Dictionary Universal

🇺🇸 United States
Dmitry Zhuk  | 
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4.6
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Votes
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App Age
16y 7m
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Last Update
Aug 19, 2025

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Rating
4.61
4.59
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Number of Ratings (Voted)
154
253.2K
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App Age
16y 7m
6y 1m
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Price
$6
$0
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$38
Update Frequency
42d
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Title Length
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26
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28
Description Length
1 774
2 868
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Number of Screenshots
1794
1152
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Size
2MB
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Dictionary Universal is iPhone, iPod touch and iPad application for viewing StarDict dictionaries and dictionaries in Lingvo DSL format ¹. Many of these dictionaries are available on the Internet for free ². Features: * Very fast. After dictionary is indexed, minimal time is required to start before you can type text. List of matches appears without delay while you type. * Supports morphology for English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. * Fuzzy search. This functionality will help you find words if they are misspelled or when you don't know how to type word correctly. Just type in the text and hit Search button on the keyboard. * Pronunciation support. * Searching text in currently displayed article. * Profiles group dictionaries, pronunciation and morphology for quick switching. Useful if you work with several languages. * Favorites and Search History. * Ability to lookup word in clipboard when switching to the application. Copy word to clipboard and switch to Dictionary Universal to see translation. * Most complete StarDict format support in the AppStore (including images, synonyms, and various dictionary formats). * Color highlighting for better text readability (when supported by dictionary format). * Arbitrary word lookup. Tap any word in article to lookup it in loaded dictionaries. * Full screen mode support. * Compressed dictionaries and resources support. * Embedded web browser for downloading dictionaries from the Internet. ¹ Lingvo DSL format is a text format with dictionary source code. Dictionary Universal does not support compiled Lingvo dictionaries (LSD format). ² No dictionaries are bundled with the application. You will need StarDict or Lingvo DSL dictionaries to use them with the application.}
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Rating
4.6
156 voters

Some Latest Reviews

Андрей (свободный псевдоним)
20 Jul, 2025
5
Довольно удобное приложение для словарей. Почти доходит до уровня GoldenDict на андроид. Мне не удалось найти ничего лучшего для iOS. Хотелось бы ещё изменить одно поведение: чтобы при поиске одно и то же слово, но написанное в разных регистрах, распознавалось как одно и то же слово. Например, сейчас так: слово «Книга» и слово «книга» - это два разных слова, а значит, надо открыть две статьи, чтобы посмотреть все варианты (в словарях по разному бывают записаны слова). Хотелось бы, чтобы регистр не учитывался, и можно было посмотреть все варианты для слова в одной подборке.
Sleeper 🛌
18 Dec, 2024
5
I’ve been searching for a GoldenDict alternative for iOS. I used Dicty for a little while and wasn’t entirely satisfied, but so far this app has been amazing. The UI is much cleaner, all my dictionaries were indexed without hassle and the search functionality works great. 👌
User🧑‍💻
08 Dec, 2024
5
I really enjoy the app! I have a feature request to improve the search experience: trim leading and trailing whitespaces from search phrases. Currently, when a word is selected from the keyboard suggestion, it gets pasted with a trailing space, making it unsearchable until the space is removed.
Vattutu
30 Aug, 2024
3
Возникла проблема с тем, что индексации не происходит как будто. Словарь то встал на место, но слов нет. На мгновение появляется надпись индексация и сразу пропадает.
Ealdorwolf
23 Aug, 2024
5
Dear developer, I noticed that the app search bar it’s not quite compatible with the accessibility feature because the text search bar will not get bigger only the results. This makes the search bar too small for custom font. I reached out to you via email and attached some videos.
Senooox
05 Aug, 2024
5
This is the most used dictionary app on my iPhones/iPads for years.
kyrylomyr
28 Mar, 2024
5
The best app that can read stardict and dsl formats! Great and optimized implementation! The only missing feature that would be great to see is case insensitive search (very useful for German language).
balbesam.net
26 Jun, 2023
5
Почему то автор забил на обновления, сплитскрин на ипад так и не дождались, а вот на телефоне пользоваться отлично, страшно обновлять ios потому что нет уверенности что приложение не перестанет работать после обновления, такое бывает со старыми приложениями.
mjeshurun
13 Dec, 2020
3
Thank you for the ongoing support of this dictionary app. It would really be helpful if you could add the following features: 1. Option to display all definitions results from all relevant installed dictionary in one list (instead of showing dictionary results in different pages with the need to swipe between dictionaries). 2. Split screen multitasking support, to use the dictionary alongside other apps. 3. Option to easily share definition results with other people with a share button. Wish you can make this happen.

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Additional Information
Rating:
4.64
Voted: 156
App Store Link:
Price: 5.99 $
Website:
Email: -
Privacy Policy:
Categories: Reference, Education
Size: 2MB
App Age: 16 years 7 months
Release Date: Apr 29, 2009
Last Update: Aug 19, 2025
Version: 8.6.2
Version history
8.6.2
Aug 19, 2025
v8.6.2 * Minor fixes v8.6.1 * Fixed issues with handling some types of archives v8.6 * Improved compatibility with some StarDict dictionaries * Added support for compressed synonyms (.syn.gz and .syn.dz files) in StarDict format. * Dictionaries can be exported and shared via AirDrop: open list of dictionaries in Settings and press ⓘ to open dictionary information page, where sharing option is available.
8.6.1
Aug 15, 2025
v8.6.1 * Fixed issues with handling some types of archives v8.6 * Improved compatibility with some StarDict dictionaries * Added support for compressed synonyms (.syn.gz and .syn.dz files) in StarDict format. * Dictionaries can be exported and shared via AirDrop: open list of dictionaries in Settings and press ⓘ to open dictionary information page, where sharing option is available.
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