Word a Day vs Sailing Term
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Word a Day
Enhance your vocabulary daily with a new word, complete with definition, synonyms, pronunciation, and an example sentence. Hear words spoken aloud to perfect your pronunciation and revisit past words to reinforce learning.
- Daily new word learning
- Definitions and synonyms
- Audio pronunciation
- Example sentences
- Revisit past words
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Improve your vocabulary with this fun app that delivers a new word for you to learn and use every day. To help you learn, Word a Day gives a definition, synonyms, pronunciation and an example of how each word might be used. Clicking the pronunciation field plays an audio sample of how the word is spoken, so that you can hear how to pronounce it correctly. Word a Day also remembers several previous words so that you can revisit them again if you missed or forgot them.
Sailing Term
Master sailing terminology with this educational app. It offers a dictionary section for learning terms and a quiz section to test and expand your knowledge of sailing vocabulary.
- Sailing term dictionary
- Repeat learning sections
- Solve learning questions
- Expand sailing knowledge
- Vocabulary practice
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Welcome to Sailing Terms! Expand your nautical vocabulary and improve your sailing knowledge with an easy-to-use reference guide. • 100+ sailing terms with detailed definitions • Daily Word of the Day to help you learn new terms • Powerful search and easy browsing • Interactive quizzes to test and reinforce your knowledge Whether you’re a beginner sailor, a sailing enthusiast, or an experienced mariner, Sailing Terms helps you learn and remember essential nautical terminology.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Sailing Term at 79% against Word a Day's 21%. Sailing Term also leads on rating (4.6 vs 1.3) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 months). Word a Day's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On price, monetization model 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. Sailing Term sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Word a Day asks for nothing beyond the download.
Sailing Term holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 1.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sailing Term has 81 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 21% of Word a Day's written reviews are positive against 79% of Sailing Term's.
Word a Day ships an update every 6 months, Sailing Term fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Word a Day | Sailing Term |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.3 (4 ratings) | 4.6 (81 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 21.4% of reviews | 78.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 81 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Malcolm Hall | Orendasoft Ltd. |
Customer experience
Word a Day
Sailing Term
In-app purchases
Word a Day
No in-app purchases
Sailing Term
- Sailing Terms Plus$1.99
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