Comparison

StudyChat Cantonese vs Cantonese Cracker

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

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About

StudyChat Cantonese

Practice conversational Cantonese with randomized dialogues and listening exercises. Designed for intermediate learners, it helps you master everyday phrases and improve recall for social situations. Track your progress and enjoy a fun, engaging learning experience.

Highlights
  • Socializing phrase practice
  • Listening skill development
  • Everyday situation familiarization
  • Progress tracking per phrase
  • Randomized semi-artificial conversations
  • Focus on listening and translation recall
  • Intermediate practice tool
Features
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- Learn socialising phrases, to help you meet others. - Practice listening skills for the Asia traveller. - Familiarise yourself with common everyday situations, so you're aware of useful phrases. - Your progress for each phrase is tracked in the background, so you don't repeat phrases too frequently. - Phrases are randomised in semi-artificial conversations, so there is some "variety" to keep your mind awake. - Focus on listening, and translation recall. The two most important skills for everyday socialising. =[ HOW IT WORKS ]= - Listen to a conversation: a list of phrases. - After each repeat, any phrase has been seen enough will be replaced by a new phrase to learn. - Best used as an intermediate practice tool. - Combine with SCRIBE ORIGINS series to learn basic vocab and hanzi. StudyChat Cantonese is designed for you as the intermediate-level traveller who wants to become familiar with phrases from different situations. If you already know the basics of the language and you want another tool to practice with, then this is for you. StudyChat Cantonese has been intentionally designed as a fun supplementation to existing study methods. There are many excellent resources for learning grammar and vocabulary. But there are few tools, aside from watching TV with subtitles, that simulate conversations for practicing what you have already learnt. StudyChat Cantonese also includes a bucketload of background and character styles, to keep your mind as interested as "study" possibly can be. StudyChat feedback: "I gotta say I love your app" "So far I think it's fantastic. The most creative language app I've ever seen. No other has managed to combine an interesting light novel manga style with learning a language." "This is a great learning tool" "Hello! Your app is simply amazing!" "Best learning language app ever! Was worth everytime cent!" "I want to say I absolutely love this app. Ever since I've downloaded it, I have been using it at least half an hour everyday. I have recommended it to my friends in class! Your app is so awesome that I decided to use the in app function to purchase the upgrade to unlock over 1000 new sentences." "I love this it's awsome" "I love this app!!! I always wanted to learn how to speak!!!" "I love this app! I love learning new languages and love to widen my knowledge on other countries. This app is very handy and the graphics are good, the phrases are easy to understand too." "Your app is a really fun learning tool." "Thank you for creating the app...." "I love this app so much" "I love these apps. They awesome and I use the constantly. The artwork is great to and I love that I can slow down the speech and learn the words properly. This is a HUGE help as this is the ONLY app I have found that offers this feature." "This is amazing, please continue to do what you do, much love and support :-)" "The app is awesome thx for putting it out there" "I love this it's so cool" "This app is fabulous." "Thank you for this wonderful app!" "I love this app it's awesome :)" "Great app, I like it. Thank you!" "This is the best studying app 0.0" "I think that this is a great app idea!! Thank you very much" "I really love this app..... It's cool :)"

About

Cantonese Cracker

Master Cantonese listening and speaking skills for daily communication, school, or work. This app helps non-native speakers learn the language spoken in southern China, including Hong Kong and Macau.

Highlights
  • Master listening skills
  • Master speaking skills
  • Daily social communication
  • School and workplace needs
  • For non-Cantonese speakers
Features
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Traditionally, Cantonese is a dialect of Chinese. Many Cantonese words are expressed in non-traditional written characters. This is the first language in the south-eastern part of China, such as Hong Kong, Macau, Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan. Therefore, this app is helpful for Non-Cantonese Speakers to master the listening and speaking skills of this language for their daily social communication and their needs in school or the workplace.

Screenshots

StudyChat Cantonese3 screens
Cantonese Cracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: StudyChat Cantonese at 50% against Cantonese Cracker's 0%. StudyChat Cantonese also leads on rating (4.5 vs 1.0). Cantonese Cracker's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6). On price, ratings volume, ads and device support 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. StudyChat Cantonese sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Cantonese Cracker asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

StudyChat Cantonese holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of StudyChat Cantonese's written reviews are positive against 0% of Cantonese Cracker's.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
StudyChat Cantonese versus Cantonese Cracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStudyChat CantoneseCantonese Cracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2 ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size156 MB112 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperGuiix Pty LtdEDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG

Customer experience

StudyChat Cantonese

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral6.3%
Negative43.8%

Cantonese Cracker

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

6 purchases

StudyChat Cantonese

One-time6
  • Unlock: Boy Meets Girls, Boy Meets Girl Long, Difficult Pickup.$0.99
  • Unlock: Supportive, Phone Conversation, Dinner Date$0.99
  • Unlock: Guy's Conversation +$0.99
Show 3 more
  • Unlock Conversation: At home$0.99
  • Unlock Tense and People Describing conversations$0.99
  • Unlock all conversations$7.99
None

Cantonese Cracker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is StudyChat Cantonese free?
StudyChat Cantonese is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Cantonese Cracker free?
Cantonese Cracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, StudyChat Cantonese or Cantonese Cracker?
StudyChat Cantonese is rated higher. StudyChat Cantonese averages 4.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Cantonese Cracker averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do StudyChat Cantonese or Cantonese Cracker have ads?
Neither StudyChat Cantonese nor Cantonese Cracker shows ads.

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