Macquarie Dictionary

Absolutely fabulous. Correct spelling for Australia. No need to put up with American misspellings. Spells colour, flavour, cancelled, authorisation, maximised, and others, all correctly. What a relief! Definitely recommend it.

It was fine on my iPhone 13 for a while. Suddenly lost the pronunciation. It says playing but no sound can be heard. I will modify the rating when the application becomes more stable.

Sadly the *audio* pronunciations are for common words only, not rare or uncommon words. There is no system integration at all, so spotlight/siri doesn’t work with this dictionary. The in app search is not live/auto reactive, so if you struggle with spelling that may be an issue.

Not what I was expecting. Was more expecting a dictionary that can be read through. Waste of money.

You don’t get much for the price! No thesaurus feature a terrible search bar that offers no predictive text function so if you’re not sure on the spelling you’ve got no hope unless you want to browse and scroll through thousands of words. Look elsewhere.

The app pronunciation function does not work on iPhones!! Complete waste of $20. Looking for a refund as that was the pure purpose of my purchase.

I can’t read what I type into the search box. The text is invisible. Also, ever heard of a night mode? Or at least something more subtle? The colour scheme is garish. Especially the green, it’s way fluro.

this app is an honest-to-God joke. Even more so now after the update than it was before; which is saying a lot. Please people, don’t waste your money. Read my previous review.

Good to finally see an update in Dec 2019 after many years. Hopefully these will be more frequent in the future. It is fantastic to have an Australian dictionary at hand on your phone. Macquarie is the standard and I use it regularly. The interface could do with some improvement to make it a little more intuitive. Also, synonyms and antonyms are missing.

It’s hard for this dictionary to compete with the free online ones like Oxford and Webster. It’s even harder when it’s last update was 2016. Be careful when you purchase it. It’s a little old.