English Swahili Dictionary Free app for iPhone and iPad
4.4 (
7904 ratings )
Reference
Education
Developer:
Anna Koroleva
Free
Current version:
2.0.46, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 05 Jan 2013
App size: 32.83 Mb
This dictionary provides OFFLINE access to the English-Swahili and Swahili-English content of kamusi.org. It contains 32,000 translation pairs. Search quickly in either direction, without a network connection!
Kamusi hii ni toleo ya kamusi.org kutumia nje ya mtandao, kupitia Kiingereza-Kiswahili na Kiswahili-Kiingereza. Ina majozi 32,000. Tafuta chapuchapu lugha hadi lugha, bila kuunga na mtandao!
The database is more than 26MB, and will be downloaded when you run the application the first time. We recommend downloading with a Wi-Fi connection. Updates to the database will be available periodically.
Hifadhidata ni kubwa, zaidi ya MB 26, na itapakuliwa kwa mara ya kwanza pindi tu uanzapo kutumia programu hii. Hivyo basi, tunapendekeza uipakua kwenye Wi-Fi. Maboresho ya hifadhidata yatapatikana mara kwa mara.
Dictionary database is under license from and based on data copyrighted Kamusi Project International
Hifadhidata ipo chini ya leseni ya hakimiliki ya Kamusi Project International.
http://kamusi.org.
Main features:
1. History – every word you ever viewed is stored in history.
2. Favorites – you are able to add words to favorites list by clicking the “star” icon.
3. Managing History and Favorites lists – you are able edit those lists or clear them.
4. Various Settings – you may change application’s font and theme (choose one of several color themes).
5. Word spelling, using Text-To-Speech module.
6. Context word search – click any word in translation article and search for it’s translation.
This app contains advertising.
Pros and cons of English Swahili Dictionary Free app for iPhone and iPad
English Swahili Dictionary Free app good for
Easy to use, better dictionary with more words than usually found online.
The update is great, but the added flags next to the words is VERY distracting. It really detracts from the usefulness.
Not to mention its misleading since Swahili is spoken across several countries in East Africa. And it is more widely spoken in a Tanzania anyway.
But again, love the app, hate the new flags. PLEASE MAKE IT JUST AN OPTION.
Asante.
Some bad moments
This is a very simple app that just looks up words in its local database and displays the results. What makes it great is that its database is fairly verbose, with several entries for each word and usage examples for many cases. For a beginning Swahili speaker like myself, these usage examples are far more valuable than the terse entries in my paper dictionary.
To earn 5 stars from me, the developer only needs to get a native Swahili speaker to wander through the database and add even more example usage. Also, each noun has the noun class given as an integer code - this should be converted to something readable, like KiVi or JiMa.
I downloaded this app today and its great - no Internet connection necessary, and there are tons of different meanings listed. Also, you dont have to choose Swahili/English, it just pops up as youre typing. Ads are a bit annoying, but apparently you can purchase an ad-free version.
This is a wonderful app and one that I use daily, but since updating to iOS 8 the app is constantly crashing. I have a suspicion it is caused by using the app when Cellular Data and Wi-Fi are both turned off due to the app trying to refresh the advertisements and not being able to. This was not an issue when I used the app on iOS 7. Nevertheless the app has become unusable because it crashes every time I click on a word. Please provide a fix for this bug. Its a 5-star app when it works.
