Comparison

Chamala vs Telem

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

Head to head
About

Chamala

Master Tatar with daily lessons, vocabulary, interactive games, and an AI chat partner. Includes a comprehensive dictionary and a dedicated section for children's learning.

Highlights
  • Daily short lessons
  • Vocabulary with audio
  • Interactive practice games
  • AI Tatar chat bot
  • Offline Tatar-Russian dictionary
  • Children's learning section
Features
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Chamala helps you learn the Tatar language from scratch. Short daily sessions of a few minutes: a course, words with audio, practice games, a dictionary and a chat bot that talks to you in Tatar. The app has been installed more than 35,000 times. COURSE FROM ZERO 16 lessons in 8 modules, from greetings to talking about yourself. Every lesson has theory, new words, dialogues and a quiz at the end. STEP BY STEP 25 short lessons in 5 units: introductions, food, family, home and town, describing things. Pick the translation, match pairs, build phrases, write what you hear and speak out loud. Every unit comes with a grammar guide. 440+ WORDS AND PHRASES WITH AUDIO Picture flashcards by topic: animals, food, family, nature, town, clothes, numbers, colours. Listen to every word. PRACTICE GAMES • Words — translate a Tatar word • Translate — translate a phrase • Pairs — match a word with its translation • Gaps — fill a word into a phrase • Speaking — speech recognition checks your Tatar • Affixes — build a word from a stem and endings • Harmony — practise Tatar vowel harmony SMART REVIEW Chamala keeps track of how well you know each word and brings it back just as you start to forget it. CHAT IN TATAR Talk to an AI partner: meeting someone, shopping, chatting with a colleague or any topic you like. Reply by text or voice, listen to the answers and open the translation. TATAR–RUSSIAN DICTIONARY 11,900+ words that work offline. Search in Tatar or Russian, in any word form: «китапларда» finds «китап». FOR KIDS The Tatar alphabet, first words in 8 topics, picture games, letter games and word building, picture stories, poems and songs. Kids earn stars and trade them for colouring pages to print. WORD OF THE DAY Add the widget to your home screen and get a new Tatar word every day. Every Tatar letter — ә, ө, ү, җ, ң, һ — works in words, audio and exercises. The app is available in English and Russian. Chamala is for complete beginners, heritage learners who want to bring back the language of their family, visitors to Kazan and Tatarstan, and kids learning with their parents. Everything is free, with no subscription. Сәлам! Let's start.

About

Telem

Features
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Telem - приложение для изучения татарского языка. Короткие уроки по темам, голос носителя и AI-собеседник, с которым можно разговаривать с первого дня. Знакомство, числа, быт - каждый курс ведёт от первой фразы к разговору. В уроке пять новых слов, карточки, упражнения и одна живая фраза. AI собеседник знает, какие слова вы уже выучили, и говорит на них. Не поняли - нажмите на реплику и увидите перевод. Ошиблись - поправит мягко и продолжит разговор. Два режима: «На своих словах» для начинающих и «Свободный разговор» на любую тему. Telem - татар телен өйрәнү өчен кушымта. Кушымта «Үз телем» бәйгесе кысаларында Казан Мэриясы ярдәме белән гамәлгә ашырылды.

Screenshots

Chamala4 screens
Telem4 screens

Verdict

The call

Chamala and Telem are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Chamala versus Telem: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChamalaTelem
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (9 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews71.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings9 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.415.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size78 MB30 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperMarat FaizerakhmanovBayazit Khasanov

In-app purchases

None

Chamala

No in-app purchases

None

Telem

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Chamala free?
Chamala is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Telem free?
Telem is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Chamala or Telem have ads?
Neither Chamala nor Telem shows ads.

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