Recabulary review
Books, as enriching and enlightening these wonderful objects are, they’re something of a throwback to a simpler time. Living in the information age, physical texts have unfortunately been relegated to relative obsoletion. By association, the dictionary has fallen victim to the same fate. The emergence of the Google dictionary has given word searching an immediacy and convenience that the traditional dictionary cannot compete with. But this doesn’t necessarily mean that we’ve reached the end of the road when it comes to online dictionaries. Recabulary is an all-new word-hub app for you to build up your vocabulary and house your newly discovered terminology in your own space.
As a video and social agency, we are always looking for new ways to articulate and optimise our messaging. Discovering new words that better suit your copy, as well as broadening your own vocab only serves to improve your professional practices. Recabulary is available on a variety of platforms and is completely free to use, and ad-free. But first and foremost, it is a chrome extension, which is likely ideal for most chrome users, (we eventually moved to the app version for desktop) simply sign in with your Google account and pin your extension to your browser and whenever a word comes upon your gaze that takes your fancy, simply use Recabulary to find out its meaning and usage. Recabulary then automatically adds this word into your ‘Recent searches’ for your records. The definitions provided give you the typical tensing uses of the word, and adjective forms, it’s a fully-fledged dictionary.
If you find a word you particularly enjoy, add this word to your ‘Hot words’ list and this can be used as a hub for your favourites, giving you more control over your writing endeavours. For those words that have been searched and not followed up on, there is a box of ‘Seen a week back’ words for those that have not been looked at in seven days. Recabulary also provides a ‘Trending’ service, with words being searched by other users, giving you words you may not have considered before - creating some semblance of a social network, which is very 2021. We have found this app very useful so far, Google dictionary does remember the definitions you have searched for previously, but Recabulary gives you more control over how you organise and manage your searches, which is essentially its mission.
We like Recabulary, we don’t think it’s a game-changer but it’s simple to use, and with it being free, is a viable rival to Google dictionary. We think its appearance is a bit lacking in refinement which is a minor shortfall, but plenty of people like having separate apps and services for specific things, i.e. dictionaries. We would definitely recommend trying Recabulary out, it has a micro-niche and will certainly benefit some users!
Recabulary, not bad. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼/5!