Trace Thai vs Thai Basic Phrases
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Trace Thai
Learn to read and write the Thai alphabet with interactive tracing exercises. Includes all consonants, vowels, tone marks, and numbers with audio pronunciation. Test your knowledge with a built-in quiz feature.
- Trace Thai consonants, vowels, and numbers
- Audio pronunciation for letters and numbers
- Progress saving for continued learning
- Test yourself recall and writing quiz
- Covers all 44 consonants and 32 basic vowels
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This app is designed to help you to learn to read and write the Thai alphabet. Exercises include all 44 Thai consonants and 32 basic vowels, tone marks and numbers. An outline of each character is shown and you can trace over the outline to learn to write the character. Your writing is saved on your iPhone or so that you can close the program and return to it later where you left off. Audio samples of each of the letters and numbers are included to help with learning the correct pronunciation. The app includes a "Test Yourself" feature to test how well you can write and recall the characters.
Thai Basic Phrases
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Military-related Thai phrases for language learners. With Thai text and audio. Using this app, you can select an English phrase and view its translation and how to pronounce it in Thai. This app is based on the modules publicly available online from the U.S. Defense Language Institute. While this app's subject matter relates mainly to military topics, the app is broadly useful with content relating to a range of topics. • Easy to use • Contains over 600 phrases with native speaker audio recordings • Dictionary lookup: Type or say what you want to search • Pronunciation help: See the transliterated/Romanized text • Good for language learning, or as a reference
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Trace Thai at Free against Thai Basic Phrases's $6.99. Trace Thai also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 months). Thai Basic Phrases's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ads, 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
Trace Thai is free to download; Thai Basic Phrases costs $6.99 up front. Trace Thai sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Thai Basic Phrases asks for nothing beyond the download.
Trace Thai ships an update every 5 days, Thai Basic Phrases every 2 months. Both last shipped on September 18, 2026.
| Parameter | Trace Thai | Thai Basic Phrases |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $6.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 14.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Andrew Robinson | Qvyshift LLC |
In-app purchases
Trace Thai
- Full Unlock$1.99
Thai Basic Phrases
No in-app purchases
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