Dicty vs AiDurendal

Dicty is a viewer application for dictionaries in StarDict format. Thanks to Dicty, thousands of free dictionaries become available for use with your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad ¹. Features: * StarDict format support (plain text, html, xdxf). * Fast search over all dictionaries while typing. * Contextual word lookup. Tap and hold on a word in the text to lookup it in all dictionaries. * Special "Dark" color scheme. Makes the text easier to read in the dark and saves your eyes. * Clipboard support. Allows to copy last translated word to clipboard. * Portrait and Landscape viewing modes. * iTunes File Sharing support. * Share extension. Allows to translate selected words from other apps. ¹ No dictionaries are provided with the application. You can find them on the Internet free of charge and download inside the application or copy using iTunes.

AiDurendal is a software to consult a AiDurendal dictionary. This type of dictionary is composed with the page images of the original dictionary and every page image is linked with the first headword of the page. With this simple system, AiDurendal searches the page image which must contain the word you input. For exemple If the first headword of the first page is "A" et that of the second page is "abandon", "abaisser" must be found a the first page, as long as the word exists in the dictionary. Be careful, to use AiDurendal, you have to download dictionaries at http://www.eonet.ne.jp/~ogurisu/AiSeries.html Unfortunately all the dictionaries which are available on this page concern Old French or Old Occitan. But you can make by youself an AiDurendal dictionary. AiDurendal dictionary contains only page images and two plain text files. If you examine carefully them, you can easily understand the structure of the AiDurendal dictionary. To do so, we recommend you to download GdfLex.