Worldictionary – Instant Translator / Portable Translator App Review
Worldictionary – Instant Translator / Portable Translator App enables the reader to translate practically any word from: Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Germany, Italian, and Spanish to good old friendly English for you foreign language novices (and intermediates). The UI itself is user friendly and you can tell from the beginning that this is going to be a quality app.
The pictures are from iTunes, (it was either my ugly fingers with a unfocused and blurry image, or screenshots without finger movement, so I took Door 3 and used some lovely publicity pictures)
The main positive of this app is the instant real-time translation of words, with traditional apps such as Google Goggles and other numerous translators, the requirement the taking of a picture to process is tiresome and time-wasting. However on this app you just aim the virtual cross hair at the word and the translation appears almost instantly requiring almost no effort.
Of course there is a fall back mode where the picture is required, but instead of being purely a fall back, this mode offers the user a variety of information about the usage of a particular word. This combined with the ability to translate pictures help with the data charges when abroad. After all if you can find a free Wifi hot-spot why pay the overpriced, extortionate data-roaming charges. So if you want to translate something but not urgently you can take a picture and translate it later in a coffee shop or hotel.
This app does not straight out translate things but instead lets you highlight particular words in a text to translate. So in fact even the best linguists can learn from this, letting them translate words which are new to them without the need of having to translate sentences or even pages at a time, as you would have to do in Google Goggles.
Also you can bookmark particular words that you encounter often or you find hard to remember, and you can even save your history to check to see whether you are in fact learning words and not having to look up the same word multiple times.
Pros:
- Great real-time translate feature.
- Slick, smooth interface.
- Useful to linguists of all ability and skill.
- History and bookmark features help you learn from your mistakes
- Supports most common languages.
Cons:
- Slightly more expensive than some competitors
As you can see from the above, the list of Pros clearly outweighs the cons, and this is the best translator app we have seen yet. The price is more expensive but is justified by the brilliant features and quality of this App. A definite purchase if you are going abroad this summer! All we can say to the App Developers, is well done for an awesome app.
