Aard 2

Aard 2
Android app for Offline Dictionaries and Wikipedia

Aard 2 official website:
• https://aarddict.org/

🔘 Aard 2 android apk:

https://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/aarddict/aardsoftware/aard2-android-0.58.apk

Dictionaries and Wiki:

https://github.com/itkach/slob/wiki/Dictionaries

https://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/aarddict/

Thanithamizh Akarathi Kalanjiyam
தனித் தமிழகராதிக் களஞ்சியம்
https://thanithamizhakarathikalanjiyam.github.io/tag/அகராதிகள்

Wiki Tamil:
https://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/aarddict/tawiki/

Sanskrit Dictionaries
Sanskrit dictionaries in slob format
https://github.com/chchch/SanskritDictionaries

DiccConsPrep
Dictionary of Spanish Prepositional Constructions, available in StarDict, Aard2/slob, and JSON formats.
https://github.com/doozan/DiccConsPrep

webster-unabridged-dict
Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary to DICT and slob formats.
https://github.com/Layerex/webster-unabridged-dict

Webster's 1913 Dictionary in Slob Format
https://github.com/wwlorey/webster1913

ozhegov-dict
Словарь Ожегова в форматах DICT и slob.
https://github.com/Layerex/ozhegov-dict

Longman
https://cloud.freemdict.com/index.php/s/BswTyKNX3sCbN5T
LDOCE6aard2audio_repack.slob
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oIWYNRW9gnPuYtPGucS0C9m492sNAhxC/edit

Useful dictionaries

1. Princeton: wordnet-3.1
2. open-english-wordnet-2022
3. Wiktionaries and Wikipedia
4. Freedict
5. TTAK
6. Tamil Lexicon Decorated

All files are in .slob format
File name ended with .slob

How to install:
https://youtu.be/cenc5hfZ-nI?feature=shared

Forum:
https://groups.google.com/g/aarddict

PyGlossary

A tool for converting dictionary files aka glossaries. Mainly to help use our offline glossaries in any Open Source dictionary we like on any modern operating system / device.

https://github.com/ilius/pyglossary

Convert documentation from DevDocs to offline Slob dictionaries.
https://codeberg.org/konstruktiv/docs2slob

Aard2 (or Aard 2) is an offline dictionary and Wikipedia reader.

📖 Purpose: Lets you read large dictionaries/encyclopedias without internet.

💾 Format: Uses .slob (Sorted List Of Blobs) files — compressed databases for text/images.

🔍 Features:

• Fast full-text search

• Multiple dictionaries at once

• Works fully offline (no ads, no tracking)

📱 Platform: Android (apps like Aard 2 Dictionary, Simple Dictionary).

🌍 Content: Often used with offline dumps of Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikisource, and other dictionary/encyclopedia projects converted to .slob.

🛠️ Conversion:

You can convert other dictionary formats into .slob using PyGlossary (FOSS dictionary converter).

Example command:

pyglossary input_file.dict output_file.slob

👉 Summary:

• aard2 = the reader software
  
• .slob = the data files it reads (like offline Wikipedia or dictionaries)
  
• pyglossary = tool to convert other dictionary formats into .slob