CardistX vs Lingua
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Create 3D card game-style designs
- Save and manage created cards
- Simulate opening card packs
- Auto-generate text and designs
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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
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.
- Custom script creation
- Personalized keyboard layouts
- Detailed language dictionary
- Phonology and grammar tools
- Community timeline for sharing
- Exportable fonts and dictionaries
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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
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Lingua sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. CardistX asks for nothing beyond the download.
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.
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.
| Parameter | CardistX | Lingua |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Satoshi Yokokawa | TSUBASA IHIRA |
Customer experience
CardistX
Lingua
In-app purchases
CardistX
No in-app purchases
Lingua
- 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









