Comprehensive offline dictionary
I have come to like Langenscheidts high quality translations. You can question whether you need it given online resources. But it does have high-quality data and is also available when youre traveling. Its also great to have the domain translations such as technical or economy or ..... And, seriously, who would still look up things in an actual heavy-weight dictionary if theres a computer solution that you always got with you?
Downsides:
- you have to manually select with the mouse in which direction to translate. Seriously? How hard can it be to search both directions at once?
- Thesaurus functionality is missing, which is a realy pity and weaker than some free online dictionaries. I still like the quality of the data though.
- why do I manually have to select which dictionary to search through? If a word cant be found in one, just use the other. Or just show the merged entries one after the other with a little symbol saying which dictionary they came from.
- Langenscheidt should register themselves as a source for Force Click on words to improve user experience.
- I am a little annoyed that they update the app every month with the only change being a free lexicon of the month. Some investment in the basic software should have higher impact.
Hidden feature:
- you probably didnt notice but if you happen to be able to locate the paragraph key on your keyboard then Command-Paragraph lets you look up words in Langenscheidt from any application. Thats awesome. Except for the paragraph key. You can change that in systems keyboard settings.
ace apertura about Langenscheidt Wörterbücher, v8.6.326