Ultralingua Portuguese-English for Android

Not very useful with Brazilian Portuguese. I find it in general very basic.

Don't like it at all. Very limited. Hardly enough words. Mainly hate it because definitions are so skimpy. Want my money back.

I had the Collins Portuguese-English dictionary and thought it missed words sometimes, so I bought this on the recommendation of one Kit Eaton in the New York Times. I'll give her a piece of my mind also. This dictionary lacks many very basic words and mistranslates others. Today I found an entry duplicated. Is no one proofreading? I'm going back to Collins and will attempt to get my money back from the iTunes store, good luck with that.

I got this before a recent trip to Brazil, and I was disappointed in how many times I tried to translate a word and didn't find it in the dictionary. I also was disappointed it didn't have the gender of the word (masculine or feminine) - at least that I could find. On the other hand, it does a great job with all the verb conjugations - that part works really well. And it is nice that it's a complete package - you can use it without having to have any connection (wi-fi or otherwise) to the phone.

Shortly after buying my Android two years ago I bought the Ultralingua Portuguese-English dictionary app for it. Although I was hesitant given the price, it turned out to be a well-spent $20. The dictionary quality itself is as good as a medium to large-sized dictionary (not as good as the two-volume reference dictionary I have), but the UI is what makes it worth it -- making it easy to switch between definitions and verb conjugations -- everything is linked the way you want it to be. And they have made regular updates to the app as needed. When I bought my Mobile, I was very pleased that they turned their dictionaries into "universal" apps so it had a special UI for the Mobile without requiring a separate purchase. I can't recommend this app enough.