HedgeDict App for Android Review

Digital dictionaries certainly come handy in quickly finding the meaning of a word. But most dictionary apps take many megabytes of space, making it impractical to have multiple dictionary apps in your mobile phone. HedgeDict app for Android has an amazing space saving design that provides access to words in hundreds of dictionaries in multiple languages. You can get HedgeDict Android app for free from Google Play Store.

Features

The initial download of HedgeDict app for Android takes up only 1 MB of space. From there, you can choose from many different dictionaries to download in multiple languages and designs. For native English speakers, they can go for a concise version of the Oxford English Dictionary or the dictionary of idioms that would come handy to someone who is learning English for the first time. The app also contains many cross language dictionaries in a number of languages. It comes handy if you’re learning a second language other than English. For non English speakers as well, there are many X to Y language dictionaries that go both to and from different languages. For example, if you’re a Russian speaker learning German, you can use a Russian to German dictionary to find meaning of equivalent German words for a given Russian word. Each of these dictionaries will have a file size of few MBs. Most of those we tried had around 20-30 MB, which is reasonable.

One of the major shortcomings while using a multi-language dictionary is the absence of special characters on the standard Android keyboard. HedgeDict app for Android solves this problem by providing a built-in special characters keyboard that makes searching in non-English languages easy. It is also possible to take custom dictionaries from the web in certain standard formats and convert them for use in HedgeDict on its website. This feature comes handy for people in the Medical or Chemistry fields that have special dictionaries for the jargon used in said domains.

Conclusion

HedgeDict app for Android is essentially a big set of different dictionaries in one application. It effectively combines miniature app size with comprehensive and very detailed dictionary data bases. You can download the ones you require. For languages other than English, the respective dictionaries provide built-in special characters keyboard so that typing a word in a particular language becomes a non-issue. Another standout feature is the possibility to convert your own dictionary using the HedgeDict website. Overall, a handy resource for anyone struggling with multiple languages.

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Category: Free Android Apps