Ultralingua Portuguese-English App Reviews

I need say only nice and amazing.

App is great for anyone serious about learing portuguese, really easy to use and very intuitive. One star short of 5 bc it doesnt distinguish between portuguese portuguese and brazilian portuguese, please please please update and fix this there are some very distinct differences.

This app is great. I use it every day. It is well designed and it is faster to use than my paper dictionary. But I also find myself regularly resorting to my conventional dictionary to find more detail or examples. I would be very happy to pay double the price of this app to have the amount of information that can be found in a large dictionary.

I am going to Brazil soon so I bought it. I love it. Nice interface and very easy to use. I recommend it! Buy it! You wont regret it.

Ive bought electonic Portuguese to English translators before that were by comparison to this useless. Even the ability to translate slang is above average compared to a traditional dictionary. I use this app all the time when practicing reading portuguese and it has proved invaluable; Im too lazy to give most apps reviews but this one deserved props.

1) Lots of missing words, as other commenter noted. I just open one page of normal childrens book in Portuguese and here we go: susto (fright), descolado (cool), aquentar (bear, cope), aspersor (sprinkler) and so on. 2) For words that are there, they use highly obscure synonyms. Dont get me wrong: although Im not native in English, I read New York Times without strain. But ultralinguas translations always confuse me. Ensopar (to drench) is translated as (douse, sop up). Enganar (to deceive) - (bamboozle, beat, betray, etc). Tirar (to take away) - (draw up, ease someone of, extract, get off, etc). 3) As if #2 is not enough, instead of two-three closest translations, they put ten, all of which are only slightly related to original word in Portuguese. (see some examples above) Well. Although weve entered computer age long ago, paper dictionaries still win.

Im in Brazil right now learning Portuguese and I was so lucky to have found this app for my iPad. It really has made looking up words so much easier and I feel really lucky to have stumbled upon it. I have been surprised at how much more than just a simple dictionary it is. My Favorite Features: - Verb conjugations. It is so simple to look up an infinitive and then scan through all the verb tenses. - Flip back and forth from English to Portuguese. I need to do these all the time, and this program makes it so easy. - Click on words in definitions to expand to the full entry. This is helpful since in reading definitions I often find other words I need to know.

There are two updates I would like to see. First, I would really like to see medical terms put in. Imagine when you are sick and dont have the words to understand what is going on. Second, I would love for the verb to conjugate directly from the search. Currently, when you find a verb you have to retype the verb in the -ir search. It would save time if I didnt have to retype the verb I had just found. Otherwise, I love this app. I am fairly fluent in Portuguese and am currently living in Brazil, so this app is so helpful for the words I dont know. I also love the verb conjugation. Thank you.

This is an excellent app, I do recommend it, its the best of its kind to things would make it perfect to me. 1. Be able to add your own words, so when you find something missing and have to look elsewhere to find it you can then add it so you can keep everthing in one place and improve it over time. 2. The ability to sync with the desktop app. Since the desktop app has the ability to add more words already I need to keep them in sync.

I bought this dictionary because it was probably the first available for the iPhone and it also always shows up first in searches for Portuguese-English dictionaries. I spend a lot of time in Brazil and having a dictionary on the iPhone is an enormous convenience. But I often find serious problems with the entries in this app: (1) often I cant even find the words that I am looking for, encountered in Folha de Sao Paulo or some revista about the novellas. In other words, palavras that should be in a useful dictionary. (2) many of the definitions offered are too brief and misleading or offer only one meaning when several can be found in other dictionaries (eg the iPhone Aurelio). Sometimes it actually seems to be just plain incorrect. What is strange is that Ulta-lingua offers the excellent Collins dictionary at the same price. they should simply remove this dictionary from their catalog and stick with their much superior alternative The app does offer conjugation of verbs however, and this is very useful but this same feature is available in the Collins dictionary also.

I want to buy this for other languages, its really handy to have!!

I purchased this for language help while traveling in Brazil. There is little in the way of useful phrases and those are difficult to find. It gives many results for translating a single word with no help in determining which word is appropriate for the given context. $20 wasted.

I originally gave this a good rating bit since studying and learning more português I found this dictionary to be seriously lacking. An entry will offer several possible translations without explanation. The dictionary tries to oversimplify the language and sometimes give you a misleading translation. Careful.

Living in Brazil and had the false idea that the most expensive dictionary would be the best. I was way wrong! This dictionary is seriously lacking and often does not have what Im looking for or gives a bad translation. I have another dictionary that was practically free and I use it more. Look elsewhere!

I tried everything but this app is locked on portrait mode now! I cant use it on landscape mode anymore! And my orientation is not locked!!! Its a terrible bug for a $19,99 app!!!

I have had this app for several years, and it keeps getting better and better. As an American living part-time in Rio studying Portuguese, I recommend it highly both for quick translations and for studying the incredibly complex Portuguese verb conjugations. Amazingly you dont need WiFi - its all in your device. So no more little dictionaries in your pocket. Great personalized support from friendly techs. Love it!

This ap saves a lot of time over using a paper dictionary, but I find only about 75% of the words Im looking for and some of those I do find, do not have the appropriate definition. I am taking a Portuguese class, so am not looking up exotic words. I love the features though - it has some really clever usability. Just wish it were more complete and offered an audio pronunciation. I also wish they had a feature comparison of this ap and the more expensive ap. Not sure its worth the money.

This used to be a great app. The latest update was an attempt to add some stylization. What it did was ruin the UI and impact the utility. Positive Notes: Extensive dictionary. Conjugation feature is handy.

Im so pleased with the new updates now I think this application is worth the price !

Shortly after buying my iPhone two years ago I bought the Ultralingua Portuguese-English dictionary app for it. Although I was hesitant given the price, it turned out to be a well-spent $20. The dictionary quality itself is as good as a medium to large-sized dictionary (not as good as the two-volume reference dictionary I have), but the UI is what makes it worth it -- making it easy to switch between definitions and verb conjugations -- everything is linked the way you want it to be. And they have made regular updates to the app as needed. When I bought my iPad, I was very pleased that they turned their dictionaries into "universal" apps so it had a special UI for the iPad without requiring a separate purchase. I cant recommend this app enough.