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Dictionaries is #5 in Reference Grossing in Japan and charting in 2 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
24 Sep 2026Full timeline · 25 events
- 🌟Dictionaries featured by Apple: “おすすめのアプリ”today · JP
- 🌟Dictionaries featured by Apple: “おすすめのアプリ”today · JP
- 🌟Dictionaries featured by Apple: “おすすめのアプリ”today · JP
- 🌟Dictionaries featured by Apple: “おすすめのアプリ”today · JP
- 🌟Dictionaries featured by Apple: “おすすめのアプリ”today · JP
- 📈Dictionaries entered the top 100Top Grossing · Reference · AU
- 📈Dictionaries charting in a new countryAustralia
- 📈Dictionaries entered the top 100Top Grossing · Reference · IT
- 📈Dictionaries charting in a new countryItaly
- 📦Dictionaries updated to version 1.4.8• iPhone Duoでリンクのタップやなぞってジャンプが正しく動作しないことがある不具合を修正しました。
• iPhone Duoを閉じた状態で付録が正しく表示されないことがある不具合を修正しました。 - 📈Dictionaries entered the top 10Top Grossing · Reference · RU
- 📈Dictionaries charting in a new countryRussia
- ✏️Dictionaries added hidden keywords: usagewords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📦Dictionaries updated to version 1.4.7• ブックマークフォルダの名前を変更すると順序が変わってしまう不具合を修正しました。
• 前後の項目に移動した際にクイックブックマークできないことがある不具合を修正しました。
• ライト／ダークモードを切り替えた際に一部のコンテンツで再描画されない不具合を修正しました。
• 履歴の表示順の設定が保存されない不具合を修正しました。
• シェイクで消去の設定が保存されない不具合を修正しました。
• 画面を折りたためる機種に対応しました。 - 📦Dictionaries: first update in 142 days
- ✏️Dictionaries added hidden keywords: 英和辞典, 英語辞書, 発音, フランス語 +2 morewords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈Dictionaries entered the top 100Top Grossing · Reference · DE
- 📈Dictionaries charting in a new countryGermany
- 📈Dictionaries entered the top 100Top Grossing · Reference · SA
- 📈Dictionaries charting in a new countrySaudi Arabia
- 📈Dictionaries entered the top 100Top Grossing · Reference · FR
- 📈Dictionaries charting in a new countryFrance
- 🆕Dictionaries first spotted by AppInsider#45 in Top Free · Reference · Japan
- 📦Dictionaries version 1.4.6No release notes
- 🆕Dictionaries released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Reference GrossingDictionaries at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-08. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
A free, modular dictionary viewer that allows users to purchase and batch-search multiple language dictionaries (English, Japanese, French, etc.) within a single interface. The app ranks #5 in Japan Reference Grossing and #83 in Korea Reference Grossing, indicating strong monetization through its internal dictionary store despite low overall rating volume.
Similar apps: Merriam-Webster Dictionary, Oxford Dictionaries, Cambridge Dictionary
Dictionaries on the App Store
App details
App privacy Measured
Dictionaries’s App Store privacy label declares 0 data categories used to track you across other companies’ apps and websites, 0 linked to your identity and 1 collected anonymously.
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
Dictionaries downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where Dictionaries's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
How this is calculated
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in Dictionaries before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Business model: In-app purchase-led
How Dictionaries makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | COBUILD American 2nd edition | |
| 2 | Access German-Japanese subscription | |
| 3 | Access German-Japanese subscription | |
| 4 | ACE CROWN | |
| 5 | COBUILD Advanced 9th edition | |
| 6 | 柯林斯 COBUILD 高级英汉双解词典 | |
| 7 | COBUILD English/Japanese | |
| 8 | Collins English Dictionary | |
| 9 | Shogakukan Chinese-Japanese | |
| 10 | Sanseido Chinese-Japanese |
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | ReferenceGrossing | #5 |
 South Korea | ReferenceGrossing | #14 |
| Japan | ReferenceFree | #45 |
Apps near Dictionaries on the chart
Reference Grossing, around #5.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisReview momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Dictionaries
From the 39 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users highly praise the app's extensive Japanese dictionary content and cross-platform integration, considering it a top-tier tool for learners. However, significant complaints focus on technical failures regarding downloading or restoring purchased dictionaries, alongside frustrations with specific UI behaviors like keyboard switching.
Mixed but leaning positive (72% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its features and content, and being useful. The main complaints are about crashes and bugs, and price and subscriptions. Recent reviews are more positive than earlier ones.
What people like
- Features & content: “-Just keep adding content”
- Useful: “Swift and useful dictionary app”
- Ease of use: “It’s beautiful, easy to use, and full of pleasant surprises”
- Design: “It’s beautiful, easy to use, and full of pleasant surprises”
Common complaints
- Crashes & bugs: “but now it stopped working completely”
- Price & subscription: “No wonder people don't want to pay for dictionary apps”
- Features & content: “Can’t download any content !”
- Connection & sync: “Only WiFi download allowed”
About Dictionaries
You can purchase and use a variety of dictionaries, including English, Japanese, French or other language dictionaries, from the “Dictionary Store” which can be accessed from within the app.
Searches
• Batch Search (Consolidated Search) allows users to search multiple dictionaries at once.
• The display order of dictionaries used in the batch search can be customized.
• The keyboard language switches automatically depending on dictionary search groups.
• Handwriting input is possible for Japanese, Old Japanese, Kanji, Chinese, Korean, and Russian dictionaries.
• Using Pattern Search, users can search for words even if a part of the spelling is unknown.
Trace and Jump
• Users can easily jump to not only other words in the same dictionary but other dictionaries as well simply by tracing words in a definition, allowing users to go on a journey of intellectual curiosity through the dictionary as their hearts desire.
Collection
• Purchased dictionaries are shown as icons on the Collection screen.
• By opening a dictionary from the Collection screen, users can also carefully go through a single dictionary. Even in this case, users can use the “Trace and Jump” function to easily jump to another dictionary.
• The display order of dictionary icons on the Collection screen can be changed to the user's preference.
Bookmarks
• Users can bookmark their favorite words. In addition, users can also efficiently categorize these bookmarks using the Bookmark Folder.
• By turning on Quick Bookmark, users can quickly add/remove bookmarks simply by tapping the Bookmark icon.
Search History
• In History, display frequency is automatically recorded so that users can immediately recognize words they search for repeatedly.
iCloud
• Users can synchronize Bookmark and History data among all devices by turning on iCloud.
Multitasking
• Users can display websites, documents, and more alongside their dictionary by using the Multitasking function on the iPad. By turning on Clipboard Search, users simply have to copy the word they wish to look up in order for the app to find that word in multiple dictionaries.
Substantial Lineup
• The Dictionary Store carries a large number of full-scale dictionaries, and we plan to further improve this selection in the future as well.
• The following English dictionaries are available. Check in the Dictionary Store, which can be accessed from within the app, for more information on each of these items.
- Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary 10th edition (OALD)
- Oxford Learner’s Dictionary of Academic English
- Oxford Learner’s Thesaurus
- Oxford Collocations Dictionary
- Practical English Usage
- Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary 10th edition
- Collins COBUILD Advanced American English Dict
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