dict.cc dictionary

Paul Hemetsberger

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this app

Dictionary for 51 language combinations, usable without an internet connection (offline dictionary). Vocabularies can be downloaded and updated within the app for free. All dictionaries are bidirectional, so German-English doubles as English-German. Just type in your keyword in either language.

English-German dictionary: 1 million translations
The following languages are available in combination with German and English:

Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Finnish, French, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish

New translations and corrections can be suggested at http://contribute.dict.cc/. Every translation gets checked by several other contributing users. The downloadable vocabularies are updated daily.

Additional features can be activated within the app.

Ratings and reviews

This app with its offline ability was essential for my travel for a month. I so appreciate how quick and easy it is to use. Great for live use for conversation, while reading, or while writing. The notes about regional use were very helpful. If the dictionary provided use examples, etymologies, and definitions, it would earn 5-stars. There is not always enough context to determine whether a word is in fact the right choice for the given use case. Occasionally, translations were off.

Don't pretend to be learning German without this tool. From the countless examples of verbs conjugations and their cultural and colloquial applications, it is unsurpassed. Add the way the dictionary is formatted for easy usability, and it's web resources and you won't need to waste your time with any other puny German dictionary. Highly recommended.

Update: The audio can indeed be turned off, fixing my main problem with the app! It still has ads so I can't give it 5 stars, but it's still probably the best German-English dictionary on the app store. ----- The audio is really annoying. My phone uses gestures, so whenever I want to go back I have to swipe from the edge of the screen, which this app registers as pressing and holding on a word, causing that word to be read *really loudly* if I don't intentionally mute my audio beforehand.

What’s new

Usability improvements, bug fixes and adjustments for new OS versions