Comparison

Pāli Practice vs MyStudyDeck

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

Head to head
About

Pāli Practice

Practice Pāli grammar with flashcards focusing on verb conjugation and noun declension. Uses spaced repetition for effective learning and works fully offline. Ideal for students of early Buddhist texts.

Highlights
  • Verb conjugation practice
  • Noun declension exercises
  • Spaced repetition learning
  • Offline functionality
  • Grammatical form identification
  • Word translation checks
Features
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The app uses flashcard exercises that ask you to find the correct grammatical form. For verbs, you are shown a verb and asked to conjugate it for a given tense, person, and number. For nouns, you are asked to decline a word in a specific case, gender, and number. You think or say the answer yourself, then tap to check it, along with the word’s translation. The app follows a spaced repetition approach: after each review, you mark items as easy or difficult, and they are shown again later depending on how well they are remembered. Pāli Practice works fully offline and is designed for brief, regular study, so it can be used whenever you have a free moment. The app is intended for Theravada Buddhism practitioners and students of early Buddhist texts who want a simple tool for practicing grammatical forms. It supports ongoing study but does not replace textbooks, courses, or teachers. Word and grammar data are sourced from the Digital Pāli Dictionary project. The icon is the quail from SN 47:6, the Sakuṇagghi Sutta ("The Hawk"), hiding behind rocks in its ancestral territory – a newly plowed field with clumps of earth all turned up: "Wander, monks, in what is your proper range, your own ancestral territory. In one who wanders in what is his proper range, his own ancestral territory, Māra gains no opening, Māra gains no foothold. And what, for a monk, is his proper range, his own ancestral territory? The four establishings of mindfulness." This app is maintained by the DhammaBytes contributors. We welcome feedback and help with translating the app into other languages. Please contact us at contact@dhammabytes.org

About

MyStudyDeck

Features
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Turn any photo or PDF into Anki flashcards — then study them right in the app. No typing, no desktop, no account. Everything runs on your iPhone, fully offline. MyStudyDeck is the fastest way to go from study material to memorized. Scan a page, let on-device OCR and smart filtering pick out the words that matter, auto-translate the backs, study with a swipe — and export standard .apkg decks to Anki when you want. THREE TAPS. REAL CARDS. 1. Snap a photo (or import a PDF) of your study material 2. Tap the terms you want to learn 3. Study in-app — or export a complete .apkg deck to AnkiMobile No typing kanji on your phone. No copy-pasting between apps. No desktop required. STUDY MODE — RIGHT IN THE APP You no longer have to export to Anki just to review. • Full study screen with a 3D card-flip animation • Swipe right when you knew it, swipe left to review again • Streak meter tracks your consecutive correct answers • Self-assessment grading: "Didn't know" or "Knew it" • Shuffle mode to mix up your deck • Resume a session right where you left off (within 24h) • Works with all four card types: plain, image, cloze, and multi-field SMART CARD CREATION • On-device OCR extracts text from photos instantly — works offline • Smart word filtering uses Apple's NaturalLanguage engine to highlight the important words (nouns, verbs, adjectives, domain terms) and pre-select them • Function words (the, is, a) are hidden by default — tap "Show all words" to reveal everything • Per-word confidence indicators so you can trust the selection • Filtering supports English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Russian (other scripts use length-based filtering) • Apple Translation fills in card backs automatically • Edit any field before saving (front, back, reading, notes) IMPORT PDFs • Import PDFs directly from Files, iCloud Drive, or any document provider • Page viewer with thumbnails and range selection (All / This page / Range) • Multi-page extraction with a live progress indicator • Text flows straight into the same smart OCR review pipeline • Up to 50 pages per session ANKI-COMPATIBLE EXPORT • Generates standard .apkg files that import cleanly into Anki • Works with AnkiMobile, Anki Desktop, AnkiDroid, and AnkiWeb • Export via the iOS share sheet — AnkiMobile, Files, AirDrop, iCloud Drive, or email • Card images are embedded in the export BUILT FOR PRIVACY Your photos, cards, and study data never leave your device. The OCR and translation run on-device. No accounts. No cloud. No tracking. We never see your cards. ONE-TIME PURCHASE — NOT A SUBSCRIPTION Try MyStudyDeck free with up to 3 cards. Unlock unlimited cards, PDF import, study, and .apkg export with a single $14.99 purchase — yours forever. No subscription. No recurring charges. No surprise renewals. Built for self-taught language learners (Japanese, Korean, Chinese and more) and for students working from textbooks. MyStudyDeck solves the hardest part of mobile studying: turning real study material into cards you actually review — without a desktop.

Screenshots

Pāli Practice4 screens
MyStudyDeck4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pāli Practice at none against MyStudyDeck's 1. Pāli Practice also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.4). On price 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. MyStudyDeck sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Pāli Practice asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Pāli Practice versus MyStudyDeck: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPāli PracticeMyStudyDeck
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (8 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.4
Further details — not scored
Size172 MB84 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIvan MiroshnichenkoSai Sharan Bhonagiri

In-app purchases

None

Pāli Practice

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

MyStudyDeck

One-time1
  • MyStudyDeck Pro$14.99

Questions

Is Pāli Practice free?
Pāli Practice is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is MyStudyDeck free?
MyStudyDeck is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pāli Practice or MyStudyDeck have ads?
Neither Pāli Practice nor MyStudyDeck shows ads.

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