Flash Dictionary vs PTE WFD
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Flash Dictionary
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Flash Dictionary turns the world around you into a vocabulary notebook — whether you're picking up a new language or pushing into advanced words and phrases in one you already speak. Point your camera at a menu, a book, or a street sign — Flash Dictionary reads the words on it, looks up what they mean, and tucks them into a notebook you can come back to. Voice and typing work too, for the moments you don't have a photo. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Capture from photos. Snap a picture of any text and the app extracts the words worth learning, in the language you're studying. • Speak it in. Voice dictation lets you save a word hands-free, in 30+ language locales. • Hear it spoken. Every saved word gets a native-quality voice playback, with adjustable speed for tricky pronunciations. • Lean on AI. Meanings, example sentences, and part-of-speech are filled in automatically, so you spend your time learning, not looking things up. • Organise by language. Keep one notebook for Spanish, another for French — switch tabs with a tap, search across either. HOW IT WORKS 1. Sign in with Apple or Google. 2. Pick your native language and the languages you're learning. 3. Add a word by photo, voice, or typing — it syncs to your account and is ready next time you open the app. BUILT FOR 30 LANGUAGES Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Russian, Turkish, Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, Persian, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Thai, Polish, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Czech, Romanian, Greek, Hebrew, Ukrainian, and English. WHY IT'S DIFFERENT • Works whether you're starting from scratch or already fluent — capture your first hundred words, or your next thousand advanced ones. • Built for the way people actually pick up vocabulary: in the wild, from real things you see and hear. • No drills, no streaks, no shame. The notebook is yours; revisit when you want. • Sentence-case spelling preserved consistently so your list always looks clean. • Free. No ads. No in-app purchases. PRIVACY Words you save and notes you write belong to you. They are stored against your account so they travel with you across devices. We don't sell or share your data, and we don't use your email for marketing. Sign in with Apple is supported. A pocket-sized, AI-assisted way to keep every word you pick up — from anywhere.
PTE WFD
Practice writing from dictation for standardized English tests. This app offers offline listening exercises with word-by-word scoring to identify errors. It includes spaced review, an offline dictionary, and focused listening modes.
- 283 deduplicated WFD sentences
- Word-by-word scoring
- Spaced review system
- Offline dictionary with phonetics
- Focused listening mode
- No account or ads required
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Every PTE Academic and PTE Core test has 3-4 Write From Dictation items, and each one scores toward your Listening AND your Writing band. It is scored word by word. This app drills 384 deduplicated WFD sentences one at a time and marks you word by word, in order, so you can see exactly which words you dropped. Learning content works fully offline — questions and audio ship inside the app. No account or ads. Optional anonymous product-interaction analytics use Apple CloudKit only after your consent. First 30 sentences free. SENTENCE-BY-SENTENCE DICTATION • 384 deduplicated WFD sentences built in • English and Chinese audio ship with the app — nothing to download • Scored word by word, in order, with every dropped word marked in place • Progress saves automatically; star the sentences you keep missing • Hide the English and the translation together for true blind dictation SPACED REVIEW • Learned sentences return after 1, 2, 4, 7, 15, 30 and 60 days • A badge on the Review tab shows today's remaining count, with days changing at 4:00 am Beijing time • Missing words, low scores and revealed prompts stay in today's queue until written correctly OFFLINE DICTIONARY AND WORD LIST • Tap any English word in a sentence for phonetics, meanings, phrases, derivatives, word roots, synonyms and antonyms • Unlimited lookups; free users can save up to 30 words • Review saved words one by one and retire them once learned — your history is always kept WFD FM • A focused listening mode built around the English sentence and its translation • Play across all sentences, only the ones you have studied, or only your starred ones • Sequential, shuffle and single-sentence repeat • Turn on Chinese playback to hear each sentence in English then Chinese • Speed control, background playback and lock-screen controls QUIET, FOCUSED, OFFLINE LEARNING • No account required • No personally identifiable data collected, no third-party analytics SDK, and no cross-app tracking • Optional anonymous product analytics can be declined or turned off at any time without affecting learning • No ads • Unlock the full question bank, WFD FM and unlimited saved words with a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time purchase • All questions and audio stay on your device This is an independent study tool. It is not affiliated with, authorised by, or endorsed by Pearson or PTE. Terms of Use (standard Apple EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Flash Dictionary at none against PTE WFD's 3. Flash Dictionary also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). PTE WFD's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks). On price and ads 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. PTE WFD sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Flash Dictionary asks for nothing beyond the download.
Flash Dictionary ships an update every 3 weeks, PTE WFD every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Flash Dictionary | PTE WFD |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Neslihan Ilgenci | 久旸 李 |
In-app purchases
Flash Dictionary
No in-app purchases
PTE WFD
- WFD FM 月度会员$0.991 Month
- WFD FM 年度会员$7.991 Year
- WFD FM 永久会员$14.99









