Oxford Advanced Learner's Dict

I purchased the full, perpetual ("buy-out") license for the highly-acclaimed OALD 9th Edition years ago. At the time, the promise was lifetime access, and for years, it has been an indispensable tool for my studies and work. However, after migrating to a new iPad, I've experienced one of the most disgraceful business practices imaginable. The old 9th Edition app, once restored, can no longer connect to your servers to download its core dictionary data, rendering it a completely useless, empty shell. It's clear what has happened: by releasing a supposedly "new" 10th Edition app and delisting the old one, you have cleverly sidestepped the "update" process. The real goal is obvious: to nullify all previous perpetual licenses and force your entire loyal user base onto a new, greedy subscription model. This is a blatant betrayal of your earliest and most loyal customers. Your actions are functionally no different from theft. The money and trust we invested have been met not with product continuity and respect, but with heartless abandonment and a demand for more payment. Your templated "contact us privately" responses to other negative reviews cannot hide the essence of this bad-faith practice. A warning to all new customers: Oxford University Press has demonstrated zero credibility as a software publisher. The subscription you pay for today could easily be nullified by another clever business trick in the future. Be extremely wary of a developer that abandons its promises for short-term profit. Pay with extreme caution!

There are a few aspects that need to be improved: 1. It seems that the history function doesn’t work very well. Usually it only keeps a few items of the search history, not all of them. 2. Besides, search history also records some unnecessary words that are only partial of the intended words generated while putting in the input box. 3. Words placed under the “favorite”are automatically sorted in the alphabetic order, but I think it’s better to sort them according to the time of search history, or at least such option should be available. Overall it’s a wonderful app, and I will love it even more if you could make the above improvements. Than you!

I’ve been using the 9th edition of this awesome dictionary for years. Then when this new app was released I got thrilled by the new features included in it e.g. CEFR tags. But now after upgrading to ios 13.4.1 things have turned into a nightmare. This is because there is no text selection capability in 10th edition from this update on. Besides, there is a huge bug in text selection and copying in 9th edition from this update on. So, at the moment I can’t use either of them and that’s a pity because I’m completely dependent on them. Please help out!