English Bus vs SpeakUP
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
English Bus
This app offers an eight-level English learning course for young learners. It uses a variety of activities, stories, games, and songs to cater to different learning styles and help children acquire new vocabulary and sentence-building skills.
- Flashcard word learning
- Animated songs and chants
- Interactive stories
- Word acquisition games
- Sentence building exercises
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*English Bus* iOS 16 has been applied. ■ Overview Bricks English Bus, an eight-level English learning course for young learners, has an English education app. Learn English with a variety of activities, stories, games, and songs which cater to a multitude of learning styles. *Visit the Bricks website below for further information. https://www.hibricks.com ■ Features Student Book: Starter 1 to Level 6 1. Flashcard: Learning words and phrases through sounds and images 2. Song (Starter 1 and 2): Learning with animations and joining along with songs 3. Chant: Singing along with chants 4. Story (Starter 1 to Level 4): Reading stories through animations 5. Word Game: Acquiring a variety of words through fun games 6. Sentence Builder (Level 1 to Level 6): Building sentences by connecting words ■ How to acquire and apply: 1. Install the app and download the appropriate level. 2. Click on the level, and children can learn the various content by unit-provided applications.
SpeakUP
This app helps young learners enhance their English speaking and presentation abilities through a structured, three-level curriculum. It offers engaging activities designed to build fluency and confidence in expressing thoughts and delivering short presentations.
- Three-level English speaking curriculum
- Language and speech presentation skills training
- Activities for fluency and confidence
- Personalized role-play exercises
- Board games for practice
- Gradual skill progression
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Speak Up is a three-IeveI series for young Iearners who want to improve their EngIish speaking skiIIs. Focusing on Ianguage and speech presentation skiIIs, the series graduaIIy trains Iearners to express a simpIe thought, to organize their thoughts in a paragraph, and to finaIIy present their thoughts in a short presentation. Engaging fun and easy-to foIIow activities such as AII Ears, PersonaIized RoIe-PIay, and Board Games are provided to buiId Iearners’ EngIish fIuency as weII as their confidence.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SpeakUP at 5.0 against English Bus's 4.0. On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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.
SpeakUP holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
English Bus ships an update every 6 months, SpeakUP every 4 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | English Bus | SpeakUP |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.1 — better | 13.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 792 MB | 430 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Bricks Education | Epublic CO.,LTD |
Customer experience
English Bus
SpeakUP
In-app purchases
English Bus
No in-app purchases
SpeakUP
No in-app purchases
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