Spanish Essentials vs Spanish Verbs Lite
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Spanish Essentials
Master Spanish vocabulary and pronunciation with native speaker audio and spaced repetition. This app helps you learn new words quickly and permanently, with features like flashcards, quizzes, and a searchable dictionary. Sync your progress across devices and study online or offline.
- Native speaker audio for pronunciation
- Spaced repetition for memorization
- Searchable dictionary
- Flashcards and quizzes
- Hands-free study mode
- Cloud sync for multi-device progress
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AccelaStudy is the award-winning language education software for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad that helps you understand and pronounce words in the shortest possible time. Learn new Spanish words quickly, easily, and permanently with AccelaStudy. If you like Learn Spanish FREE by AccelaStudy, learn even more by purchasing Learn Spanish - AccelaStudy. Join over 6,000,000 people worldwide who have used AccelaStudy to master a language. Perfect for students, travelers, executives, and anyone who wants to quickly increase their fluency. AccelaStudy is even more powerful in the cloud! With a free AccelaStudy Cloud account you can: • Sync all of your study sets and progress to all of your devices. • Add new devices at any time. Install AccelaStudy on your new device, sign into your AccelaStudy Cloud account, and your data will automatically be restored to that new device! • Study online or offline. AccelaStudy syncs immediately while online and any offline data is synced automatically when you go online again. • Share AccelaStudy with family members and classmates. Signing out of AccelaStudy allows another user to sign in with their account while preserving all data in the cloud. FEATURES: • PRONOUNCE each word perfectly after listening to NATIVE SPEAKER audio for all words. • Fully functional version of AccelaStudy with a useful subset of its 2,400 professional translations • The vocabulary includes commonly used Spanish VERBS • SPACED REPETITION feature helps you quickly memorize new words • Automatic STATISTICS help you track your learning progress • Searchable DICTIONARY of all vocabulary • Flashcards • Multiple Choice Quiz • Audio Quiz • Completely HANDS-FREE mode allows you to study vocabulary while driving or jogging Please refrain from sending your bug reports or feature requests using the App Store. Instead, to ensure a direct response from us send them to support@renkara.com. You can also tweet us at http://twitter.com/renkaramedia. We’re always happy to help our users and receive their comments! Use of the AccelaStudy Cloud service is subject to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. These are available in the app or on our website.
Spanish Verbs Lite
Learn and master Spanish verb conjugations with this comprehensive tool. It offers a vast list of verbs, highlights irregular forms, and allows you to bookmark verbs for easy reference. Ideal for students and learners of Spanish.
- Basic Spanish verb conjugations
- Highlights irregular conjugation parts
- Bookmark verbs for quick access
- Includes 600 major verbs
- Reference and learning tool
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This application provides you a list of basic Spanish verbs with conjugations, and highlights irregular conjugation parts. You can refer and learn how to conjugate a Spanish verb and bookmark it. This app includes major 600 verbs for free.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Spanish Verbs Lite at 4.6 against Spanish Essentials's 2.5. Spanish Verbs Lite also leads on review sentiment (65% vs 47%) and monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases). Spanish Essentials's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.6). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Spanish Verbs Lite holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 16 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 47% of Spanish Essentials's written reviews are positive against 65% of Spanish Verbs Lite's.
Spanish Essentials ships an update every 5 months, Spanish Verbs Lite every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Spanish Essentials | Spanish Verbs Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (4 ratings) | 4.6 (16 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 46.5% of reviews | 65.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 16 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Renkara Media Group, Inc. | AVEL.CO |
Customer experience
Spanish Essentials
Spanish Verbs Lite
User reviews
Spanish Essentials
From 4 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Good for beginners
- 👍 Helpful for school tests
- 👍 Useful for memorizing words
- 👍 Great pronunciation help
- 👍 Convenient and helpful
Room to improve
- 👎 Too difficult and crappy
- 👎 Vocabulary is very limited
- 👎 Not good for learning to speak
- 👎 Only good for memorizing words
- 👎 Lacks sentences and context
Spanish Verbs Lite
From 16 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use and navigate
- 📚 Comprehensive verb list
- 💰 Free with no ads
- 🔊 Pronounces verbs
- 💡 Highlights irregularities
Room to improve
- 🐛 App gets stuck/freezes
- ❌ Search not always accurate
- ❓ Missing formal conjugations
- 🗣️ Computerized voice for pronunciation
- ⚠️ Incorrect translations for some verbs
Bugs and requests
Spanish Essentials
Reported bugs
6 issues- App doesn't open after update
- App crashes
- Translator is gone
- Audio doesn't work
- Breaks backup and sync
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- Annoying nag screens
Requested features
16 requests- Fix the app so it opens
- Add more curses
- Include Spanish audio quiz
- Add more words and categories
- Add more verbs and conjugations
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- Add visual aids to cards
- Add Spanish games
- Add more advanced levels
- Add dark mode
- Make buttons larger and further apart
- Allow faster swiping
- Add stats for spaced repetition
- Add greetings
- Add grammar rules
- Turn off native audio or make it an option
- Add more useful words
Spanish Verbs Lite
Reported bugs
8 issues- App gets stuck on a verb and is unresponsive
- App freezes and requires closing and reopening
- Search doesn't always find verbs correctly (e.g., requires unconjugated form)
- App crashes on launch after iOS 9 update
- App crashes after every search
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- App crashes frequently after iOS 7 update
- App crashes every other time
- App keeps dying/crashing
Requested features
11 requests- Add practice mode (flashcards)
- Add negative commands for formal Spanish
- Add more verbs
- Explain each section
- Add formal conjugations (usted/ustedes)
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- Add reflexive verbs
- Add a full version of the app
- Add audio support/spoken cues
- Sort verbs by English word
- Add bookmarking feature
- Add a button to pronounce all verb persons for a tense
In-app purchases
Spanish Essentials
No in-app purchases
Spanish Verbs Lite
No in-app purchases
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