BASIC Français Vlaams vs Speak (for Hafsa)
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BASIC Français Vlaams
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De basis van het Frans leren, met instructies uitgesproken in je moedertaal? Ja, dat kan nu met Basic-Français. Basic-Français is ontwikkeld om de basis van het Frans te leren in samenwerking met de stad Parijs en de regio ""Ile de France"", met enige Europese cofinanciering. Basic-Français is een app die u begeleidt bij uw eerste stappen in het proces van het leren van Frans. Ludo en Vic zijn gemaakt om alle volkeren van deze wereld te vertegenwoordigen en gendergelijkheid te bevorderen. Ze laten je het Frans ontdekken door middel van dialogen (in het Frans) die veel aspecten van het dagelijks leven beslaan. Er zijn ook veel foto's die je zullen helpen om je woordenschat te vergroten Basic-Français doorbreekt de woordenmuur door mondeling de instructies te geven bij de oefeningen, in je moedertaal. Zo leer je de basis van het Frans, onafhankelijk van je opleidingsniveau. Basic-Français kan zelfs ontwikkeld worden voor moedertalen die geen alfabet hebben. Omdat de instructies worden gegeven in een taal die je begrijpt, vermindert dit je stressniveau aanzienlijk. Het maakt het leren zowel sneller als gemakkelijker. Er zijn ook veel activiteiten, waaronder spraakherkenning, om je uitspraak te verbeteren, om te helpen bij het onthouden en om leren leuker te maken! Basic-Français bestrijkt het eerste niveau (A1) van het Gemeenschappelijk Europees Referentiekader voor Talen. Dit geeft je de middelen om snel vooruitgang te boeken bij het leren van Frans. Basic-Français gebruikt je data-abonnement niet. Alle activiteiten zijn volledig operationeel zonder internetverbinding. Dit is tegenwoordig een zeer belangrijk en zeldzaam kenmerk in apps.
Speak (for Hafsa)
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Speak teaches Flemish the way you actually get good at a language: by playing the scenes your life is made of, out loud. TWELVE SCENES FROM FLANDERS Buy bread at the bakery. Get your hair cut. Explain to the pharmacist what hurts. Order on a café terrace, catch the right tram, survive the town-hall counter, make small talk at a party. Twelve everyday scenarios, told in 973 illustrated story beats, with over 2,700 lines you can choose to say and 60 different endings to find. SIX LANGUAGES, ONE ALBUM Flemish leads, and the same twelve stories also play in Russian, German, French, Spanish and Italian — every scene fully translated and spoken in each language. Tap the title to switch; every course keeps its own progress. Scoring in the five newer languages is a first version and will keep improving as native speakers lend their voices. HOW A SCENE PLAYS The other person speaks first. Their words light up one by one as they are said, with a super-literal gloss under each word, so you always know which sound carries which meaning. Then you choose what YOU say — three replies, each taking the story somewhere else — and you say it out loud. Speak listens and rates your take. STARS, NOT GRADES One to three stars. Three stars does not mean you sound Flemish — it means a Fleming would understand you without effort. That is the whole bar, and it is reachable from your first day. However a take goes, the story always moves on: a weak take is an offer to retry, never a wall. THE FEEDBACK IS ON THE WORDS Green for the words that landed, a brick underline for the ones that need another go. Tap any word to hear it alone, slowly. And it lights up while you are still talking — a real acoustic model runs on your phone several times a second, not a transcript arriving after the fact. IN YOUR OWN LANGUAGE English, Dutch, French or German. Every line's translation and word-by-word gloss is shown in the language you actually think in, so you are never decoding two foreign languages at once. (In the five newer courses, translations are shown in English for now.) DRAWN LIKE A BELGIAN COMIC Every beat of every story has its own picture in the klare lijn style Belgium gave the world — you play a scene the way you would read an album. EVERYTHING RUNS ON YOUR IPHONE The speech model ships inside the app. There is no server, no account, no sign-up, and no internet connection needed for anything. Your voice never leaves your device — takes are scored in memory and never even written to disk, and the optional voice contributions stay on your phone until you email them yourself. Put the phone in Airplane Mode and nothing changes. PROGRESS IS EXPLORATION No streaks, no hearts, no daily guilt. A scenario's ring fills as you speak lines you had not spoken before, and its endings collect as you find them. Progress is how much of each story you have made yours. FREE, AND NOT FREE-WITH-A-CATCH No ads. No subscription. No in-app purchases. Nothing is locked, and nothing interrupts play. Under the scenario library sits one small permanent banner for Hoop voor Hafsa, a Belgian non-profit raising money for a twelve-year-old girl with beta-thalassemia major — tapping it opens her story, and the ways to help open in Safari. That is the only ask the app ever makes, and no money passes through the app. LEND YOUR VOICE (OPTIONAL) Speak's scoring is built from real voices. If you are a native speaker of Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish or Russian, you can record a handful of prompt sentences from Hafsa's screen. They stay on your phone until you decide to email them. REQUIREMENTS iPhone, iOS 17 or later. Microphone access. The app is large because the speech model and all twelve illustrated stories ship inside it — that is the price of never sending your voice anywhere.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Speak (for Hafsa) at none against BASIC Français Vlaams's 1. Speak (for Hafsa) also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 2 months). BASIC Français Vlaams's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 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
Both are free to download. BASIC Français Vlaams sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Speak (for Hafsa) asks for nothing beyond the download.
BASIC Français Vlaams ships an update every 2 months, Speak (for Hafsa) every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BASIC Français Vlaams | Speak (for Hafsa) |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 898 MB | 445 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ludo-Vic | Anthony De Smet |
In-app purchases
BASIC Français Vlaams
- Full access$9.99
Speak (for Hafsa)
No in-app purchases
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