Power Thesaurus +4

I have two dictionary apps both of which use dictionaries that are highly regarded. I also have an etymology app, and both the AP Stylebook and the Chicago Manual of Style, so it’s safe to say that I am really into effective verbal communication. I say this not to brag — I still have a lot to learn — but because I know that many people are not so entranced by words. If you are not, a simple internet search for synonyms will probably satisfy you.

If, however, you share my passion, this app could become an indispensable tool. It has for me because synonyms are not necessarily interchangeable words, so just having a list of words is inadequate; one needs to be able to define the nuances of each word, and this app makes that information quite readily available. The design is clean and simple, and the information is accurate and comprehensive.

Kudos to the designers of the app and to the writers of the dictionaries it uses!

Thank you very much for your 5-star review of Power Thesaurus! We are very pleased to have an opportunity to assist you with your synonym hunt! If there is anything we can do for you, just let us know at apple@powerthesaurus.org --Ann

I've always had a relatively large vocabulary, but this resource is SO helpful at finding alternate and more impactful words, that I find myself using it a LOT and it's helped to recover a lot of the vocabulary that just starts slipping through the cracks when speaking in today's barely literate world. I love it!

The only gripe I have about it is that it's just an interface to the website. I'd happily pay a few bucks to have a local database that syncs to the website periodically. Then this would be a 5 star app. It is a drag to have to copy and paste into a separate app rather than just get a list of the alternates within your current app, but there's nothing they can do about that unless Apple implements something like macOS Services in iOS.

They even put a lot of thought into the rating request dialog. It is a polite button, not a pop-up, and it very respectfully asks if you'd like to rate now or later without interrupting what you're doing. This is a smart developer, because nothing makes the number of stars I'm apt to give drop faster than an annoying pop-up that wants me to rate the app before I've even had a chance to use it! Kudos!

Thank you very much for your valuable detailed review. If you have any other feedback or suggestion, you could write to us at apple@powerthesaurus.org. We would love to hear from you! :) --Ann

To be honest, at first I didn’t think I’d benefit by using a thesaurus app when I can just as easily use my interest browser to search a thesaurus but this app proved me wrong —I saw it and decided to see if it would prove to be more useful than simply pulling up a thesaurus site on my browser but Power Thesaurus is AMAZING﹠now I don’t have to worry about opening safari, typing thesaurus, clicking the site﹠then searching on there (after I accept cookies of course, which by the way, becomes infuriating), so it is nice to have the app﹠not have to depend on Safari each time because that can be very time consuming﹠then you have multiple safari pages﹠forget which one you started with﹠why you needed to look on a thesaurus site in the first place —so, download this app﹠you won’t regret it.

Thank you very much for your 5-star review!!! -- Ann