Comparison

HAM Test Prep vs Farnsworth Morse

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

Head to head
About

HAM Test Prep

Prepare for your Amateur Radio General license exam with a comprehensive question pool and practice tests. Review FCC rules, track your proficiency, and customize your study sessions. Includes features for vision-impaired users and dark mode support.

Highlights
  • General question pool access
  • Practice exams
  • Proficiency tracking
  • Immediate feedback option
  • View FCC rule text
  • Zoomable figures
  • Accessibility options
Features
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Includes the General Question Pool effective July 1, 2023! Not sure if you want to buy? Try out the "Lite" version of this app! Upgrade your HAM license from Technician to General! With the elimination of the Morse Code requirement, there is no reason not to upgrade your license to gain additional privileges! Amateur Radio License exams are composed of questions from a pool. Use this application prior to taking your exam to review and practice all possible questions. Then, test your knowledge with practice exams! After completing your first practice exam, the question pool screen will display your proficiency in each question group for all practice exams you have completed. You may choose to receive immediate feedback on right and wrong answers when taking a practice test. On practice tests, questions in a group will not be repeated until all of them have been used. Some questions require you to review associated Figures. These figures may be zoomed and panned on iPhone/iPod touch. FCC rule text is viewable within the application. All sections can be browsed from the main screen. Additionally, for questions where rule sections have been identified, the rule text can be viewed on the question screen when studying the question pool or reviewing test results. An in-progress practice test can be resumed if you exit the test or the application. Current General question pool is valid through June 30, 2027. Versions of this application for both the Technician and Extra license classes are also available. This app has these additional features: • Accessibility option for vision-impaired users to exclude questions with figures • Dark mode support • Portrait and Landscape support on iPad • Swipe gestures to navigate between questions • Tap on answer to select it • Double-tap or use pinch gesture to zoom Figures on iPhone and iPod touch • Buttons to skip to next/previous wrong answer in test results • ARRL question number displayed on practice tests • Configurable Test Settings • Optional randomizing of test answers • Optional auto-advance during test

About

Farnsworth Morse

Features
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Farnsworth Morse teaches you to hear Morse code, and translates it while you learn. THE TRAINER Morse is not read, it is heard. A character sent at fifteen words a minute is a shape you recognise the way you recognise a spoken word; the same character sent slowly is a row of dots you count, and counting is the habit that stops people at ten words a minute and keeps them there. So the trainer uses the Koch method, which starts you at full character speed on the very first lesson with two letters, K and M. When you copy those at ninety percent, it adds a third. Nothing gets faster as you improve, because it was already fast — what grows is the alphabet. The gap between characters is yours to set. That is Farnsworth timing: characters at, say, twenty words a minute with the silence stretched to give ten overall, so you have time to think without ever learning to count. The spacing follows the ARRL standard, and the timing is measured against it rather than approximated. THE TRANSLATOR Type text and read the Morse, or paste Morse and read the text. Play it at any speed and any pitch. The reference chart covers letters, digits, punctuation, accented characters and prosigns, and it marks the ones the ITU recommendation does not define rather than passing them off as standard. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO No ads. No purchases. No accounts, no sign-in, no nicknames. Nothing about you is collected or sent, and the app contacts no third party at all — no analytics, no advertising, nothing borrowed from anyone else. It works offline after the first visit. Progress stays on your device.

Screenshots

HAM Test Prep4 screens
Farnsworth Morse4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Farnsworth Morse at Free against HAM Test Prep's $1.99. On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

Farnsworth Morse is free to download; HAM Test Prep costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
HAM Test Prep versus Farnsworth Morse: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHAM Test PrepFarnsworth Morse
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.9 (575 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews96.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings575 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.515.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPatrick J Maloney LLCWeb 3.0 s.r.o.

Bugs and requests

HAM Test Prep

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Occasional app crashes or freezes
  • Inconsistent behavior between iPhone and iPad versions

Requested features

2 requests
  • Add randomize answers option for practice tests
  • Improve progress tracking and reset functionality in study sections

Farnsworth Morse

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

HAM Test Prep

No in-app purchases

None

Farnsworth Morse

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is HAM Test Prep free?
HAM Test Prep costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Farnsworth Morse free?
Farnsworth Morse is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do HAM Test Prep or Farnsworth Morse have ads?
Neither HAM Test Prep nor Farnsworth Morse shows ads.

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