# Grove: Learn English — ABC to C2, phonics and reading > ABC to C2, phonics and reading (iPhone/iPad app by Gaurav Taxak.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/grove-learn-english/id6806637256 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Gaurav Taxak](https://appshunter.io/developer/6806637258) - Category: Education - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 240 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-09-09 - Data updated: 2026-10-26 ## What is Grove? Grove teaches English, from the alphabet to the C2 level, and is a reader in which every word can be tapped. A COURSE BESIDE YOUR TEACHER The Learn tab is a whole course in seven stages: First steps, Beginner, Elementary, Intermediate, Upper-intermediate, Advanced and Mastery. It starts from first words heard and pictured, the 26 letters and their sounds, over 400 everyday words and stories read aloud, and goes on to 10,000 words and the grammar, reading, writing, listening and speaking of the C2 level. 142 lessons, 51 first-step units, five pronunciation units and 212 sets of words, with poems, plays and stories along the way. Every lesson has the same seven parts: Remember, Look, Learn, Try, Use, Check and Keep. Every answer is marked the moment it is given, and every wrong answer is told why. Writing and speaking are done against a model answer and a checklist, with a rough guide made by rules on the device; a teacher's mark is the real one. Review brings back each word you keep and each point you miss, at widening gaps, until it stays. PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND TIMED TESTS From Stage 3, every stage has its own practice at its level: 4,211 questions in the forms many tests of English use, on reading, grammar, gaps, words and idioms, reasoning, listening, writing and speaking. Each kind of question shows how to work it, a worked example and the lessons that teach it, then gives practice. 52 timed tests and 31 timed writing papers are each walked through afterwards. Marking is plain: one mark a question, nothing taken off. Writing and speaking come with feedback by rule, a marking guide, samples and a model. Every question is written for Grove. THE SAME FOR EVERY LEARNER Everyone gets the same Grove: no profile, no age to give, and every stage, its practice and its timed tests open to all. The dictionary hides rude and offensive words until someone turns that off in Settings. SAY IT RIGHT The 44 sounds of English with pairs to hear, word stress, weak forms and rhythm, and the points that most mark an Indian speaker. Read a passage aloud and Grove shows which words did not come through clearly. GAMES THAT TEACH Memory pairs, word ladders, anagrams, a sentence race, odd one out, crosswords, catch the error, a word duel and a precis sprint, each at your own stage. TAP ANY WORD Open a book, or an article from Safari, and tap a word you do not know. Grove says what it means, how it sounds, where it came from, and what it is doing in that sentence, then gets out of the way. Six thousand of the words serious readers meet open with a short, plain definition written for Grove. EVERY SENTENCE, TAKEN APART Tap a sentence and Grove shows its clauses, subject, verb group, tense and voice, and what each word is doing. A REFERENCE THAT ANSWERS BACK 161 grammar topics, 796 rules and 1,249 tables; more than five hundred Greek and Latin word parts and their families; confusable pairs, idioms, natural pairings, and one word in place of a phrase. Every part of it is taught in a lesson first. 155 PIECES TO READ Editorials, explainers, short stories, issues argued both ways, poems and plays, and pieces for younger readers, written for Grove, each placed beside the lesson it serves. EVERYTHING IS IN THE APP Every lesson, question and story ships inside Grove. No account, no subscription, nothing to download. It works on a plane and in a classroom with no wifi. Grove goes online only when you send it a link, switch on iCloud sync between your own devices, or, where a device cannot recognise speech itself, say yes to Apple's speech service. KIND TO LEARNERS Scores only on checks and timed tests. Clocks only in timed tests, speaking tasks, three games and practice you ask to time, and Settings turns them off. No streaks, no leaderboards, no reminders. MAC, IPHONE AND IPAD The same app on all three, with your books, notes, kept words and progress carried between your own devices through iCloud when you turn it on. ## Is Grove safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Grove. ## Is Grove legit? Grove: Learn English has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Grove is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 3 releases) ### 3.0 — 2026-10-24 Version 3.0 turns Grove from a reader into a whole English course, from the alphabet to the C2 level. It is still offline, still in English, and still without an account. THE LEARN TAB A self-study course to use beside a teacher and the school textbook, in seven stages: First steps (words by ear, the letters and their sounds, over 400 everyday words with pictures, the first sentences, and stories read aloud), then Beginner, Elementary, Intermediate, Upper-intermediate, Advanced and Mastery, from A1 to C2 and up to 10,000 words. There are 142 lessons, 51 first-step units, five on pronunciation, four books of easy stories read as lessons, and 212 sets of words, all in English. Every unit says what you will be able to do by its end. In the first steps every instruction is spoken, each new kind of question is shown before it is asked, and nothing needs typing. A learner who cannot read yet can take a slower way: a few sounds at a time, heard first in words they know, then traced with a finger, and said aloud. Where to start finds your stage for you. THE SAME SEVEN PARTS IN EVERY LESSON Remember: a few questions from earlier. Look: the point in example sentences, each one spoken. Learn: the rule in a plain sentence, and the mistakes people make. Try: questions marked the moment you answer, with the reason for every wrong one. Use: a passage to read, a talk to hear, or something to write or say, against a model and a checklist. Check: ten questions, and if they go wrong, the rule comes back with ten others. Keep: the lesson's words go into your memory. Every sentence in a lesson keeps to the words of its stage. REVIEW THAT REMEMBERS FOR YOU Every word you keep and every point you miss comes back after a day, then three, then a week, and further apart each time you remember it, asked a different way each time. PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND TIMED TESTS From Stage 3, every stage has its own practice questions, 4,211 in all, in the forms many tests of English use and at the stage's level: reading passages, grammar and correct sentences, filling gaps, words and idioms, sentences and paragraphs, reading and reasoning, listening, writing and speaking. Each kind of question explains how to work it, shows a worked example, names the lessons that teach it, and gives practice, with a Time me switch. 52 timed tests and 31 timed writing papers are fixed sets against the clock, each the same every time, with every answer walked through afterwards. Marking is plain: one mark a question, and nothing taken off. Essays, letters, precis and speaking come with feedback by rule, a marking guide, samples and a model answer. THE SAME FOR EVERY LEARNER Everyone gets the same Grove: no profile to set up, no age to give, and every stage, its practice and its timed tests open to all. HEAR IT, SAY IT Five units, one in each of the first five stages, teach the 44 sounds of English with pairs to hear, word stress, weak forms and rhythm, and the points that most mark an Indian speaker. Wherever a lesson asks you to read aloud, Grove can listen, on the device wherever it can, and show which words did not come through clearly. NINE GAMES Memory pairs, word ladders, anagrams, a sentence race, odd one out, crosswords, catch the error, a word duel against Grove, and a precis sprint, each at your own stage. NOT A SCOREBOARD The only scores are on checks and timed tests. Only the timed tests, speaking tasks and three games have a clock, unless you ask practice to time you, and Settings turns them off. No streaks, no leaderboards, no reminders. STILL A READER Three tabs: Read for your books, Learn for the course, and Look up for the dictionary, grammar, word origins and pronunciation, every part of which a lesson teaches first. Tap any word in any book and take any sentence apart, as before. ### 2.0 — 2026-10-05 Version 2.0 is the largest change since Grove launched. A HUNDRED PIECES TO READ Grove now has a Reading room: 35 editorials, 30 explainers, 20 short stories and 15 issues argued both ways, all written for the app. Modern argument and explanation — the prose examination passages are drawn from. Nothing follows a piece: no questions, no score. IN PLAIN WORDS Six thousand of the words serious readers meet now open with a short, plain definition and an example sentence, written for Grove the way a learner's dictionary would put it. The full entry follows it. FROM SAFARI, IN ONE STEP On any article, choose Share, then Grove Reader. Grove keeps the article — the headline and the text, without the menus and adverts — and opens it with every word ready to tap. A SENTENCE ANALYSER THAT WORKS Grove now has its own part-of-speech engine, built from the dictionary it already carries. Tap any sentence and every word is named — noun, verb, determiner, preposition — and the verb group, tense and voice are read off correctly. Where the old version could see only "had" in "The old man had kept a shop", it now sees "had kept", and calls it past perfect. A GRAMMAR REFERENCE WORTH THE NAME The reference has gone from eighteen topics to fifty-one, and from twenty-eight rules to nearly five hundred — more than four thousand points of grammar and two and a half thousand worked examples. It sets things out in full, the way the older grammar books do, in four hundred tables: every irregular verb with its three parts, the collective nouns, three hundred words with the preposition each one takes, British and American spellings side by side, the tense changes in reported speech, the question tags that break the pattern, the redundant phrases and what to say instead. Every part of speech; all twelve tenses, modals, mood and concord; the sentence, its clauses, transformation, conditionals and narration; punctuation and spelling. And a shelf for competitive papers: how to spot an error, and the recurring faults with nouns, verbs, pronouns, prepositions and adjectives, set out one by one. And tapping a topic now opens it. Search now looks inside the rules too, so "dangling", "concord" and "no sooner" find their pages. TWO TABS INSTEAD OF SEVEN Library and Reference. Your books and the Reading room on one; grammar, word origins, the dictionary, the words you kept, your notes and your review queue on the other. A book's chapters are one tap from the page. YOUR NOTES IN ONE PLACE Everything you marked, in every book, is listed with the sentence you marked it in. Tap a mark and you are back at its chapter, in whichever book it was. REVIEW Words you keep come back: a day later, then three, then a week, for as long as it takes. Each comes back in the sentence you met it in, with its meaning beside it, to be read again. Nothing is asked of you. OPEN WITH GROVE Right-click any EPUB, PDF or text file on your Mac or iPhone and open it in Grove. MORE DEPTH ON EVERY WORD - "How it is used" — the shape a verb takes, and the mistake people usually make with it - "Close to" — 23,516 sense relations that were being dropped - Syllable counts beside the pronunciation - Tap "the", "with" or "and" and Grove explains what the word is doing instead of saying it isn't in the dictionary ENGLISH ONLY Grove no longer asks for your language or shows meanings in other languages. Those meanings were never deep enough — most everyday words came back with nothing — and a half-finished feature does a reader more harm than none. Every word is explained in plain English. The app is also less than half the size it was. On a Mac the word card now rises over the foot of the page; Settings keeps the side column. The dictionary now finds a word from a description: "one who hates mankind". Also fixed: the part-of-speech label under a word, and "1 clauses". ### 1.1.1 — 2026-09-15 No release notes. ## Apps similar to Grove | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [FBOIOA](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fboioa/id6751259614) | — | Free | Education | | [Gangsta Philosophy](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/gangsta-philosophy/id6479869587) | — | Free | Education | | [Meduraa](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/meduraa/id6746746942) | — | Free | Education | | [Spaced Repetition — Revu](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/spaced-repetition-revu/id6748602127) | 5.0 (2) | Free | Education | | [CAIIB WITH ASHOK](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/caiib-with-ashok/id6472888107) | 5.0 (1) | Free | Education | | [Neuroflip NEET PG flashcards](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/neuroflip-neet-pg-flashcards/id6474674721) | — | Free | Education | ## Related topics [wiktionary reader](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/wiktionary-reader) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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