What's New

This app has been updated by Apple to use the latest Apple signing certificate.

- Support all new devices
- Fix bugs
- Prononciations
- Improve interface
- Improve database

App Description

BambooDict (BBD) Free is a dictionary viewer, using StarDict format and English-Vietnamese dictionary is installed already. Users can download directly and use dictionaries from StarDict and XDXF projects - there are more than 700 dictionaries from those sites. Installing new dictionaries are fast and full automatically, users don't need to use any extra-tools/software or visit any special website. All makes that task be easy and enjoyable. BBD also has a lot of functions for dictionary user.

Features:
-BBD totally supports StarDict / Open dict format. The dictionary can be in compress form (.dict.dz) to save space of your device.
-BBD can download directly all dictionaries from project sources: there are more than 400 dictionies from StarDict project and more than 300 one from XDXF project. All those dictionaries are free - you can download and use them without any fee.
-Download automatically: After choosing dictionaries, BBD will do automatically the rest: download those dictionaries from the right website, decompress them into right folders, make them ready to use immediately.
-High customizable: you can modify themes, color, font size, position of definitions window, turn on/off tool bar
-Easy to use/learn
-Rich functions for dictionary use
-Use can search from multi-dict at one
-Fast reaction
-Easy to manage dict: change their order, turn on/off, add more (download) or delete them.
-Full support to search with wildcards ? and *
-Mark and make note for any word
-Can pronunciate for English word (with library WyabdcRealPeopleTTS - which can be downloaded directly from BBD)
-See history, back to previous words
-Swipe to increase content sizes in definition box and help.
-Can work in portrait and landscape mode
-Local help
-Special design for users who need to study / use dict in long time and/or high frequency: choose the best theme / color; change the density of information (define box in the same tab with wordlist or has its own tab, change text font size, paragraph space; portrait or landscape. In other words, user can modify the amount of information he can read at once).
-Concern about using two hands (two fingers) to speed up use

iPhone Screenshots

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iPad Screenshots

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App Changes

  • June 15, 2012 Initial release
  • December 03, 2014 New version 2.0