Comparison

Learn French with Frantastique vs Pidginization

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

Head to head
About

Learn French with Frantastique

This app offers daily, personalized French lessons designed to keep you motivated and improve your language skills. It features engaging content, tailored corrections, and focuses on long-term progress for users aged 15 and up.

Highlights
  • Daily personalized French lessons
  • Level assessment
  • Tailored corrections and feedback
  • Focus on motivation and progress
  • Modern and business French
  • Cultural content integration
Features
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Frantastique provides daily personalized French lessons. Our goal: your motivation, participation and progress. Try the first lessons of Frantastique free of charge. The test includes a level assessment and a Portfolio (a personalized pedagogical report). ..... ...... ......  "Try something new!" — Sainsbury's magazine "Incredibly engaging, personalized, relevant, interesting, culturally sensitive." — The Potential Polyglot "Brilliant!" — ELLE "Participation and pleasure guaranteed." — 24 Heures "A professional and pleasant method to keep you motivated." — Marie Claire ..... ...... ......  • More than 6,000,000 users around the world • Free level assessment • Long-term results • A personalized approach • Modern and business French • Adapted for post-beginners (from 15 years old) Personalized French Content: Frantastique lessons are based on your needs, your requests, and your level. You’ll come across professional scenarios, a variety of accents, exercises and plenty of humor. 10 to 15 minutes daily is all it takes! Motivation, Humor and French Culture: Discover the diversity and richness of French culture around the world with the help of Victor Hugo and friends. Every day, you'll come across different accents, songs, and films in addition to original stories and texts. Tailored Corrections: After clicking the 'send' button, you will receive a correction with your daily score, explanations of your answers, scripts of dialogues or videos, the vocabulary you have requested and more. Progress: Each Frantastique lesson is built dynamically to focus on points of difficulty and your own requests, to ensure you've committed information to your long-term memory. Your French will improve effortlessly, daily and over the long term! ..... ...... ......   Privacy Policy: https://www.gymglish.com/documents/privacy-policy-en-latest.pdf Terms Of Use: http://www.gymglish.com/documents/CGU-GymGlish-en-latest.pdf Frantastique is developed in its entirety by A9 SAS Gymglish.

About

Pidginization

This app helps you build your vocabulary with curated word lists, an offline dictionary, and spaced repetition flashcards. It offers quizzes and progress tracking to make learning words stick, ideal for avid readers and students.

Highlights
  • 24 curated word lists
  • 147,000+ word offline dictionary
  • Spaced repetition flashcards
  • Custom quizzes
  • Progress tracking and daily streaks
  • One-tap word saving
Features
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Some people collect stamps. You collect words. Pidginization is the vocabulary builder for people who read with a pen in hand and secretly enjoy a good semicolon. Inside are 24 curated word lists — power words, pretentious words, money, law, mind, nature, and more — with 709 definitions and examples written by hand, on purpose, by a human who cared. Nothing scraped, nothing recycled from other dictionaries. A full offline dictionary of 147,000+ words travels with you, powered by WordNet 3.1 from Princeton University. Search works with inflections, so "ran" finds "run" and you never have to guess the root form. No signal required — read on the subway, on a plane, in the woods. Found a word you love? Tap once to save it to My Words. It slides straight into your review schedule, no setup, no folders, no fuss. Flashcards use Leitner spaced repetition to time each word's next appearance, so the ones you keep forgetting come back sooner and the ones you've nailed politely step aside. Quizzes — multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank — are built from your own vocabulary, not a generic bank. Daily streaks, review goals, and progress tracking keep the habit alive without turning your day into a chore. Five minutes is enough. Built for avid readers, writers hunting the exact word, students, and anyone grinding GRE, SAT, or general vocabulary prep. If you want words that actually stick — not words you recognize once and lose by Thursday — this is the app. WHAT YOU GET Curated lists: 24 themed collections, 709 original definitions and usage examples. Offline dictionary: 147,000+ entries from WordNet 3.1 (Princeton University), searchable anywhere. One-tap saving: any lookup becomes a study card instantly. Spaced repetition: Leitner-based flashcards that schedule themselves. Quizzes and streaks: test what you've saved, track what you've learned. Start with a 3-day free trial. Then $1.29/month or $12/year — roughly the price of one paperback you'd underline anyway. Download Pidginization and start hoarding words properly. Privacy Policy: https://github.com/andrewgilf/Pidginization-Privacy-Policy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Learn French with Frantastique4 screens
Pidginization3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Learn French with Frantastique at 722 against Pidginization's 4. Learn French with Frantastique also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). Pidginization's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Learn French with Frantastique sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Pidginization sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.29 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pidginization holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Learn French with Frantastique has 722 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Learn French with Frantastique versus Pidginization: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLearn French with FrantastiquePidginization
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (722 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews78.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings722 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size45 MB48 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAimigoAndrew Gilfillan

Bugs and requests

Learn French with Frantastique

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Occasional app crashes or freezes
  • Issues with lesson content not loading properly

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to adjust lesson frequency
  • More pronunciation and speaking practice
  • Inclusion of Canadian French content
  • Option to pause/resume subscription
  • Improved customer support responsiveness

Pidginization

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Learn French with Frantastique

Subscriptions8
  • Frantastique 1 month$9.991 Month
  • Frantastique 1 month$11.991 Month
  • Frantastique 1 month$14.901 Month
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  • Frantastique 1 month$21.991 Month
  • Frantastique PREMIUM 1 month$25.991 Month
  • Frantastique 1 month$35.991 Month
  • Frantastique 12 months$99.991 Year
  • Frantastique PREMIUM 12 months$254.991 Year
One-time2
  • 6-month Frantastique Basic subscription$119.99
  • 12-month Frantastique Basic subscription$199.99
2 purchases

Pidginization

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription3 Days trial$1.291 Month
  • Pidginization Pro Annual3 Days trial$12.001 Year

Questions

Is Learn French with Frantastique free?
Learn French with Frantastique is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pidginization free?
Pidginization is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Learn French with Frantastique or Pidginization?
Pidginization is rated higher. Learn French with Frantastique averages 4.7 out of 5 from 722 ratings, while Pidginization averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Learn French with Frantastique or Pidginization have ads?
Neither Learn French with Frantastique nor Pidginization shows ads.

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