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Ultralingua German-English App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
Ultralingua German-English app received 22 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using Ultralingua German-English? Can you share your negative thoughts about ultralingua german-english?
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✓ Indispensable, though the new icons a major backward step in usability.The Collins Ultralingua dictionary content and new user interface overall is good. 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
✓ Great Information - Little Slow / BuggyI've enjoyed using this application. I primarily use it to look-up words I encounter when reading German language websites with Safari on the iPhone. This involves doing a select/copy on the word in Safari (or other German text application), closing Safari, launching the dictionary, and pasting the word into the search box. I have been very pleased with the search results and definitions (i.e., they provide many different translations and context usages). However, I have two non-trivial problems: 1. I cannot paste text into the search box anymore since the v. 1.3 upgrade (which caused the dictionary to crash everytime I tried to launch it). Although 1.3.1 seems to have fixed the crash problem, I can no longer paste text into the search box like I previously did nearly every day (and copy/paste works just fine in other apps). 2. The start-up time is painful. I want to be able to look words up quickly while reading. It can take 20-30 seconds to complete the operation I described before, most of which is the Ultralingua startup time. If it weren't for those two issues I'd use this application much more frequently..Version: 0
✓ Generally good - lacks important featureGenerally this is a good dictionary. However, that is lacks indication with verbs on whether they are transitive or intransitive is a major flaw..Version: 2.9
✓ More specific words missingThe functionality is good and if you don't look for too unusual words it's great. But I actually was looking for a dictonary with a bigger vocabulary. Quite a few words I was looking up were not in this dictonary..Version: 0
✓ Upgrade??!!Please may I have the previous version back! Font was clearer, verbs showed gender, altogether easier, faster and far more pleasant to use. Do not "tinker" with something that works well for the sake of it!.Version: 2.3
✓ Downgrade?The new look of this app is harder to read. The fonts are too thin and fancy. The new interface is not very intuitive and the whole app seems much slower on my iPhone 4. Very diassaponted..Version: 2.3
✓ Add Pronunciation PleaseI was very disappointed when I found out there's no pronunciation for the German words. I have been using "and loving" the Ultralingua French/English version and that one DOES have the pronunciation for the French words. I'm also interested in speaking the language not only in reading and writing it, so until the pronunciation for the German words is added this app will won't be as nearly as useful as it can be. Thanks Ultralingua. P.S. I also have the Ultralingua Portuguese/English and just realized that one doesn't have the pronunciation for the Portuguese words either. I hadn't noticed before because Portug. is my native language so I don't need the pronunciation for those, as I imagine most of the English native speakers don't care much for the pronunciation of the English words in an app like this..Version: 0
✓ Waste of timeI found a much better programme for 1.49, in terms of value for money this is the worse app I have ever had, if you want a straight forward translator where you can enter a phrase and get a translation leave this well alone.Version: 0
✓ Pretty goodI would have rated it higher if not for the high price. But it seems to work pretty well. I like the Conjugations function. There are lots of example phrases. Navigating thru the dictionary is pretty intuitive, easy and quick. My one wish would be for it to have audio recordings for pronunciation help. It does not have that. However, at least now my iphone will be more than just an alarm clock when I’m traveling in Germany! ;-).Version: 0
✓ Absolutely dismalI have been trying to look up the meaning of "das Regal" to see it's plural and it's showing me a translation for some random verb...seriously?.Version: 2.7
✓ Small vocabularyThe app works very well, but I'm really disappointed by the small vocabulary. The description promises 'collegiate-level', but can't find 3 out of 4 words I'm looking for. I would recommend it only for beginner levels..Version: 0
✓ What happened to landscape mode? Thumbs down!I also have the Spanish & French 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
✓ Sadly very poorAfter month of using it to help me in "difficult" conversations there were many instances where it could not find a translation. It was also bad at double words such as "number plate". Text is also on the small side. The iPad version thinks for a good 5 seconds before finding the word! Have deleted it and changed to Pons, which so far seems much better and has also has a Flash Card function..Version: 0
✓ Stopped workingIt has stopped working.Version: 2.10
✓ I hate this update!!!I have been using these dictionaries on my ipad (in German and Italian) for at least 3 years and this update is just horrible. The new format gives little information on a page so it takes much, much longer to find what you are seeking and then to get the conjugations, etc. the conjugations are far less legible than they used to be. I hate this update and wish that I could get the old format back. Why would they go backwards?????.Version: 2.3
✓ I tried the new GUI user interface. - 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
✓ Sluggish iPad performance after updateThe dictionary is still terrific, but the latest iPad update slows the app to a crawl. The app sometimes takes seconds to recognize key presses, and seconds more to return a search result. Oddly, the same app on iPhone works instantly..Version: 1.4
✓ What a piece of cr*p...It struggles to find even basic German words.....I want my money back!!! Rip Off....Garbage App...thanks for screwing me..Version: 1.3.4
✓ Problems discovered after most recent updateThe latest app iOS 9 update seems to be defective. I'm encountering problems and bugs such as, when I enter a word into the search field, it just remains there, no matter how many other words are researched. Using the back arrow keys does nothing to remove the entry. Additionally, after looking at verb conjugations, it is impossible to back out to the original screen. These "issues" need immediate attention and resolution..Version: 2.7
✓ Good app, but far from perfectI like this app. The GUI is well designed. Other reviews have mentioned some of it's shortcomings, but they were not serious enough to deter me from buying it. I was previously using a Palm-based dictionary called Bdicty by Binks. I find it annoying that I need to know the word I'm seeking. Many times I may only know the first few letters or the sound of the foreign word, nothing more. Bdicty lets me scroll to the letter and then through the entire dictionary from that point -- very useful. While this app is nicer in other ways, that missing feature is sorely missed. Bdicty also let's you add or edit words, and has a button to switch from English-German to German-English, again very useful to speed things up. But this is quite good for it's price..Version: 0
✓ Retrograde UpdateThe latest update has made the dictionary much less useful: fewer entries can be seen for queries and on the iPad the use of space is much poorer. It just feels lacking like a 99 cent dictionary. This is a shame as the old format worked well..Version: 2.3
✓ No pronunciation??!?I should have read the other reviewer saying there is no pronunciation. Seriously, I would have never dropped 20 bucks for a dictionary that doesn't have pronunciation, I don't care how good this dictionary is. How could you possibly have a dictionary that doesn't help you pronounce the words (especially German!) I want my money back..Version: 0
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