Comparison

Spanish Verb Drill Practice vs Babbel

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

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About

Spanish Verb Drill Practice

Master Spanish verb conjugations with this interactive drilling app. Practice randomly generated verb forms, tenses, and persons. Customize drills to focus on specific verb types, tenses, or personal forms, and track your progress with built-in tests.

Highlights
  • Randomized verb, tense, and person drills
  • Customizable drill settings (verb type, tense, person)
  • Create and drill custom verb lists
  • Irregular and regular verb focus
  • Timed and verb-count tests
  • View complete verb conjugations
  • Sample English conjugations
Features
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Verbos is designed for serious students of Spanish who want to master verb conjugations through rapid recall drilling. Unlike most language apps that teach, entertain, or quiz, Verbos helps make verb forms automatic through focused, repetitive practice. Educational research has long demonstrated that actively recalling information strengthens long-term memory more effectively than simply rereading it. For more than fifteen years, Verbos has helped thousands of students master Spanish verb forms through systematic practice. Built on a database of more than 500 verbs, it lets you concentrate on exactly the verb forms you're studying today. Whether you're preparing for tomorrow's quiz or working toward fluency, Verbos helps turn memorized conjugations into automatic recall. Using Verbos is simple. Tap once to display a randomly selected drill based on your current filters. Think of the correct conjugation, then tap again to reveal the answer. Customize every practice session by selecting: • individual verbs or your own custom verb lists • regular, irregular, and reflexive verbs • -ar, -er, and -ir verbs • any of the sixteen tenses or combinations of them • any combination of person and number Want to practice only irregular present-tense verbs? Reflexive -ir verbs? A single verb in the imperfect? Verbos lets you build exactly the practice session you need. Verbos is ideal for AP Spanish students, university courses, homeschoolers, and independent learners who want confidence and speed in Spanish verb conjugation. Verbos has been continuously refined and updated for more than fifteen years. Verbos isn't a game. You won't find animated characters, music, badges, or streaks. Instead, you'll find a carefully designed practice tool that helps serious students master Spanish verbs through repetition and rapid recall. Stop studying verb conjugations. Start recalling them automatically.

About

Babbel

Master a new language with expert-designed, bite-sized lessons that fit your schedule. Build conversational confidence quickly through interactive practice and a smart review system. Learn Spanish, French, German, and more for travel, work, or fun.

Highlights
  • Bite-sized lessons
  • Expert-built courses
  • Interactive conversation practice
  • Smart review system
  • Grammar in context
  • Offline mode
  • Learn 14 languages
Features
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Speak a new language with real-life conversations. Babbel is the award-winning language learning app with courses tailored to your native language, built by 200+ language experts and trusted by millions worldwide. Because lessons are built for speakers of your language, an English speaker learning Spanish gets different lessons than a French speaker does. You learn to speak, listen, and understand grammar in context, then practice real conversations with Babbel Speak, an AI conversation partner that gives you personalized feedback. Learn a new language faster with bite-sized lessons designed to fit your everyday life. With Babbel’s proven method, you could start having real conversations in as little as 3 weeks. Your language learning adventure starts with a lesson. WHY BABBEL WORKS • Tailored to your native language: Courses are created by language experts and tailored to your native language, so you learn naturally and efficiently. • Real-life conversations: Learn the language people actually speak, for travel, work, and everyday life. • Speak with confidence: Practice out loud with speech recognition and Babbel Speak, an AI conversation partner to improve your pronunciation. • Research-proven results: Efficacy backed by researchers at Yale University: 100% improved their oral proficiency in 3 months.* TRUSTED BY MILLIONS • 25 million subscriptions sold • 1.5 million 5-star ratings (based on App store ratings) • After 10 hours with Babbel, 96% of learners saw better test scores on grammar and vocabulary** BUILT FOR REAL LIFE • Short, effective lessons: Learn in as little as 10 minutes a day • Lessons for every motivation: Learn for travel, work, or fun • Listen, speak, write: Options for every learning style • Stress-free conversation practice: Build confidence with Guided Conversations, then practice freely with Babbel Speak (Beta) • Smart review system: Boosts learning and retention • Grammar in context: Clear explanations exactly when you need them • Offline mode: Download lessons and learn anywhere, anytime • 5,000+ courses: Over 60,000 lessons across all languages LEARN 14 LANGUAGES Spanish (Latin American or Spain), French, Italian, German, Portuguese, English (American or British), Russian, Polish, Turkish, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Dutch, and Indonesian. TRY BABBEL TODAY Download Babbel now and take a free lesson. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS A subscription is required to access full courses for one language. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment will be charged to your Apple account. Available plans: • 1 month • 3 months • 6 months • 12 months Privacy policy: https://about.babbel.com/en/privacy/ Terms of use: https://about.babbel.com/en/terms/ LEARN MORE Read Babbel Magazine for tips and insights: https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine Follow us: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/babbelusa Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Babbel.usa CONTACT US Questions or feedback? Email: support-mobile@babbel.com *Based on a study conducted with Babbel users learning Spanish. Available at http://bit.ly/BabbelYale. **Based on a study conducted with Babbel users learning Spanish. Available: http://bit.ly/BabbelMSU.

Screenshots

Spanish Verb Drill Practice4 screens
Babbel4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Babbel at Free against Spanish Verb Drill Practice's $3.99. Babbel also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs monthly) and ratings volume (755K vs 4). Spanish Verb Drill Practice's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 13) and ads (none vs shown). On 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

Babbel is free to download; Spanish Verb Drill Practice costs $3.99 up front. Babbel sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $17.99 per month. Spanish Verb Drill Practice asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Babbel holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Babbel has 755K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 60% of Spanish Verb Drill Practice's written reviews are positive against 44% of Babbel's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Spanish Verb Drill Practice ships an update monthly, Babbel every 5 days. Both last shipped on September 28, 2026.

Scorecard9 real differences · 2 level
Spanish Verb Drill Practice versus Babbel: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpanish Verb Drill PracticeBabbel
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating4.5 (4 ratings)4.7 (755K ratings) — better
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews — better43.9% of reviews
Number of ratings4755K — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid — betterSubscription
Best chart rank—#14 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB263 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperVerbTrainersBabbel GmbH

Customer experience

Spanish Verb Drill Practice

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews40 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative30.0%

Babbel

All ratings754,664 ratings
Positive93.8%
Neutral3.8%
Negative2.5%
Written reviews2,668 reviews
Positive43.9%
Neutral13.9%
Negative42.2%

Bugs and requests

Spanish Verb Drill Practice

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Babbel

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Lessons sometimes freeze or crash the app
  • Subscription cancellation process is overly complicated
  • Inconsistent behavior when switching between languages
  • Keyboard issues and inability to use system keyboard

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add more language options, especially Asian languages like Japanese, Korean, and Chinese
  • Improve review and practice tools to better reinforce learned material
  • Provide more customization options for lesson pacing and content
  • Implement a more forgiving scoring system and allow users to revisit past lessons
  • Add a dark mode and optimize the app for better readability

In-app purchases

None

Spanish Verb Drill Practice

No in-app purchases

12 purchases

Babbel

Subscriptions12
  • Mexican Spanish – 1-month plan$17.991 Month
  • Spanish 1 month$17.991 Month
  • French 1 month$17.991 Month
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  • Italian 1 month$17.991 Month
  • Mexican Spanish - 1-month plan$19.991 Month
  • Mexican Spanish – 3-month plan$45.993 Months
  • Learn French – 3-month plan$45.993 Months
  • Learn Spanish – 3-month plan$45.993 Months
  • All Languages – 3-month plan$53.993 Months
  • Mexican Spanish – 1-year plan$89.991 Year
  • All Languages – 12-month plan$107.991 Year
  • All Languages – 12-month plan7 Days trial$107.991 Year

Questions

Is Spanish Verb Drill Practice free?
Spanish Verb Drill Practice costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Babbel free?
Babbel is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Spanish Verb Drill Practice or Babbel?
Babbel is rated higher. Spanish Verb Drill Practice averages 4.5 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Babbel averages 4.7 from 755K ratings.
Do Spanish Verb Drill Practice or Babbel have ads?
Babbel shows ads; Spanish Verb Drill Practice does not.
Which is updated more often, Spanish Verb Drill Practice or Babbel?
Spanish Verb Drill Practice ships an update monthly, and Babbel every 5 days. Most recently, Spanish Verb Drill Practice was updated on September 28, 2026 and Babbel on September 28, 2026.

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