Comparison

e vs Etym

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

Head to head
About

e

Explore over 1,000 digitized medieval manuscripts with high-resolution images. Bookmark, download, and view historical documents offline, complete with scholarly descriptions.

Highlights
  • Browse over 1,000 digitized manuscripts
  • View over 450,000 high-resolution pages
  • Bookmark favorite manuscripts
  • Download manuscripts for offline viewing
  • Access scholarly manuscript descriptions
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The Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland. Browse through over 3'000 fully digitized manuscripts on your iPhone and iPad. Over 1'000'000 pages in high resolution. Bookmark, download and view manuscripts offline. Includes scholarly manuscript descriptions from official catalogs. Explore medieval and early modern manuscripts from Swiss collections on iPhone and iPad. Browse illuminated codices, papyri, fragments, liturgical books, literary works, scientific texts, and even modern autographs such as Albert Einstein’s. The collection spans many centuries and languages, from Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, Sanskrit, and Persian to French, English, Old High German and even Nahuatl.

About

Etym

Discover the fascinating origins of everyday words with daily, bite-sized stories. Test your knowledge with quick quizzes and save your favorite word histories. Perfect for anyone curious about language and history.

Highlights
  • Daily word origin stories
  • Bite-sized learning
  • Save favorite words
  • Daily quizzes
  • Vocabulary expansion
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Ever wonder where words come from? "Salary" comes from salt. "Muscle" means little mouse. "Clue" was literally a ball of thread. The words you use every day have wild, weird, fascinating histories, and Etym helps you uncover them. Every day, a handful of new words land in your feed. Tap through at your own pace, save your favorites, and take the daily quiz to make it stick. You'll learn something new in under a minute and actually remember it. WHAT'S INSIDE Daily word stories — bite-sized and genuinely interesting My Words — everything you've collected Liked — your favorites, saved for later Daily quizzes — because knowing is half the battle For word nerds, trivia lovers, history buffs, and anyone who's ever thought "wait, why do we say that?" Download etym. Your vocabulary has secrets. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://joinenthusiast.com/privacy

Screenshots

e4 screens
Etym4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: e at none against Etym's 2. e also leads on ratings volume (7 vs 2). Etym's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 70 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 89%). On price and rating 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

Both are free to download. Etym sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. e asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for e against 5.0 for Etym. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 2 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 89% of e's written reviews are positive against 100% of Etym's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

e ships an update every 70 months, Etym weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
e versus Etym: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametereEtym
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (7 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews88.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings7 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 70 monthsWeekly — better
Ads—No
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
Devices—iPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB47 MB
Age rating9+4+
Developertext & bytes LLCJacqueline Vidal Chang

Customer experience

e

Written reviews9 reviews
Positive88.9%
Neutral11.1%
Negative0.0%

Etym

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

e

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Etym

Subscriptions2
  • English$4.991 Month
  • English7 Days trial$29.991 Year

Questions

Is e free?
e is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Etym free?
Etym is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, e or Etym?
e and Etym are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 7 and 2 ratings respectively.
Which is updated more often, e or Etym?
e ships an update every 70 months, and Etym weekly. Most recently, e was updated on October 8, 2026 and Etym on October 7, 2026.

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