Vox Comprehensive Spanish app for iPhone and iPad


4.0 ( 4160 ratings )
Reference Education
Developer: Ultralingua, Inc.
14.99 USD
Current version: 2.9, last update: 4 years ago
First release : 10 Nov 2009
App size: 18.89 Mb

Top-selling dictionary app since 2008 • Every translation you need PLUS verb conjugations in all tenses • No internet connection required!

"For serious language students and translators who are looking for more precision." - The New York Times

Featured by Apple as "Whats Hot" and "Staff Favorite"

"mas que exelente... te sale mas barato que comprar uno en una librería ademas de que este lo puedes instalar en muchos dispositivos y su interfaz es muy buena"
- User Review (translation: "more than excellent... cheaper than buying one in a library besides this you can install it on many devices and their interface is very good!")

The most comprehensive Spanish dictionary available from Vox meets the most powerful dictionary interface on the iPhone and iPad in this app.

Vox is one of the best sources for Spanish language data in the world, made even more useful with the functionality Ultralingua provides. This app includes verb conjugation, number translation, a history function, and much more.

DICTIONARY:
• Over 53,000 entries with 112,000 definitions, including 21,000 synonyms
• Tap-and-hold any word or phrase and choose "Speak" from the popup menu to hear that word spoken using Apples built-in text-to-speech feature.
• Region-specific vocabulary is labeled within the definitions, with Latin American and European varieties of Spanish represented
• Thousands of biographic and geographic entries, as well as etymologies (root word histories)
• Slang, technical language, and regional differences in spelling and usage
• Hundreds of usage notes about troublesome constructions
• Smart search results in case you misspell or mistype
• Search-as-you-go displays words and narrows your selection as you type

VERBS:
• Conjugations for thousands of Spanish verbs
• Includes all standard tenses and forms
• Smart search finds infinitives and catches misspellings
• Must-have reference tool for any student or language professional
• On iPhone/iPod touch, conjugate a verb from the dictionary results by tapping it

MORE:
• Translate numerals into Spanish text with the number tool
• Tap the history button to view the 50 most recent dictionary definitions, verb conjugations, and more in one place. Sort the list alphabetically or by date, and choose to clear the list completely or delete one entry at a time.
• No internet connection required
• Change your device settings to view the app display in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, or German

REVIEWS:
"This exceeds my expectations. Very easy to use. Definitions give examples of use of the word. For the student of Spanish, this makes the meaning clear without my needing to go to an English translation. The Verb tenses are right there. I am impressed!" -User review

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Are you learning Spanish? A monolingual Spanish dictionary is a must-have tool for any Spanish language learner. This app includes conjugations of thousands of Spanish verbs in all standard forms. The all-Spanish data also helps immerse students in the language, which is shown to increase proficiency and retention.

This is a monolingual Spanish dictionary. Many bilingual dictionaries are also available from Ultralingua, including combinations of English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, and more. See what else we have to offer by searching for Ultralingua in the App Store.

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Pros and cons of Vox Comprehensive Spanish app for iPhone and iPad

Vox Comprehensive Spanish app good for

This exceeds my expectations. Very easy to use. Definitions give examples of use of the word. For the student of Spanish, this makes the meaning clear without my needing to go to an English translation. The Verb tenses are right there. I am empressed.
Easy to use. This app should be on everyones phone who reads in Spanish. Have a good dictionary for every language you use: this is the one for Spanish.
Exellent aplication, for practics your spanish also if the spanish is your natural language....puedes mejorar tu ortografia valen la pena los $25.00 dlls. Gracias, thanks!!! And good job
The redesign in version 2.3 addresses all of the issues I found disappointing in version 1.5. I still feel I overpaid (I bought this app at $24.99) and it took a while to get these improvements, but they are quite welcome. Here is my original (three-star) review for version 1.5 : The content in this app seems quite good ; Im studying Spanish for the first time and wanted a monolingual dictionary, and it serves the purpose with apparently high-quality content. However, the content was obviously transformed mechanically from some other format, and has lost a bit in the process. Example sentences are not set off from definition text ; formatting bugs cause subheadings to run into their definitions ; clicking the word "hongos" takes you to "honkonguense" instead of "hongo" ; moving back and forth in the history behaves non-intuitively (hitting back three times, then select another head word ; now you must hit back four times to get to the fork in the road) ; word lookup is slower than it needs to be (probably due to the "everything on one virtual scrollable page" idiom) ; the pinch-zoom effect on the headings list is novel but too slow and finicky to be better than just annoying ; and in general the definitions look like a wall of text rather than well-formatted headings and definitions. I use another monolingual dictionary app (for a different language), at a third the price, that has set expectations for me ; this app has fallen far short of those expectations. For the price of this app, I was expecting something much more polished than what I got. It gets three stars because it appears to have very good content, which is still fairly accessible ; but the app itself is poorly conceived and a disappointment at this price. I can hope the developers will be sensitive to these issues, and redeem the good content with a worthier user interface.
This is a great Spanish – Spanish dictionary. I use it all the time to clear up questions I have after looking up a word in my Spanish English dictionary.

Some bad moments

After the last update it crashes constantly on my wifes iPhone 4 Please consider the problem.