Collocations vs VokabelWidget
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Collocations
Learn and practice English collocations offline with categorized lists, visual aids, and audio. Includes exercises and quizzes to reinforce vocabulary and usage.
- Offline study tool
- Categorized collocation lists
- Visual resources
- Audio pronunciation
- Common usage examples
- Practice exercises
- Quizzes
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Want to sound like a native speaker? Stop memorizing isolated words. Native fluency comes from knowing which words go together automatically — collocations. This offline app teaches you those natural word pairs with visuals, audio, quizzes, and pronunciation practice. Your path to natural English: • Remember Faster: Memorable visual illustrations make word pairs impossible to forget. • Sound Natural: Clear meanings and usage notes ensure you use collocations correctly. • Real-World Context: Authentic example sentences show you exactly how natives speak. • Master the Flow: High-quality audio helps you catch the rhythm and intonation. • Build Fluency: Interactive quizzes challenge your recall until it becomes instinct. • Speak Confidently: Record your voice and compare your waveform to perfect your delivery. No internet? No problem. Learn anywhere, anytime — 100% offline. Built for advanced English learners who are tired of sounding "correct" and ready to sound natural. Notes: • Microphone and Speech Recognition permissions are only needed for pronunciation practice. Home Screen widgets Practice English collocations with illustrated flashcards right on your Home Screen. Choose a small widget for a quick visual reminder or a medium widget with a definition. Tap a card to open that item in the app. On iOS 17 or later, use the medium widget’s shuffle button to see another available item. Widgets show content available to you in the app.
VokabelWidget
Learn vocabulary passively with flashcards displayed one by one. Customize display times and easily add your own words. Syncs across Apple devices.
- Passive learning with flashcards
- Customizable display timing
- Add and edit own vocabulary
- Multi-language support
- iCloud sync across devices
- Split-screen functionality on iPad
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VokabelWidget shows your words large on a flashcard — one after another, at the pace you set. You lay your iPhone next to you or stand the iPad beside you, and between two pieces of work your eye catches a word. You learn in passing, without setting time aside for it. THE FLASHCARD The word stands large in the middle. After a delay you choose, the translation appears below it — a moment to answer for yourself before you read it. When the display time is up, the next word follows; anywhere between five seconds and five minutes. The arrow on the card moves on sooner, the pause button holds a word for as long as you want — and you can still page on while it does. YOUR LIST AT A GLANCE A tap on the list symbol shows every word currently going round: the foreign word and its translation side by side — on an iPhone the translation sits below the word, so that long words can be read in full. Above it sits a search field that searches both at once — upper and lower case, umlauts and accents may all be left out, “grusse” finds “Grüße”. BESIDE YOUR WORK On an iPad the app does not need the screen to itself. Put it beside another app in Split View, in Slide Over or as a window of its own: as long as it can be seen it keeps going, and you read along while you do something else. YOUR OWN WORDS Behind the gear on the card you enter both words and tap “Add”. You often need to type only one half: the app suggests the translation, worked out on your own device, with nothing leaving it. If either word is already in your list, the app asks first and shows you what it found. Every word can be corrected in place, hidden with a switch instead of deleted, and removed for good with a swipe. The free edition holds 200 entries. AS MANY LANGUAGES AS YOU LIKE Set up as many vocabulary languages as you want and name them yourself; the home language you pick from every language your device knows. Each language keeps a list of its own, and a tap turns the direction of questioning around. ON IPHONE, IPAD AND MAC Your words live in your iCloud: what you enter here is already there on your other devices with this app — and the other way round. The Mac edition is in the same store. SAVING AND BRINGING BACK In the gear, on the “System” tab, you save your whole vocabulary to a file — every language at once. It goes into the Files app, into your iCloud if you like, and opens in Numbers or Excel, to look at or to pass on. Loading works the same way, and it works with someone else’s list too: two columns are enough, the word and its translation. Before anything happens the app shows you what it found and asks whether it should be added to your stock or replace it. ALSO • Sample vocabulary from the first launch, so there is nothing to set up first • Interface in English and German • No ads, no accounts, no subscription, nothing to sign up for Your words stay your business: the app collects nothing and sends nothing to us. The only outside service is your own iCloud. If you would also like to test yourself on your words, print them or hear them read aloud, VokabelWidget Pro does that.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: VokabelWidget at none against Collocations's 1. VokabelWidget also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months). Collocations's advantage is iOS requirement (16.6 vs 18.0). On price and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Collocations sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. VokabelWidget asks for nothing beyond the download.
Collocations ships an update every 2 months, VokabelWidget every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Collocations | VokabelWidget |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 93 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | Esteban Lopez | Rolf Fuessner |
Customer experience
Collocations
VokabelWidget
In-app purchases
Collocations
- Remove Ads$1.99
VokabelWidget
No in-app purchases
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