VOLP vs Houaiss.on
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
VOLP
This app provides a lexical search base for Portuguese vocabulary, including official spellings, foreign terms, and place names. It offers over 380,000 words with grammatical classes and supplementary information for accurate orthographic consultation.
- Lexical search base
- Official Portuguese spelling
- Foreign terms vocabulary
- Toponyms and gentilic vocabulary
- Over 380,000 words
- Grammatical classes
- Supplementary information
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Base de pesquisa lexical que abrange os termos vernáculos do Vocabulário Ortográfico da Língua Portuguesa (Volp), do Vocabulário de Estrangeirismos e do Vocabulário de Topônimos e Gentilicos. O Volp faz o registro atualizado das palavras da língua portuguesa em sua grafia oficial com especial atenção a sua vertente brasileira. São mais de 380 mil palavras para consulta ortográfica, com as respectivas classes gramaticais e informações suplementares precisas e breves.
Houaiss.on
Access the Houaiss dictionaries and automatically correct your texts on iOS devices. This educational tool helps improve writing accuracy and vocabulary.
- Access Houaiss dictionaries
- Automatic text correction
- Improve writing accuracy
- Vocabulary enhancement
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Consulte os dicionários Houaiss e corrija seus textos automaticamente no iOS
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: VOLP at every 2 weeks against Houaiss.on's every 5 months. Houaiss.on's advantage is rating (3.0 vs 2.8) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Houaiss.on holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 6 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 29% of VOLP's written reviews are positive against 26% of Houaiss.on's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
VOLP ships an update every 2 weeks, Houaiss.on every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and July 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | VOLP | Houaiss.on |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (5 ratings) | 3.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 29.3% of reviews — better | 26.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Academia Brasileira de Letras | Instituto Antônio Houaiss de Lexicografia |
Customer experience
VOLP
Houaiss.on
In-app purchases
VOLP
No in-app purchases
Houaiss.on
No in-app purchases
