Daily Dictionary Reviews

It’s an attractive app and the Apple Watch notifications are thoughtful, but even though I upgraded, I’m still being shown words that are way too easy and don’t pose an issue for native English speakers. Singe, serene, decay, siphon—really? Yes I’m a reader and a writer but anyone with a decent vocabulary will not be challenged by many of these.

Contrast this with the many “word of the day” apps and websites out there that feature words that are actually challenging or often misunderstood. A random sampling of today’s words of the day includes polysemy, atypical, opusculum, and and pulchritudinous. (Now *there’s* a word.)

Also, no etymologies (word origins), which are often the most interesting part of a word definition and can greatly help in memorization.

Really like the design, it doesn’t beg for attention or have a brand attached, feels almost like a system app. Only recommendation would be to add whether the word is a noun, verb, adjective, etc. Other than that, this seems like a super cool thing to wake up and take a look at everyday!

It’s a pretty app and even though it’s part of the subscription, I appreciate the dark mode. $2.99 a year isn’t bad either.

Okay app, but if you’re any kind of reader, writer, or just someone with a decent vocabulary you’ll need to upgrade at least once and hope at least a few words are challenging. I’m planning on doing one cheap annual upgrade and if the words don’t get more difficult, I’ll trash it.

I enjoy very much, my reminders
Daily Dictionary Words📚
I believe that we all at some point desire to improve ourselves in one way or another. And sometimes those changes are subconscious or deliberate acts of routine.
And for me expanding my vocabulary is about being able to communicate amongst many types of people from all walks of life in this vast world.🌎
DailyDictionary helps me to accomplish that goal in an non intrusive, painless repetitive...
almost subliminal method .

Like DailyDictionary . Dark mode is the best. Nicely laid out. Only thing you might wanna add is what it is either verb,noun etc. Ask Siri shortcuts works. Thanks again.

I gave it two stars so as not to be too negative. Perhaps the words they send me are words some people may not know. But they are very simplistic and after a month of trying DailyDictionary, there hasn’t been one I didn’t already know.
Disappointing

He wants you to pay for dark mode.
He wants you to pay for something that your device already has built-in.
He wants you to pay for something even though you can bypass it by enabling invert colours.

What next? I don’t want to know, sorry.

Good to see synonyms. Short definitions good. Add type of word.

A little editorial control would be great. Happy new year! The word of the day is incapacitated. It might be good to have a more inspirational word on specific days like New Year’s Day.

Many of the words are very basic for native English speakers. Also, the Apple Watch app doesn't seem to update when the iPhone does.

Enjoyable if not too brief, but it’s annoying how much of the screen is taken up by a sales pitch to subscribe.

Doesn’t work as expected with Apple Watch. Don’t get notifications and ask Siri command I created doesn’t work.

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You force users to switch to DailyDictionary. Unfortunately, they don’t save the same purpose at all.
Uninstalled.