I was very happy to see this new app released yesterday. No regrets after a quick purchase, I have already have found it very useful for my work. I have been using an online visual thesaurus service for years, but they still haven''t released a portable version for my iPod Touch 4 (they instead offer a subscription-based web model). Portabililty and offline access is key to me.More recently, the r...
As a thesaurus this app is brilliant - very appealing to the right brain. The use of coloured nodes, links, and taps sets it apart from more conventional ''list'' based apps.If you''re after a dictionary then this may not be the most appropriate app for you; it''s a thesaurus first and foremost with short definitions bolted on.Be prepared for some bouts of seasickness though, as the nodes swim aro...
I greatly appreciate the concept of this app. I highly recommend it to all to expand all vocabulary. But it has limitations for those, such as myself, who are looking for *older words* to use. Despite that crippling fact for me, I do give it five stars, because I know I am among the minority and I am very grateful that such an app exists. I hope that others might pick up the idea and run with it i...
Visual Dictionary & Thesaurus is a good iOS substitute for ThinkMap''s Visual Thesaurus which uses Princeton University''s WordNet. It has the ability to show nodes using linguistic morphology functions that fork into neighboring words with similar meanings—a great tool for creative types who like to see groupings of word meanings. The nodes are labelled with colors to denote verbs, nouns, adjecti...