Features & Capabilities

For many years, language learners have trusted our PONS dictionaries. With the PONS app on your smartphone or tablet, you can find the right translation quickly and at any time.

The PONS dictionary library works 100% offline.

Select the dictionary library for your app! Find the dictionary to suit your individual situation: If you are going away on holiday and want to just quickly look up a word or two, then the BASIS dictionary is the right choice for you. If you feel safer with a range of medium-sized vocabulary then choose the CONCISE or ADVANCED dictionary. If you write foreign-language texts professionally, then you probably need a more comprehensive dictionary, such as BUSINESS or PREMIUM.

Discover dictionaries in a range of different languages: Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, German as a Foreign Language, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Greek, Polish, Russian, Spanish and Turkish.

Functions of the dictionaries:

• Direct look-up: Simply select a text in Safari, tap the share button and choose a dictionary. All of the words in the text that can be looked-up are then displayed. • Look-ups from other applications: Copy individual words or whole sentences to the Clipboard, switch back to the dictionary app and individually look up all the words. • Learn vocabulary: You can define words that you would like to learn as a vocabulary card. This allows vocabulary to be learned quickly and effectively! (Optimized for the ADVANCED English, French, Italian and Spanish dictionaries.) • Synchronization via iCloud: access favourites, search history and vocabulary cards (in the dictionaries) with any device logged in to your Apple ID. • Listen to numerous keywords spoken by native speakers and practise your pronunciation. (Available for German, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian) • Use the full-text search to find examples.

BASIC Ideal for everyday, travel, leisure use (the most important vocabulary) 100,000–120,000 keywords, phrases & translations Languages: German - English, German - French, German - Italian, German - Spanish, German - Portuguese, German - Russian,

CONCISE Ideal for everyday, leisure, business use (medium-sized vocabulary) 285,000–295,000 keywords, phrases & translations Languages: English - Brazilian Portuguese, English - French, English - Italian, English - Polish, English - Russian, English - Spanish, German - English, German - French, German - Italian, German - Spanish, German - Polish, German - Russian, German - Turkish, Spanish - Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish - Italian

ADVANCED Ideal for every day, university, business (large vocabulary) 338.000 - 775.000 keywords, phrases & translations Languages: German - English, German - French, German - Italian, German - Spanish, German - Dutch

BUSINESS Ideal for business (large vocabulary with emphasis on business vocabulary) 571.000 - 800.000 keywords, phrases & translations Languages: German - English, German - French, German - Spanish

PREMIUM Ideal for professional users (the most comprehensive PONS vocabulary collection) 685.000 - 930.000 keywords, phrases & translations Languages: German - English, German - French, German - Italian, German - Spanish, German - Greek, German as a foreign language

About PONS: PONS has been developing green materials for learning languages for life for over 40 years: from classic dictionaries and grammar aids to audio and software language courses right up to free online services.

www.pons.com

User Growth & Download Statistics

App
By:
PONS Langenscheidt GmbH
Rating:
4.00
(2)
4.00
Version:
3.80.337 Last updated: 2020-07-14
Version code:
836420654
Creation date:
2013-12-05
Compatible devices:
Size:
189.23MB
URLs:
Website ,Privacy policy
Full description:
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Source:
Apple Apps Store
Data ingested on:
2026-06-29
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Developed by:
PONS Langenscheidt GmbH
Apple Apps Store
https://apps.apple.com/cn/app/dictionary-library/id590346602?l=en-GB
Website:
http://www.pons.com

User Reviews

One must choose which dictionary one is using instead of letting the app work with what one has bought and downloaded. Maybe the search would be too slow otherwise, okay, but then one must still tell the app what language one is inputting. In other words, one has to poke around in the interface twice before one can actually enter a word for look-up. Surely we can expect better by this time.
by Ma*****, 2026-02-08

It's 2024 and PONS Langenscheidt last updated their app 3 years ago! Bugs include an automatic crash on launch whenever there is no Internet connection or a slow cellular data link; disappearance of the icon for the keyword/full-text search toggle (you just have to remember where to tap); and a prompt about pasting permission every time you switch to the app, even if you haven't quit the app since last granting or refusing permission to paste from the clipboard. The German dictionaries (and I bought the whole library, for hundreds of dollars) suffer from the stupidity of German academics who still think they're limited to the printed page. The tilde (~), which stands for the keyword, is repeated 10 to 20 times in each keyword entry, when it would be easy, in a digital medium, to just repeat the keyword in every expression that uses the word. There's no quick way to jump between the different parts of speech, when the same word can be a noun, a transitive verb, and an intransitive verb; you just have to scroll through the long text. And the biggest shortcoming of all (which, in fairness to PONS Langenscheidt's incompetent user interface designers and programmers, also affects the publisher's printed dictionaries): you don't get a full set of verb conjugation tables! (The only company ever to get that right, in any medium, is Bescherelle, for French verbs.) I don't know what to recommend for German dictionaries. PONS Langenscheidt is the best there is, but it's far from good, and the app is unmaintained as of 2024.
by pa*****, 2024-06-10

I used this to compare the various Pons German-English dictionaries, and then purchased their Advanced edition.
by Zv*****, 2015-11-25
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