Legal Dictionary

Quite frankly, I felt a little strange leaving a review so quick right after using the app for only a while. However, from what I’ve seen so far the app is amazing for the price. Let me be honest. I have been in practice for quite some time now and have collected many hard copy and iPhone legal dictionary apps since my first case. This one seems fabulous for the price. I have always used Black’s law dictionary but I think that is going to change. Blacks law dictionary seems to use their old reputation as justification for charging $50 for an app in which this one does everything it does for $49 less ($.99 for ad free for free with ads). Sounds too good to be true doesn’t it? Well, while downloading I thought so too. When I saw this was a free app I figured it was going to be some poorly programmed App that would eventually be deleted from my device. I was very wrong. I intend to use this app more than any of my other legal dictionary apps. Thanks to the developers for making such an amazing App for such a low price. Best of luck to you!

I’m an assistant prosecutor and I downloaded this app to replace carrying around my Pocket Black’s Law Dictionary for quick references for certain terms. I’ve not had it for too long, so I’m not speaking from an extensive use of this app, but so far, it has been extremely useful to be able to open the app while in the middle of a hearing and be able to advise the judge of the specific definition of any number of terms or phrases without having to fumble around with a hard copy legal dictionary. So far so good!

I believe I’ll save an official review for later after I’ve more thoroughly tested the app. It’s free, and personally, I would pay the 99 cents for how good it is. There are some items I’d like you to consider: 1. With how dense the law is, it would be nice to have a CMD_F/CTRL_F function to find something specific in the text — this would be so useful to have! 2. There’s a lot of text, so reading it would be so much better if we had additional options to edit and format the text to our liking. Something like what Apple Books or the Wikipedia app does where you can change the text size, background color, and brightness of the text. As for the body of text we read, some better handling of the margins and formatting would be nice. 3. The home of the app is a search bar that you don’t even use. It would be nice to have a dashboard like the Merrimack-Webster app so that you can see all of your favorited items, book-marked pages, and maybe see developments in the news related to items you frequently search. 4. A magazine inside the app would be nice, where you can read latest developments in law. 5. Updated graphics and animations. If there’s anything on this list you can consider, it would make the app 100x better than it already is. I can understand that this app may not pull in very much money and so it isn’t cost-effective to implement new features, but please give me that search function so I can find specific words in a document! Great app!