LookUp: English Dictionary App
Dictionary, Vocabulary Builder
Free · In-App Purchases
Build your English vocabulary the smart way. LookUp combines an Oxford-powered dictionary with beautiful Word of the Day, spaced repetition quizzes, and personal word collections, all in one award-winning app.
Discover words beautifully: A new illustrated Word of the Day, every day. Visual memory aids make new words stick faster than reading definitions alone. Tap the widget on your Home Screen or Lock Screen to never miss a word.
Look up any word, instantly: Powered by Oxford English Dictionary; the world's most trusted source. Get definitions, thesaurus, audio pronunciations, example sentences, usage notes, and translations in 20+ languages.
Build your personal vocabulary: Save words to your own collections. Then master them with flashcards, example sentence quizzes, conversation practice, and interactive exercises — all powered by scientifically proven Spaced Repetition.
Perfect for exams & every day life: Whether you're prepping for GRE, SAT, TOEFL, IELTS, or simply a lover of words. LookUp is built for anyone serious about language.
App Store Editor's Choice · Webby Honoree 2021 · MacStories Update of the Year 2019 "Far and away my favorite dictionary app." - MacStories
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*Translations Supported for: Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Malay, Turkmen, Tajik, German, Italian, Greek, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Tatar, Igbo, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Northern Sotho, Setswana, Yoruba, Tok Pisin, and more to come.
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more A dictionary for those with a penchant for aesthetics, delivering daily definitions with illustrations that trigger both sides of your brain.
A dictionary for those with a penchant for aesthetics, delivering daily definitions with illustrations that trigger both sides of your brain.
Bug fixes and performance improvements to the update.
Fixes a bug where the watchOS app wouldn't show definitions sometimes
13.0.3 4 hr ago
Urgent and Critical Bug Fixes.
LookUp 13 brings new ways to build vocabulary and look up words through the latest technologies in iOS.
Extra Large Portrait Widgets bring the Word of the Day widget in their full glory.
With Siri you can now ask it to define a word in LookUp, or surprise you with a random word from the app.
Local Modals and Private Compute on the iPhone and Apple Watch ensure a private learning experience that’s contextually rich.
New ways to LookUp:
Scan Words: A completely revamped Scan Words feature lets you point a finger at the word you want to look up and get its definition. It also picks difficult words in the page.
New Reading Mode: We’ve updated the reading mode to work as an audio companion while you’re focused on reading. The new Reading Mode let you speak aloud a word and gets its definition from the Lock Screen.
Get Definitions using Siri : You can also ask Siri to search for a word in LookUp and it does the honors.
New ways to Learn:
Introducing Interactive Flash Cards: Interactive Flash Cards have you define words through voice input and grade you based on your closeness to the actual definition. This Foundation Models powered feature is a great test of your ability to recall word definitions.
A completely new conversation mode: Conversation Quizzes are 10x more fun with a new conversation learning mode that empowers English learners to not only recall definitions but also understand the context in which words are used. The app now shows a natural conversation between two people, and once that conversation is done, it ask the learners about what worked for them.
Redesigned Learn Tab: The Learn Tab has been redesigned, keeping in mind these amazing new learning modes, to better serve learners through guided quizzes, picking something new for them every day.
Siri : Ask Siri to give you a random word, and it shows a beautifully crafted illustration, hand drawn by our editors for you to remember a word.
Extra Large Word of the Day Widgets on iPhone: With the latest extra large format, you can now shuffle through old Words of the Day in their full glory.
13.0.2 16 Sept
LookUp 13 brings new ways to build vocabulary and look up words through the latest technologies in iOS.
Extra Large Portrait Widgets bring the Word of the Day widget in their full glory.
With Siri you can now ask it to define a word in LookUp, or surprise you with a random word from the app.
Local Modals and Private Compute on the iPhone and Apple Watch ensure a private learning experience that’s contextually rich.
New ways to LookUp:
Scan Words: A completely revamped Scan Words feature lets you point a finger at the word you want to look up and get its definition. It also picks difficult words in the page.
New Reading Mode: We’ve updated the reading mode to work as an audio companion while you’re focused on reading. The new Reading Mode let you speak aloud a word and gets its definition from the Lock Screen.
Get Definitions using Siri : You can also ask Siri to search for a word in LookUp and it does the honors.
New ways to Learn:
Introducing Interactive Flash Cards: Interactive Flash Cards have you define words through voice input and grade you based on your closeness to the actual definition. This Foundation Models powered feature is a great test of your ability to recall word definitions.
A completely new conversation mode: Conversation Quizzes are 10x more fun with a new conversation learning mode that empowers English learners to not only recall definitions but also understand the context in which words are used. The app now shows a natural conversation between two people, and once that conversation is done, it ask the learners about what worked for them.
Redesigned Learn Tab: The Learn Tab has been redesigned, keeping in mind these amazing new learning modes, to better serve learners through guided quizzes, picking something new for them every day.
Siri : Ask Siri to give you a random word, and it shows a beautifully crafted illustration, hand drawn by our editors for you to remember a word.
Extra Large Word of the Day Widgets on iPhone: With the latest extra large format, you can now shuffle through old Words of the Day in their full glory.
13.0.1 14 Sept
LookUp 13 brings new ways to build vocabulary and look up words through the latest technologies in iOS.
Extra Large Portrait Widgets bring the Word of the Day widget in their full glory.
With Siri you can now ask it to define a word in LookUp, or surprise you with a random word from the app.
Local Modals and Private Compute on the iPhone and Apple Watch ensure a private learning experience that’s contextually rich.
New ways to LookUp:
Scan Words: A completely revamped Scan Words feature lets you point a finger at the word you want to look up and get its definition. It also picks difficult words in the page.
New Reading Mode: We’ve updated the reading mode to work as an audio companion while you’re focused on reading. The new Reading Mode let you speak aloud a word and gets its definition from the Lock Screen.
Get Definitions using Siri : You can also ask Siri to search for a word in LookUp and it does the honors.
New ways to Learn:
Introducing Interactive Flash Cards: Interactive Flash Cards have you define words through voice input and grade you based on your closeness to the actual definition. This Foundation Models powered feature is a great test of your ability to recall word definitions.
A completely new conversation mode: Conversation Quizzes are 10x more fun with a new conversation learning mode that empowers English learners to not only recall definitions but also understand the context in which words are used. The app now shows a natural conversation between two people, and once that conversation is done, it ask the learners about what worked for them.
Redesigned Learn Tab: The Learn Tab has been redesigned, keeping in mind these amazing new learning modes, to better serve learners through guided quizzes, picking something new for them every day.
Siri : Ask Siri to give you a random word, and it shows a beautifully crafted illustration, hand drawn by our editors for you to remember a word.
Extra Large Word of the Day Widgets on iPhone: With the latest extra large format, you can now shuffle through old Words of the Day in their full glory.
13 14 Sept
Bug Fixes and Performance Updates
12.1.6 21 Aug
Fixes the bug where exporting liked words would show 0 items on PDF
12.1.5 1 Aug
Bug fixes and performance improvements
12.1.4 29 Jul
Fixes a bug that caused the audio search to not work.
12.1.3 21 Jul
Bug fixes and performance improvements
12.1.2 10 Jul
Bug fixes, and UI Improvements
12.1.1 5 Jul
LookUp 12.1 Includes the following new features:
1. Flash Cards - You can now learn with Flash Cards in LookUp's Learning mode, Pick between Interactive Quizzes, Flash Cards and Example Sentences to build your vocabulary.
2. Improved support for AppIntents -- We now have extensive AppIntents and Shortcuts through out the app
3. New UI modes for Notes. You can now pick between Minimalist and Sticky Note appearance for Notes
4. Visual Intelligence: Looking a word in a book? You can now use Visual Intelligence in iPhone 16 and up to search for words.
12.1 5 Jun
Fixes a search bug that prevented certain words from showing up in the results.
Fixes a bug that caused the Collection Lists to crash.
12.0.11 6 Apr
Important Bug Fix.
12.0.10 25 Feb
Minor UI fixes
12.0.9 19 Feb
important UI fixes
12.0.8 25 Jan
Critical bug fixes and UI Improvements.
12.0.7 19 Jan
Fixes a bug where the text would sometimes be cut-off.
12.0.6 9 Jan
Minor bug fixes
12.0.5 2 Jan
Critical fix to a bug which sometimes caused the app to not load words when offline.
12.0.4 08/12/2025
Fixes the issue where the Apple Watch app would crash while searching for a word.
Improves the Example Quiz UI
Fixes bugs with the origin maps UI
12.0.3 04/12/2025
Happy Halloween! There's now a new custom icon, especially for the spooky season!
Fixes Search speed issues.
Fixes a bug that did not show the collection list sometimes
Adds a new Halloween icon
12.0.2 30/10/2025
Fixes a bug that prevented some people to save a word to a new collection.
Fixes an issue with Origin Maps that sometimes gave an incorrect location estimate.
Introducing LookUp 12
Completely New Design! The app has been redesigned to be more fluid, faster and above all more fun to use.
New Learning Modes: The latest update to LookUp enables people to learn more freely through 3 completely new learning modes that support interactive quizzes.
People can now learn through Interactive Quizzes. Example sentences, Conversational Questions
These modes include a mix of Foundation Modals and online AI models to carefully tailor a learning experience for the person.
Origin Maps:
Origin Maps is a fun new way to understand a word’s origins, which helps people to understand the word’s origins by tracing where it came from.
12.0.1 16/09/2025
Completely New Design! The app has been redesigned to be more fluid, faster and above all more fun to use.
New Learning Modes: The latest update to LookUp enables people to learn more freely through 3 completely new learning modes that support interactive quizzes.
People can now learn through Interactive Quizzes. Example sentences, Conversational Questions
These modes include a mix of Foundation Modals and online AI models to carefully tailor a learning experience for the person.
Origin Maps:
Origin Maps is a fun new way to understand a word’s origins, which helps people to understand the word’s origins by tracing where it came from.
12 15/09/2025
Minor Bug Fixes
11.1.8 12/09/2025
Critical fixes to Search speeds.
11.1.7 28/08/2025
Bug fixes and performance improvements to the update.
Fixes a bug where the watchOS app wouldn't show definitions sometimes
more Version 13.0.3 4 hr ago
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