What is Morphe Webster?

"Webster" here means the Merriam-Webster Dictionary app, the Android version of the long-running American dictionary. You look up a word and get definitions, example sentences, synonyms and an audio pronunciation, and there's a Word of the Day if you like picking up new vocabulary. Merriam-Webster sells a premium upgrade on top of the free, ad-supported app.

This APK adds a single patch from hoo-dles/morphe-patches, a community bundle by hoo-dles: Enable Premium, which targets the features held back for that upgrade. The community AutoBuilds pipeline builds it with the Morphe CLI. It's an unofficial build, not from Merriam-Webster and not from the Morphe developers.

What the patch does here

Enable Premium

The bundle's only Merriam-Webster patch. It switches on what the app reserves for premium users, as far as that's checked on the phone.

The dictionary itself

Definitions, examples and pronunciations are Merriam-Webster's own content. The patch doesn't touch them.

Not tied to one app version

In hoo-dles' patch list this patch isn't pinned to a single version, so it isn't locked to one specific release.

Universal APK

There's one build, so there's nothing to choose.

Installing the dictionary

  1. Uninstall the Merriam-Webster app from the Play Store if you have it; the signatures don't match.
  2. Download the APK from the box above.
  3. Let your browser or file manager install unknown apps, then install the file.
  4. Open it and look something up. If you used favourites or recent searches before, expect to start over.

Merriam-Webster build FAQ

Webster is just the short name used for this build. The app is the Merriam-Webster Dictionary for Android.

It's built from hoo-dles' open-source morphe-patches bundle by the community AutoBuilds pipeline. It's unofficial and modified, so there's some risk. Install it only if you trust that source.

The patch description just says it enables features locked behind the subscription paywall. It doesn't list them, and we won't guess.

No. Because the APK is re-signed, the Play Store can't update it. Newer builds show up on this page.

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