Ultralingua French-English App Comentários

It’s not perfect but I’ve been using the Ultralingua app for over a decade and it’s been VERY reliable. I use this app almost every single day! The phone version could use some updating for a smoother experience because it takes a moment to learn how to navigate the app effectively/efficiently for optimum usage. I still however consider it one of the best tools in my arsenal for language reference and learning. And it’s still one of THE BEST dictionary apps I’ve ever come across. The bottom line is that although it’s a bit pricey, could use an update & requires somewhat of a learning curve, it’s definitely DEFINITELY worth investing in!!!

I’ve been using this app for years and I like it. But it’s got one major flaw in its verb conjugations. The negative past-tense of pronominal verbs in passé composé are, every one of them, incorrect. "Je ne me suis demandé pas" instead of "Je ne me suis pas demandé" for example.

I’m sure this app has many good features, but I have 2 complaints: 1)I noticed a poor translation in the App Store example. Parler de quelqu’un means to speak about someone NOT something. So I don’t trust their translations. But I bought it for the verb tense translations, only to find that 2)they don’t provide them for the more complicated tenses. For me, this dictionary is superfluous.

Comprehensive and easily searchable!

I really liked the look of these apps when they came out, and I bought the Mac version too because of the hotkey feature to define selected words. But this is abandonware people. They haven't done anything to these in years and there is a bug in the French one that won't change contexts properly when languages are reversed. You've been warned.

I have been using the French, Spanish and Italian dictionaries of Ultralingua almost daily for several years. I speak and teach French and Spanish and am learning Italian and absolutely love having these excellent dictionaries at my fingertips on my ever present i-pod!

I've used this app to help me in reading French novels for years and think its scope and layout are superb.

Learning French

I like this app because of the examples for conjugations. However, I purchased this app because I thought that there were sentence examples. I am still learning how to use this app. Perhaps, I haven't figured out how to find the examples for sentences.

Stalling problems noted in previous review have all been resolved in latest update. App works fast and flawlessly. Well done!

Très utile. Bien composée. Tous les mots que j'en ai besoin.

Use it all the time as I read French newspapers or listen to France Info. The UI has improved over the years and is rather attractive. One quibble is that the app icon looks dated and could be improved upon. (Would be easier to find in my apps if it were more distinctive). The language coverage is quite good in French although it lacks certain slang words. I like the favorites feature too.

Well worth the price! Much better than even a fairly comprehensive print dictionary and far easier to use. I love it!

I use this mainly as a dictionary to aid me in my French lessons and so far it's been really helpful!

I've taken this app with me on several trips to France and fine it very handy. It has idioms, verb conjugations, common word combinations in both English and French.

The word rapprochement appears in the app if you know how to spell it, it is the same word in English and is not a new word. Great app!

During the end of negotiations with the U.S. and Iran the word "Raprawshmahn" came up however it does not appear in your dictionary! Current events is the language needed. JECIII

ultralingua was probably my most used app, the dictionary was great and accurate and the verb conjugator an absolute god send; unfortunately an update (I'll admit some while ago) removed the conjugator and changed the format of the dictionary. The dictionary is still as accurate, but with an interface I still have trouble using after all this time. I'm hoping that they will update the app again and #1 bring back the conjugator (tho changing the dictionary would also be nice). Was definitely worth $20 when I purchased in 2009/10, probably wouldn't purchase for the same price now though.

Absolutely marvelous. Extremely easy to use. I wish it could also pronounce the words.

I usually don't write reviews but I had to write one for Ultralingua. I recently moved to a francophone country and this app helps me navigate my intermediate level French in an all-French environment. I would not be able to do my work without it. Terms are super easy to look up and conjugations are super easy to access. I wouldn't ask for anything else of this app!

Repeatedly crashes. Switching between the dictionary and the the Safari browser seems to do something to damage the dictionary app. Of course switching between the dictionary and other apps is something you do without, so I would not buy this app! A fresh reinstall seems to work OK until I start multasking again, which re-damages the app. It will immediately begin to crash and get progressively worse until it's virtually unusable. I see this app hasn't been updated for a year now. Is it still being supported even? Who knows?

As a fluent (non native) French speaker, I need a serious offline dictionary and I use the app daily. I like that it has expressions integrated into the search feature (though less than the online Word Reference app) the conjugations are extremely easy to use with all tenses listed. Things I would like to see in future versions: 1) MORE FREQUENT UPDATES, current version has become extremely SLOW and CRASHES when certain letter sequences are typed in, forcing you to type (ab) or (ad) and scroll when you wanted a word starting with (ac) 2) a way to ADD YOUR OWN words, definitions, and annotations since I often search online for words not in this app 3) MORE SLANG, older words one finds in literature and informal language 4) wider variety of specific words within everyday categories (food, garden tools, medical terms etc) 5) more compound words like "contact lens solution" 6) default to the keyboard in upon start up for faster searches 7) moving the "switch languages" (English to French vs French to English) button further away from the X out button which erases the search field There are also a lot of UK English definitions without the US equivalent - especially annoying when looking up a slang word. (I'm American)

The Ultralingua team needs to pay attention to this. It is ridiculous and unacceptable that the app should crash when looking up a word. There is mo way to re-look up the word after a crash. This NEEDS to be fixed. I also have the Spanish version and it crashes less often. Please fix this! It is very frustrating.

This app was rock-solid until recently. Now, certain words or letters cause it to crash, every single time. Example: Fre-Eng. g a r -> CRASH!

Cette application marche très bien. Je l'aime beaucoup! Geat app - love it (apart from the occasional crash when searching for some specific words).

Love this app. It has been a really easy to use and reliable tool in reading and studying French. However, it has just started to crash on entering certain French words. Hopefully this can be fixed soon.

I reviewed version 1.2 back in 2009 and have been using all updates since then. The current version also makes me happy. It’s never let me down.

Easy to use, beautiful, tremendously useful. I love the conjugations. And Ultralingua support is responsive and helpful.

The app won't open. It crashes immediately.

I am attending school in France and find this app extremely useful. The linking available in the latest update is a great feature.

Cannot open the app (closes immediately). iOS 7, iPhone 5.

Latest 2.4.1 (October 17) update for iOS 7 crashes on launch - app won't open at all (and I'm running latest iOS 7 version on a new iPhone 5s). Avoid updating until this gets fixed. Update: re-downloaded a few hours later and now seems to work

The old version of the app was so much easier to use. This new update seems very elementary and is just not as good as the earlier version.

As a student and teacher of French for more than 50 years I've found this to be the best tool available for use both on the spot and in a more studious, relaxed situation. I have used it extensively over a period of years throughout Europe, Haiti, and at home with complete satisfaction.

This Ian a great app! Love it!

The new interface is less attractive and less useful to browse. It looks like someone decided they could save money by putting a couple of menu items that could've been done as buttons next to a copy of the iPhone user interface and calling it an iPad app.

This app has really helped me learn French. I've been using it almost daily for a few years, and I love the new layout! Definitions, conjugations and expressions all in one place. I really like the simple navigation and easy to read font. Thanks for the beautiful dictionary and awesome update! Great app.

Why fix something that wasn't broken to begin with? I don't like the new look, it's confusing to navigate.

The Collins Ultralingua dictionary content and new user interface overall is great. The one major, major minus - They need to bring back more easily identifiable icons. The flags worked really well for quick easy access to the right dictionary. Can barely discern the difference now. Also, Do not bother to download the Ultralingua bookshelf. It is just a marketing tool for Ultralingua's benefit not their users'. It forces an extra click to get to the dictionary you need while presenting you with needless commercials and social media options.

This is a wonderful app, easy to use and great interface. Get this app and you will not regret it.

Sadly disappointed in this app. The conjugation feature is interesting but the dictionary is lacking many phrasal verbs needed for translation purchases. Too expensive for what it is. You'd be better off buying a 2 or 3 dollar app.

I also have the German & Spanish dictionaries from Ultralingua, and can't believe that with this update, the landscape mode is gone from all three. Frankly I'd much rather do without the latest 'improvements' but at least be able to use this on my iPad. The worst part about it is that even in portrait mode, when you try to enter any text for search, the keyboard that pops up is in… landscape mode, which blocks the field where you're supposed to enter the text. Thus rendering this app TOTALLY useless. Please fix this PRONTO!

Ultralingua is very lackluster overall. I often find that key expressions are missing, and the app is quite buggy. In version 1.5.2 the screen would often remain blank instead of showing the correct definition, and following the 1.5.3 update the app has crashed every time I tap the search bar to start typing. I would expect this from a free dictionary, but this is really unacceptable given my investment.

With iPhone 5 and iOS 6, the contextuel menu stopped working. It's an iOS 6 issue as it's the same with my iPad 3 I just updated to iOS 6. One of the best feature of this dictionnary just disappeared. Ultralingua MUST address the problem! It's time to work on an update! Your are already late guys...

I had just installed this app when I got a notice from them that an upgraded version is now available. I only had to pay the same price that I just paid to get it!!!!!! I was not given the choice to buy the upgraded app first!

The framework of this app is very good – it's been through many iterations, and on many platforms: I've purchased it and re-purchased it for Newton, Palm, MacOS, OS X, and Windows over the years, in addition to this iOS version. It served me well when I was a beginner, but now, it just doesn't have enough words, nor are the definitions nuanced enough for me to trust that I'll use or understand a word correctly. If you are a beginner, it may be the right choice for you, but please read on. The Larousse bilingual is a better dictionary (and is much less expensive), but that app isn't as good as this one. Ultralingua's own FR-EN Collins offering is a better bilingual than this, and uses the same excellent dictionary engine as this, but is much more expensive. For a similar level of investment, one can purchase Le Petit Robert for iPad – there is no better one-volume monolingual dictionary currently available in print or in digital form than the Robert. Alternatively, Robert's Dixel is also a superb monolingual dictionary – less scholarly than Le Petit, but including more proper nouns – and runs both on iPhones and iPads. (If you're not yet at the level that a first-rate monolingual makes sense for you, then this dictionary may, in fact, be just right for you. I'd still encourage you to stretch a bit by trying the Larousse bilingual, however.) My compromise is to grumble about how clunky the Larousse bilingual is, use it only when I'm stuck, and mostly use Le Petit Robert, or the Dixel if my iPhone is the device at hand. In the final analysis, however, it comes down to whether the underlying dictionary will support me. In reading an article in Le Monde yesterday, for an example, I needed to look up 6 words. Only one of them was present in this dictionary, and the proposed definition was insufficient. In contrast, all 6 had good definitions in the bilingual Larousse, and in Le Petit Robert. None of those words was arcane; the Sunday Le Monde magazine section is written, after all, for a wide (but Francophone) audience. There's almost never a situation for which this Ultralingua bilingual remains the best choice for me. A guiding principle one hears in one's study of Software Engineering is the desirability of designing for "a low threshold, and a high ceiling." This dictionary provides the first, but not the second.

Not perfect, but a good, solid resource to have while reading French. I have a large, paper dictionary that is better for multiple meanings and slang, but I have found this Ultralingua dictionary to be very useful.

Restricted range of definitions for words that have multiple uses or connotations. First word I looked up (panache) was given the wrong gender.

Need to add audio pronunciation!