than 200,000 word choices with examples of their use * Example Sentences: understand how a word is used in context * Audio Pronunciations: voiced by real English speakers, not text-to-speech robots Terms of Use: https://www.merriam-webster.com/terms-of-use
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 in-app purchases: Merriam at none against Advanced Dictionary's 1. Merriam also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (22K vs 25). Advanced Dictionary's advantage is review sentiment (91% vs 82%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On rating, update cadence 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
Merriam costs $9.99 and Advanced Dictionary $14.99 up front. Advanced Dictionary sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Merriam asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Merriam against 4.9 for Advanced Dictionary. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Merriam has 22K ratings behind it against 25, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 82% of Merriam's written reviews are positive against 91% of Advanced Dictionary's.
Merriam ships an update every 5 months, Advanced Dictionary every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Merriam | Advanced Dictionary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 — better | $14.99 |
| Rating | 4.8 (22K ratings) | 4.9 (25 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 82.0% of reviews | 90.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 22K — better | 25 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #13 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 238 MB | 379 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Merriam-Webster, Inc. | Nguyen Thi Hoai Thu |
Customer experience
Merriam
Advanced Dictionary
Bugs and requests
Merriam
Reported bugs
4 issues- App freezes and crashes on launch
- Audio pronunciations not working in some cases
- Inconsistent performance across iOS versions
- Syncing issues between devices
Requested features
5 requests- Improved search with spell-check and suggestions
- Ability to mark and review words
- Integration with system search and Siri
- Support for landscape mode and dark mode
- Expanded word coverage and more detailed definitions
Advanced Dictionary
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Merriam
No in-app purchases
Advanced Dictionary
- Offline and Remove Ads$8.99





