Worldictionary App Reviews

Every time I try to translate my Japanese books ,games etc.it translates very oddly. Ex: I give it my instruction book and it says the translation for this is: VoCRuoplg and crazy stuff like that. A waste of $4.00! :(

I expected this app would work just as well as Google Goggles, but I was wrong. It wont translate anything properly, especially the Japanese text on an antique that I bought the app specifically for. A huge waste of $4; I dont know whos giving this five stars...

This app is simple and intuitive to use. Im really amazed with its load of advanced features. Moreover it shows great accuracy.

This is a must have Utility app if you are traveling to a foreign country! If you cant read a sign or something, just open up Worldictionary and it uses the camera to translate that word! The best feature is that you can save a picture with multiple sentences on it and then go back later and select certain words to translate. Great if you need to refer back to a foreign message or when youre studying! It would be even better if you could select multiple words at once! This app is worth way more than the 3.99! Everyone with an iPhone should have this app!!

This app does everything it says it does in the description very fast and smoothly. I have been using it to read a book written in Spanish. Fun and easy, great design. Looking forward to future updates!

This is a great app, and is very useful, but photos arent always very accurate, and sometimes, I had to change what the app thought a photo was. Sentence recognition is good, but it took so long to get the actual result, that it would have been faster to just type what it said. The translation for whole sentences after they were recognized was good, though. Overall, this is a good and useful app, but it needs some slight improvements.

Do NOT buy if youre trying to find an app that translates Japanese.

This is an application the will translate one language to another by viewing the text in real life via the camera. I am so shocked that this is possible and am extremely impressed by this technology. I was able to point the camera at Japanese and it showed me the translation without me having to enter stroke order or have any kind of knowledge. For someone who travels or is learning a language, this can be seriously useful and save a lot of time. For example, if you are in Tokyo, this could translate street signs or food items on a menu. How incredible is that! There are a few minor flaws, such as not the greatest selection of languages to choose from. Luckily, for more “obscure” languages, there are ones available for an additional purchase. This is strange since the app is pretty pricey already. Also, when selecting things, such as languages, there Is no “done” button. Sometimes I found myself confused how to confirm a change with various options because of this. So not the most user friendly app out there, but an incredible advancement in technology that I highly recommend for anyone – there is a free version to try!

Useless app. Can only translate one word at a time and requires several seconds of keeping camera absolutely still to do so. Translating an entire sentence or paragraph would take so long that you would forget the meaning of the first words by the time you got to the last. Keeps no useful record of previously translated words, so you couldnt string together a whole phrase, even if you did have the patience to individually translate each word. App claims to translate a photo of a paragraph, but still only does it one word at a time (you have to tap each word in the photo one at a time to get a translation of that word only). Also, it is only able to correctly recognize about 50% of the words in any photo. Finally, it only works with an Internet connection, so if you only have wifi, you probably wont be able to use it when you need it. I am very sorry I spent my money on this.

Look elsewhere if youre searching for an app that can translate Japanese! Havent tried it with other languages but its totally useless when attempting to decipher Japanese.

This app is quite wonderful actually. The idea is also very original. I love the usefulness of this app. This app is a must have for travelers to foreign countries.

This is an extremely handy and easy to use tool. The only downside that i can see is that it can give way too much information when translating words or sentences. It can be difficult to sort out the correct information.

It works, tested from English to Chinese, Chinese to English , real time translation is very handful, point the camera to a words , then you get the meaning , nice app!

This app is very cool. I love the translation without typing. You just poing the phone at the word and it shows you instantly what the translation is and will even say it outloud for you. I could see this being used alot while traveling and would make a great learning tool.

Very nice and useful. Helpful for those foreign travelers.

This app is a worthless waste of money. No tutorial, no help functions that I could find. Can not figure out how to change langauges. It defaults with English to Spanish/Spanish to English but it doesnt appear to even do that properly. Doesnt recognize the words properly, spits out a lot of gibberish. I wanted this app to learn some Japanese as I want to travel to Japan one day but can not figure out how to switch to Japanese. Worthless app, wouldnt have for free, definitly not worth the purchase price.

This application is rubbish ...I WANT MY MONEY BACK

the unique feature of this app is that you just need to point your iPhone camera to the word, and you get translation result instantly. On the other hand, you can also take a photo, and the app will do an OCR, and translate the whole sentences. You can choose different most popular online translators, and the recognition rate and the translation quality are both pretty good. I think it can be the only translation app that you need.

I love that this app can translate text from pictures. Its not perfect but its decent and you can google it if need be.

This app does pretty well considering it is translating merely from a picture. I do wish it had more languages and sometimes its a bit glitchy and doesnt produce accurate results but I think those that knock it down are expecting too much.