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Dictionary - M-W Premium

Get America’s most useful and respected dictionary, optimized for your Androi…

Merriam-Webster Inc.
Review signals only
Get it onGoogle Play
Google Play rating3.1★9.8K ratings
Price$7.99Listed price
Age4+Store age rating
CategoryEducation
DeveloperMerriam-Webster Inc.

At a glance

Full report

Review signals only — 2 user-reported signals. Review signals, not findings. Nothing here is an assessment.

Review signals 2

From review signals only, 18 Oct 2026.

The store currently lists version 5.6.3, updated 2026-09-30.

Preview

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Store screenshots supplied by the developer.

About this app

Get America’s most useful and respected dictionary, optimized for your Android device. Continuously updated with the newest words and meanings, this is the premier Android app for English language reference, education, and vocabulary building.

And now we’ve added new word games! It’s never been more fun to learn new words and test your vocabulary for everyone from English learners to total word nerds. Hundreds of words to test your skills.

Offline access: You’ll have complete access to definitions and synonyms whether or not you’re connected. You will need a connection to view illustrations, hear audio pronunciations, and use voice search.…

From the developer’s store description.

For developers and the curious

The full report

The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.

Findings and evidence

No findings published
No findings are published for this listing. These are review signals, not findings: nothing here is an assessment.

Review signals 2

Recurring themes across the reviews we scanned. Each links to what reviewers report.

What reviewers report

403 reviews read · 2 review signals

403 reviews scanned. These are signals from public reviews, not findings. Nothing here is an assessment.

Constant upsell pressure

Review signal, not a finding

7 reviews · 1.7% of reviews scanned

Updated review. Still terrible. This app literally has premium in the name. Premium. Paid for. And yet it constantly asks if I want to subscribe for an ad free experience. I already have an ad free experience because I already paid for…

1★ · Google Play · 2025-12-02

At least one other user has the same exact complaints as I have! 1. When I open the app to search, I begin to type, usually about 3 letters, and the keyboard suddenly closes, and I have to start the search again. 2. The screen is very…

2★ · Google Play · 2023-12-11

I have only noticed two problems: my keyboard will disappear whilst I am typing, taking me to a definition I probably wasn't searching for; and every so often, the app will nag me to subscribe to a monthly plan, even though this is the…

4★ · Google Play · 2026-05-22

No ad complaints

Review signal, not a finding

5 reviews · 1.2% of reviews scanned

It is worth the couple $ to get the premium version of this app with all its extras including brain games. It's constantly updated with new words-- and no ads! I have used it for years and it is indispensable to me.

5★ · Google Play · 2021-10-18

I love having no ads in my dictionary so that in itself is worth a few stars, plus now that they've added night mode this app is basically perfect. I think it's worth the few bucks they charge for it

5★ · Google Play · 2021-08-18

Best I've used. Do not need an internet connection every time I want to use it. And most importantly... AD FREE!!! However recently I have been asked to purchase it. I thought I did that years ago. Also, I am no longer getting the full…

3★ · Google Play · 2025-05-03

A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.

Measurements

5 measured · 3 not assessed

Supporting measurements. They are not a complete list of possible harms or positives. “Not assessed” means we could not measure it — never zero, never a pass.

From store data and reviews

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
No theme 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
Under 65% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.

In the app 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, not a finding.

Sensitive permissions
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app

Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured

Versions and dates analysed

Review signals only

Review signals only. No automated analysis of the app itself has been run, so there is no analysed version to report; the signals were read from public reviews on 18 Oct 2026.

Store update history

Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.

Google Play

Version 5.6.3 · 2026-09-30

No release notes were provided for this version.

Version 5.6.2 · 2026-09-30

No release notes were provided for this version.

Version 5.6.2 · 2026-06-29

No release notes were provided for this version.

Assessment record

Status
Review signals only
App identifier
dictionary-google-com-merriamwebster-premium
Review signals scanned
18 Oct 2026
Sources used
User reviews
Reviews read
403
Package examined
No package scan
Measurement vocabulary
1.4
Human inspection
Not completed

Store facts

Google Play

What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.

Google Play

Store rating
3.09 ★ · 9,812 ratings
Version
5.6.3
Updated
30 Sep 2026
Price
$7.99
Age rating
4+
Size
Not supplied
Open in Google Play
Developer
Merriam-Webster Inc.
Category
Education
Listing price
$7.99

No itemized purchase list is available for this listing.

Method and limits

What this report can and cannot show

How a review signal works

A review signal is produced automatically from public app reviews by a classifier — never by a hands-on Appworthy test, and never by a human analyst. It exists so a real, not-yet-audited app can carry more than a blank “Not yet tested” listing, without ever being mistaken for an assessment.

A theme only appears above once at least 5 distinct reviews corroborate it — one angry review can never tag an app. These thresholds are published settings and may be tuned as coverage grows.

It carries no confirmed findings — reviews are one kind of evidence, and nothing here has been hands-on tested. The moment Appworthy publishes a full assessment of this app, it replaces this signal, permanently.

Limits of this report

  • A package scan is static. It identifies code and text in one Android build. It does not measure a live ad session, test a deletion request, or count the steps needed to cancel.
  • Reviews keep their sample. A review-only charge shows distinct reviewers, the share and the sample size, and is published only once it clears that label’s published threshold. Calibration labels are machine-drafted and not yet confirmed by a person.
  • Not assessed is a state. It is never a zero and never a pass.
  • A missing label is not a clean bill of health. It means the evidence did not support one, not that the app is problem-free.
Not yet human-reviewed. A human review replaces this review-derived signal with hands-on, recorded measurements. Hands-on inspections are not yet open.
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