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Ultralingua French-English App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
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Ultralingua French-English for Negative User Reviews
✓ Please fixSince the update, all my Ultralingua dictionaries freeze when I try to search for a word. This is rendered all of them very useless..Version: 1.5.3
✓ Awful updateThis used to be a fantastic dictionary. The update on 29th May has made it unusable. Horrible typeface choices make the app very hard to read. What was a very simple and effective verb conjugator has been made more complicated to use. This is the first time I've ever felt the need to write a review. The update is awful, it's ruined a once fantastic application..Version: 2.3
✓ SnuhBasically, a dictionary. A very expensive dictionary. Would be better with either a translator or useful phrases included in the price..Version: 0
✓ Crashes oftenExpensive app, so it is reasonable to expect more. It does the basic stuff. However when you type in some words (eg. Starting with "pre" ) it automatically crashes..Version: 2.4.2
✓ Freeze with iOS 6.1Same here, the app freezes when trying to look up a word. Useless like this. Hope they fix soon..Version: 1.5.3
✓ French English Translation Dictionary by UltraliguaThe conguation aspect of this app is convenient -- it would be very handy for students. It's an adequate french-english dictionary, but not nearly as useful as my Sharp Electronic French-English Dictionary. I think the "translation" part of the title is misleading. For example it doesn't translate phrases..Version: 0
✓ Good, and very useful, but could be much better stillBeing able to carry around a French-English dictionary in your iPhone is fantastic - throw away your heavy paper version. However, it's also frustrating to see so little use of the electronic format. They should add some sound (common words pronounced), have better one-touch links between entries, add in a phrase book. This application could be the gold standard. At the moment there is plenty of opportunity for a competitor to leap-frog over ultralingual's app..Version: 0
✓ Good but no iOS4 supportWhen flicking between French text in iBooks or Safari and this app, it takes far too long to relaunch this dictionary. Needs an update to iOS4 to support saving status and running in the background. Otherwise good but a tad pricey..Version: 0
✓ A five but for the Bad IconThe 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..Version: 2.3
✓ Update is not free!I was about to update this app on my iPad but it was rerouted to app store and asked for my confirmation to pay 19.99 !!.Version: 1.5
✓ Disappointed with all the major glitchesPurchased this thinking it would be a good companion, and it is. But it does have some major glitches (Bugs) that should not be there for the $24 price tag. These occur on both the iphone and itouch. i.e. Importantly. If you search for a word in the French dictionary that is incorrectly spelt or not in the database, it brings up a "No entries found” screen, and also Suggests some other possibilities of the correct word on the same screen. However the links to these other 'Suggested' words are always broken. When you press on the link of the Suggested word you get another 'No entries found' screen but without the suggestions. This is very frustrating when you are unsure of the spelling of the word. There is also no way to enter accents on the keyboard, which can be crucial with the French language. In fact can be the main reason why you get a "No entries found screen” in the first place. In addition, It often crashes when entering certain words. ie. 'Faire' for instance This could be a great tool if the developers release an update ASAP fixing these crucial bugs..Version: 0
✓ Upgrade crashesThe new update crashes upon opening. The old one worked just fine. Strangely enough the Spanish-English version 1.3 works for me even though reviews on iTunes of that version say it also won't open. This is a great app when it works, especially verb conjugations. Rating the app with the stars above doesn't work. It would be 5 if the worked. As it is now 0 stars..Version: 0
✓ French Dictionary Little Help for BeginnersLack of sound is big negative for beginners hoping to learn French. Less than ideal interface. Remembers words looked up. But easy to delete history with no warning if misplacing fingered selection by a hair. Great dictionary if you can already pronounce French. But appropriate price would be $7, not $20. The over-10MB size means carrier won't allow download on iPhone and can be slow to get over wi-fi..Version: 0
✓ DisappointingI was immediately disappointed and felt I had wasted my money. It's OK so far as it goes, but it's just very limited. First, the number of words is limited. Second, it's geared to American English, and my native tongue is UK English. True, it has both US and UK spellings, but usage - a more important difference - appears to be entirely American. For example, the very first thing I looked up was "planning permission", English to French, only to discover that you can only enter single words. So I entered "planning" -"planification" in French, which I knew already, and it did not give the phrase "planning permission". So I entered "permission" - "permission" in French. Not only is this incorrect in this context (the correct word here is "permis" - "permit" in English), but the full phrase still was not there. Why is not possible to browse books on line, as in a real bookshop, before committing to a purchase? PS the correct translation is "permis de construire" - no thanks to this dictionary!.Version: 0
✓ Not any better than previous version!A proverb says tha the best is the enemy of the good. I think that it is what happened with the Ultralingua dictionnaries (I have three of them), they are surely not more useful than the previous version! And before I could chose the right one instantly by looking at the flag on their respective icon. Now I need to put on my reading glasses to read the barely readable text on the icon!.Version: 2.3
✓ DisappointedI’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..Version: 2.9
✓ PgrThis is a very basic dictionairy. The price should be $2.Version: 1.4.1
✓ Another reason to check each app before using autoupdateCrash on start with version 1.3. The old version worked fine. Reinstalled the old version and it works fine again. Later tried deleting and redownloading as suggested below and that worked. Not sure why this stuff doesn't show up during testing. Can't say I see any difference in speed as stated in the update notes. It is a good complete dictionary. It sometimes recognizes verb infections and translates them, and other times not. It's well priced for a book but relatively expensive in the app world. It doesn't require an internet connection making it more useful when traveling in Europe..Version: 0
✓ The Ultralingua updateThis update is terrible and has wrecked a very useful dictionary. Getting at verb conjugation is a special nightmare. Please un update asap. I really wanted to give it zero stars..Version: 2.3
✓ I tried the new design GUI - no thanksBRING BACK OLD INTERFACE - as option perhaps. OR FIVE NE MY MONEY BACK!! The old design had its flaws (too thick, more taps necessary) but it was efficient. Now u have to scroll kilometres and miles of text to get to what I need and it's not good on eye too..Version: 2.3
✓ AbandonwareI 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..Version: 2.7
✓ Needs some improvementI have been using the desktop version for several years and was excited to see Ultralingua available for my new iTouch. However, after just some quick searches, I noticed a glaring omission: no personal pronouns! With these missing, it will be tough for beginners to translate such common phrases like "il faut" or "il y a". In the desktop version, the user can lookup "il" and these related phrases appear. There are dozens more like this using "en", which is missing as well. The Ultralingua team has been superb about making desktop version improvements; I'm sure they'll take care of these on the next go-around..Version: 0
✓ Need a serious update with more wordsIt's weired to find a paid (and not cheap!) dictionnary with such limited number of words! Design is nice and it's fast enough.Version: 2.3
✓ Don't like the new lookThe 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..Version: 2.3
✓ It's not bad but needs bug fixes.This app looks good but it often crashes with no messages and then you need to restart... Offten is like every 5 min..Version: 0
✓ What happened to landscape mode? Thumbs down!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!.Version: 1.5.3
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