Oxford Dictionary Reviews
5/5 rating based on 504 reviews. Read all reviews for Oxford Dictionary for iPhone.
Oxford Dictionary is free iOS app published by MobiSystems, Inc.
Horrible “premium” feature
burgers5
This app only lets you search one word a day and makes you sign up for premium if you want to hear pronunciation. This is absolutely ridiculous because i can go to google and search as many definitions as I want for FREE, and get the pronunciation for FREE. The only difference with this app is that i don’t have to use the horrible safari app on my phone. This is the worst price gouging I have ever seen in my life. One word a day???? SERIOUSLY??? This is so stupid. I cannot believe they make you pay REAL MONEY for these things.
Service has significantly degraded
Q. Publius
I can’t even look up the word of the day’s origins. Can’t even get to etymology of a word w/o getting a screen asking me to upgrade. Thus the app is almost useless to me. If service doesn’t improve I’ll certainly not renew. Other dictionary apps are better on word origins and efficiency of reaching a word’s origins page. This app used to be much better.
Useful
albatross1380
Well organized, easy to use. Only issue is the definitions are not rigorous enough to deserve 5 stars.
Oxford Dictionary and I’m going to go premium. ?
gino112455
Awesome ?? . I’m a happy man . Praise God, Hallelujah. I’ve become a spelling bee. Hey, Mama started this along time ago.?
No landscape mode in ipad.
oxcat
Newest version has dropped landscape mode. Stupid and arbitrary, without consideration for how users work.
Good resource, awful design and business practices
Fibinock
I used this app most days before the most recent update overhauled the design and purchase model. I bought the full version, and it was excellent and absolutely worth it. Had I reviewed it at the time I would have given it 5 stars. The most recent update, and the hoops they make you jump through to redeem something you already purchased, are atrocious. The app would not allow me to redeem my previously-purchased membership the intended way, giving me the message that it was “purchased with another iTunes account,” when I was able to find my receipt through iTunes easily. I put in a support ticket on the app developer’s website and got no response after over a week. The only thing that worked was uninstalling and reinstalling the app, which completely wipes the words you’ve “favorited” over time. Luckily, I took screenshots because I suspected that might happen, and I was 100% correct in my assumption. I used this app for years going through college, and I favorited words I had never encountered before. Those words I saved over several years would have been completely lost to me had I not suspected it would do that. The free version as it is now is essentially worthless if you plan to use this app while reading anything with more complex language. You get one(!) word search a day in the free version, and the ads are both distracting and annoying. If you have the money to pay for the (in my opinion, quite expensive) subscription as it is now, it’s probably worth it. If you’re a student, see if your school has a subscription you can access for free. If you do not have the income, are not attending college, and are in need of a dictionary, get some other app or a physical dictionary. In a world where every service imaginable wants monthly charges from you, the trouble and gatekeeping of knowledge behind ludicrous amounts of money isn’t worth it.
Dictionary not working
ekbmu
Not working on my phone. Just endless beachball. This was my go to dictionary before it was upgraded last week. Now I’ll settle for MW.