U Dictionary Translator

What U Dictionary Translator covers

U Dictionary Translator is a dictionary and translation app from Youdao, aimed at people who look up single words and also need whole sentences or passages translated. The developer describes it as free.

It has two main halves: a word dictionary and a translator that handles text, photos and speech. The developer positions it for students, people at work and travellers abroad.

Looking up words in the dictionary

Lookups draw on the Collins Advanced Dictionary and WordNet, which the developer names as its built-in dictionaries. Each word also comes with native examples, synonyms and antonyms, so a meaning can be checked in context and against related or opposite words.

Translating text, photos and speech

Typed or pasted text, photos taken with the camera and spoken conversation can all be translated across 108 languages. Offline sentence translation works without a network connection for 58 of those languages, so it can be used where there is no connection.

Translation is the part the developer leads with, and the offline option is the only one of its input methods that the listing ties to a set list of languages.

Practising English with videos, games and quizzes

Alongside the dictionary and translator, the app includes English-language videos, games and quizzes that the developer presents as a way to improve English. They are in the same app, so there is no separate install needed to use them.