Appworthy
App Store
Version 4.6.4 · 2024-08-19
Bug fixes and performance improvements
App Store rating4.6★9.3K ratings
PriceFreeIn-app $2.49–$69.99
Age12+Store age rating
Size584 MBiPhone download
CategoryEducation
DeveloperYoudao (Hong Kong) Limited
What we found
Full reportToo little checked to say Store information only. We haven’t analysed this app or read its reviews yet.
Money
- Free to download · in-app purchases $2.49–$69.99 (9 listed; the App Store shows at most 10). Weekly plan $4.99 (about $259 a year); monthly plans $5.99 (about $72 a year) and $16.99 (about $204 a year); yearly plans $29.99, $56.99 and $69.99. The other purchases’ names don’t say how often they bill.
- If you subscribe through the store, cancel in iPhone Settings → your name → Subscriptions. Deleting the app doesn’t cancel a subscription.
Not yet tested.
The store currently lists version 4.6.4, updated 2024-08-19.
Preview
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
About this app
** 100,000,000 users across 150 countries. **
U-Dictionary is an efficient translation and dictionary app. Effortlessly translate texts, pictures, or conversations in 108 languages. Get translation instantly whether you're learning a new language or traveling abroad. Help remove your language barriers anytime anywhere.
U-Dictionary takes in originally developed dictionaries, Collins COBUILD Advanced Dictionary, WordNet Dictionary, Bilingual Examples, Native Examples, Synonyms, Antonyms, Etymology Dictionary and so on.
FEATURES:
• Text Translation: Get translation of any pair within 108 languages.
• Voice Translation: Translate bilingual conversations in 33 languages, 47 accents.
• Authoritative Dictionary: Built-in Concise Dictionary, Collins Advanced Dictionary and WordNet Dictionary.
• Perfect English Pronunciation: Native UK (British) and US (American) accent.…
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
Not yet tested. No analysis has been published for this app. A missing label is not a clean bill of health.
What reviewers report
No review analysis published for this app.
Measurements
“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and 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
The store description doesn’t list prices (most don’t)
Cancelling, in the store description
The store description says how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
Not assessed
This app's reviews have not been assessed yet
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 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
How we know
Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
Versions and dates analysed
Not yet tested. No analysis has been run for this app, so there is no version or date to report.
Store update history
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
Assessment record
- Status
- Not yet tested
- App identifier
udictionary-translator- Sources used
- None recorded
- Reviews read
- None recorded
- Package examined
- No package scan
- Human inspection
- Not completed
How we know
- Measurement vocabulary
- 1.4
Store facts
What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.
App Store
- Store rating
- 4.63 ★ · 9,280 ratings
- Version
- 4.6.4
- Updated
- 19 Aug 2024
- Price
- Free · In-app purchases
- Age rating
- 12+
- Size
- 584 MB
- Developer
- Youdao (Hong Kong) Limited
- Category
- Education
- Listing price
- Free · In-app purchases
Purchases the store lists
What this app sells
From the store listing. Billing terms are read from each purchase’s name — the stores don’t publish them — so treat them as a strong hint, not a disclosure.
Subscriptions7
U Dictionary PRO-1 weekWeekly$4.99
U Dictionary PRO-1 monthMonthly$16.99
U Dictionary PRO-1 monthMonthly$5.99
U-Dictionary PRO MonthlyMonthly$16.99
U Dictionary PRO-1 yearYearly$69.99
U Dictionary PRO-1 yearYearly$29.99
U Dictionary PRO-1 yearYearly$56.99
Show 2 more purchases we couldn’t categorise
These are really on sale; we just can’t tell from the name whether they recur.
U Dictionary PROTerm not stated$2.49
U Dictionary PROTerm not stated$9.99
This list is cut off. Apple shows at most 10 in-app purchases, and this app is at the limit — so it very likely sells more than we can see.
Method and limits
What a missing label means
Not yet tested. No analysis has been published for this app, so there is no method to describe for it yet. A missing label is not a clean bill of health: it means nothing has been read, not that nothing is wrong.
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 gives an app hands-on, recorded measurements. None has been run for this app. Hands-on inspections are not yet open.
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