Comparison

SHI vs Explore the Flags

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

Head to head
About

SHI

Learn the Tlingit language with this app. It offers hundreds of vocabulary entries and phrases across various categories, complete with audio from fluent speakers. Practice pronunciation, explore the writing system, and test your knowledge with quizzes.

Highlights
  • Hundreds of vocabulary entries
  • 20+ learning categories
  • Audio from fluent speakers
  • Pronunciation and writing system introduction
  • Category-based quizzes
  • Progress tracking
Features
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The “Tlingit Language” app helps to build skills in the language. This app contains hundreds of entries in more than 20 different categories all with accompanying audio for vocabulary and phrases. Quiz yourself by category and beat your previous quiz scores. The app also contains isolated alphabet sounds as an introduction to basic pronunciation and the writing system. The app is designed as an introduction to the Tlingit language and is a supplementary tool for teachers and learners. Audio for the vocabulary and phrases is provided by a variety of fluent speakers.

About

Explore the Flags

Discover flags, capitals, languages, and greetings from 195 countries. Engage with interactive maps, quizzes, and coloring activities to deepen your understanding of world geography and vexillology. This app offers a comprehensive, ad-free, and offline experience for all ages.

Highlights
  • Explore 195 countries and their details
  • Interactive world map with terrain and satellite views
  • Quizzes for flags, capitals, and greetings
  • Coloring templates for national flags
  • Offline functionality
  • Multiple player profiles
  • Achievements and travel tracking
Features
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Explore the Flags is a love letter to flags and world geography, for curious kids and lifelong enthusiasts alike. Whether you are a 7-year-old discovering your first flag or an adult who can already name every capital, Explore the Flags is built to feed a genuine passion for the world. Travel all 195 countries, their flags, capitals, languages, native greetings, and fun facts, then go deeper with states, provinces, quizzes, oceans, and an interactive map. A Breath of Fresh Air Remember when apps were just good? No ads. No subscriptions. No in-app purchases. No accounts. No tracking. You buy Explore the Flags once, and it is yours forever: every country, every activity, every future update. It even works almost entirely offline. The only time it reaches for the internet is for optional extras like terrain maps and photos of state birds, trees, and flowers. That is the whole catch. There isn't one. Explore 195 Countries Browse every country across six continents. Each shows its flag, capital, language, a native greeting with phonetic pronunciation, and a fun fact. Hear Hello in 40+ Languages Built-in text-to-speech reads greetings aloud in each country's own language, connecting geography to real culture. For Flag and Geography Enthusiasts If vexillology is your thing, you will feel right at home. Study every national flag, all 50 US state flags, and the UK nations. Browse flags by color and design, explore states and provinces across 36 countries, and test yourself with streak-based quizzes and country-silhouette challenges. Quiz Me Two ways to play. Teacher Mode lets the child become the teacher, showing questions and judging the grown-up's answers. Solo Streak Mode keeps your streak alive as you chase your best. Quiz capitals, flags, greetings, and languages. Interactive World Map Pan and zoom a colorful world map, tap any country, and pull up its details instantly. Switch to terrain and satellite views when you want to go deeper. Color the Flags Tap-to-fill simplified flag templates with a friendly color palette, using the real flag as a guide. Achievements and Travel Tracking Unlock dozens of achievements and mark the countries and states you have visited to watch your exploration grow. And there is more: Country Challenge medals, a Name That Shape silhouette quiz, Geo and Region Golf, an oceans explorer, multiple player profiles, and dark mode. Why Explore the Flags Exists If The InfoDump LLC were some mega-corporation, this would be a lifelong subscription that requires a shrubbery to cancel. It is not. It is a dad named Jamal. His son is hyperfixated on flags. When Jamal went looking for an app to feed that love, every option was a mess of ads, pop-ups, and "unlock the rest for $9.99/month." So he built the one his son actually deserved. One day his son, who is autistic and emerging-verbal, was zoomed way in on the map, tapping a tiny speck of an island, but nothing came up. He looked at his dad and asked, "Dad, what about South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands?" Jamal had to Google it, and his son was right. Not only was it a real place; it was the exact island he had been tapping. So Jamal added it. That is how this app grows: one curious question at a time. Sometimes the kid teaches the dad. Pay once. Yours forever. No ads, no subscriptions, no tracking, ever.

Screenshots

SHI4 screens
Explore the Flags4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: SHI at Free against Explore the Flags's $2.99. SHI also leads on ratings volume (15 vs 4) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 13.0). Explore the Flags's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 80%). On rating, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

SHI is free to download; Explore the Flags costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for SHI against 5.0 for Explore the Flags. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 4 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 80% of SHI's written reviews are positive against 100% of Explore the Flags's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
SHI versus Explore the Flags: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSHIExplore the Flags
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.9 (15 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings15 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 7 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size62 MB53 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSealaska Heritage InstituteThe InfoDump LLC

Customer experience

SHI

All ratings15 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative0.0%

Explore the Flags

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

SHI

No in-app purchases

None

Explore the Flags

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SHI free?
SHI is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Explore the Flags free?
Explore the Flags costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, SHI or Explore the Flags?
Explore the Flags is rated higher. SHI averages 4.9 out of 5 from 15 ratings, while Explore the Flags averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do SHI or Explore the Flags have ads?
Neither SHI nor Explore the Flags shows ads.

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