Hoplite Challenge vs BHTA Dictionary
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hoplite Challenge
Master Ancient Greek verb conjugations with this challenging game. Practice identifying and transforming verb forms against the clock, reinforcing knowledge gained from a popular textbook. Designed for those with a foundational understanding of the language.
- Verb conjugation practice
- Timed challenges
- Based on Hansen & Quinn textbook
- Over 15,800 verb forms
- Reinforces existing knowledge
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The Hoplite Challenge is a verb conjugation game for Ancient Greek. It is inspired by the Hoplite Challenge Cup, a contest held each summer between the students and faculty of the Latin/Greek Institute's Basic Program in Greek. After only six weeks in the course, students are prepared to challenge the faculty to see who can most quickly and accurately produce Ancient Greek verb forms. The spirit and intensity of the Hoplite Challenge Cup could never be adequately recreated in app form, but it is hoped that you will find the app fun and challenging. The app follows the units of the course's textbook, Hansen & Quinn's Greek: An Intensive Course. From the 114 verbs introduced in Hansen & Quinn there are over 15,800 possible verb forms, not including additional forms given in the appendix. The app presents users with one verb form and prompts them to change it to another in 30 seconds or less. Users should already have a good command of Ancient Greek verbs; the app is aimed at perfecting and reinforcing this knowledge.
BHTA Dictionary
Access comprehensive offline dictionaries for Ancient Greek, including the Liddell, Scott and Jones lexicon. Features advanced search capabilities and morphological analysis for common words. Includes declension and conjugation tables for frequently used terms.
- Offline Ancient Greek dictionaries
- Liddell, Scott and Jones lexicon
- Advanced search options
- Automatic morphological form identifier
- Declension and conjugation tables
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The BHTA Dictionary app contains a number of offline Ancient Greek dictionaries including the well-known dictionary by Liddell, Scott and Jones. The app provides various search options: from the beginning, from the end, within the word, full-text search, as well as an automatic morphological form identifier. Additionally, tables with all declension and conjugation forms are available for the 500 most common words of the Ancient Greek Language.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Hoplite Challenge at every 10 days against BHTA Dictionary's every 2 months. Hoplite Challenge also leads on ratings volume (17 vs 3). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Hoplite Challenge against 5.0 for BHTA Dictionary. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hoplite Challenge has 17 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Hoplite Challenge ships an update every 10 days, BHTA Dictionary every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and July 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hoplite Challenge | BHTA Dictionary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (17 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 17 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | philolog LLC | Iurii Shakhov |
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Hoplite Challenge
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In-app purchases
Hoplite Challenge
No in-app purchases
BHTA Dictionary
No in-app purchases
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