Comparison

EF Campus Learning vs Fathom

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

Head to head
About

EF Campus Learning

This app helps you learn a new language by providing personalized recommendations for pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar. Track your progress and get insights into your learning journey.

Highlights
  • Personalized learning recommendations
  • Pronunciation practice
  • Vocabulary building
  • Grammar improvement
  • Progress tracking
  • Learning insights
Features
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Campus Learning guides your Language learning and gives insight into your progress. In the app you will receive tailored recommendations to improve your Language learning, including pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar.

About

Fathom

Features
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Every question tells you why. Not a list of answers. Answer a question and the app explains it: why the correct option is correct, why the one you picked was not, and which rule it comes from — SOLAS II-2/3, COLREG Rule 19, MARPOL Annex VI. Not on the difficult ones. On all 4,658. It works with no connection at all. The whole ticket is on the phone before you leave the quay. WHAT A LIST OF ANSWERS CANNOT DO • An explanation on every one of the 4,658 questions, and on 4,652 of them a separate note on each wrong option — written for this app, not copied from anywhere. • 1,217 answers cite the rule they come from, so you can go and read it. • Sound signals you can hear. Nine questions ask what a signal means — the whistle, the bell, the gong. Everywhere else they are printed as a photograph of a horn and left unanswerable. Press play instead. • Diagrams where the question is a picture — the lights, the symbols, the indicator cards — and search across the whole ticket. WOULD I PASS TODAY • An estimate of the score you would get sitting the paper now. It weights each topic by how much of the exam that topic usually takes, so it answers the question you actually have. • The paper itself, timed: 60 minutes, 70 questions, no feedback until you hand it in — the sitting as it is sat. Marked against the pass mark your company asks for, and broken down by topic afterwards. • A review schedule. What you get wrong comes back tomorrow; what you know comes back in three weeks. • Statistics by topic, bookmarks, and a mistakes list that fills itself. WHAT IS COVERED Built for the CES (Crew Evaluation System) computer test: every rank it is sat for, named the way your crewing office names it — department, level, vessel. Up to 1,030 questions for one ticket, 4,658 across the catalogue. Deck — Management, for master and chief officer. Operational, for the officer of the watch. Both across twenty vessel types: oil, chemical, LNG and LPG tankers, bulk, container, general cargo, RoRo and RoRo passenger, passenger, pure car carrier, reefer, platform supply, anchor handling, seismic survey and shuttle tankers, with or without dynamic positioning. Engine — Management, for chief and second engineer. Operational, for the watch engineer. Slow speed, medium speed and steam plants. ETO — for the electro-technical officer. BEFORE YOU PAY A fifth of every ticket is open, and the short paper — 25 questions, timed and marked like the real one — is free. You can read the questions, the explanations and sit a paper before deciding. If it is not what you need, you have lost nothing. ONE PAYMENT Each ticket is a single purchase. No subscription, no account, no sign-in, and nothing to renew while you are at sea for six months. DESIGNED FOR A SHIP Dark by default, because a white screen on a night watch costs you your night vision. Readable at any text size, and it works with VoiceOver. Nothing is sent anywhere: there is no server, no analytics, and no advertising. This app is an independent study aid, written and published by one developer. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Seagull, Ocean Technologies Group or any other provider of crew evaluation tests, and it is not the test. CES is a trademark of its owner.

Screenshots

EF Campus Learning4 screens
Fathom4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: EF Campus Learning at none against Fathom's 10. EF Campus Learning also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 weeks) and iOS requirement (13.4 vs 17.0). On price, ads 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. Fathom sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. EF Campus Learning asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

EF Campus Learning ships an update every 2 weeks, Fathom every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
EF Campus Learning versus Fathom: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEF Campus LearningFathom
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.7 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size57 MB19 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperSignum International AGDanylo Budylkin

In-app purchases

None

EF Campus Learning

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

Fathom

One-time10
  • ETO · Management$2.99
  • Eng Mgmt · Generic$3.99
  • Eng Ops · Generic$3.99
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  • Deck Ops · Shuttle Tanker$4.99
  • Eng Mgmt · Medium Speed$4.99
  • Eng Mgmt · Slow Speed$4.99
  • Eng Mgmt · Steam$4.99
  • Eng Ops · Medium Speed$4.99
  • Eng Ops · Slow Speed$4.99
  • Eng Ops · Steam$4.99

Questions

Is EF Campus Learning free?
EF Campus Learning is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Fathom free?
Fathom is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do EF Campus Learning or Fathom have ads?
Neither EF Campus Learning nor Fathom shows ads.
Which is updated more often, EF Campus Learning or Fathom?
EF Campus Learning ships an update every 2 weeks, and Fathom every 5 weeks. Most recently, EF Campus Learning was updated on November 3, 2026 and Fathom on November 6, 2026.

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