Comparison

Buchenwald vs GLS Language School

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

Head to head
About

Buchenwald

Explore the history of the Buchenwald concentration camp with this official app. It offers guided tours of the former camp grounds and the permanent exhibition, featuring historical sites, photographs, and personal accounts from former inmates. Use it as an interactive guide on-site or as a comprehensive source of information.

Highlights
  • Camp grounds tour
  • Permanent exhibition tour
  • 27 historically significant sites
  • Photographs from archive
  • Former inmate testimonies
  • Interactive tour guide
  • GPS function
Features
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The official Buchenwald Memorial app In 1937, the Nazis had the Buchenwald concentration camp built on Ettersberg Mountain, just outside the city of Weimar. By the end of the war, the SS had held more than a quarter of a million persons from nearly all countries of Europe in custody here and in the many Buchenwald subcamps. Beginning in August 1945, the Soviet occupying power used parts of the former concentration camp as one of its special camps. After the dissolution of the special camp in early 1950, the German Democratic Republic established a national monument on the Ettersberg. Today the name "Buchenwald" stands like almost no other for the complexities of twentieth-century German and European history. The app offers a tour of the former camp grounds and a tour of the permanent exhibition on the history of the Buchenwald concentration camp. In both cases, you can design the tour according to your individual preferences. On the camp grounds, the app provides basic information on 27 historically significant sites, supplemented with photographs from the memorial's extensive photo archive. In addition, former inmates talk about their experiences. The tour of the permanent exhibition "Buchenwald: Ostracism and Violence 1937 to 1945" features the main exhibition texts and provides explanations of selected objects. Biographies shed light on the fates of the inmates. The app can be used both as an interactive tour guide at the memorial and as a general source of information on the history of the place. The app was developed by the Buchenwald Memorial in cooperation with itour city guide GmbH. For further information, see www.buchenwald.de and www.itour.de. Contents: • Tour of the camp grounds with stops at altogether 27 sites • Tour of the permanent exhibition • High-quality production with professional narrators • Convenient navigation map • Scrollable menu list offering direct selection of all sites • GPS function in outdoor area

About

GLS Language School

Features
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Learn languages at the GLS Language School in Berlin. This app is exclusively for students of the school – you will receive the login data from our school team. With the app you can check your timetable, course attendance or details about your accommodation at any time. The after class activity program is listed as well and excursions or tours can be booked within the app. We recommend downloading the app so that you always have access to your booking information and all GLS news.

Screenshots

Buchenwald4 screens
GLS Language School3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Buchenwald at every 3 months against GLS Language School's every 23 months. GLS Language School's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Buchenwald ships an update every 3 months, GLS Language School every 23 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Buchenwald versus GLS Language School: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBuchenwaldGLS Language School
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 23 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStiftung Gedenkstätten Buchenwald und Mittelbau-DoraFidelo Software GmbH

In-app purchases

None

Buchenwald

No in-app purchases

None

GLS Language School

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Buchenwald free?
Buchenwald is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is GLS Language School free?
GLS Language School is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Buchenwald or GLS Language School have ads?
Neither Buchenwald nor GLS Language School shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Buchenwald or GLS Language School?
Buchenwald ships an update every 3 months, and GLS Language School every 23 months. Most recently, Buchenwald was updated on October 7, 2026 and GLS Language School on September 30, 2026.

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