Comparison

Learn Bengali words with ST vs Bornomala | বর্ণমালা

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

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About

Learn Bengali words with ST

Learn Bengali vocabulary and pronunciation through interactive games and flashcards. Features a "Smart-Teacher" function for organized learning and includes translations in over 40 languages. Covers a wide range of topics from basic objects to professions.

Highlights
  • Visual and audio support for pronunciation
  • Smart-Teacher function for organized learning
  • Vocabulary building through games
  • Flashcards with phonetic transcription
  • Testing with multiple-choice and writing exercises
  • Translations in over 40 languages
  • Extensive topic coverage
Features
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This self-teaching game helps to learn productively correct pronunciation and spelling through visual and audio support. For the correct organization of the learning process will help the function "Smart-Teacher". With this interesting and entertaining game you will be able to add new words from scratch to your vocabulary through playing. The vocabulary is the foundation for good oral and writing skills. Self-training every day can improve your knowledge in practice - reading, speaking, listening and literacy. It includes the translation of words more than 40 languages. The learning process consists of several stages: - Learning the alphabet, parts of speech, such as nouns, adjectives, verbs with phonetic transcription through flashcards and sound accompaniment by native speaker. - Testing of the knowledge of the words happens through fun and simple tests: • Choosing the right word for the picture. • Choosing the dynamic moving images for the words. • Writing words and spell check. This engaging and useful game of skill is a mobile tutor for self-study of vocabulary and phonetics on the elementary level. List of topics: colors, human body parts, domestic animals, wild animals, animal body parts, birds, insects, sea life, nature, natural phenomena, fruits, vegetables, food, kitchenware, home, home interior, bathroom, home appliances, tools, office, school supplies, school, numbers, geometric shapes, musical instruments, shop, clothes, shoes and accessories, toys, infrastructure, transport, travel, entertainments, information technology, human, society, professions, sport, summer sports, winter sports, prepositions. Terms of Use (EULA): http://devinco.me/terms.html

About

Bornomala | বর্ণমালা

This app helps non-native speakers, particularly children, learn the Bangla alphabet through an engaging and personalized approach. It adapts to individual learning styles to make the process enjoyable and effective.

Highlights
  • Personalized learning guidance
  • Interactive alphabet lessons
  • Focus on non-native speakers
  • Engaging for children
  • Adaptive learning patterns
Features
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Bornomala teaches Bangla in the order a learner actually picks it up: sounds before letters, listening before reading, and saying something real before being asked to spell it. It was built by a weekend Bengali school for the families in it, where a child very often speaks some Bangla at home and reads none of the script. It starts at the first letter and goes as far as real narrative, so it suits a beginner at any age: the youngest children in the school, the nine- and ten-year-olds who are most of it, and the teenagers coming back to a language they can speak but never learned to read. Everything a learner has to do is said aloud, so nothing waits on reading. THREE VILLAGES স্বরপুর for the vowels, ব্যঞ্জনপুর for the consonants, সংখ্যাপুর for the numbers. All three are open from the first day. Vowels first is the easier road and the app says so, but it is advice, not a locked door. 51 letters and 45 joined letters, each with its own sound, its own example word and its own stroke-by-stroke handwriting practice that grades order and direction, not just the shape. 38 STORYBOOKS Read-along books in three levels, each one voiced word by word, so a child can follow the highlight before they can decode. Tuli and her cat Tultuli appear throughout, and Tultuli is hidden on every page for a child to find and tap. Every book teaches a handful of key words and then checks them, with pictures rather than text, so the check never becomes a reading test by accident. TALKING, NOT JUST READING 27 conversations where the child takes a turn: someone says a line, the child picks the reply and says it. Phrase decks for greetings, family, food and school. A sentence builder that asks the child to put real sentences together from the words they have met. GAMES THAT COUNT সাপ লুডু and লুডু played in Bengali, where every square is counted aloud. দাবা with a beatable opponent. Spellbound, Solitaire and a counting game, all drawing on the same 794 words the rest of the app teaches, so a game is practice rather than a detour. FOR PARENTS WHO DO NOT READ THE SCRIPT Turn on "Sound out Bengali words" and every Bengali word in the app carries its sound in Latin letters, so you can read along with your child from the first day. It stays off by default, because the app is a Bengali app out of the box. Every instruction is bilingual. The Bengali being taught is never subtitled, because subtitling the answer turns a Bengali lesson into an English one. A progress screen shows what a child has actually met, learned and proven, kept apart on purpose: attendance is not the same as knowing. A PIN-gated area holds the detail and the family's settings. BUILT BY A SCHOOL Bornomala comes from BALA, a Bengali school, and is free. No ads, no in-app purchases, no accounts, no sign-up, and nothing a child does leaves the device. It works with the plane in airplane mode: every recording, picture and book is in the app already. Multiple children can share one device, each with their own progress.

Screenshots

Learn Bengali words with ST4 screens
Bornomala | বর্ণমালা4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Bornomala | বর্ণমালা at 4.9 against Learn Bengali words with ST's 3.4. Bornomala | বর্ণমালা also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (100% vs 67%). Learn Bengali words with ST's advantage is iOS requirement (12 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, 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. Learn Bengali words with ST sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $5.99 per year. Bornomala | বর্ণমালা asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Bornomala | বর্ণমালা holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 11 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Learn Bengali words with ST's written reviews are positive against 100% of Bornomala | বর্ণমালা's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Learn Bengali words with ST ships an update every 2 months, Bornomala | বর্ণমালা weekly. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Learn Bengali words with ST versus Bornomala | বর্ণমালা: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLearn Bengali words with STBornomala | বর্ণমালা
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.4 (5 ratings)4.9 (11 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings511 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size75 MB189 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRoman VynokurovZahid Hossain

Customer experience

Learn Bengali words with ST

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative0.0%

Bornomala | বর্ণমালা

All ratings11 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Learn Bengali words with ST

Subscriptions1
  • NO ADS 1 year$5.991 Year
None

Bornomala | বর্ণমালা

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Learn Bengali words with ST free?
Learn Bengali words with ST is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Bornomala | বর্ণমালা free?
Bornomala | বর্ণমালা is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Learn Bengali words with ST or Bornomala | বর্ণমালা?
Bornomala | বর্ণমালা is rated higher. Learn Bengali words with ST averages 3.4 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Bornomala | বর্ণমালা averages 4.9 from 11 ratings.
Do Learn Bengali words with ST or Bornomala | বর্ণমালা have ads?
Neither Learn Bengali words with ST nor Bornomala | বর্ণমালা shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Learn Bengali words with ST or Bornomala | বর্ণমালা?
Learn Bengali words with ST ships an update every 2 months, and Bornomala | বর্ণমালা weekly. Most recently, Learn Bengali words with ST was updated on November 3, 2026 and Bornomala | বর্ণমালা on November 3, 2026.

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