TEDICT vs DIVE World History
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TEDICT
Master English dictation by typing along to TED talks. This app checks your typed words letter by letter, helping you distinguish similar-sounding words and improve listening comprehension. Access a vast and constantly updated library of TED lectures for unlimited learning.
- Dictation practice with letter-by-letter checking
- Listen and type along to TED lectures
- Video playback with activated subtitles
- Downloadable TED lectures for offline learning
- Sync learning progress via iCloud (paid version)
- Unlimited dictation and shadowing (paid version)
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* This App is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by TED in any way * LITE (FREE) version -> Search "TEDICT" To become good at English, you need to listen to it often, but simply listening to English is not enough. Just like other languages in the world, English has many similar words that are difficult to distinguish by listening. That’s why you need to be able to confirm whether you heard them right. The key to gaining expertise is in mastering dictation! When you listen to the speaker and type in the words, the program will check them, letter by letter. Because it only takes a short period of time, you can use it on the bus or subway. You can also use it as a TED viewer through the video function with the subtitles activated. The notable feature is that a huge number of TED lectures are constantly added, which means an unlimited amount of available learning materials for you. TEDICT allows you to download as many TED lectures as you want, so you’ll always get new learning materials. The World’s Best Intellectual Archive, TED High-level TED speeches This program even features various kinds of English pronunciations from all over the world. Use TEDICT to listen to cool ideas from TED and improve your English skills! * TEDICT differs from TEDICT LITE in the following ways: - No ads - iCloud Support – Save your study history by date, bookmarks, and learning progress to the cloud and sync your learning seamlessly between iPhone and iPad. - Unlimited dictation - Unlimited shadowing - RewindSub - Feature to assess your listening skills in the ‘Video Player’ * More Information -> https://cocoswing.com/tedict/ * All TED Talks subject to the creative commons license found at ted.com
DIVE World History
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Each time you are reborn, a new era begins. From the birth of the Earth to the present day, you are reborn roughly once a century and travel to the places where world history happened. Count stones at a pyramid construction site, travel to the far west with Zhang Qian, cross the ocean with Zheng He’s fleet. Each life takes you through several regions, so simply by following the story, you see how East and West were connected in the same era. ■ World history as one connected story • 39 chapters: 2 prologues and 37 main chapters, from 4.6 billion years of Earth and 7 million years of humankind to the present • About 12 minutes per chapter, easy to read one at a time on your commute or before bed • In 8 chapters you become a historical figure yourself: Xuanzang, Zheng He, Ibn Battuta, Simón Bolívar, and more • Your choices change the ending. 78 endings in all ■ More than reading • Tap a term in the story to see its explanation on the spot (916 terms), with key points to remember • Life, culture, and trade of the time appear in green: concrete details that textbooks leave out • A multiple-choice quiz with explanations at the end of every chapter (195 questions) • Short essay questions with key points and model answers (78 questions) ■ Illustrations for every era • Over 860 backgrounds and character portraits, drawn for each place and period ■ Pricing • Both prologues are free • The first chapter of each unit can be read for 72 hours after watching one ad (you can watch again whenever the time runs out) • Buy the rest unit by unit, or get all 37 main chapters at a discount • Any purchase removes the end-of-chapter ads Perfect for • Students who find world history just a list of names and dates and want to see how it connects • Anyone who wants to understand the causes behind events, not just memorize them • Adults who want to rediscover world history
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: DIVE World History at Free against TEDICT's $4.99. TEDICT's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 9) and ads (none vs shown). On update cadence 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
DIVE World History is free to download; TEDICT costs $4.99 up front. DIVE World History sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. TEDICT asks for nothing beyond the download.
TEDICT ships an update every 3 weeks, DIVE World History monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TEDICT | DIVE World History |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.9 (520 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 88.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 520 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 299 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | CoCO SWING | 合同会社AICREO NEXT |
Bugs and requests
TEDICT
Reported bugs
8 issues- App crashes on startup after updates
- Video loading failures
- Video playback stuttering
- iOS app encountering errors
- Bluetooth keyboard not registering input properly
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- Video and audio synchronization mismatch
- Missing audio segments from speakers
- Poor video quality despite good network connection
Requested features
11 requests- Adjustable video resolution settings
- Pause/stop functionality in learning sections
- Built-in dictionary or word lookup feature
- Vocabulary/word list management
- Sentence-level playback controls
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- Playback speed adjustment
- Bilingual subtitle support
- Voice recording and scoring feature
- Skip easy sentences option
- Backup/restore functionality
- Better sentence segmentation accuracy
DIVE World History
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
TEDICT
No in-app purchases
DIVE World History
- VIII · The Contemporary World$0.99
- VII · Revolutions and Nation-States$1.99
- I · The Birth of Civilization$2.99
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- V · Widening Worlds of Exchange$2.99
- VI · A World Drawn Together$2.99
- IV · Great Empires and Faiths$3.99
- II · Empires and Philosophy$5.99
- III · Roads Between East and West$6.99
- Complete set$17.99
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