“I'm sorry but the full-screen ads are ridiculous. Why not just do banner ads if you have to do ads at all? I'm trying not to Google everything because their stupid AI just rips the info from you guys anyway, but when I'm faced with a 15…”
Independent automated assessment · 6 signal sources · 448 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-06.
Dictionary - Merriam-Webster
Merriam-Webster Inc.Get America’s most useful and respected dictionary, optimized for your Androi…
3.7 ★519,144 ratings
50M+Downloads
4+Age rating
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Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
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.
The app is free, and supported by ads. To remove ads, a subscription is available.
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.…
Preview
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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 5.6.2 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 5.6.2, updated 2026-09-30.
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
1 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 package we scanned
From the package we downloaded and read — version 5.6.2, scanned 2026-09-20.
Permissions Android classifies as dangerous
None requested
Counted against the eighteen permissions listed in collect-package.ts. A dangerous permission is one Android asks the user to grant; requesting one is not itself a finding.
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
1–2 found
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
1–2 found
Counted as distinct SDKs in the package we scanned. One mediation bundle can contribute several, so this is not a count of advertisers.
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.
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
Developer says data deletion can be requested
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
What we saw: The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
One source only — shown, not confirmed 2
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.
In the app's own text: Hard to cancel
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
What we saw: Sells a subscription in-app but ships no cancel or manage-subscription text of its own, leaving the store's settings as the only exit
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 22 distinct reviewers (4.9% of 448 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“It doesn't let you define words outside of the app. worst of all, there's no word search history, so I cannot revisit the words I just looked up. Ads are ridiculously excessive. I'm now using Lookup.”
“I wanted to evaluate this app and possibly buy a monthly plan. But there are so many ads covering the screen that I can't see the content. I guess that's supposed to force me to buy the product. I'll just remove the app.”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 5.6.2.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
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Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.