HippoDICT Plus ~ Chinese English Dictionary

This app is clean and easy to use Itll be very helpful to me when Im travelling                 Convenient and fast dictionary

Support does not respond to emails and 10 is stupid for a free dictionary Pleco is just as fast many more features expandable with more dictionaries and support responds to you within hours not to mention an active forum Wish I had known about pleco before buying this     Get Pleco instead

Smooth and easy to use                 Solid

I actually bought HippoDict accidentally I thought Id gotten it a year ago when I wrote a blog post comparing different ChineseEnglish dictionaries on iPhone so I clicked buy thinking that I wouldnt be charged It turned out okay though since I discovered that HippoDict is the best dictionary on my iPhone now I have Qingwen KTDict Qingwen etc Im glad that the app is still in development and youre adding new features Ill definitely write a new blog post to promote HippoDict itself Thanks                 HippoDict is awesome

Having looked at many of the other ChineseEnglish dictionaries on the App Store HippoDict is still my GoTo dictionary Its fast has an intuitive UI returns relevant results in a useful format eg quickly drill down to character definitions or extend searches to the web and has a solid vocablist capability decks The underlying database is based on CCCEDICT so this dictionary works offline and the vocabulary set is quite large uptodate Five stars                 My GoTo Dictionary

I cant believe it costs me more than 14 I think this can not even be called a dictionaryit can only be called translation Google translation or Bablefish is even better Maybe its useful to find pinyin of Chinese words for English speakersbut to a Chinese speaker like me its totally useless     Totally waste of money

Love this app Loyal user here BUT recently it has started to crash upon opening Please fix this ASAP and give us loyal lovers of the app an update           Crash

I have tried other chinese dictionaries in the market and have to agree that although HippoDICT doesnt look like it has much bells and whistles its simply the best tool to use every day I love how the desks feature lets you conduct flashcard exercises based on characterspinyin or meaning So its totally up to you to focus on recognizing a set of useful characters or focus on learning pinyinmeaning only I also like that you can easily break down words learn one character only or find all words containing that character The app can be improved if it uses some higher quality chinese dictionary database rather the free ccdict database since ccdict contains entries that are a bit outdated and are lack of examples Still from a 1year chinese learner and interaction designers view point I highly recommend the app                 perfect tool for building vocab

terrible     terrible

This Chinese dictionary regardless of the rave reviews has one major flaw and it is a flaw of almost all Chinese dictionary appsits based on CECEDICT dictionary and that underlying dictionary displays the old characters for many characters that have been simplified Doesnt matter that you have set options on iPhone or even for the specific app to the official simplified character set of mainland China Many of the old characters are displayed Its very unfortunate that so many Chinese dictionaries take the cheap route and just use this CECEDICT           one major flaw

Excellent program Quick simple and to the point Translates English to Chinese and Chinese to English Has taken my communication in China to another level                 China Expat

Easy to use Especially love the ability to create my own flashcards and test myself                 Great for learning new vocabulary

This app is indeed quick Its also easy to use and has some nice extra features I like the search results and details that give radical and strokes in addition to definition and pronunciation I love that you can get web information about your search term and it stays within the app without popping out into Safari Kudos for that design Good extensive help is also included I havent used the decks feature much but I can definitely see how they would be useful for creating custom collections of words Overall a very nice app                 very nice

Thank you for the update Just imported all my decks from my orig iPhone onto my iPhone 4 I was afraid Id have to enter everything all over again which wouldve been good practice anyhow Great update                 great addition of the custom entries

you cant backup your decks even though they say you canand the company wont reply to questions there are other apps that a better for the money and will help if you have a problem     cant backup

I love it except the backup does not work Also you need to ask Chinese friends to choose the right word there are several choices for every word But once you do this the flashcards are very helpful              Backup does not work

This dictionary truly shines in its simple yet powerful user interface And its fast I used DianHua free before this but this dict clearly wins in not only additional features but in speed as well Edit The new version now has flashcards This new feature has tremendously helped with my character reading and writing memory Flashcards combined with everything else makes this app a musthave for any student studying Chinese To the devs you have a homerun quality app All you need to do now is advertise more and youll get more downloads for sure                 1 App for Students studying Chinese

Nice interface to a handy reference plus seamless integration with additional online resources Great app                 Great app

Its got what you would expect of a Chinese edictionary multiple ways to look up words vocabulary cardsdecks etc plus a number of nice touches like a large database including some proper names easy switch from traditional to simplified characters and quick crossreference to webbased dictionaries A little inconvenient to enable the Chinese input language by going back to the iPhone settings menu rather than within the app but its a onetime setup so not a big deal Overall great appIll be using it often                 Comprehensive and easytouse

Great app Easy to use and very useful                 Research Associate Mom