Русско vs Chamala
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Русско
This app serves as a phrasebook and a tool for learning Tatar. It organizes Tatar words into 16 thematic categories, with all words written in Russian letters for Russian speakers. It includes tests to track progress and identify errors.
- Thematic vocabulary organization
- Tatar words in Russian letters
- Progress tracking tests
- Error identification
- 16 learning topics
- Beginner-friendly
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Русско-татарский разговорник можно использовать соответственно, как разговорник, так и инструмент для изучения татарского языка. Все татарские слова написаны русскими буквами и разбиты на 16 логических тем, то есть разговорник рассчитан на русскоговорящего пользователя (туриста). После прохождения теста по выбранной теме, можно просматривать ошибки. Также, результат прохождения теста по каждой из тем сохраняется, ваша цель - выучить все слова в выбранной теме на 100%. Приложение позволить Вам сделать первый шаг к изучению языка, заинтересовать вас, а дальше уже Вам решать - ограничиваться только разговорными фразами на русском языке, или идти дальше, изучая грамматику, лексику и синтаксис. Для изучения, в разговорнике представлены следующие темы: Обращения (26 слов) Языковой барьер (41 слово) Числительные (34 слова) Свойства (36 слов) Цвета (13 слов) Черты характера (11 слов) Время (51 слово) Благодарность, просьба (7 слов) Извинение, согласие, отказ (12 слов) В гостинице (23 слова) Сон (10 слов) В городе (23 слова) Путешествие (26 слов) В транспорте (24 слова) В ресторане, кафе (14 слов) Почта, телефон (13 слов) Желаю Вам удачи!
Chamala
Master the Tatar language through interactive games, a conversational bot, and audio-visual learning tools. This app offers word cards, speech-to-text functionality, and mini-games designed for beginners, tourists, and children.
- Word cards with translation and audio
- Conversational bot for written practice
- Speech-to-text and text-to-speech
- Translation mini-games
- Spelling mini-games
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Chamala helps you learn the Tatar language from scratch. Short daily sessions of a few minutes: a course, words with audio, practice games, a dictionary and a chat bot that talks to you in Tatar. The app has been installed more than 35,000 times. COURSE FROM ZERO 16 lessons in 8 modules, from greetings to talking about yourself. Every lesson has theory, new words, dialogues and a quiz at the end. STEP BY STEP 25 short lessons in 5 units: introductions, food, family, home and town, describing things. Pick the translation, match pairs, build phrases, write what you hear and speak out loud. Every unit comes with a grammar guide. 440+ WORDS AND PHRASES WITH AUDIO Picture flashcards by topic: animals, food, family, nature, town, clothes, numbers, colours. Listen to every word. PRACTICE GAMES • Words — translate a Tatar word • Translate — translate a phrase • Pairs — match a word with its translation • Gaps — fill a word into a phrase • Speaking — speech recognition checks your Tatar • Affixes — build a word from a stem and endings • Harmony — practise Tatar vowel harmony SMART REVIEW Chamala keeps track of how well you know each word and brings it back just as you start to forget it. CHAT IN TATAR Talk to an AI partner: meeting someone, shopping, chatting with a colleague or any topic you like. Reply by text or voice, listen to the answers and open the translation. TATAR–RUSSIAN DICTIONARY 11,900+ words that work offline. Search in Tatar or Russian, in any word form: «китапларда» finds «китап». FOR KIDS The Tatar alphabet, first words in 8 topics, picture games, letter games and word building, picture stories, poems and songs. Kids earn stars and trade them for colouring pages to print. WORD OF THE DAY Add the widget to your home screen and get a new Tatar word every day. Every Tatar letter — ә, ө, ү, җ, ң, һ — works in words, audio and exercises. The app is available in English and Russian. Chamala is for complete beginners, heritage learners who want to bring back the language of their family, visitors to Kazan and Tatarstan, and kids learning with their parents. Everything is free, with no subscription. Сәлам! Let's start.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Chamala at 4.7 against Русско's 3.0. Chamala also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (9 vs 2). Русско's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 71%). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Chamala holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 9 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Русско's written reviews are positive against 71% of Chamala's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Русско ships an update every 3 months, Chamala every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Русско | Chamala |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 4.7 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 71.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 91 MB | 78 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sergey Oganesyan | Marat Faizerakhmanov |
Customer experience
Русско
Chamala
In-app purchases
Русско
No in-app purchases
Chamala
No in-app purchases
