Woodpecker vs Shapewise
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Woodpecker
Learn languages by watching videos in your target language. Touch words in subtitles for instant definitions and save them for review. Explore content from YouTube and Netflix to immerse yourself in native-speaker material.
- Interactive video subtitles
- Instant word definitions
- Save vocabulary for review
- YouTube video discovery
- Netflix integration (iPad)
- Offline bilingual dictionaries
- Flashcard creation
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Watch and understand thousands of videos in Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Vietnamese, or English. When you don’t know a word, simply touch it in the subtitles. Use Woodpecker tools on any subtitled video on Youtube and all videos on Netflix (with a Netflix account and when using Woodpecker on an iPad). Touch any word, see its meaning, and easily save it to your history for review. Woodpecker’s bilingual dictionaries are free to use, work offline, and have no ads. Move on from your textbooks. Immerse and understand videos, shows, and movies meant for native speakers from around the world. Choose your target language: Immerse in Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Vietnamese, or English. Discover videos: Woodpecker filters Youtube to show you only videos in your target language with accurate subtitles. Browse videos by category, from popular channels, or made by popular Youtube teachers. Quickly find videos created for native speakers. Watch and improve your language skills. Watch with confidence. Woodpecker tools let you: + Touch any word to look it up while watching + Save any word or phrase to your word history + Touch a timestamp to jump to that section or rehear a phrase easily + Jump back 5 seconds if you missed something in a video + Touch to hear a phrase in the video repeated again and again + Slow down a video to 75% speed + Add multiple subtitle streams (when available) to follow along in your own language + Browse popular news sites in your target language, touch any word to look it up Subscribe to Woodpecker Tools to unlock unlimited web browsing, saved word exports, and flash cards! Make and practice your language skills with flash cards you make from words you saved! Try free today for 7 days. Build confidence with Woodpecker: • Discover videos in the language you’re learning. Explore by topic, channel name, or view videos by popular teachers on Youtube • Woodpecker filters Youtube to show only the videos in the language you’re learning • Have a Netflix account? Subscribe to the Unlimited Player in Woodpecker on your iPad to watch your favorite shows on Netflix. Touch any word in the subtitles to see its meaning and use Woodpecker Tools when you watch Netflix. • Perfect for intermediate to advanced learners, gain confidence as you watch something you love • Touch any word to see its meaning while your video pauses; Woodpecker automatically identifies proper names, popular expressions, idioms, and phrases • See all the words and expressions you’ve looked up in your word history; review them and practice with pronunciations • Browse popular news sites in the language you’re learning with the Woodpecker web browser, touch any word to see its meaning • Upgrade the app with tools to export your word history and browse any web page and create flash cards for review from your saved word history. • Watch videos with two subtitle streams (when available) to follow along in English as well as your target language • Dive deeper in a definition, expand the popup and touch any word in a definition to see its meaning • Browse the Teacher Section to see videos by popular Youtube teachers in your target language • Find all the videos you’ve watched in the video history section (data stored locally on your device) • Woodpecker’s bilingual dictionaries support: English speakers learning French, Mandarin, Spanish, German, and Vietnamese. And also support speakers of Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Vietnamese learning English. • Touch any timestamp in the subtitles to rehear a phrase or jump to that phrase in a video • Discover content easily and dive into what you want to watch without the restrictions of a lesson plan • Improve your language skills while watching Youtube and Netflix with Woodpecker Start watching videos made for native speakers by native speakers. Immerse confidently in Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Vietnamese, or English. Try Woodpecker today!
Shapewise
Engage in a daily brain workout with three short games designed to enhance memory, focus, math, logic, and word skills. Track your progress against yourself and enjoy untimed puzzles for relaxation. The app offers accessibility features and works offline.
- Daily selection of three brain games
- Practices memory, focus, math, logic, and words
- Progress tracking against personal history
- Untimed relaxation puzzles
- Offline functionality
- Accessibility options
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Shapewise is a calm daily workout for your brain: three short games a day that practice memory, focus, math, logic and words, each one a few minutes long. A WORKOUT A DAY Every day Shapewise picks three games from different skills, never the same ones two days running. Play them in a few minutes, keep your streak going, and swap one game a day if you are not in the mood. Prefer five? Change the goal in Settings. TWELVE GAMES, FIVE SKILLS - Memory: Grid Recall, Number Span, Echo Sequence - Attention: Count Up, Arrow Switch, Twin Finder - Math: Quick Sums, Missing Sign, Percent Of - Logic: Misfit, Sort It - Words: Anagram Each game has 20 levels and adjusts round by round, so it stays just hard enough. YOU AGAINST YOURSELF Your results are compared with your own history, never with invented strangers. See your brain score, a rating and a trend for each skill, a best score and last ten sessions for every game, your streak on a calendar and 16 badges. Optional Game Center leaderboards let you compare with real players if you want to. UNWIND Two untimed puzzles for when you want to slow down: Colour Sort and Link Pipes, 1,000 levels each, every one checked to be solvable. MADE TO BE COMFORTABLE - Relaxed timing: turn off every clock in every game - Every color also carries a shape, so color is never the only clue - Light and dark appearance, high contrast, larger text and VoiceOver - One gentle daily reminder, only if you ask for it - Works offline, no account, no sign-up - iPhone and iPad, iOS 15 and newer FAIR AND SIMPLE Every game, level and statistic is open to everyone. Ads are calm: never inside a game or between the games of a workout, a banner only on the Games and Progress lists, and an occasional ad between sessions. Ads are non-personalized and suitable for all ages. Remove Ads is a single purchase, not a subscription, and also gives you the streak freeze and puzzle helpers without watching an ad. Shapewise is a set of games to practice memory, focus and math. It is not a medical product and does not diagnose or treat anything.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Woodpecker at none against Shapewise's shown. Woodpecker also leads on ratings volume (1.1K vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Shapewise's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 weeks) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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
Both are free to download. Woodpecker sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Shapewise sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Shapewise holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Woodpecker has 1.1K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Woodpecker ships an update every 5 weeks, Shapewise every 2 days. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | Woodpecker | Shapewise |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (1.1K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 81.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.1K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Woodpecker Learning Limited | vuong cuong |
Bugs and requests
Woodpecker
Reported bugs
3 issues- Netflix subtitles not working
- App crashing or not opening
- Inconsistent subtitle display
Requested features
4 requests- Support for more languages
- Improved subtitle synchronization
- Clearer pricing structure
- Better user interface and navigation
Shapewise
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Woodpecker
- Unlimited Video Player Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Woodpecker Tools Subscription7 Days trial$7.991 Month
- Unlimited Video Player Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Export Word History$0.99
- Woodpecker Web Browser$14.99
Shapewise
- Remove Ads$4.99









