ABBYY Lingvo vs Treccani

ABBYY Lingvo provides electronic dictionaries for work and study on Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows. Its Windows multilingual version covers 10 languages, while the multilingual Professional edition includes more than 80 general, explanatory, and specialist dictionaries. Listed specialist subjects include law, economics, finance, engineering, oil and gas, chemistry, medicine, and biology. Windows can translate words under the cursor in pictures, web pages, and subtitles. On macOS, translation is available through Services or keyboard shortcuts, with cursor translation in Safari. The mobile apps state that all functions work offline. Android supports photo and video translation and grammatical word forms; iOS can translate photographed text and sync user-created vocabulary cards across devices. Mobile pages offer five basic free dictionaries across English, German, French, Spanish, Latin, and Russian, with more available for purchase. Lingvo Tutor provides exercises for word meanings and spelling. The Windows x6 trial offers full access for 15 days from first launch. Listed Windows licenses are priced per edition and have a three-year term.

Treccani is a reference portal and app with an online encyclopedia, vocabulary, synonyms, a biographical dictionary, a magazine, and Galassia Treccani. Readers can access encyclopedia entries on the web, Android, and iOS; the app also offers a daily word and articles about Italian language, geopolitics, science, and society. The online Dizionario Biografico contains more than 40,000 biographies of people who contributed to Italian history across several fields. Treccani’s Institute describes its mission as compiling, updating, publishing, and disseminating the Enciclopedia Italiana and related works for culture, education, research, and social service. Browsing the portal without ads across devices is available through Zero pubblicità, which must be activated in the app. Its subscription page advertises up to six months free, with duration selected in the app; no price is listed. A personal profile requires registration or sign-in. Treccani identifies its Institute as data controller and says personal data is processed under GDPR, with possible transfers outside the EU under adequacy decisions or appropriate safeguards.