Amharic Tutor vs Gursha
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Amharic Tutor
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Learn Amharic step by step with Amharic Tutor, an interactive app for beginners and heritage learners. Start with Fidel letters and sounds, build your vocabulary with everyday words, practice sentence construction, and improve pronunciation with speech-based exercises. Learn Fidel characters, common words, sentence patterns, and pronunciation through guided lessons, audio practice, speech recognition, and engaging exercises. Whether you are reconnecting with your heritage, supporting your child’s language learning, or starting Amharic from scratch, Amharic Tutor gives you a structured and friendly way to practice every day. The app includes guided lessons, audio examples, recognition games, sentence-building activities, and speaking practice to help you learn actively instead of just memorizing. With clear progression across Fidel, words, and sentences, Amharic Tutor helps you develop the foundation needed to read, understand, and speak Amharic with confidence. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://shedtechnology.com/privacy-policy
Gursha
Learn Amharic through practical conversations and the Ethiopic script. Focuses on real-life situations, native audio, and building useful vocabulary instead of grammar exercises.
- Real conversation learning
- Ethiopic (Fidel) script
- Native audio pronunciation
- Alphabet tracing
- Practical vocabulary building
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Learn Amharic for the moments that matter — family, food, and community. Gursha teaches real conversations and Ethiopic (Fidel) script, not grammar drills. Listen to native audio, trace the alphabet, and build words you'll actually use.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Gursha at none against Amharic Tutor's 3. Amharic Tutor's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 weeks). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Amharic Tutor sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Gursha asks for nothing beyond the download.
Amharic Tutor ships an update every 2 weeks, Gursha every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Amharic Tutor | Gursha |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 70 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Dagne Assefa | Muse Gimicael |
In-app purchases
Amharic Tutor
- 5 Minutes Speech Credits$0.99
- 20 Minutes Speech Credits$2.99
- 60 Minutes Speech Credits$4.99
Gursha
No in-app purchases








