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French-English Dictionary
FB PUBLISHING LLC · 1,631 ratings · ★ 4.5
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Top complaints - extracted from 17 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"translation"
5 negative reviews mention this · 29% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Too simple. This app is too simple to be useful. A simple translation is all it provides. It doesn’t even indicate if a word is masculine or feminine. No example sentences. It is not useful for language learning." - Language Aquisition
2
"word"
5 negative reviews mention this · 29% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Too simple. This app is too simple to be useful. A simple translation is all it provides. It doesn’t even indicate if a word is masculine or feminine. No example sentences. It is not useful for language learning." - Language Aquisition
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"french"
4 negative reviews mention this · 24% of all complaints
★★★★★ "WEAR YOUR ERRORS W PRIDE!. Make sure you look at that first demo image with its big fat incorrect term. That is, they whiffed on the French not the English. 🤦 So I wouldn't trust them for anyone learning French. (Drinking water is l'eau potable. Even if you do a mor…" - HeatherNChev
4
"english"
4 negative reviews mention this · 24% of all complaints
★★★★★ "WEAR YOUR ERRORS W PRIDE!. Make sure you look at that first demo image with its big fat incorrect term. That is, they whiffed on the French not the English. 🤦 So I wouldn't trust them for anyone learning French. (Drinking water is l'eau potable. Even if you do a mor…" - HeatherNChev
5
"doesn"
3 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Too simple. This app is too simple to be useful. A simple translation is all it provides. It doesn’t even indicate if a word is masculine or feminine. No example sentences. It is not useful for language learning." - Language Aquisition
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"search"
3 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Review. Out of 10 words I search I find around 3. Upgrade words." - 6829haha
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"text"
3 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Disappointed. I opened this app and all I saw was a field to enter text to be translated. I entered text in English to translate to French but nothing happened. Below was an ad for a translator app that apparently needs to be installed in order to use…" - ZPdppuidpipdbwzzzz
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"translated"
3 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Disappointed. I opened this app and all I saw was a field to enter text to be translated. I entered text in English to translate to French but nothing happened. Below was an ad for a translator app that apparently needs to be installed in order to use…" - ZPdppuidpipdbwzzzz
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"screen"
3 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "SLOW!. I used to LOVE and live by this app! It did everything one could ask of it: translate in both directions, and well as help with grammatical gender. It was speedy as well. Since the last update several months back, it no longer gives gram. g…" - Slcgunpilot
10
"dictionary"
3 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "SLOW!. I used to LOVE and live by this app! It did everything one could ask of it: translate in both directions, and well as help with grammatical gender. It was speedy as well. Since the last update several months back, it no longer gives gram. g…" - Slcgunpilot
📋 All 17 negative reviews
Every 1-2★ review we fetched. Use the copy button to grab them all for your own analysis (paste into ChatGPT/Claude with a prompt like "summarize core user problems, group by theme, ignore bugs, focus on missing features").
Malware ads
I get the need for ads, but when one of the "ads" was the "your computer is infected by a virua! Click here!" garbage, that was the last straw. Deleted the app, done, bye.
Too simple
This app is too simple to be useful. A simple translation is all it provides. It doesn’t even indicate if a word is masculine or feminine. No example sentences. It is not useful for language learning.
WEAR YOUR ERRORS W PRIDE!
Make sure you look at that first demo image with its big fat incorrect term. That is, they whiffed on the French not the English. 🤦 So I wouldn't trust them for anyone learning French. (Drinking water is l'eau potable. Even if you do a more literal translation, it is "l'eau de boire" not the other way around.)
Review
Out of 10 words I search I find around 3. Upgrade words.
Disappointed
I opened this app and all I saw was a field to enter text to be translated.
I entered text in English to translate to French but nothing happened.
Below was an ad for a translator app that apparently needs to be installed in order to use the original app?? What?
When I went to open that app it lead to a paid subscription page. No thank you.
Disappointing!
I entered text in English to translate to French but nothing happened.
Below was an ad for a translator app that apparently needs to be installed in order to use the original app?? What?
When I went to open that app it lead to a paid subscription page. No thank you.
Disappointing!
Extremely slow
Typing anything in the search bar takes ages. There’s no reason at all why it should have such a long response time. It’s super concerning.
Translated text is white on white
There doesn’t appear to be a setting to change how translated text appears. Right now, you have to highlight it for it to show up as it’s white text against a white background (invisible).
Can’t really speak to the quality of translations or the dictionary itself yet.
Really hope they fix this.
Can’t really speak to the quality of translations or the dictionary itself yet.
Really hope they fix this.
Useless
I have already deleted this app. Until now I am trying to figure out what this app is for. Every word I looked up, “fête” (French > English) being the last one, nothing came up. No translation. Nothing. Oh, an add telling me to get a translation app that I already have, came up.
I would say: DO NOT waste your time with it.
I would say: DO NOT waste your time with it.
Probably the WORST dictionary app out there
Don’t waste your time in this junk app.
Good, but cannot see translations!
When I look for a translation of a word, I cannot see the text. But text to speech reveals the proper word without fail. The app is clearly retrieving translated definitions, I just can’t see them! Rather frustrating and not really usable.
Doesn’t work for me
So did a simple test - wanted to find the English translation of “la chef” ( it means “the leader” or possible “the boss” or “the manager” - however I got no response from the app -
Giant flag covers search box
Just installed this & as another reviewer noted, there seems to be a glitch in this version, as most of the screen is filled with a giant flag and only the corner of the search box is showing. I tried to contact app technical support, rather than leave a bad review, but using “app support” and “developer website” links but it just takes me to a page promoting another French app with NO support functionality available. This leaves me no choice but to leave this bad review in the hope of getting the matter attended to.
Too many ads
Be prepared to watch a 5 second video ad EVERY time you look up a word.
The update makes the app unusable
Ever since the most recent update the app runs extremely slowly and is very glitchy.
SLOW!
I used to LOVE and live by this app! It did everything one could ask of it: translate in both directions, and well as help with grammatical gender. It was speedy as well. Since the last update several months back, it no longer gives gram. gender, and typing is SUPER slow, as in type the word and still watch as each letter slowly appears on the screen. I’m on the hunt for a new dictionary app.
Disappointing
Half the words I tried to look up weren't listed.
Obtrusive ads
Runs full-screen video ads when you’re just trying to pop it open for a quick lookup. Way too obtrusive and time-consuming.
Sentiment summary
86%
Positive (4-5★)
5%
Neutral (3★)
9%
Negative (1-2★)