Comparison

philolog.us vs Bellerophon

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

Head to head
About

philolog.us

Access comprehensive Latin and Greek dictionaries with a user-friendly interface. Quickly switch between languages and customize dictionary entry highlighting. Ideal for students and scholars of classical languages.

Highlights
  • Lewis & Short Latin dictionary
  • Liddell, Scott, & Jones Greek dictionary
  • Fast and easy to use
  • Automatic language switching
  • Customizable highlighting
Features
Currently charting
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Philolog.us offers Lewis & Short's Latin dictionary and Liddell, Scott, & Jones' Greek dictionary in a fast, easy to use format. It's a great resource for students and scholars of Latin and Greek. Quickly change between Latin and Greek by tapping the prompt; the keyboard changes automatically between the two languages. Colored highlighting of the dictionary entries can be customized in the Settings app.

About

Bellerophon

Access a vast digital library of ancient Greek and Latin texts, complete with morphological analysis and side-by-side comparison. This app allows for offline browsing of thousands of historical documents, with options to add personal notes and bookmarks for enhanced study.

Highlights
  • Thousands of ancient texts
  • Offline access
  • Morphological analysis
  • Side-by-side text comparison
  • Personal notes and bookmarks
  • Full-text search
Features
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Bellerophon transforms your mild-mannered iPhone or iPad into a bastion of scholarship. Browse a compendious library comprising thousands of texts ranging from Homer to Ammianus Marcellinus to Beowulf and spanning millennia, compare multiple works side-by-side, add your own notes and bookmarks for quick reference, view morphological analyses for Greek and Latin texts, and more! Bellerophon includes the following features: * Over 3,500 texts in 10 languages included, with no internet access needed! * Includes texts ranging from canonical classical works to lesser-known authors like Quintus Smyrnaeus and Anna Komnena, to works outside the traditional sphere of classics such as Beowulf, ancient Jewish and biblical texts, and much more! Most texts are in the original language, but the collection also includes over 900 translations into English, as well as some surprising versions of familiar works (such as Aristotle's Poetics in Arabic). * For Greek and Latin, you can request morphological analyses from the Perseus Digital Library by double-tapping on a word (note that this does require an internet connection). * Quickly navigate any text via a hierarchical table of contents, add your own bookmarks for even faster reference to specific sections, or just jump straight to a particular passage by entering it in citation form. * Search the full text of any document, matching on a specific word or substring, and page through results. * Open multiple windows side-by-side in the same session: you can compare the different passages of the same text, view the original alongside a translation, or juxtapose entirely separate texts. * Add your own notes to record new vocabulary or whatever else you like. Additionally, many texts include the contents of footnotes originally present in the printed editions, ranging from apparatus criticus entries to helpful background information.

Screenshots

philolog.us4 screens
Bellerophon4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Bellerophon at Free against philolog.us's $5.99. Bellerophon also leads on ratings volume (24 vs 5). philolog.us's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 80 months) and chart position (#193 vs unranked). On rating, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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

Bellerophon is free to download; philolog.us costs $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for philolog.us against 4.8 for Bellerophon. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 24 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 95% of philolog.us's written reviews are positive against 100% of Bellerophon's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

philolog.us ships an update every 5 weeks, Bellerophon every 80 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
philolog.us versus Bellerophon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameterphilolog.usBellerophon
Price$5.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (5 ratings) — better4.8 (24 ratings)
Positive reviews94.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings524 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 80 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
Best chart rank#193 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS9.3 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size196 MB479 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerphilolog LLCAdrian Packel

Customer experience

philolog.us

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews19 reviews
Positive94.7%
Neutral5.3%
Negative0.0%

Bellerophon

All ratings24 ratings
Positive95.8%
Neutral4.2%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

philolog.us

No in-app purchases

None

Bellerophon

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is philolog.us free?
philolog.us costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bellerophon free?
Bellerophon is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, philolog.us or Bellerophon?
philolog.us is rated higher. philolog.us averages 4.8 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Bellerophon averages 4.8 from 24 ratings.
Do philolog.us or Bellerophon have ads?
Neither philolog.us nor Bellerophon shows ads.
Which is updated more often, philolog.us or Bellerophon?
philolog.us ships an update every 5 weeks, and Bellerophon every 80 months. Most recently, philolog.us was updated on November 1, 2026 and Bellerophon on November 3, 2026.

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