NSWL vs Attikos
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NSWL
Stream a vast collection of literary masterpieces brought to life through masterful performances. Explore six centuries of literature from various publishers at an accessible price on this pioneering audio service.
- Listen to literary performances
- Access six centuries of masterpieces
- Stream from various publishers
- Affordable audio service
- Pioneering streaming technology
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Listen to first-class performances and sound from a variety of publishers at an affordable price. Masterful presentations vividly bring to life six centuries of literary masterpieces on our pioneering streaming service, the Naxos Spoken Word Library.
Attikos
This app offers a vast collection of Ancient Greek texts with integrated morphological data and definitions. It provides quick access to full dictionary entries in a companion app, aiding in comprehension and study. Includes grammar overviews for review.
- Extensive Ancient Greek text library
- In-text morphological data
- Short definitions
- Full dictionary entry access
- Greek grammar overviews
- Perseus Project texts
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Attikos is an Ancient Greek reading app with an extensive selection of texts. It provides the reader with in-text access to morphological data and short definitions for these texts, along with easy access to full dictionary entries in Logeion, an app which needs to be downloaded separately. This version of Attikos includes the following texts: ・Aeschylus ・Apollonius Rhodius ・Aristophanes ・Aristotle: Athenian Constitution, Nicomachean Ethics, Poetics, Politics, Rhetoric ・Demosthenes ・Epictetus: Discourses, Enchiridion ・Euripides ・Herodotus ・Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days ・Hippocrates: Ancient Medicine, Oath ・Homer: including Homeric hymns ・Isocrates ・Lysias ・Old Oligarch, Constitution of the Athenians ・Pausanias ・Pindar ・Plato: Apology, Charmides, Crito, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Ion, Laches, Lysis, Meno, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Protagoras, Republic, Symposium, Theaetetus ・Sophocles ・Strabo (partial) ・Thucydides ・Xenophon: Agesilaus, Anabasis, Apology of Socrates, Hellenica, Hiero, Memorabilia, Oeconomicus, Symposium, Ways and Means We gratefully use the texts published by the Perseus Project at Tufts University. Finally, some overviews of Greek grammar are included for those who wish to refresh their memory. Please report any bugs, problems, and errors at the links provided within the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Attikos at 86% against NSWL's 22%. Attikos also leads on rating (4.8 vs 2.0) and ratings volume (51 vs 14). On price, update cadence, 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.
Attikos holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 51 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 22% of NSWL's written reviews are positive against 86% of Attikos's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on August 16, 2026 and August 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NSWL | Attikos |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (14 ratings) | 4.8 (51 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 22.2% of reviews | 86.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 14 | 51 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 71 MB | 559 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Naxos Digital Services Ltd. | The University of Chicago |
Customer experience
NSWL
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In-app purchases
NSWL
No in-app purchases
Attikos
No in-app purchases









