“selling personal data — out of nowhere with a new update, the switch to sell may data to other partners was on without my approval; i hope the EU will drop a good fine on you; my account is gone went missing, i do not know what they did…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 415 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.8 ★327,780 ratings
—Downloads
12+Age rating
36 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
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With more than 2 million trusted definitions and synonyms, this English dictionary and thesaurus app for iPhone is optimized for your mobile device. Improve your English vocabulary, whether you're just starting your learning journey or you're already a word wizard. Install the app for access to definitions and synonyms whenever and wherever you need them — no bulky books necessary. Flip to dark mode to give your eyes a break, or stick to the traditional set-up.
In addition to the trusted reference content from Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com, this education app includes:
Word of the Day ► Learn a new word each day and expand your vocabulary.
Example Sentences ► Browse real-world example sentences to see how words are used.
Idioms ► Explore how words can gain new meanings.
Rhymes ► Finish every verse.…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 12.1.6 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 12.1.6, updated 2026-09-28.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
2 themes reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 3
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Tracking and data collection concerns
The app ships session-recording or a wide tracking stack, holds permissions that read personal data, or is reported by users to sell, leak or over-collect it. The evidence line says which of those was observed.
What we saw: Data & privacy concerns: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (1.2% of 415 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 28 distinct reviewers (6.7% of 415 reviews scanned)
From the store listing: Usable without an account
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (7 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“They sell your data!! — Don’t buy and buy the offline dictionary. These guys sell your data to plethora of third party companies.”
“Saved words gone — There go years of looking up words and expanding my lexicon. Can no longer save words. Can’t even log in. If you don’t update to the most recent update, you can’t even use the dictionary search function. Over a decade…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 12.1.6.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.