Comparison

Amharic Pocket Guide vs Learn Amharic!

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

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About

Amharic Pocket Guide

Learn basic Amharic with this guide, featuring audio for characters, words, and sentences spoken by a native speaker. It includes quizzes to reinforce learning and covers useful phrases across eight categories.

Highlights
  • Learn to read, speak, and understand Amharic
  • Practice introductions and simple conversations
  • Reinforce learning with quizzes
  • High-fidelity audio recordings by a native speaker
  • Eight detailed learning categories
  • Useful categorized sentences and translations
Features
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Amharic is the official language of Ethiopia and it is spoken widely throughout the nation. Did you know that, after Arabic, Amharic is the most spoken Semitic language in the world? The Amharic Pocket Guide will easily help you learn the language whether you are traveling to Ethiopia or longing to teach your young ones. Here is how the app will help you; it will help you: • Read, speak and understand basic Amharic • Introduce yourself and carry on simple conversations • Retain what you have learned through quizzes The Amharic Pocket Guide offers 128kb high fidelity and crystal clear audio for every Amharic character, word as well as sentence. The application has eight detailed categories and it includes useful sentences, recorded audio, and categorized translations. All recordings are done by a native Amharic speaker. We’re continually improving our application content and adding new words. It is perfect for anyone who wants to learn Amharic. With Amharic Pocket Guide, learning Amharic is simply easy. Give it a try, you’ll be surprised how much you learn!

About

Learn Amharic!

Master Amharic vocabulary and grammar with this comprehensive learning tool. Practice reading, writing, and speaking through various exercises and quizzes. Track your progress automatically as you advance through lessons.

Highlights
  • Vocabulary and grammar practice
  • Full course mode with unique algorithm
  • Lesson-specific vocabulary and phrase lists
  • Tracing function for writing practice
  • Automatic progress saving
  • Progress view to monitor advancement
Features
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This app can help you learn and practice the vocabulary and grammar you'll need to read and write Amharic! If you are not yet familiar with the alphabet, I recommend searching for the Amharic Fidel app. Full Course Mode uses our unique algorithm to make sure you practice each word in various modalities. You can also look at the vocabulary and phrase lists for each lesson and quiz yourself on those specifically. There is a tracing function to help you practice writing. In the full course mode, your progress is automatically saved as you progress, and at any point you can switch to progress view to see how far you've come. Amharic is one of the official languages of Ethiopia, together with other regions like Oromo, Somali, Afar, and Tigrinya. Amharic is an Afro-Asiatic language of the Southwest Semitic group and is related to Ge'ez, or Ethiopic, the liturgical language of the Ethiopian Orthodox church. Amharic is written in a slightly modified form of the alphabet used for writing the Ge'ez language. There are 34 basic characters, each of which has seven forms depending on which vowel is to be pronounced in the syllable.

Screenshots

Amharic Pocket Guide4 screens
Learn Amharic!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Amharic Pocket Guide at 82% against Learn Amharic!'s 0%. Amharic Pocket Guide also leads on rating (4.3 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (7 vs 2). Learn Amharic!'s advantage is price (Free vs $0.99). On ads, in-app purchases, 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

Learn Amharic! is free to download; Amharic Pocket Guide costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Amharic Pocket Guide holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Amharic Pocket Guide's written reviews are positive against 0% of Learn Amharic!'s.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Amharic Pocket Guide versus Learn Amharic!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAmharic Pocket GuideLearn Amharic!
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.3 (7 ratings) — better3.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews81.8% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings7 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 4 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DevelopertheNextTrainEthan Hartzell

Customer experience

Amharic Pocket Guide

All ratings7 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral14.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive81.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative18.2%

Learn Amharic!

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Amharic Pocket Guide

No in-app purchases

None

Learn Amharic!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Amharic Pocket Guide free?
Amharic Pocket Guide costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Learn Amharic! free?
Learn Amharic! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Amharic Pocket Guide or Learn Amharic!?
Amharic Pocket Guide is rated higher. Amharic Pocket Guide averages 4.3 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while Learn Amharic! averages 3.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Amharic Pocket Guide or Learn Amharic! have ads?
Neither Amharic Pocket Guide nor Learn Amharic! shows ads.

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