Build your English vocabulary the smart way. LookUp combines an Oxford-powered dictionary with beautiful Word of the Day, spaced repetition quizzes, and personal word collections, all in one award-winning app.
Discover words beautifully: A new illustrated Word of the Day, every day. Visual memory aids make new words stick faster than reading definitions alone. Tap the widget on your Home Screen or Lock Screen to never miss a word.
Look up any word, instantly: Powered by Oxford English Dictionary; the world's most trusted source. Get definitions, thesaurus, audio pronunciations, example sentences, usage notes, and translations in 20+ languages.
Build your personal vocabulary: Save words to your own collections. Then master them with flashcards, example sentence quizzes, conversation practice, and interactive exercises — all powered by scientifically proven Spaced Repetition.
Perfect for exams & every day life: Whether you're prepping for GRE, SAT, TOEFL, IELTS, or simply a lover of words. LookUp is built for anyone serious about language.
App Store Editor's Choice · Webby Honoree 2021 · MacStories Update of the Year 2019 "Far and away my favorite dictionary app." - MacStories
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*Translations Supported for: Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Malay, Turkmen, Tajik, German, Italian, Greek, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Tatar, Igbo, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Northern Sotho, Setswana, Yoruba, Tok Pisin, and more to come.
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A dictionary for those with a penchant for aesthetics, delivering daily definitions with illustrations that trigger both sides of your brain.
Great App with Significant Flaws
Tigran97
I really like the app, but it is somewhat useless since the practicing logic is very inefficacious. 1. The questions are rather stupid, sometimes giving away the answer. For example, the question asks what is the opposite of unambiguous. The answer was ambiguous, of course. 2. The quizz doesn’t let you review the word after you’ve answered the question, even if you got it wrong. If you got it wrong once and the app immediately tells you the answer without giving a chance for a second answer or to review the definition. Without a proper quizz function to practice the newly learned words the app becomes useless for me.
Very disappointed
Gteer
The number of words with illustration available is very limited, the definitions vary greatly. the words are useless, you might never won't to know what is for example "chad - Small pieces of paper punched out from the edges of continuous stationery" there are many other words that can enrich vocabulary not superfluous words like those.
Developer Response
Thanks a lot for the feedback! This is a very helpful critique on the on our word of the day feature. We're working to improve our word of the day offerings to include words that you may want to use in your everyday use of the language. You'll also notice that some of our recent words offer usage in sentences. We'd love to hear more feedback regarding the app or the word of the day feature.
LookUp 13 brings new ways to build vocabulary and look up words through the latest technologies in iOS.
Extra Large Portrait Widgets bring the Word of the Day widget in their full glory.
With Siri you can now ask it to define a word in LookUp, or surprise you with a random word from the app.
Local Modals and Private Compute on the iPhone and Apple Watch ensure a private learning experience that’s contextually rich.
New ways to LookUp:
Scan Words: A completely revamped Scan Words feature lets you point a finger at the word you want to look up and get its definition. It also picks difficult words in the page.
New Reading Mode: We’ve updated the reading mode to work as an audio companion while you’re focused on reading. The new Reading Mode let you speak aloud a word and gets its definition from the Lock Screen.
Get Definitions using Siri : You can also ask Siri to search for a word in LookUp and it does the honors.
New ways to Learn:
Introducing Interactive Flash Cards: Interactive Flash Cards have you define words through voice input and grade you based on your closeness to the actual definition. This Foundation Models powered feature is a great test of your ability to recall word definitions.
A completely new conversation mode: Conversation Quizzes are 10x more fun with a new conversation learning mode that empowers English learners to not only recall definitions but also understand the context in which words are used. The app now shows a natural conversation between two people, and once that conversation is done, it ask the learners about what worked for them.
Redesigned Learn Tab: The Learn Tab has been redesigned, keeping in mind these amazing new learning modes, to better serve learners through guided quizzes, picking something new for them every day.
Siri : Ask Siri to give you a random word, and it shows a beautifully crafted illustration, hand drawn by our editors for you to remember a word.
Extra Large Word of the Day Widgets on iPhone: With the latest extra large format, you can now shuffle through old Words of the Day in their full glory.
Version 13.0.1
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