FINALLY—a *native* app! But… – Power Thesaurus Review

The single BEST thesaurus (at least, for when synonym breadth and diversity are valued over accuracy and precision of fit) is *FINALLY* available as a native app! However, a concurrent (and, frankly, not necessarily unwise) simplification of the UI removed a substantial amount of functionality from the historically feature-rich app, rendering in the process the app-based thesaurus significantly hobbled relative to its web counterpart in ways that, unfortunately, have resulted in a profound reduction in usability of the app’s core function: finding the right synonym for a word. See, due to the fundamental design philosophy of the *crowd-sourced* thesaurus—opting to increase the sheer volume and variety of synonyms at the expense of how tightly they hew to the meaning, sense, and context of the seed word—the ability to winnow the resulting synonym list by various criteria was crucial to effective use of the thesaurus. And that’s exactly the functionality that’s apparently been removed: the capability to sort, search through, or filter (by anything other than part of speech) synonym results. I hope that a restoration of these features—preferably alongside a thoughtful redesign of the otherwise crowded UI still evident in the web app—is on the immediate agenda. I’d happily pay up to $4.99 for an In-App Purchase to permanently remove ads and enable these and other “advanced” features—though, frankly, as already mentioned, these missing features are rather integral to the basic use of the app, so perhaps they *shouldn’t* be paywalled behind an IAP. (Might I suggest instead wildcard/Boolean search and/or result filtration as an advanced feature worth paying for and a natural focal point for a premium-tier IAP upgrade?) Anyway, thanks for an otherwise great—if exceptionally overdue—*NATIVE* Power Thesaurus iOS app!
Review by Belonky on Power Thesaurus.