FidelRush vs Selam
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FidelRush
Master the Ethiopian alphabet with this educational app. Its flashcard-style interface and audio pronunciations make learning quick and engaging for beginners and language enthusiasts.
- Flashcard-style learning
- Authentic pronunciation audio
- Quick letter association
- Beginner-friendly interface
- Amharic alphabet mastery
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Master the Ethiopian Alphabet with FidelRush! Unlock the beauty of the Ethiopian alphabet with FidelRush, the ultimate learning app designed for quick and fun mastery. Perfect for beginners, language enthusiasts, and anyone eager to dive into Amharic. Learn Faster Our flashcard-style interface keeps learning simple and effective. Swipe through letters and associate them with their sounds in seconds. Listen and Learn Tap each card to hear the authentic pronunciation of each Fidel, helping you perfect your speaking and listening skills flashcard by Sari Braga from Noun Project (CC BY 3.0)
Selam
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Learn to speak everyday Amharic, Ethiopia's working language, through short, focused lessons designed around how memory actually works. Every word and phrase is paired with audio recorded by a native Ethiopian speaker, so you learn how things actually sound, not how they look on a page. Built around proven learning science: • Spaced repetition: the words you struggle with come back at the perfect intervals to make them stick, while words you've mastered fade gracefully into the background • Active recall before passive recognition: you're prompted to produce the Amharic for a concept before you see it, so vocabulary moves from short-term to long-term memory • Eight varied exercise formats: listening comprehension, sentence-building, contextual scenarios, recall checks, matching pairs, and more. The variety isn't decoration; it's how your brain encodes language across multiple retrieval pathways • Cultural anchoring: every lesson is grounded in real Ethiopian context (coffee ceremonies, family, market bargaining), so vocabulary attaches to vivid memory hooks rather than floating in isolation Why it's actually enjoyable: • A daily Word of the Day on the home screen, bite-sized exposure that takes 30 seconds • Streaks and earned milestones marked in beautiful Ethiopic numerals that reward consistency without nagging • A warm, considered visual design with no animated mascots, no fake urgency, no anxiety-driven nag prompts • Tap any word, anywhere in the app, to hear it spoken What you get: • 25 hand-curated lessons across 5 chapters: greetings, numbers, family, food, travel, emotions, body, weather, work, and more • Almost 200 vocabulary words, each with romanised text and the traditional Ge'ez (Ethiopic) script. Toggle whichever you prefer. • Female-form alternates for greetings that change by who you're addressing. A real feature of spoken Amharic that most apps skip. • Built-in review mode that organises everything you've learned by what's due next What you don't get: • No account or sign-in. Your progress lives on your phone. • No ads. Anywhere. • No tracking. None. • No subscription pressure. Whether you're planning a trip to Addis Ababa, reconnecting with family heritage, or just curious about one of the world's oldest written languages, Speak Amharic gives you something most language apps don't: a real human voice, science-backed practice, and a pace that respects you.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: FidelRush at Free against Selam's $3.99. Selam's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
FidelRush is free to download; Selam costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
FidelRush ships an update fortnightly, Selam every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FidelRush | Selam |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mikael Mengistu | Jan de Haan |
In-app purchases
FidelRush
No in-app purchases
Selam
No in-app purchases









