Wordeaters vs Pencora
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Wordeaters
This app offers a fun and engaging way to expand your Russian vocabulary. It features two learning modes, multiple levels with frequently used words, and voiced pronunciations. Enjoy a visually appealing experience with simple controls designed for effective language acquisition.
- Funny gameplay for vocabulary building
- Russian-English and English-Russian modes
- 24 levels with 2000 common words
- Themed levels on various topics
- Endless mode with 3200 words
- Voiced word pronunciations
- Simple controls and nice graphics
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Wordeaters is an easy way to learn foreign words. KEY FEATURES: - Combines a funny gameplay and an opportunity to increase your Russian vocabulary - 2 modes: Russian-English and English-Russian - 24 levels containing 2000 most frequently used words - More than 20 levels on different topics (airport, city, food, clothing, etc.) - The endless mode contains 3200 words - All words are voiced - Very simple controls - Nice graphics and sounds
Pencora
This app transforms your handwriting into searchable text, allowing for quick retrieval of notes, formulas, and even math equations. It offers a lag-free writing experience with advanced tools and supports importing from other note-taking applications. Backups are automatically managed via Google Drive.
- Searchable handwriting
- Lag-free writing engine
- Import from PDF and other apps
- Interactive math graphing
- On-device handwriting generation
- Automatic Google Drive backups
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Pencora is paper that thinks: a fast, private notebook for serious study that keeps up with your hand and helps you find, build, and protect what you learn. Everything is free. No subscription. No ads. No account. FIND ANYTHING YOU WROTE Your handwriting becomes searchable as you write—on your iPad, without uploading your notes. Search across every notebook, jump straight to the highlighted word, and find text inside added photos too. Pencora supports English, Russian, Ukrainian, Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese, and handles messy handwriting, close matches, and typos. WRITE WITHOUT THE LAG A custom Metal engine draws each stroke immediately with pressure, tilt, hover, and Apple Pencil Pro squeeze. Even large notebooks stay smooth. Prefer a finger? You can write with that too. MOVE IN WITHOUT STARTING OVER Export your notebooks from Goodnotes, Notability, or any other note app as PDF. Pencora detects the paper ruling, keeps pages in order, and converts handwriting stored as vector ink into editable strokes instead of locking it inside a picture. Large documents open quickly and keep converting in the background. TYPE IT. GET YOUR HANDWRITING. Write a set of sample words once—or pick a ready-made hand—then type or paste Markdown, lists, and LaTeX formulas. The on-device handwriting model places them on the page as real, erasable strokes in your style, following the ruling of the paper. Available in English and Russian. Nothing is uploaded for generation. MATH THAT STAYS LIVE Add interactive graph planes directly to a page. Plot functions, implicit curves, points, and tables; import CSV; or draw a table by hand and let Pencora read it. Ink written on the plane stays attached to its coordinates. Build exact geometry beside your proof: points, segments, lines, circles, polygons, curves, midpoints, perpendicular and angle bisectors, parallels, tangents, intersections, reflections, and triangle centers. Drag a point and every dependent construction moves with it. Measure in real millimeters and label points in your own handwriting. THE TOOLS A REAL NOTEBOOK NEEDS • Lined, grid, dotted, or PDF paper • Shape snapping for lines, circles, and polygons • Highlighter, study tape, and scribble-to-erase • A lasso that moves, scales, rotates, and changes stroke width • A zoom-write strip for small, neat writing • Calligraphy nibs and an eyedropper • Markdown text boxes and live formulas • True-vector PDF export that stays crisp at any zoom • Folders, tags, and tabs • An infinite board with a minimap for every notebook NEVER LOSE A PAGE Connect Google Drive for automatic daily backups to your own account. Pencora keeps the five newest copies and can restore your library on a new iPad. It uses Google's limited-access permission, so it sees only its own backup files—not the rest of your Drive. You can also export your entire library into one backup file whenever you want. YOUR NOTEBOOKS ON IPHONE Connect the same Google Drive on your iPhone to read the notebooks from your iPad's latest backup, with folders and names intact. You can also open any .handynotes notebook someone sends you. Editing stays on iPad; on iPhone, notebooks are read-only. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Recognition, search, and handwriting generation run on your device. Pencora has no accounts, ads, or tracking, and never sells your data. Anonymous usage statistics can be turned off in Profile, and sharing handwriting samples for research is strictly opt-in. Your notes are not the product. Built by one developer who uses handwritten notes every day. Your feedback helps decide what gets built next.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pencora at none against Wordeaters's 2. Pencora also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Wordeaters's advantage is iOS requirement (13 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. Wordeaters sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Pencora asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pencora holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 17 and 6 respectively.
Wordeaters ships an update every 2 months, Pencora every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Wordeaters | Pencora |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (17 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 86.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 17 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 144 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mikhail Akopov | Anastasia Naumkina |
In-app purchases
Wordeaters
- 1000 coins$1.99
- 3000 coins$2.99
Pencora
No in-app purchases
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