Dictionary Apps
Brick-and-mortar dictionaries have always proven themselves as invaluable resources, albeit extremely bulky and often inconvenient to utilize when they’re needed most. The web has resolved that problem, with world renowned dictionaries such as Merriam-Webster providing robust online versions of their dictionaries available to be browsed by everyone.
- The world’s best online translator for you and your team.
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Online
- GoldenDict is an open-source dictionary program for PC computers that gives translations of words and phrases for different languages.
- Amazon Kindle software lets you read ebooks on your Kindle, iPhone, iPad, PC, Mac, BlackBerry, and Android-based device.
- Free • None
- Mac
- Windows
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Blackberry
- Android Tablet
- Windows Phone
- iPad
- Learn a new language with games, humorous chatbots and over 30,000 native speaker videos.
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Wiktionary is a multilingual, web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in 158 languages.
- Linguistic search engine and contextualized translator. The final solution for your writing doubts! Search, compare, translate, learn and get inspired.
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Windows
- Online
- Linguee is a new kind of dictionary app for French-English, Spanish-English and other language pairs. You will find reliable translations in the shortest time, even when you're offline.
- WordReference is a free online Oxford dictionaries for Spanish, French, Italian, German and more. Conjugations, audio pronunciations and forums for your questions.
- The free Dictionary.com app delivers content from Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com, including nearly a million words and definitions and 90,000 synonyms and antonyms.
- dict.cc is not only an online dictionary translating from English and German to 21 languages.
- Free • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Urban Dictionary is a Web-based dictionary of slang words and phrases. Submissions are regulated by volunteer editors and rated by site visitors.
- Google's dictionary extension on Google Chrome.
- Free • Proprietary
- Chrome OS
- Google Chrome
- Free online dictionary, thesaurus, spanish-english and medical dictionaries, audio pronunciations, Word of the Day, word games, and many more high-quality Merriam-Webster language...
- Lingoes is an easy and intuitive dictionary and text translation software.
Discontinued
The program is no longer updated. Last version, v2.9.2, released in August 2014, can be still downloaded from the official website.
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
- WordWeb is an international English dictionary and thesaurus program for Microsoft Windows, iOS, Android and Mac OS X. Available for download online, the program is partly based on the WordNet database.