Dictan - Dictionary Viewer

3.1
725 reviews
50K+
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Dictan is a free Dictionary Viewer for Android which supports .fdb and .zd/.zpak dictionary bases. These formats are open, so you may download lots of free .zd dictionaries, handbooks, and encyclopedias from the Internet or create your own ones. Put .zd bases into /sdcard/dictan/ and they are ready for viewing! All extra info and the tools to create your own dictionaries are available at WWW.SOFTEX.INFO

The web-site also has the following free dictionaries in the 'Downloads' section (plus many others available over the section of 'ZD resources'):

English Idioms
English Abbreviations
English Synonyms
Wiki
Other various dictionaries
Updated on
Nov 4, 2018

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Ratings and reviews

3.2
641 reviews
A Google user
March 24, 2019
What a pain in the butt to try to get this - the only dictionary app able to integrate with FB reader - to integrate with FB reader. Just a series of misadventures and headscratches involving - trying to connect it, - realizing there's no actual dictionary associated with it, - trying to navigate the unintuitive app menus to figure out why there's no dictionary - having to figure out why and how to add dictionary files because there's no setup or tutorial - trying to navigate the website to find dictionary files, and downloading multiple "corrupted" files from the Softex website before finding one that, right now, appears to work. And I hope it does, because while I enjoy FB Reader, there are other eReaders and dictionary apps that are much, much easier to navigate for basic eReader word lookups than this headache.
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A Google user
March 8, 2020
It used to work out of the box but now have to download dictionary file from their website, ignore what the app says and create a new folder next to your documents and downloads folders, call the folder Dictan, and put the downloaded file there. Then it works. Oxford american file is optimal.
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A Google user
August 4, 2019
Awful to install. The only dictionaries available are Russian. Documentation is wrong. On my last phone it took several hours to get it working. New phone and I had to link the two to get files over. It's fine when it's finally installed. Just a mess.
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What's new

New: Supported search in all dictionary bases (Beta version)
New: Minimum version of Android API is increased to 19 (4.4 KitKat)
New: Target version of Android API is increased to 28 (9.0 Pie)
New: Removed support of article text view
New: Added Spanish and German interface languages
Improved: Changed buttons in main application activity
Improved: Added icons in file navigator and ability to enter path manually
Fixed: Many bugs related to specifics of Android versions