# Interactive Thesaurus

> Visual Dictionary & Thesaurus

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1448580560](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1448580560)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1448580560`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Alexey Tataurov
- **Category:** Reference
- **Rating:** 4.80 / 5 (759 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.2.7
- **Last updated:** 2022-11-13
- **First published:** 2019-01-11
- **Size:** 96 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-19
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/interactive-thesaurus/id1448580560)
- **Website:** [http://mobile.alextataurov.com](http://mobile.alextataurov.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://mobile.alextataurov.com/wordmap-privacy.html](http://mobile.alextataurov.com/wordmap-privacy.html)

## Description

Interactive Thesaurus is a smart way to explore word meanings and relations. This English thesaurus helps you quickly find meanings, discover related words, extend your vocabulary, and improve your grammar through an intuitive visual interface that highlights semantic connections.

Features include over 200,000 English words and definitions, color-coded parts of speech, word suggestions, editable bookmarks, undo/redo, and offline access (no internet required). You can save results as images, share by email or with friends. The app uses WordNet lexical database from Princeton University to power its relationships.

## Rankings

- #60,771 — Overall
- #15 — thesaurus

## Review summary

Reviewers praise the app's visual word map and the way it helps discover relationships and usage, often offering more synonyms than other thesauruses and supporting writing tasks. Many users find it simple and engaging, with immersive animations that bring vocabulary exploration to life. However, multiple reviewers report drawbacks: the graph can become cluttered and hard to read, words can jump or float and cause motion discomfort, synonyms can be incomplete or duplicated, feedback options are limited, and some navigation controls feel awkward. Overall, it's a valuable writing tool with notable UX trade-offs.

### Pros

- Visually maps word relationships and usage, helping writing.
- Provides more synonyms than most thesaurus sites.
- Simple, intuitive interface with reliable results.
- Engaging, immersive animations that make exploring words enjoyable.
- Useful for writers and vocabulary expansion; frequently used.

### Cons

- Graph often overlaps/clusters words, making reading and isolating individual terms difficult.
- Animation/ movement can jump frantically, causing motion sickness; users want an option to disable motion.
- Not fully comprehensive; some synonyms missing or duplicated; results can be inconsistent.
- Feedback channel is limited; no easy way to send feedback other than reviews.
- Navigation/interactions (zoom/drag/rotation) can be awkward or inconsistent.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1448580560)