The Ads are intrusive & annoying, plus to remove the Ads you have to pay $1,99 USD a year, which I find to be ridiculous. Talk about GREEDY!!! LOL! There are only 3 word games & the light mode is the only unlocked mode! Plus, this App takes up a lot of space on my phone! There are a lot of other dictionaries & thesaurus's that are free & you don't need internet access to use them! I don't recommend this App, unless you want to watch a lot of intrusive Ads, & waste space & money!!!
Britt Ewen
I have long subscribed to this app as I think their $6 annual fee is reasonable. However the app appears to be getting worse in each update. Searches take longer and longer, and if you have a poor connection never return at all. If you are completely offline they usually come back faster. Please fix this or I will be back on the hunt for a better dictionary.
Patrick Reilly
The app often starts searching after only 3 letters of a word are typed. For example, when searching "example" after typing in the first 3 letters, exa, the app will search for that. You then have to retype the word you are looking for. Not a huge deal, but it's quicker to just Google the word. Additionally, the word of the day is almost always some common word that everyone knows. It does not provide any incentive to use the app. The app is also not comprehensive so it makes me atrabilious.
Liam Bohl
Hard to navigate and lacking etymologies. Using this app, I was constantly annoyed by two navigation issues: every word in a definition is secretly a link, and going back takes you to the dictionary home page. So I would frequently tap a word in a definition by mistake, see an ad followed by the misclicked word's definition, try to go back, and finally just search the original word again. I'm now a happy paying user of the Oxford dictionary app
S. Perkins
12/21/2021 Negative Update: When I try to press the sound button for pronunciation there's about a 25 second delay in sound. This has never happened. It must have occurred after the most recent update ("self-update"). Definitely 2/5 stars until they fix the lag. 06-2020 My go-to dictionary when using my phone. Not only do I use it to search definitions but it's very valuable when becoming familiar with proper pronunciation. 4/5 stars (-1 star due to ads, but still useful).
Mohammad H. Shokuhi (Elwë)
There are couple of dictionary apps of big names on Play Store but most of them are badly written or the ads are so annoying you can't easily read the things you want. This app is different though, nicely written, interestingly has far more archaic words (lots of words i couldn't find on Oxford app for example) and so far almost never disappointed me. I really like the extra stuff like word of the day, the game, etymological information (personally I love them more than the meaning xD)
Keeshlon
When I tried changing my password, the new password didn't work! The app was good, but I've uninstalled due to being unable to reset my password. After further research, I see that the price went up by $1, which is fine. I may reinstall the app and pay the annual fee IF my password is accepted and the app lets me in. Will up to 5 stars if things go well.
A Google user
This app is pretty good. Ironically or not, it's better to run it without data/Wi-Fi because the dictionary entries load much faster that way. I love that this works offline, but it's annoying that I have to turn off the internet to get it to load entries in a reasonable amount of time. I wish that the entries gave more detailed etymology information. I like that I can save words, although I haven't reviewed them yet to verify the saving works.
Dillon Gibson
Maybe if you subscribe to the paid version it'll be better. Free is terrible, just go use the web-browser version. Ads pop up whenever I search a word, and clicking the audio playback for listening to pronunciations also does not work. (It spits back an error saying "network connection required," which is just the cherry-on-top because like; how do you think you are looking up ads and finding me these words without a network connection anyways?)
A Google user
I've had this app for about five years now. When I first got the app, the ads were unobtrusive, and it loaded searches very quickly. It's been steadily downhill ever since. Ads now pop up and cover the whole screen, and it takes significantly longer to load definitions and searches, especially compared to how it used to be near-instantaneous. Very disappointing.
