Comparison

Yandex Translate vs Bukvitsa (Буквица)

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

Head to head
About

Yandex Translate

Translate text between over 100 languages, both online and offline. Features include photo translation, voice input, a built-in dictionary with usage examples, and website translation. Save your favorite translations and access your history easily.

Highlights
  • Offline translation for 10+ languages
  • Translate text from photos
  • Voice input and output
  • Built-in dictionary with examples
  • Website translation
  • Translation history and favorites
Features
Currently charting
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Yandex.Translate Free translator that can work offline and translate text from photos • Translate between any pair of the 100 languages when you’re online. • Translate from French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish and other languages to English while offline: download these languages for free and enable the offline mode in Settings. • Speak words or phrases in Russian, English, or Turkish to translate them into any of these languages, or have the app read the translations to you. • Learn new words and their meanings through usage examples in the app’s dictionary (available for most of the currently supported languages). • Take a picture of a menu, road sign, book page or choose a photo with text from your Camera Roll to view its translation right over the image (only available when you are online). • Translate entire sites directly in the app or in Safari. • Read books, news, or articles in a foreign language together with Yandex.Translate on your iPad using Split View. • Read transliterated Arabic, Armenian, Farsi, Georgian, Greek, Hebrew, Korean, Japanese, or Chinese Pinyin. • Enjoy the app’s time-saving predictive typing function and automated language detection. • Save translations in Favorites and view your translation history at any time. • Speak to your Apple Watch to see your words translated on its screen. Currently supported languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Bashkir, Belarussian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Burmese, Bosnian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chinese, Chuvash, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Elvish (Sindarin), English, Esperanto, Estonian, Farsi, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hill Mari, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Kyrgyz, Latin, Latvian, Lao, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malaysian, Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Mari, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian, Papiamento, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Scots, Singhalese, Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Xhosa, Yakutian, Yiddish, Zulu.

About

Bukvitsa (Буквица)

Explore the ancient Slavic initial letter, a form of writing and talisman rich with ancestral wisdom. This reference book helps you understand the deeper essence of universal processes and the Native Language, revealing the true meaning of words and enhancing self-awareness.

Highlights
  • Ancient Slavic writing system
  • Talisman for Slavic people
  • Storehouse of ancestral wisdom
  • Understanding Universal processes
  • Deepening Native Language knowledge
  • Revealing true word meanings
Features
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Reference book on the ancient Slavic initial letter. Initial letter is an ancient form of writing of many Slavic Clans, a talisman for the Slavic people. This is the greatest storehouse of ancestral wisdom, a perfect form of transferring the deep essence of the Universal processes interacting in all their diversity of life forms. By studying and applying the drop cap, you will penetrate into the depths of the Native Language, learn the true meaning of familiar words. You will be able to better understand yourself and your environment.

Screenshots

Yandex Translate4 screens
Bukvitsa (Буквица)4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is chart position: Yandex Translate at #160 against Bukvitsa (Буквица)'s unranked. Bukvitsa (Буквица)'s advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.0). On price, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Yandex Translate ships an update fortnightly, Bukvitsa (Буквица) every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 9 level
Yandex Translate versus Bukvitsa (Буквица): the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterYandex TranslateBukvitsa (Буквица)
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (7.5K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews65.8% of reviews66.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings7.5K — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank#160 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.010.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size215 MB180 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDirect Cursus Computer Systems TradingAndrey Denisov

Customer experience

Yandex Translate

All ratings7,487 ratings
Positive92.0%
Neutral2.8%
Negative5.2%
Written reviews725 reviews
Positive65.8%
Neutral9.2%
Negative25.0%

Bukvitsa (Буквица)

Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

Bugs and requests

Yandex Translate

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Crashes when trying to listen to pronunciation
  • Inability to paste text into input field
  • Inconsistent behavior when translating websites
  • Incorrect translations for some language pairs

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add more language options (e.g., Swiss German, Pashto)
  • Improve pronunciation quality
  • Allow customization of translation output (e.g., formal/informal, gender)
  • Add widget/home screen integration for quick access
  • Improve translation of idioms and context-dependent phrases

Bukvitsa (Буквица)

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Yandex Translate

No in-app purchases

None

Bukvitsa (Буквица)

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Yandex Translate free?
Yandex Translate is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bukvitsa (Буквица) free?
Bukvitsa (Буквица) is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Yandex Translate or Bukvitsa (Буквица) have ads?
Neither Yandex Translate nor Bukvitsa (Буквица) shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Yandex Translate or Bukvitsa (Буквица)?
Yandex Translate ships an update fortnightly, and Bukvitsa (Буквица) every 3 weeks. Most recently, Yandex Translate was updated on November 8, 2026 and Bukvitsa (Буквица) on November 3, 2026.

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