Finally, a highly popular app that doesn’t involve suicidal angry birds bent on taking out pigs and monkeys. As hard as it is to believe, with all the highly popular game and entertainment apps out there, one of the most popular apps is actually useful. Dictionary.Com’s dictionary app has reached 50 million downloads. Yes-you can actually use it for something practical instead of helping you efficiently kill time while you wait in line at the supermarket. Dictionary.Com’s app is free and comes in quite handy if you are trying to figure out the meaning of a word or trying to find the right spelling for a word. Imagine how much efficient Scrabble games are with this app?
Accompanying its app’s 50 million milestone, Dictionary.Com, the SF Bay Area-based company also released its latest word learning game, Word Dynamo. Available on the iPad, the new app helps students beef up their vocabulary in a fun game-based way. Instead of having to pore over messy notes in cramped spaces, students can select from a wide range of games that will boost their test preparation. Word Dynamo also helps students with over 100,000 study guides created by experts. If you are looking to boost your vocabulary and memory retention, get the Dictionary.Com app and Word Dynamo and learn at your own pace and at your own terms.

