Word Vault: Vocabulary Builder app for iPhone and iPad
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Have you ever looked up a word, only to forget its meaning later?
Word Vault stores all the words you want to remember and helps you to internalize them. Mundane, exotic, functional, highfalutin: amass a cache of words you love, then learn them all.
We learn fastest with frequent exposure to new words. Use Word Vault as your regular dictionary app, and it will remind you to come back and review the words youve looked up. Reviews are quick, fun, and help you to get words out of your phone and into your brain.
Features:
- Robust offline English dictionary, and online lookup for esoteric words
- Vocabulary review system with a configurable schedule
- Pronunciations
- Images and Illustrations
- Translations (See note* below!)
- Auto-complete and spell-check suggestions
- Thesaurus functionality
- Customization of your word list with notes, sources, and favorites
- Example sentences
- URL support, so you can look up words from other apps:
wordvault://define?text=yourtext
If youd like to get in touch for any reason, you can follow @chaoticgoodies on Twitter, or email [email protected].
Psst, Educators: You can purchase Word Vault for students, teachers and administrators at a discount through Apple’s Volume Licensing Program!
*Translation functionality can be activated with a one-time in-app-purchase. Please note that translations are provided for the words looked up and not for definitions. Translations are provided via Microsoft Translator, which does not have a 100% accuracy rate, especially for isolated words without context. An upcoming update will include the ability to test translations in your language of choice before paying for the in-app-purchase, to help you better gauge the value of the functionality before paying.
Pros and cons of Word Vault: Vocabulary Builder app for iPhone and iPad
Word Vault: Vocabulary Builder app good for
Word Vault helps me a great deal to collect, remember, learn and use new words. Its as straight forward as it gets.
I first bothered with the 4.99 for basicly a dictionary. But the actual value it already added to my english skills easily outguns that.
The best app for spaced repetition of recently learned words.
I use word vault almost everyday
and the new features in the updates make it even better.
I just have one thing I wish never changed, an thats when the app converted its UI interface to the iOS 7 look. IMO I simply dislike the flat and basic look of iOS 7 and the fact that all apps changed to this as well.
I just wish Word Vault still looked as it did back in iOS 6 where depth, shadows, and realism made it look spectacular.
Awesome app. Great for keeping words you like salient. Simple, easy to use. Still would like to see iCloud sync.
Im not a native speaker, but this app has taught me to remember many words I read from books. The daily reminder to practice these words introduces a motivating routine for me.
This is the best dictionary app Ive used. Its fast, has great features, good pronunciation, nice design, allows you to track the sources of your words, has illustrations, daily quiz. I could keep going its so full of well designed features.
Some bad moments
Its a beautiful and useful app. However, can you please add pronunciations?
Practical and useful. Could you add more types of practice exercises?
I like how I can save words with notes and where I found them , but I need the ability to sort my words like choosing " book" to get only the words I saved by that name .
So far so good.
It would have had more appeal if it could offer pronunciation as well for all the new words! That would save some time. I hope and wait!!
I use to try to keep track of new words using the notes app, but I always forget about it in a few days, this app has proven very useful! One thing that I would like added is a pronunciation button so I dont end up learning it wrong. (Be really cool if part of the quiz is pronouncing it correctly.)
I love this app—its simple and beautiful.
Id love to see the following features: pronunciation capability, tagging system, date system (to indicate when I added the word).
