Comparison

Abjapp vs Strophe

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Abjapp

This app helps users learn the Arabic alphabet through interactive lessons, letter cards for pronunciation and writing, and practice quizzes. It focuses solely on the alphabet, not language comprehension or speaking.

Highlights
  • Alphabet lessons and chapters
  • Letter cards for pronunciation
  • Writing practice
  • Progress assessment quizzes
  • Vowel and consonant breakdown
Features
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Abjapp is a tool designed to facilitate learning of the Arabic alphabet. However, it is not intended to teach Arabic language comprehension or speaking skills. Abjapp can be used as an introductory course to Arabic or as a means of reviewing the alphabet while learning the language, depending on your needs. It achieves this through various features such as lessons and chapters that break down the learning process into smaller parts (vowels, consonants, etc.). In addition, Abjapp provides letter cards to teach you how to pronounce and write each new letter, and quizzes that allow you to practice and assess your progress. Take advantage of Abjapp and enjoy the learning process!

About

Strophe

Features
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Learn a song, a poem, or a speech by heart — one line at a time. Strophe is a prompter for memorizing text word for word. Paste in the lyrics you're learning, or pick a piece from the built-in library, and practice it the way you'd actually perform it: line by line, in order, start to finish. RECALL BEFORE YOU SEE Strophe shows you nothing to begin with. You try to remember the first line, then tap to reveal it and check yourself. Tap again for the next. Nothing is on screen that you haven't already earned — a prompter that shows you the line first isn't an easier setting, it's no exercise at all. BE HONEST ABOUT THE HARD ONES Fumbled a line? Mark it shaky or missed. The walk doesn't rush on: you get a moment to work out what comes next, because the moment you admit you missed a line is the moment you've just read the correct one. IT DECIDES WHEN YOU PRACTICE At the end of a run, Strophe reads your line-by-line verdicts and schedules the next session — using FSRS, the same spaced-repetition algorithm serious memorizers use. Pieces you know come back rarely. Pieces you're still learning come back soon. You can always overrule it. BUILT FOR WHOLE PIECES A song is not a stack of flashcards. Strophe never shuffles your lines or drills them out of order, because the order is the thing you're learning. Verses, stanza breaks and section markers stay where they belong. Paste a long speech and it can split it into clause-length lines you can actually hold. NO STREAKS, NO BADGES, NO NAGGING One reminder a day at an hour you choose, and nothing else. No points, no congratulation, no pressure to come back. The session summary tells you what happened and what's next — that's all. FOUR PIECES TO START Kipling's If—, Henley's Invictus, Ehrmann's Desiderata, and Donne's "No man is an island." Every one taken from an archival source, word for word, and read in full before it shipped. Add your own by pasting them in. IPHONE, IPAD AND MAC Practice on your phone, or put your Mac on the music stand. Your pieces and your progress sync over iCloud. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No tracking. No ads. Your texts stay on your devices and in your own iCloud.

Screenshots

Abjapp4 screens
Strophe4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Strophe at none against Abjapp's 1. Strophe also leads on device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Abjapp sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Strophe asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Abjapp versus Strophe: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAbjappStrophe
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (29 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews88.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings29 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFrederic MaquinThorbjørn Throndsen Bonvik

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Abjapp

One-time1
  • Full access$2.99
None

Strophe

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Abjapp free?
Abjapp is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Strophe free?
Strophe is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Abjapp or Strophe have ads?
Neither Abjapp nor Strophe shows ads.

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