Korean Dictionary + vs Play and Learn KOREAN
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Korean Dictionary +
This app provides a comprehensive bilingual dictionary for English and Korean, offering offline translation and pronunciation for over 350,000 words and phrases. It includes features like image text scanning, a phrasebook, vocabulary games, and a word of the day to aid language learning.
- Bilingual English-Korean dictionary
- Offline translation and pronunciation
- Image text scanning
- Vocabulary games and flashcards
- Phrasebook with common phrases
- Word of the day
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• Bilingual English to Korean and Korean to English dictionary • Korean to English word and phrase translator and translation • Over 350K words and phrase can be used in offline • Offline pronunciation and translate any sentences • Scan text in image by pointing camera to search in dictionary • Designed for student, teacher, tourist and language learners • Having thesaurus, synonyms and antonyms • Translate individual words, phrases, or whole sentences • Tap a word for cross searching • Bookmark and Recent history for instant recall • Word of the day to learn IELTS, TOEFL and SAT words • Multiple games help to improve English and Korean vocabulary • Offline Pronunciation helps to learn words properly • Flash card and Word of the Day helps to improve vocabulary • Phrase book, Phrase of the day and Phrase Card helps to speak common phrases • Quote of the Day improves wisdom and motivation
Play and Learn KOREAN
This app offers a fun and engaging way to learn Korean vocabulary, spelling, and alphabet through flashcards and interactive games. It includes quizzes, memory puzzles, and shuffled letter challenges suitable for both children and adults.
- Flashcards for vocabulary
- Word quiz with difficulty levels
- Memory game
- Shuffled letters puzzle
- Multiple image packs
- Learning games
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Hours of fun!! Play and Learn KOREAN is a free flash card app with fantastic learning games to help you to learn KOREAN words, and have fun while doing it! Play and Learn KOREAN is a perfect learning App for kids and adults alike to learn KOREAN. Learn vocabulary, spelling and alphabet. Test your skills with quiz and memory puzzles and pick up new words with Play and Learn KOREAN. Each pack has 15-30 beautiful images in it. Additional packs include animals, food, vegetables, things, fruit, numbers, shapes and colours, human body, nature, vehicles and more animal packs,such as insects, fish, birds, reptiles, sea animals and American animals. The App includes 4 learning modes: -Hundreds of Flash cards for learning vocabulary -Word Quiz with different difficulty levels -Memory game with the same words you learned previously, with different difficulty levels -Shuffled letters puzzle to practise letters and help you to learn the spelling of each word.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Korean Dictionary + at 55% against Play and Learn KOREAN's 0%. Korean Dictionary + also leads on rating (4.5 vs 2.3) and ratings volume (216 vs 3). Play and Learn KOREAN's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (9 vs 17.6). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Korean Dictionary + sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Play and Learn KOREAN sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Korean Dictionary + holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Korean Dictionary + has 216 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of Korean Dictionary +'s written reviews are positive against 0% of Play and Learn KOREAN's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Korean Dictionary + | Play and Learn KOREAN |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (216 ratings) — better | 2.3 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 55.2% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 216 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 9 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | iThinkdiff | SHIFT Interactive Pty Ltd |
Customer experience
Korean Dictionary +
Play and Learn KOREAN
Bugs and requests
Korean Dictionary +
Reported bugs
8 issues- Pronunciation guide doesn't work
- No sound from the app after paying for pronunciation
- Scan mode doesn't work for Korean
- App freezes and crashes after downloading translator addition
- Pro upgrade is currently unavailable
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- Intrusive autoplaying fullscreen ads make app unusable
- Ads interrupt workflow for paying customers
- Free version cut down too much
Requested features
19 requests- Allow listening to pronunciation without paying
- Improve pronunciation guide functionality
- Make pronunciation accessible for free
- Include more definitions
- Reduce ads
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- Fix Pro upgrade availability
- Improve scan mode for Korean
- Translate phrases or sentences
- Offer a Korean version similar to Pleco
- Fix app freezing/crashing after translator addition
- Remove intrusive ads
- Make word of the day more useful
- Include noun forms prominently
- Provide better explanations for verb forms
- Improve romanization for travelers
- Expand vocabulary range
- List base/root words
- Add dark mode option
- Make it quicker and easier to use
Play and Learn KOREAN
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Korean Dictionary +
- Pronunciation$0.99
- Online Translator$0.99
- Flash Card$0.99
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- Phrase Book$0.99
- Pro Upgrade$2.99
- Unlock Full Version$9.99
Play and Learn KOREAN
- Numbers$0.99
- Verbs$0.99
- Plants$0.99
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- More Animals 2$0.99
- American Animals$0.99
- Birds$0.99
- In The City$0.99
- Food$0.99
- In The House$0.99
- All Packs$2.99
Questions
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