For those of you who have always wanted to have a good dictionary on your iPhone, your wish has been granted. WordDigest from Global Delight brings a complete Thesaurus for easy reference, validation and also brings the chance to learn new words everyday.How much do you want to pay for such nifty application? Read on.
WordDigest
When you open the application, it takes about 20 seconds to load the dictionary. Once done, you are all ready to search for words and their associated meanings, refer word for spell check and all other stuff you do with your paper based dictionary.
Enter a word in the search bar and tap the search button, a hosts of words with the same starting letters will fire up. There you can select the word you were looking for and refer the meaning. If you are confused about spelling of certain words, tap on the Spell Check button at the bottom of the app and enter the word thereafter. Matching words would be displayed and you have the option to check the meaning too by tapping on the word.
The pain of turning paper pages, the frustration of finding the right alphabet section is non existent in this nifty application.
Handy features
Some of the features that you don’t have in paper based dictionaries and that you would love in WordDigest are
The option to mark words as your favorite and store them in a dedicated page.
Auto storing of your search history
Set text size of the dictionary
Enabling Online Etymology
Option to refer wiktionary, Wikipedia and answers.com
WordDigest contains more than 147,000 with 87,000 words IPA pronunciation supported. The content is compiled from Wordnet 3.0 Priceton University and Wiktionary.com. What more can you ask for in a handy dictionary like WordDigest. This is one well thought of multi purpose excellently implemented application that would save you lots of time.
Get all these for $1.99, it’s a steal.
- App Name:WordDigest
- Price: $1.99
- App Category: Reference
- Developer: Global Delight
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This article has 6 responses
just downloaded…was pretty useful! Thanks to developers!
This is an awesome application. Would have paid more willingly. I don’t know what would happen to my real Thesaurus
Hold on! Will the developer go on adding words? Would love to see hundreds of new words added on monthly basis.
very handy app dude. impressed!
20 secs!!!!!!!!!!!! developer should work on this??? whats the point in keeping the user waiting. by the time app loads i would forget why i opened it!!!!!!! ROFL
20 Secs :-O !!!!!!!!!! it’s only when you launch the app for the first time. It’s like taking off the wrapper of a gift. Delay accepted….