Sign ASL

Daniel Mitchell

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About this app

Search and compare thousands of words and phrases in American Sign Language. Easily find and view signs on your mobile device. Over 30,000 signs to view in this video dictionary.

For more information please visit www.signasl.org

Ratings and reviews

Right out of the gate and my initial impression? Awesome. I've used a lot of different apps and had connectivity issues and issues with the search engines. I've only used this one briefly but so far my experience has been awesome. I'm just now getting back into sign language after having been fluent when I was a kid. Having not signed for a lot of years my receptive language is poor. It comes back quickly but something like this is essential when you want to look something up fast and accurate.

It's okay. Some of the videos are very small and hard to see. Others are not. The real problem for me is that the signs are performed SO FAST that I have to keep replaying the videos to catch the nuances. Very frustrating. It would be so much better if the signer would perform the sign once, and then do it again in slow motion. And why do most of the signers look so angry all the time? Just sayin'... I won't go into the search glitch because it's been covered by so many others. Needs an update!

Videos won't "activate" until I rotate my phone, no matter which orientation I'm starting in. In both cases the video starts in the middle so you miss the sign, but it does loop. The pause feature also doesn't appear until rotation. This isn't an issue for the front page signs. Large vocab but many words have multiple sign options, so a quick blurb explaining when to use one over another would be nice, especially which are most common. Ones I learn from deaf teachers are often listed lower.

What's new

Video playback fixes.