Word a Day vs British Workshop
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.
British Workshop
Daily English training content delivered by a robot coach to supplement in-class learning. Improve confidence and reduce language anxiety by staying connected with English every day.
- Daily English training content
- Robot coach support
- Supplement in-class sessions
- Build confidence
- Lower affective filter
- Daily language practice
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Get training contents in English on a daily basis with this robot-coach that will support you between in-class sessions. Stay in touch with the English language every day in order to get more confident and lower your affective filter.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: British Workshop at 100% against Word a Day's 21%. British Workshop also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.3) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 6 months). Word a Day's advantage is iOS requirement (7.0 vs 15.1). On price, ratings volume, 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.
British Workshop holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 21% of Word a Day's written reviews are positive against 100% of British Workshop's.
Word a Day ships an update every 6 months, British Workshop every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Word a Day | British Workshop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.3 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 21.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Malcolm Hall | British Workshop |
Customer experience
Word a Day
British Workshop
In-app purchases
Word a Day
No in-app purchases
British Workshop
No in-app purchases
Questions
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