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Well this is... eerie. I just released Stictionary[1] on Friday. It is an offline, ad free, dictionary that remembers words you look up. It gives a word of the

Well this is... eerie. I just released Stictionary[1] on Friday. It is an offline, ad free, dictionary that remembers words you look up. It gives a word of the day and provides (admittedly underfeatured atm) flashcards to review your word lists. It includes optional syncing to keep your word lists across devices. I've been holding off posting about it while i complete the website[2]. Love to see someone else had such a similar idea. Great confirmation of the unmet need in the space. Really awesome execution as well. Congrats on the launch! On a personal note, i built Stictionary after tracking all the words i looked up manually for years. Now i have an app that does it for me (and was a blast to build). 1: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stictionary/id1613214660?platform=iphone https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stictionary/id1613214660?platf... 2: https://www.stictionary.com/ https://www.stictionary.com/

podviaznikov 4y ago
Great list of features! I was thinking of building exactly the same app few years ago. So agree with your statement that it is all verification of “unmet need in the space”
vxNsr 4y ago
Your website is horrifically mangled on my iPhone 12 Pro iOS v15.5 https://i.imgur.com/hXriy52.gif https://i.imgur.com/hXriy52.gif
- liquidise 4y ago
  Yeah, mobile is brutal right now. The website is incomplete by every measure and i've been experimenting with a dekstop concept so far. I'll post a proper Show HN this week once the website is complete and i am on the play store!
ace2358 4y ago
Excellent work, just downloaded it, thanks. Apps that work offline are my favourite as even though I have 4g and wifi, these connections can sometimes be slow or just down and it’s sad seeing apps just not work in those scenarios. Edit: I know you said it’s not finished, but that website is impressively broken!
rsaz 4y ago
App looks amazing, I didn't know I wanted this but can see myself using it a ton now that I do. By the way, you may be aware but there's a typo in the iOS app in the "Your Words" tab when your list is empty. > You can swipe words off your list later if [you] add a word you'd rather not see.
prawn 4y ago
It's very stupid, but I check dictionary definitions in an incognito window because I'm horrified of someday people coming across my browser history and thinking "Wow, he didn't know the definition of that?! What an idiot!" The idea of a dictionary that tracks my searches horrifies me in a silly way. Ha!
- dionidium 4y ago
  I look up words for which I already know the primary definition all the time. Sometimes it's just to confirm that it doesn't mean something subtly different than I remember. Sometimes it's to find alternate/secondary uses. Sometimes it's to confirm spelling. Sometimes it's a jumping off point for synonyms or related words. I wouldn't assume you were totally unfamiliar with a word just because you looked it up.
  - prawn 4y ago
    Honestly, 99% of the time that's what I'm doing too. I'm pretty sure I'm using it correctly, but want to double-check before embarrassing myself in front of all of 10 people still on Twitter.
  - mathieuh 4y ago
    I do this all the time to look up pronunciations. I'm interested in linguistics so I taught myself IPA, and with things like stress being pretty unpredictable in English, while I might know the meaning of a word I like to make sure I'm pronouncing it correctly
  - blowski 4y ago
    I’m amazed how often I “know” the primary definition, only to discover I’m wrong when I look in a dictionary. Same with pronunciation of words I’ve only seen written.
    - donkeyd 4y ago
      > Same with pronunciation of words I’ve only seen written. I had the opposite experience when visiting the US for the first time. I saw a bag of 'luh-too-ché' in the store. For about 10 second my mind was wondering what it was. Then I realized that the word that is (to my Dutch brain) pronounced as 'ledice' is not spelled that way, it's spelled 'lettuce'. I came to the US with C2 level proficiency (thanks to subtitled media and MMORPGs), but I still had a lot to learn!
devindotcom 4y ago
I've also tracked a lot of words I have needed to look up, but made little posts out of the interesting ones. Of course, I immediately forget all these definitions, but that just makes it fun to go back through them. https://coldewey.cc/tag/vocabulary/ https://coldewey.cc/tag/vocabulary/
- A_Venom_Roll 4y ago
  Sorting the definitions by length is a nice touch. What's with the different 'editions'? I thought that they were grouped by perhaps subject or book, but can't figure out what for instance WRITHEN SHINE EDITION exactly represents.
tiffanyh 4y ago
Why does Apple App Store say your app is 4 years old if you just released it this past week? Same goes for the OP?
- DecayingOrganic 4y ago
  That is the App Store's age rating, not the actual age of the app.
- inkeddeveloper 4y ago
  Nice try being cheeky.
noyesno 4y ago
Fantastic tool, thank you! Any chance you could include usage in a sentence for each word? As a non-native speaker, sometimes it is not obvious from the description on how the word is typically used.
anonymous344 4y ago
loooks good when in google play?
jobigoud 4y ago
> Great confirmation of the unmet need in the space. Hmmm, I've been using a dictionary app for years that is offline, ad-free, remembers words you look up, and has a word of the day feature. Also has favorites and you can add personal notes on entries. It's also free. It's based on Wictionary. I use the ones for Spanish and Portuguese but I think they have versions for many languages. The name is fairly generic "Spanish Dictionary - Offline" by Livio.
- kawera 4y ago
  Those dictionaries are fantastic, I've also been using them for years. Adding to the long list of features,... full verb conjugation tables and audio for most words.
tartoran 4y ago
Just what I wanted for years but gave up and wrote words on pieces of paper that eventually get lost. Great execution, thanks for sharing it with the world
ahuox 4y ago
I love it, it definitevely cover and unmet need, as a no native english speaker it is important to me to keep track of words that I have looked up, thank you, please let us know when it is available in android.

podviaznikov 4y ago

Great list of features! I was thinking of building exactly the same app few years ago. So agree with your statement that it is all verification of “unmet need in the space”

vxNsr 4y ago

Your website is horrifically mangled on my iPhone 12 Pro iOS v15.5 https://i.imgur.com/hXriy52.gif https://i.imgur.com/hXriy52.gif

liquidise 4y ago
Yeah, mobile is brutal right now. The website is incomplete by every measure and i've been experimenting with a dekstop concept so far. I'll post a proper Show HN this week once the website is complete and i am on the play store!

ace2358 4y ago

Excellent work, just downloaded it, thanks. Apps that work offline are my favourite as even though I have 4g and wifi, these connections can sometimes be slow or just down and it’s sad seeing apps just not work in those scenarios. Edit: I know you said it’s not finished, but that website is impressively broken!

rsaz 4y ago

App looks amazing, I didn't know I wanted this but can see myself using it a ton now that I do. By the way, you may be aware but there's a typo in the iOS app in the "Your Words" tab when your list is empty. > You can swipe words off your list later if [you] add a word you'd rather not see.

prawn 4y ago

It's very stupid, but I check dictionary definitions in an incognito window because I'm horrified of someday people coming across my browser history and thinking "Wow, he didn't know the definition of that?! What an idiot!" The idea of a dictionary that tracks my searches horrifies me in a silly way. Ha!

dionidium 4y ago
I look up words for which I already know the primary definition all the time. Sometimes it's just to confirm that it doesn't mean something subtly different than I remember. Sometimes it's to find alternate/secondary uses. Sometimes it's to confirm spelling. Sometimes it's a jumping off point for synonyms or related words. I wouldn't assume you were totally unfamiliar with a word just because you looked it up.
- prawn 4y ago
  Honestly, 99% of the time that's what I'm doing too. I'm pretty sure I'm using it correctly, but want to double-check before embarrassing myself in front of all of 10 people still on Twitter.
- mathieuh 4y ago
  I do this all the time to look up pronunciations. I'm interested in linguistics so I taught myself IPA, and with things like stress being pretty unpredictable in English, while I might know the meaning of a word I like to make sure I'm pronouncing it correctly
- blowski 4y ago
  I’m amazed how often I “know” the primary definition, only to discover I’m wrong when I look in a dictionary. Same with pronunciation of words I’ve only seen written.
  - donkeyd 4y ago
    > Same with pronunciation of words I’ve only seen written. I had the opposite experience when visiting the US for the first time. I saw a bag of 'luh-too-ché' in the store. For about 10 second my mind was wondering what it was. Then I realized that the word that is (to my Dutch brain) pronounced as 'ledice' is not spelled that way, it's spelled 'lettuce'. I came to the US with C2 level proficiency (thanks to subtitled media and MMORPGs), but I still had a lot to learn!

devindotcom 4y ago

I've also tracked a lot of words I have needed to look up, but made little posts out of the interesting ones. Of course, I immediately forget all these definitions, but that just makes it fun to go back through them. https://coldewey.cc/tag/vocabulary/ https://coldewey.cc/tag/vocabulary/

A_Venom_Roll 4y ago
Sorting the definitions by length is a nice touch. What's with the different 'editions'? I thought that they were grouped by perhaps subject or book, but can't figure out what for instance WRITHEN SHINE EDITION exactly represents.

tiffanyh 4y ago

Why does Apple App Store say your app is 4 years old if you just released it this past week? Same goes for the OP?

DecayingOrganic 4y ago
That is the App Store's age rating, not the actual age of the app.
inkeddeveloper 4y ago
Nice try being cheeky.

noyesno 4y ago

Fantastic tool, thank you! Any chance you could include usage in a sentence for each word? As a non-native speaker, sometimes it is not obvious from the description on how the word is typically used.

anonymous344 4y ago

loooks good when in google play?

jobigoud 4y ago

> Great confirmation of the unmet need in the space. Hmmm, I've been using a dictionary app for years that is offline, ad-free, remembers words you look up, and has a word of the day feature. Also has favorites and you can add personal notes on entries. It's also free. It's based on Wictionary. I use the ones for Spanish and Portuguese but I think they have versions for many languages. The name is fairly generic "Spanish Dictionary - Offline" by Livio.

kawera 4y ago
Those dictionaries are fantastic, I've also been using them for years. Adding to the long list of features,... full verb conjugation tables and audio for most words.

tartoran 4y ago

Just what I wanted for years but gave up and wrote words on pieces of paper that eventually get lost. Great execution, thanks for sharing it with the world

ahuox 4y ago

I love it, it definitevely cover and unmet need, as a no native english speaker it is important to me to keep track of words that I have looked up, thank you, please let us know when it is available in android.