Turas 2 vs Daily Scéal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Turas 2
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Learn Irish with the Educate.ie Turas 2 (2nd Edition) language app. The app contains the audio you will need to complete the listening exercises in each unit. This app complements the Turas 2 (2nd Edition) textbook package.
Daily Scéal
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Cad é an scéal? Daily Scéal turns today's news into a daily bit of Irish practice. Every morning the day's stories land with Irish words woven into the English, sorted into Inniu, Éire, Spórt, Domhan and Eile. Pick your level, from a few key nouns to about half the story as Gaeilge, and read at a pace that suits you. Tap any blue word to see what it means. New to Irish? Turn on category translations in Faoi to see each Irish category in English too. BEARNAÍ (GAP FILL) Ten quick questions from the day's news: a sentence with one word missing and the English as your clue. Put the right Irish word back. FOCAIL (YOUR WORDS) Tap the green heart and a word goes straight into your own word list, along with the sentence it came from. Practise them with flashcards: get a word right and a dot fills in, one a day. Four dots and it's learned. FOCAL AN LAE AND SCÉAL AN LAE A hand-checked Irish word every day on your home screen and lock screen, with a heart to save it, and as an optional reminder at noon. Scéal an lae puts the day's top story on your home screen too, and Ceist an lae asks a question from the news each day, answered right on the widget. SHARE Share a word or a story as a card, or make a Focail na seachtaine card from the words you saved this week. READ OFFLINE The last seven days of stories are kept on your phone, so a plane, a train or a dead spot won't stop you. PRACTICE YOU CAN TRUST Most words in the stories come from a hand-checked dictionary, and the rest are machine translated so the news can go out every morning. The gap fill game, flashcards and Focal an lae only ever use the hand-checked words. Free and ad-free, with nothing to sign up for. Everything stays on your phone. Headlines and summaries from RTÉ News, with a link to every full story on rte.ie. Made with grá for the Irish language.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Daily Scéal at weekly against Turas 2's every 2 months. Turas 2's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Turas 2 ships an update every 2 months, Daily Scéal weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Turas 2 | Daily Scéal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 125 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Educate.ie Ltd. | Joe Luca Dooley |
In-app purchases
Turas 2
No in-app purchases
Daily Scéal
No in-app purchases









