App Profile: Antidote Mobile – French

With Antidote Mobile, gain access to multiple high-quality dictionaries and language guides, all based on the renowned Antidote software.

Antidote Mobile offers rich definitions, abundant synonyms, extensive word combinations and much more, in an elegant and efficient interface. Use powerful search engines to find rhymes, anagrams, and other fascinating links between words. Access satellite images of 11,000 cities, countries and regions; definitions of 1,400 UNESCO World Heritage sites; Wikipedia articles; and other references of your choice. Listen to words and expressions in all their forms in two accents.

Boasting over 900 articles, the guides cover all aspects of writing, from spelling to style, grammar and punctuation.

In Discovery Mode, set your sights on new words, proverbs or fascinating etymologies. Scroll through rare or common words, countries, famous people, and more. Create word lists that you can review and share with friends or students. Test your lexical knowledge with the game mode: guess, based on the definition, a random word or a word taken from your lists.

Antidote Mobile doesn’t need an Internet connection.† It is offered as a one-year renewable subscription, either by itself or as part of an Antidote+ plan (Druide account required).

RICH AND INNOVATIVE DICTIONARIES

• Words and expressions (169,000 entries including 16,500 proper nouns)
• Synonyms (1.1 M)
• Antonyms (100,000)
• Combinations (1 M, with examples)
• Semantic Fields (96,000)
• Conjugation (9,450 verbs, with agreement controls)
• Families (19,000)
• Quotations (350,000)
• History (140,000 etymologies)
• Difficulties (48,000): homonyms, false friends, etc.
• Audio pronunciation of words, expressions and conjugations†
• Recitation of conjugations†
• Rhymes and near-rhymes
• Proverbs
• Integrated access to 11,000 zoomable maps and satellite images†
• Links to 1,400 UNESCO World Heritage sites†
• Links to web complements (GDT, Termium, add your own)†
• Integrated access to Wikipedia†


DETAILED LANGUAGE GUIDES

• Grammar
• Spelling
• Punctuation
• Style
• Typography
• Syntax
• Lexicon
• Phonetics
• History
• Language Matters
• Business writing
• Inclusive writing
• 1990 Spelling Rectifications


FASCINATING DISCOVERIES

• Display words at random, to peruse the dictionary
• Learn rare words
• Ask for names of cities, countries or famous people
• Discover the UNESCO World Heritage sites
• Read fascinating notes about the origins of words
• Ponder edifying proverbs
• Add your findings to a list of favorite words
• Play the game of guessing a word from its definition
• Study your word lists and play them in the guessing game
• Record your high scores for all game categories
• Share your scores on social media†


HIGH-QUALITY INTERFACE

• Responsive interface adapts to all screen sizes of iPhone and iPad
• Stage Manager and SplitView support
• Use portrait or landscape display
• Display definitions right within your apps
• Quick search of a word copied from another app
• Search as you type, to find words quickly
• Error-tolerant search (e.g. erruers)
• Rhyme and anagram search
• Wildcard search (e.g. lum*, c?re?)
• “Word begins with/contains/ends with” searches
• Multiword search (e.g.: table ronde, perdre pied)
• Search by combinable criteria (domain, frequency, etc.)
• Tap any word to look it up
• Create word or article lists and share them
• Print any content
• Voice commands in French (e.g. “Synonymes de joie”)†
• Configure your shortcuts
• Sync your favorites with iCloud†
• Sync your favorites with Antidote and Antidote Web (with Antidote+ package)†


(Note: Antidote Mobile does NOT include the corrector.) 

(† Internet access only required for marked functions above.)