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American Heritage® Dictionary App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
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✓ Poor support for $24.95This is a good dictionary but the support and website are never current or very good. When ever I contact them after an upgrade change they are acknowledge that they need to update their website and promise they will do so soon but it just doesn't happen. Too bad because I am now committed to this app but I don't feel they are committed to it. Please Enfour Inc. - get behind your product with full and proper support. Several years of bookmarks lost and they blame it on Apple. Please learn to take responsibility and quit passing the buck. And they want another $12.95 to upgrade to version 5..Version: 3.9.3
✓ Descriptive vs. Proscriptive - very disappointedI was expecting more from an application with this price tag. I looked up a word that's always mispronounced in our dumbed-down culture these days: bulimia. Instead of giving the correct pronunciation in a proscriptive fashion, the American Heritage Dictionary took the easy way out and gave the descriptive pronunciation that's currently in wide circulation. Not only is this pronunciation pretentious, it's very counterintuitive. Why would anyone naturally pronounce this word with a long e??? Do we pronounce 'eliminate' with a long e???!!! Check "The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations" for corroboration. Come on American Heritage - give us the correct pronunciation in the next update!!!!!!!!!!! I would have given this app. 5 stars, but I can't knowing that there are probably many other words that they gave the wrong pronunciation..Version: 0
✓ Love / Hate RelationshipWhen I bought the app (5-6 months ago) it functioned properly. When the app works, it's AWESOME. However, I downloaded the update and the app no longer works!! I get nothing more than a blank screen. I have tried everything to get it working again, as I miss being able to use it. The app has bugs that need to be worked out. If you are among the users without issue keep your fingers crossed. Hopefully, a new version will be released that addresses the issues many users seem to be having. When the app works it is worthy of 5 stars. However, only one star when it does not. I split the difference and gave it three because I am holding out hope for better days..Version: 0
✓ Not worth the moneyIt does have some pictorial explanation, but it lacks basic features like searching the meaning of a word within the explanation of another word. Other cheaper application does it effectively. Its a shame that for this amount of money they did not include this option, and further it does not have any synonyms..Version: 0
✓ Excellent updateWhilst this a US dictionary it is excellent with great features, not least the built-in link to the iPhone's Roget thesaurus app. One thing that seems out-of-place is the icon on the top right-hand part of the screen though. It is distracting as it doesn't fit in visually (same with Roget as well). Overall, if you make use of a dictionary on a regular basis and you don't mind it being US spellings then this comes highly recommended..Version: 0
✓ SAVE YOUR MONEY!!!!!!Wayyy over priced. I got some iTunes gift cards over the holidays and was excited to finally be able to purchase this app. I was thinking that it would be awesome to have pictures to go along with the definitions like how the pictures show. Well I was wrong. So far every word I have looked up has yet to have a picture accompanying it. If you just want definitions and for them to pronounce words for you then there are plenty of other dictionary apps that offer this. Especially for A LOT lower price. Although it is an excellent dictionary and did have a word that my other dictionary did not have, that one extra word was not worth $30! Save yourself the mula and purchase the wordbook app for a lot cheaper, and it does basically everything this dictionary does. Except for being over priced and deceiving. Thanks American Heritage dictionary for wasting my money, instead of me being able to buy tons of other apps or music! I was so upset with my purchase that they forced me to write my first review on iTunes, and it was not a good one..Version: 0
✓ Latest Version won't instalThe latest version won't install on my iphone, required a hard reset, after a lot of work i have my iPhone working again. Will not reinstall this app ever.Version: 0
✓ Not worth the priceThe printed AHD is my favorite dictionary so I was especially dissapointed to see this application be so poorly designed. This is an iPhone only app - there is no iPad version available. There is no attempt to do fuzzy searches (it fails the sole/soul lookup test). It does have word origins and some usage notes. It is pretty much just a replication of the printed dictionary. The settings screen doesn't let you change the font size or much of anything else. It does have a unique feature in that you can set the language but this is still an English dictionary - the language of the prompts on the buttons is all that changes - none of the content changes. If you have the Rogets II thesaurus installed you can click on a word to look in up in the thesaurus but this only works with the Rogets II and I find it to be the least useful theasurus in the app store..Version: 0
✓ Linkage to ODE&OTE missingThis new update 3.2 doesn't link me to my ODE&OTE anymore. Is this a bug? All previous versions worked fine with this functionality. Please fix this..Version: 0
✓ This app is broke againNot working on iPad Pro 11” (2020). When you open the app, you get a flash screen that says “total failure” before sending you to the App Store. Please fix..Version: 13.3.2
✓ I don't know...The UI is beautiful, but at the same time, for the price, it needs more gusto, as for instance, the bookmarked words, these should be saved in a separate file so that if itunes magically removes the app from your phone, like it did to me, you don't lose your vocabulary list, as I'm still upset, to where I writing this review. And then there is having to shell out another $13 to upgrade to the new app!?!? That from reviews CRASHES?!?! I don't think so. Nice app, but not worth what you pay IMHO, the bookmarks should be saved to a profile, so that you can access your vocabulary list from any device at any time. When I see that this has been done, I will gladly upgrade, as I'm fumed to have lost my list for the second time, which is also itunes fault, and believe me they're next....Version: 3.9.3
✓ Would be up the top if you could turn the audio up more!!Please make the audio louder. It is barely audible on speakerphone even with the volume turned all the way up. I can only give it 3 stars because of the lack of audio controls but will give it 5 if you can fix this. Speaking Dictionary is only $1.19 and the audio is very nice and loud. I bought this mainly for the audio and it is very expensive but needs tweaks with the audio to make it louder on speakerphone. I use speakerphone to help my wife with her English so earphone is not really an option for us. The speakers have very excellent pronunciation but just needs to be louder so could you kindly look into this in a coming update please as it is very important to me and if Speaking Dictionary can do it then I can't see why American Heritage can't..Version: 0
✓ American Heritage DictionaryI bought this dictionary in 2010 and used it almost daily until I updated it a few days ago. It now won’t let me into the app, popping me right back to the menu..Version: 11.0
✓ Annoying unnecessary red badge on iconFor some bizzare reason, the developers have fixed a red circular "2" badge to the icon, normally used in other applications to indicate 2 items require your attention. Here, it means nothing more than you have release 2 of the dictionary. Each time you glance at your screen you'll see it, and wonder what idiot is responsible..Version: 0
✓ It ruined my iphoneAfter i downloaded this app my IPhone can't get sync. ps, it is so expensive. not worth it at all..Version: 0
✓ Great DictionaryBut every time I try to use it, it puts up a pop up box to get me to rate it five stars..Version: 9.4
✓ How to make the 2 badge go away. Great Dictionary but overpriced & has some flaws.I was really annoyed by the new "2" badge for this icon. And think it should go immediately. I found out how to get rid of it, apparently the "2" is there to force you to learn the new 2.0 features, as well as try to sell you the Roget II Thesaurus. Very annoying. They should remove it themselves but before they do here is how you get rid of it: - On the apps iTunes page click through the photo previews which detail the new 2.0 features. There are two important ones: Pressing and holding a word within a definition will jump you over to that words definition, and clicking the word you entered will send you to Roget's Thesaurus II (if you own it) If you open the AHD4 app on the iphone and then perform those two actions, when you get back to the main screen the 2.0 badge magically disappears. I understand their intention, alerting you to new features, but the badge is unnecessary and annoying...poor choice that's all..Version: 0
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