Ultralingua German-English App Reviews

I use this app daily, I love it! I just moved to Germany and it comes in very handy! Would be nice if umlauts and ezsetts were added to the keyboard though! I highly suggest this app for daily life! The phrases and sentances when you look up a word help refrence the word which is the best way to learn!

$19.99 and my ability to use the conjugation feature is virtually non-existent. I want a refund!

I should have read the other reviewer saying there is no pronunciation. Seriously, I would have never dropped 20 bucks for a dictionary that doesnt have pronunciation, I dont care how good this dictionary is. How could you possibly have a dictionary that doesnt help you pronounce the words (especially German!) I want my money back.

Ive owned this app for well over a year now, and it is by far the best German dictionary app on the market.

I use it for my AP German class...and it is a godsend. Great app, very simple and functional. A bit pricey but once you use it, youll come to realize its worth it. Btw, umlauts as eszetts ARE typeable. Hold down a vowel until you see the other chöïcës. And aß for the eßzett, hold down B. Buy it, its well worth it :)

Well-designed user interface and with a very good vocabulary - equivalent to an intermediate-advanced level translation dictionary - this app is by far the most useful I have found in the App Store to date and infinitely superior to other D-E translators I have tried. Well worth the money.

Ive enjoyed using this application. I primarily use it to look-up words I encounter when reading German language websites with Safari on the iPhone. This involves doing a select/copy on the word in Safari (or other German text application), closing Safari, launching the dictionary, and pasting the word into the search box. I have been very pleased with the search results and definitions (i.e., they provide many different translations and context usages). However, I have two non-trivial problems: 1. I cannot paste text into the search box anymore since the v. 1.3 upgrade (which caused the dictionary to crash everytime I tried to launch it). Although 1.3.1 seems to have fixed the crash problem, I can no longer paste text into the search box like I previously did nearly every day (and copy/paste works just fine in other apps). 2. The start-up time is painful. I want to be able to look words up quickly while reading. It can take 20-30 seconds to complete the operation I described before, most of which is the Ultralingua startup time. If it werent for those two issues Id use this application much more frequently.

Im a student whos learning German for university entrance. Im fortunate enough to own an iPad, and it would be an understatement to say that this dictionary has really started to change things for me. CONTENT: Nonpareil database of words, phrases, sentences and colloquial expressions. There isnt a single thing I looked up and couldnt find. Better yet, if theres something you dont understand in your results, you can simply tap on the word to see its meaning. As a bonus, if youre typing a word, the spelling of which youre not sure of, Ultralingua will actually give you suggestions to match your search - and it works beautifully ! On top of that, when you discover that you can actually conjugate verbs in hordes of tenses (see third screenshot above), you promptly realize that this dictionary is absolutely indispensable if youre a student learning a foreign language, or a traveller who needs a dictionary at hand all the time - just excellent ! Verbs, adjectives, nouns are marked clearly, as well as articles are easy to note. INTERFACE: The UI is clean and simple. Unlike the PONS dictionary which my classmate has, the interface is not cluttered and filled with ugly colors. Its very elegant, and every word (or search result) is differentiated nicely. In PONS everything was jumbled together like curry and, like a real dictionary, you need to melt you brain to figure out where your result is - well, not here ! You can proceed to the next page by flicking the bottom corner which is quite convenient, I just wish there was a page-curl effect (like iBooks) or a little curl on the corner to tell you that a next page is available. Otherwise, its been brilliantly designed. FUNCTIONALITY: And heres where Ultralingua tops. Although the performance of the app in terms of speed and snappiness of searches is way above average, it could improve a little. My most favorite feature is a convenient button to swap languages instantly. You have a history column where you see all the words youve looked up - very, very nice if youre about to write something and you think of a few words in your native language, the translations to which you dont know - you search them one after the other and they all get stored in the history - this way you dont need to keep on looking them up while writing. Theres even a number pad that tells you, in words, the numbers youre typing, which is totally awesome ! All in all, this is a top notch app if youre looking for a dictionary. It works both on iPhone / iPod touch and on iPad so a one-time purchase is enough for you to have dictionaries with you everywhere. I can go far enough to say that this is one purchase youll definitely not regret - hence, very highly recommended !

...strange glitch by which the English word cannot be found but the German "Neuseeland" can be. Sierra Leone? Nope. Same in English and German though. Perhaps a random country QA is in order, developers? I am otherwise very happy with my purchase. Verb conjugation is the most difficult part of my language learning, so having this resource handy (auf meinem Handy!) is great.

I chose this app instead of a German-English dictionary, and Im happy I did! It has about the same amount of definitions as a good dictionary, but it doesnt take 10 minutes to find the word youre looking for. I would definitely reccomend this to you!

Perfecft well worth the money for German English reference on the go... Especially if you dont have Internet...

Liked this. Worth the $20. Recognizes most conjugated verbs within a normal sentence structure. It doesnt recognize all of them instantly, however, one can figure out the verb thru guesses viewing different verbs and having the app conjugate them.

The Verbs are missing the transitive or intransive indication, one could really use some form of saved lists of words, reference to similar verbs (different suffixes). What about copying? No grammatical references? this is supposed to be dictionary.

the new mobile update is great :D this app has always been very nice sleek, and shiny, - the interface is just awesome. I love the Numerical and Verb feature, its a feature which not many other mobile dictionaries have. Itd be awesome if there were voice recordings, but i cant ask for much more :) (from artypig78)

I was waiting to purchase this app since a long time. Thank you for the Cyber Mondey sale!!! This app is just amazing and does everything, just love it. Im a Master student in Germany and its very amazing to have a pocket distionary that helps me a lot. Thank you Ultralingua for such amazing app. Btw, I dont know what yall complaining about, but it just worth the price. Price tells us about the QUALITY, and the quality of this app is pretty high!!!

This program is a joke if you need a dictionary just use "Google Translate" its free and ten times more likely to give you correct congegation you can even talk to the program and it will in a sense talk back please for your sake dont get this

Not a complete,full referenced dictionary that you will find in an actual full-size dictionary, but for the most part quite extensive, and it is incredibly quick since it requires no internet. As an English teacher living in Germany for almost 3 years, it has been very useful in all level courses. Some colloquial, specialized and seldomly used words you will not find this dictionary. Go to Leo dic for that answer. This dictionary lies somewhere between Leo dic, which rarely gives context or useage, and a full size book dictionary. The weight of dragging around a giant Langenscheidt dictionary was by far the biggest tradeoff.

The dictionary is still terrific, but the latest iPad update slows the app to a crawl. The app sometimes takes seconds to recognize key presses, and seconds more to return a search result. Oddly, the same app on iPhone works instantly.

I know the price is up there, but its been more than worth it. Im in my 2nd year studying German and this app has been invaluable. I had it on PalmOS and immediately looked for it when I switched to iPhone. As a one-stop reference for translation & conjugation you wont find a better app on the market right now . Highly recommend. This is the only review Ive ever written - hope it helps another struggling student like me.

If you are looking for a serious dictionary, please get another one!