Collins Italian-English App Reviews

Whenever I press the erase button in the search window, I hit the change language button. Please move the change language button more toward the words Italian/English. I hope this makes to other users and especially the vendor.

Ive been a satisfied user of the Collins Italian-English for years and the latest update makes it even better!

The dictionary itself deserves 4.5 stars: Ultralinguas interface is not well-thought-through. How do you use a bilingual dictionary? First, you almost always use it in one direction. So making it way too easy to reverse direction by putting the toggle too near another far more frequently used button is a serious design flaw. Second: Once youve looked up a word, you dont use the interface again until you need to look up another. So it ought to require minimum effort to start a new search. With the Ultralingua interface, you first must go to the upper right corner of the display to clear the (tiny) search box by tapping the (even tinier) "x" inside, then redirect your fingers to the keyboard at the screen bottom. There really needs to be a "clear search box and start a new search" button right next to the keyboard. On the plus side, its great to have the word-search history window--once you find out that its there.

This app is indispensable for me. The new design took me only five minutes to get used to. I use it for English/Italian and am impressed at the numerous everyday examples that are given to find just the right word or phrase. Incredible value!!! Thank you Ultralingua!

This is a first-rate resource for the serious student of the Italian language, well worth the money. The recently released new version has increased its value. I especially like being able to bookmark my daily words for later review, and being able to see verb definitions and conjugations next to each other. Its expensive, but worth it if you are trying to learn the language as opposed to getting by on a trip.

The new iOS7 update makes all three of my Collins dictionaries crash immediately on launch. Thats an investment nearly $100 rendered completely useless. Fix this!

App try to open and shuts down immediately . Pls fix it.

This is easily the best Italian dictionary app. A lot of care was put into making the interface clean and intuitive. The only issue is that its clumsy to close definitions. You open a definition by tapping on the word, but to close you have to click on a little "arrows" button on the other side of the screen. The definitions also stay open forever, so after awhile a bunch of definitions are open. Id expect them to be closed automatically at some point, like when you open the app.

I have moved to Italy for studies. In the process, I am learning Italian. I bought this dictionary app after having the opportunity to use a couple of print dictionaries by Collins with which I was impressed. This app has surpassed my expectations and is easily worth the cost. I have now been using the dictionary app for a month while participating in intensive italian language learning programs. Besides having an extensive vocabulary, the app is very user friendly with exceptional functionality.

Absolutely not worth the price!!! Slow and at time erratic app. Dictionary isnt bad but occasionally really quite basic vocab missing. It would be worth $4.99 - no more

Complete and extensive. Easy to use. Worth it.

Easy to use and contains much useful information such as word usage, idioms and quick links to verb conjugations.

This is a great app. Easy to use and provides phrases and idioms related to the particular word.

Comprehensive dictionary that also provides conjugations. I love that it saves to your phones memory so the content remains available off line. This was money well spent.

I use it all the time !

Excellent. Highly recommended.

I use this dictionary app all the time. It not only defines the words but also often gives them in example sentences.

I use this every day for reading and translation. As a language geek who has Italian as a first foreign language with nearly five decades of study, I dont know of a better Italian-English dictionary. Combined with the Hoepli all Italian dictionary app, all my needs are met.

Excellent resource!

I have studied Italian for many years, read many books, and purchased many dictionaries, verb conjugators, etc etc. I have the Collins interactive dictionary on my Kindle, and it is great, but a bit compendious at times to switch between it and the book I am reading. This is faster to use even though on a separate device. Now, the next time I travel to Italy I can use only this! The verb conjugations are excellent and the possible uses, translations and idiomatics are all there! It does not need a WiFi feed in order to use it either. Plan to purchase the French one as well!