Collins Spanish Dictionary App Reviews

I use this dictionary every day. To me, the Harper-Collins is the number one academic resource, encompassing regional idioms and meanings that lesser bilingual dictionaries do not have. It truly is a magnificent resource. The developers have made some user interface improvements, but the Harper-Collins is not as easy to use for the more casual Spanish speaker as some of the smaller, intermediate dictionaries. Those who dont need an unabridged dictionary, such as the traveler, may prefer some other product.

This is a very large dictionary/app...600 mb. So the dictionary is very complete, but if you have a 16 gb iPad/iPhone, its going to take a significant amount of your storage space. It appears that the different versions of the Collins dictionaries were done by different companies and have different interfaces. This one is a straight dictionary with recodeded pronunciations. Ultralingua has conjugations and numbers, but fewer words. It all depends on which you features you want. Its too bad that there isnt more of a comparision, but at $20+ per app its too expensive to buy just to write a review. Check the pictures in the App Store.

Ive used several iphone spanish dictionaries but this one stands head above the rest. For the convenience and shear wealth of information youll quickly forget about the price tag. The greatest advantage here is the ability to highlight words and jump directly to their definition from anywhere on the page! As a serious Spanish student I have improved my vocabulary much faster and easier with this guy.

As I used the app more and got familiar with the format of this dictionary, it has rewarded me greatly and it has been very helpful to my Spanish learning thus far (I use it quite frequent). I was very frustrated initially, because I was unfamiliar with the layout. But its got every word & wordform Ive searched for & without ads or gimmicky graphics. However, the conjugation screen terms are a bit confusing - I assume they use the British terms, which are different from American in many instances. I would recommend that they have a screen that displays the definitions (in English) of all the conjugation terms that are used (perhaps with an example), and also include the same definitions for those used in the Spanish conjugations. It seems like this app is best for young smart AP students, but Im 30 yrs beyond that & its taken me some time to re-learn all the pedagogical terms.

Please add pronunciation of sentences! that could be better!

This is a wonderful dictionary....everything you need. Keeps a history of your words, etc. Of course gives conjugations and a lot of other necessary features. Well worth the money.

The app is great but conjugated verbs must be defined. The hardest part of learning spanish is remembering the many conjugation of those 1000s verbs. Most people dont already know them so that means that half the words in the dictionary are undefined. Needs a long awaited update! Too expensive to lack this basic requirement.

This is the best app I have for my iPhone. Please keep thinking of things to add. Worth the money.

This is a great dictionary if your trying to learn Spanish. The pronunciation of the words is a big help. The price is little steep but it is worth the money.

Real bad. I trusted those who said good things about it. I am disappointed. It is not user friendly. Also Try to look for the conjugation of a Spanish verb, and you will be frustrated. The description is very deceiving. I bought other dictionaries, one is the Larousse French-English for only $5 and honestly if they ask $100 for it I will gladly pay it, but this one I sincerely believe I wasted my money. It is not even worth the one star I had to give it.

This is the very best dictionary out there for iPhone and iPad. I depend on the wonderful features, the conjugations, the vast content, the pronunciation, and the ability to bookmark works I want to remember. I also like knowing if a particular word is most likely used in Spain or in the Americas. I most highly recommend this dictionary for serious students.

This is a great dictionary. The more I use it the better it gets. I spent alot of $$$ on cheaper Eng/Spanish dictionaries. I wish Id tried this one first.

This app is not cheap but I thought Id be getting a lot more for my money. At least half of the Spanish words I enter cant be found. What a waste of money

Have used many s-e e-s dictionaries and this is the best.

Oddly, you have to type the whole word, or most of the word, before any words show up to choose. Very inconvenient on the iPhone especially!

i love pretty much everything about this dictionary. but one feature stands out as particularly awesome: it allows you to search the numerous sample sentences/phrases for a word or phrase. see the provided screenshots for an example (with the word "love"). its a very helpful feature. not only can you type in a single word like "love," as the example shows, but you can type in multiple words (e.g. "love is blind"). this is helpful for learning phrases and seeing examples of their use.

This dictionary has turned out to be the most used app on my iPhone. I read a variety of materials and Collins has rarely disappointed me. Everything is fast, snappy, the app loads up instantly. There is a very plain-looking user interface but loads of functionality. Everything works without a need for internet connection including the pronunciation, which are provided for both English and Spanish. Hyperlinks are embedded into every word, so you can tap on one, whether it is inflected or not, and it will take you to the entrys page. You can look up verbs in their infinitive or conjugated form. It doesnt matter because the dictionary will recognize them all. Full verb conjugation charts are provided for every verb. This makes it great for beginners who need constant reference to verb conjugations as well as for advanced students who need to be reminded of the conjugations for some of the more exotic or rare verbs - although in this respect the conjugations dont always seem to be accurate. The verb "asir" shows "aso" as the first person singular yet if you look up "asgo" in the search bar, it will clearly refer you back to "asir". So my advice is not to put your complete faith in this tool for other than the essential and common verbs. What I like about Collins is that instead of listing a bunch of translations for a given word, as many concise dictionaries do, it actually tells you the different nuances of the word, helping you to distinguish in what cases to use each one. For example, if you want to say "flat nose", youll see that the Spanish word for flat is "plano", but of course you wouldnt say "nariz plana" but "nariz chata", which Collins makes clear. In many entries there are loads of example sentences, all marked in blue for easy viewing, in order to clearly illustrate usage in case a mere translation does not suffice. Among the really cool search features are the ability to filter only English or Spanish results, or both if you want. If youre looking up a word like "frugal", which is the same spelling in English as in Spanish, this really comes in handy to take away from unnecessarily cluttered or confusing search results. The ability to browse words from the ending also exists. Im not sure if this feature ever came in handy for me, though. More importantly you can search examples. Great feature if you want to search for an idiom of a certain verb, say "poner", instead of having to scroll through the myriads of examples to get to the one you want, you can just type it in and press enter. If there was one thing to criticize, it is that the screen space is not optimized for the iPad. It only looks like a blown up phone app. The search bar is tiny and located in the very top, which makes it uncomfortable to use when the screen is so big. If youre an advanced student and you are looking for a good dictionary for the iOS platform, you have a few choices. This one is my recommendation. Its expensive and there are very cheap or free dictionaries out there but dont expect to get premium content without paying for it or using ad-supported software. Ive also tried Word Magic Unabridged, which costs about the same as this one but I dont like it because of its confusing and overwhelming interface. Just my preference though.

All the features I could want. Holding out at four stars to encourage developer to add something I cant think of right now.

Ive been using it for almost a year and it has been a fantastic tool for my work as translator and interpreter. It isnt my only tool, but this gives me quick, convenient, and on-the-go help!

Ive used this application extensively over the past few years and have found the company to be adequately responsive in terms of updating the app and adding functionality. But support for the iPhone 5 is a bit overdue at this point, especially considering the extra screen space is pretty essential when you are looking for comprehensive insight into a word or phrase.