Antidote Mobile – English6.4.1 - App Store

With Antidote Mobile, gain access to multiple high-quality dictionaries and language guides, all based on the renowned Antidote software.

Antidote Mobile offers rich definitions, abundant synonyms, plentiful word combinations and much more, in an elegant and efficient interface. Use powerful search engines to find rhymes, anagrams, and other fascinating links between words. Listen to words and expressions in all their forms in two accents. Access satellite images of thousands of cities, countries and regions; Wikipedia articles; and other references of your choice. Listen to words and expressions in all their forms in two accents.

From spelling to style through grammar, punctuation and history, Antidote’s guides cover all aspects of writing in English. Over 650 articles are organized in a clear tree structure with a comprehensive index and fast search.

In Discovery Mode, unearth the treasures of the English language by discovering rare words, proverbs or fascinating etymologies. Scroll through rare or common words, countries, famous people, and more. Create word lists that you can review and share with friends or students. Test your lexical knowledge with the game mode: guess, based on the definition, a random word or a word taken from your lists.

Antidote Mobile doesn’t need an Internet connection†. It is offered as a one-year renewable subscription, either by itself or as part of an Antidote+ package (Druide account required).

RICH AND INNOVATIVE DICTIONARIES

. Words and expressions (177,000 entries including 33,000 proper nouns)

. Synonyms (1.8 M)

. Antonyms (130,000)

. Combinations (885,000, with examples)

. Semantic Fields (96,000)

. Conjugation (9,900 verbs)

. Families (18,000)

. Quotations (474,000)

. History (137,000 etymologies)
. Difficulties (26,000): homonyms, false friends, etc.
. Audio pronunciation of words, expressions and conjugations†

. Rhymes and near-rhymes
. Proverbs

. Integrated access to Wikipedia†

. Integrated access to 13,000 zoomable maps and satellite images†

. Links to 1,500 UNESCO World Heritage sites†

. Links to web complements (GDT, Termium, add your own)†
DETAILED LANGUAGE GUIDES

. Grammar

. Spelling

. Punctuation

. Style

. Typography

. Syntax

. Lexicon

. Phonetics

. History
. Language Matters

. Business writing

. Inclusive writing
FASCINATING DISCOVERIES

. Display words at random, to peruse the dictionary

. Learn rare words

. Ask for names of cities, countries or famous people

. Discover the UNESCO World Heritage sites

. Read fascinating notes about the origins of words

. Ponder edifying proverbs
. Add your findings to a list of favorite words

. Play the game of guessing a word from its definition

. Study your word lists and play them in the guessing game

. Record your highest scores for all game categories

. Share your scores on social media†
HIGH-QUALITY INTERFACE

. Responsive to all screen sizes of iPhone and iPad

. Stage Manager & SplitView support

. Display definitions right within your apps
. Use portrait or landscape display

. Quick search of a word copied from another app
. Search as you type, to find words quickly

. Error-tolerant search (e.g.: eror)

. Rhyme and anagram search

. Wildcard search (e.g.: lum*, c?re?)

. “Word begins with/contains/ends with” searches

. Multiword search (e.g. wine study)

. Search by combinable criteria (domain, frequency, etc.)

. Tap any word to look it up

. Record favorite words and articles

. Create word lists and share them

. Print any content

. Configure shortcuts
. Sync your favorites with iCloud†

. Sync your favorites with Antidote & Antidote Web (with Antidote+ package)†

(Note: Antidote Mobile does NOT include the corrector.)

(† Internet access only required for marked functions above.)

Version History • Compatibility with iOS 27


• Various minor fixes 6.4.1 5d ago ENGLISH DICTIONARIES AND GUIDES
• 350 new words and expressions, such as workslop, yassify and rain chain
• 48 new etymological notes
• Etymology of the names of countries, Canadian provinces and American states
• 7 new guide articles

APPLICATION IMPROVEMENTS
• Various minor fixes 6.4 Feb 24 ENGLISH DICTIONARIES AND GUIDES
• 2350 new words and expressions (memeify, angel's share, solarpunk)
• 25,000 new synonyms
• 4500 new etymologies
• 53 new etymological notes for words and enigmatic expressions
• 30 new links towards 2024–2025 World Heritage Site additions
• ISO codes added for country names
• Audio pronunciation of abbreviations
• Etymology of all affixes
• More visible labels for expressions
• 6 new guide articles (“Time Zones”, “The Definite Article”, etc.)

APPLICATION IMPROVEMENTS
• New menu bar on iPadOS 26
• Multi-factor authentication 6.3 11/18/2025 • Preliminary compatibility with iOS 26
• Correction of an iCloud synchronization issue that occurred without an Internet connection 6.2.1 09/15/2025 MORE COMPREHENSIVE ENGLISH DICTIONARIES
• 2,100 new words and expressions (altcoin, epistocracy, couch coach)
• 250 new proper nouns (Nobel Prize winners)
• 41,000 new synonyms
• 20,000 new word combinations
• 70 new etymological notes, including enigmatic expressions
• 800 new notes on difficulties
• 30 new links towards 2023–2024 World Heritage Site additions

EXPANDED ENGLISH LANGUAGE GUIDES
• 5 new guide articles (Anaphoric Reference, Legal Language, etc.)

ENHANCED DISCOVERIES
• New Expressions category
• New appearance for proverbs and expressions

APPLICATION IMPROVEMENTS
• Various minor fixes 6.2 05/20/2025 • Adjustments for iOS 18, including new dark and tinted app icons
• Various minor fixes 6.1 12/03/2024 ENRICHED AND MORE POWERFUL DICTIONARIES

• 4,700 new words and expressions
• 69,000 new synonyms
• 200 new famous people (Heads of state and Turing Prize winners)
• 35,000 new combinations
• Simplified expressions display
• Phonetic transcriptions and pronunciations for 36,000 expressions
• Etymological notes for 120 mysterious expressions
• 14,300 expressions with synonyms
• 1,000 expressions with combinations
• 14,000 expressions with semantic fields
• 24,500 expressions with quotations
• Rhymes with expressions (industry - Christmas tree)
• 75,000 new quotations
• Search for compound words
• 1,900 new difficulty notes
• 250 new words from Canadian English
ENRICHED GUIDES

• 26 new articles
IMPROVED DISCOVERIES

• Discover new expressions (under “New Entries”)
• Game options with subsets of favorites
AN IMPROVED APPLICATION

• Compatible with iOS 18
• Miscellaneous bug fixes 6.0 10/16/2024 • Setting to block access to favorites and personalized lists 5.6.1 03/25/2024 MORE COMPREHENSIVE AND POWERFUL ENGLISH DICTIONARIES
• 600 new words and expressions (e.g. foveated, leafcycling, pump track, routesetting)
• Expanded sports terminology (in anticipation of the Olympic Games)
• Expanded cycling terminology
• 4500 new pronunciations
• 5500 new synonyms
• 400 new etymologies
• 25 new etymological notes
• 112 new difficulties
• 50 new links towards 2022–2023 World Heritage Site additions (e.g. Gordion)
• Updated guide articles (Writing Numbers as Words, Regular Plurals)

APPLICATION IMPROVEMENTS
• Various minor fixes 5.6 02/20/2024 • Reduction of the character limit for search fields
• Various minor fixes 5.5.1 11/30/2023 MORE COMPREHENSIVE AND POWERFUL ENGLISH DICTIONARIES
• 900 new words and expressions (e.g. memeable, exposome, disinflationary, parasocial…)
• Expanded forest fire terminology
• Expanded arms terminology
• 4600 new pronunciations
• 15,000 new synonyms
• 700 new etymologies
• 50 new etymological notes
• 300 new difficulties
• 6 new guide articles (Secondary Predicates, Affect and Effect, among others)
• More accurate etymons for indigenous languages

APPLICATION IMPROVEMENTS
• Content sharing from the dictionaries, guides and discoveries through Messages
• Streamlined access to app shortcuts (iOS 17)
• Support for Stage Manager’s new features (iOS 17)
• Games displayed in compact mode on iPad
• Improved synchronization with iCloud
• Various minor fixes 5.5 10/24/2023 • Quotation marks added to shared text by certain applications (e.g., NY Times) are now removed
• Various minor fixes 5.4.1 06/12/2023 With thousands of new words, Handoff, Mastodon and much more, we offer you a refreshed Antidote Mobile just in time for spring.

MORE COMPREHENSIVE AND POWERFUL ENGLISH DICTIONARIES
• 3100 new words and locutions (ex: breathwork, bingeable, friendshoring…)
• 12,700 new pronunciations
• 8300 new synonyms
• 2500 new etymologies
• 25 new etymological notes
• 8 guide articles

AN IMPROVED INTERFACE
• Support of Handoff for seamless transitions from iPhone to iPad to Mac
• New interface for history and favourites
• Text search within a page of the dictionary, a guide article or a discovery screen
• History displayed on navigation arrows (iOS 14 and later)
• Random order option for discoveries of favourites or word lists
• Option to publish game results on Mastodon
• Addition of the search engine Ecosia
• Minor corrections 5.4 04/25/2023 • Faster startup in case of an unstable internet connection
• Various minor fixes 5.3.1 02/08/2023 RICHER AND MORE POWERFUL ENGLISH DICTIONARIES
• 5500 new words and expressions (micromobility, masago, plogging…) 
• 23,500 new pronunciations
• 13,300 new examples
• 1000 new difficulties
• 13,400 new synonyms
• 12,000 new combinations illustrated by 27,200 examples
• 700 new families
• 47,000 new lexical field links
• 5200 new etymologies
• 30 new etymological remarks
• Updated dictionaries (inclusivity, feminine demonyms, etc.)
• Improved control for restricted words and meanings
• New guide articles (Antonyms, Oxymorons and Other Uses of Title Case…)

NEW DISCOVERIES
• New category: discover a selection of recent entries

IMPROVED INTERFACE
• Definitions accessible in other applications (through “Share…”, in the context menu)
• Stage Manager supported (iPadOS 16 required)
• Various modernizations for iOS 16 and iPad OS 16
• Better keyboard and touchpad support on iPadOS
• Various minor fixes 5.3 11/22/2022 • Compatibility with iOS 16
• New control for looking up a copied string (iOS 16 only)
• Better handling of drag-and-drop
• Correction of various anomalies 5.2.3 09/12/2022 • Various minor fixes 5.2.2 07/05/2022 • Various minor fixes 5.2.1 05/11/2022 RICHER AND MORE POWERFUL DICTIONARIES
• New search by criteria: 17 combinable criteria
• 4300 new words (doomscrolling, bioprinter, cheugy)
• 25,000 new pronunciations
• 1300 new difficulties
• 13,700 new synonyms
• 700 new families
• 4100 new etymologies
• Refinement of content access criteria

AN IMPROVED INTERFACE
• Pronunciation of words in secondary panels
• External link results displayed in Antidote (e.g., external resources)
• Better VoiceOver support
• “Share” option in the editing context menu
• Redesigned dialogs
• Support for non-Gregorian calendars for date validation
• Better Live Text integration with search
• Better support for the ESC key (external keyboard)
• Adaptation for the new Antidote+ free trial mode
• Various improvements 5.2 04/13/2022 • Improved stability in some dictionaries (e.g. rhymes, combinations) when selecting a font size smaller than the default value 5.1.1 01/18/2022 • Search for one or more words from a photo using Live Text technology in iOS 15*
• Improved language detection when searching for a copied word or with a Siri shortcut
• New sorting options in the Combinations, Rhymes, Semantic Field and Family dictionaries
• Automatic selection of the entry word with a single keystroke on a physical keyboard
• New pronunciations in the results for rhymes (entry word + rhyme, rhyme + entry word, rhyme only)
• iOS 15 adaptations
• Updated dictionaries
• Various minor fixes

*on compatible devices 5.1 12/09/2021 • Stabilized display of phonetic transcriptions
• Various minor fixes 5.0.1 11/11/2021 NEW FEATURES FOR DEFINITIONS DICTIONARY

• Pronunciation of words and their inflected forms (accents from London and Toronto)*
• 5000 new words and expressions (smishing, cleantech, non-fungible token)
• Option to highlight prepositions
• 20,000 new examples
• 5000 new difficulties
• New 2020 and 2021 World Heritage Sites
• Display of all homophones in the difficulties
• New optional external resources
• Simplified grouping of expressions

NEW RHYMES DICTIONARY

• Perfect and imperfect rhymes
• Near rhymes (assonances, consonances, etc.)
• Multiple filters: category, syllables, frequency, family, labels
• Text filter
• Semantic fields filter

RICHER DICTIONARIES AND GUIDES

• 11,000 new synonyms
• Simplified display of synonyms lists
• 80,000 new word combinations
• Cross-combinations
• Collateral adjectives added to the families (e.g., smell > osmic)
• 4000 new etymologies
• 100 new etymological notes
• 118,000 new etymologically related words
• 10 new guide articles

IMPROVED INTERFACE

• iOS 15 compatibility
• Improved operation with a physical keyboard
• Option to activate keyboard on startup
• Various minor fixes

* Internet connection required 5.0 10/19/2021 • Elimination of an unnecessary reauthentication 4.1.3 05/20/2021 • Improved authentication handling with Sign in with Apple
• Improved authentication stability 4.1.2 04/13/2021