Comparison

CardistX vs Lingua

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

Head to head
About

CardistX

Design and save custom 3D cards with a game aesthetic. This tool lets you create unique card game-style designs and manage your collection. You can also simulate opening card packs using your own creations.

Highlights
  • Create 3D card game-style designs
  • Save and manage created cards
  • Simulate opening card packs
  • Auto-generate text and designs
Features
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Description: This app allows you to create and save 3D card designs in a card game style. You can also open packs using the cards you've created. Main Features: ・Create unique card game-style designs ・Save and manage your created cards ・Open packs ・Auto-generate text and designs Privacy Policy: http://mysterylog.com/apps/cardist/en/privacy.html Terms of Use: http://mysterylog.com/apps/cardist/en/terms.html

About

Lingua

Create your own unique script and language, complete with custom keyboards and a dictionary. Share your creations with a global community and explore languages made by others.

Highlights
  • Custom script creation
  • Personalized keyboard layouts
  • Detailed language dictionary
  • Phonology and grammar tools
  • Community timeline for sharing
  • Exportable fonts and dictionaries
Features
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Lingua is where you make a language and then actually use it. YOUR SCRIPT Draw each letter with your finger. Lingua compiles your letters into a real font on your phone, and gives you a keyboard with your letters on the keys to type with in the app. You can also build keyboards of any existing characters (accented letters, IPA, symbols, other scripts) and use them in any app, free and as many as you like. Alphabet, abjad, syllabary, abugida or logography, written in any direction. Digits are letters too, in whatever base you choose. YOUR LANGUAGE A dictionary where every word has meanings, part of speech, examples, register and origin. Readings and IPA. A phonology page built from what you have written. A grammar of 44 chapters — cases, agreement, word order, negation, questions, derivation — whose rules really conjugate: describe a pattern once and every word in that class follows it. A calendar with your own month and weekday names, a notebook, and CSV import for a list you already have. A PLACE TO USE IT A timeline where people post lines in their own languages, in their own letters. Each post carries its letter shapes with it, so anyone can read your script without your font, and every post has a gloss so people can follow and reply even to a language nobody else speaks yet. Replies and threads, following, tags, a daily prompt everyone answers in their language, photos with your letters drawn on them, a 30-second voice clip, and a card that turns one line into a picture to share. Publish your language's page, and download the alphabet or dictionary of a language you like, to read. FREE AND PAID Free: a full a–z and 0–9 script, one language, a dictionary of 100 words, as many keyboards as you like, and the whole timeline. Plus and Pro add more letters, more words and more languages. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled. Terms: https://tokinets.com/lingua/terms.html Privacy: https://tokinets.com/lingua/privacy.html

Screenshots

CardistX4 screens
Lingua4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CardistX at none against Lingua's 4. CardistX also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). Lingua's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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. Lingua sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. CardistX asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Lingua holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CardistX ships an update every 3 days, Lingua every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
CardistX versus Lingua: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCardistXLingua
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (6 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Number of ratings6 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size65 MB31 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSatoshi YokokawaTSUBASA IHIRA

Customer experience

CardistX

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Lingua

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

CardistX

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Lingua

Subscriptions4
  • Lingua Plus$4.991 Month
  • Lingua Pro$9.991 Month
  • Lingua Plus Yearly$49.991 Year
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  • Lingua Pro Yearly$99.991 Year

Questions

Is CardistX free?
CardistX is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Lingua free?
Lingua is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, CardistX or Lingua?
Lingua is rated higher. CardistX averages 4.7 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while Lingua averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do CardistX or Lingua have ads?
Neither CardistX nor Lingua shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CardistX or Lingua?
CardistX ships an update every 3 days, and Lingua every 4 days. Most recently, CardistX was updated on November 4, 2026 and Lingua on November 6, 2026.

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