Dictionary Library 4+
English, Spanish, German...
PONS Langenscheidt GmbH
-
- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
Screenshots
Description
For many years, language learners have trusted our PONS dictionaries. With the PONS app on your smartphone or tablet, you can find the right translation quickly and at any time.
The PONS dictionary library works 100% offline.
Select the dictionary library for your app! Find the dictionary to suit your individual situation: If you are going away on holiday and want to just quickly look up a word or two, then the BASIS dictionary is the right choice for you. If you feel safer with a range of medium-sized vocabulary then choose the CONCISE or ADVANCED dictionary. If you write foreign-language texts professionally, then you probably need a more comprehensive dictionary, such as BUSINESS or PREMIUM.
Discover dictionaries in a range of different languages: Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, German as a Foreign Language, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Greek, Polish, Russian, Spanish and Turkish.
Functions of the dictionaries:
• Direct look-up: Simply select a text in Safari, tap the share button and choose a dictionary. All of the words in the text that can be looked-up are then displayed.
• Look-ups from other applications: Copy individual words or whole sentences to the Clipboard, switch back to the dictionary app and individually look up all the words.
• Learn vocabulary: You can define words that you would like to learn as a vocabulary card. This allows vocabulary to be learned quickly and effectively! (Optimized for the ADVANCED English, French, Italian and Spanish dictionaries.)
• Synchronization via iCloud: access favourites, search history and vocabulary cards (in the dictionaries) with any device logged in to your Apple ID.
• Listen to numerous keywords spoken by native speakers and practise your pronunciation. (Available for German, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian)
• Use the full-text search to find examples.
BASIC
Ideal for everyday, travel, leisure use (the most important vocabulary)
100,000–120,000 keywords, phrases & translations
Languages: German - English, German - French, German - Italian, German - Spanish, German - Portuguese, German - Russian,
CONCISE
Ideal for everyday, leisure, business use (medium-sized vocabulary)
285,000–295,000 keywords, phrases & translations
Languages: English - Brazilian Portuguese, English - French, English - Italian, English - Polish, English - Russian, English - Spanish, German - English, German - French, German - Italian, German - Spanish, German - Polish, German - Russian, German - Turkish, Spanish - Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish - Italian
ADVANCED
Ideal for every day, university, business (large vocabulary)
338.000 - 775.000 keywords, phrases & translations
Languages: German - English, German - French, German - Italian, German - Spanish, German - Dutch
BUSINESS
Ideal for business (large vocabulary with emphasis on business vocabulary)
571.000 - 800.000 keywords, phrases & translations
Languages: German - English, German - French, German - Spanish
PREMIUM
Ideal for professional users (the most comprehensive PONS vocabulary collection)
685.000 - 930.000 keywords, phrases & translations
Languages: German - English, German - French, German - Italian, German - Spanish, German - Greek, German as a foreign language
About PONS:
PONS has been developing green materials for learning languages for life for over 40 years: from classic dictionaries and grammar aids to audio and software language courses right up to free online services.
www.pons.com
What’s New
Version 3.80.337
Hi there, in this update we have improved the experience on new iPhones and iPads, as well. Here we go! Ándale! Los geht’s! Let’s look up words…
Ratings and Reviews
Useful for comparing Pons dictionaries
I used this to compare the various Pons German-English dictionaries, and then purchased their Advanced edition.
Painful, pre-digital user interface
Especially for languages like German, this one-size-fits-all search user interface is a pain. You can only look up a word in isolation, which makes it necessary to read every single element of a search result entry that might combine 25 different usages and contain 50 distinct expressions/usages, when you include reflexive pronouns, separable prefixes, and prepositions. Another stupidity: you can only find verbs if you know the exact spelling of the infinitive. In any authentic text that you might be reading, most of the verbs are conjugated. Yes, the endings are standard, but German, Spanish, and even English verbs exhibit numerous regular and irregular changes in the verb stem.
This publisher basically copied its print dictionary, tacked on a generic, minimally useful text search feature inappropriate for the domain of languages, and left the display of result entries unchanged from paper, with no enhancement for the powerful new medium of a mobile phone app.
I hope a creative, tech-savvy company will invent a more effective digital dictionary user interface and put these clowns out of business someday.
Extensive but crude
The dictionaries are great, but the app is terrible.
1. It looks bad.
2. Flashcards are pretty limited (only 20 words at a time).
3. No inflection for german. For example 'brachtest', 2nd person singular for 'bringen' pretäritum is impossible to find.
4. No conjugations for german verbs.
5. The $60 you pay for a dictionary here does not mean you can use the desktop version too, and of course it doesn't sync flash cards or anything.
In summary, this is an app from the 90s.
In-App Purchases
App Privacy
The developer, PONS Langenscheidt GmbH, has not provided details about its privacy practices and handling of data to Apple. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
No Details Provided
The developer will be required to provide privacy details when they submit their next app update.
Information
- Seller
- PONS Langenscheidt GmbH
- Size
- 198.4 MB
- Category
- Reference
- Compatibility
-
- iPhone
- Requires iOS 9.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 9.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 9.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
-
English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2020 PONS
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
-
- PONS Dictionary German $24.99
- Dictionary German PREMIUM $49.99
- Wörterbuch Deutsch PREMIUM $24.99
- Dictionary German BASIC $5.99
- Dictionary French - English $14.99
- Spanish German Dictionary $24.99
- Dictionary English - Italian $14.99
- Dictionary Spanish - English $14.99
- French - German Dictionary $24.99
- Dictionary German BUSINESS $29.99
Supports
-
Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.