BuckHound vs Polyglottos
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BuckHound
This app provides honest price history and trends for deals, helping you determine if a sale is truly good. It features daily standout deals, curated picks, and price alerts for items on your watchlist. Make confident purchasing decisions with clear, data-driven pricing intelligence.
- Real price history and trends
- Daily standout deals
- Curated deal picks
- Price drop alerts
- Price intelligence indicators
- Supports Amazon and eBay
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BuckHound is a price tracker and deal app for shoppers who want to save products, watch supported items for movement, and check retailer details before buying. Browse current picks from supported retailers, save items you want to revisit, and use Saved to keep reference-only deals separate from items BuckHound can track. For supported tracked saves, BuckHound can help you monitor price movement and send alerts so you know when to take another look. What you can do: Browse current deals in cards or grid view Save deals for quick access later Track supported saved items and set alerts Search across current deal picks Start Pro with a 14-day free trial if eligible Keep saved deals synced when signed in Choose the account level that fits: Free, Plus, or Pro Use Pro for the largest saved-deal limit and Bucky AI shopping tools BuckHound does not replace the retailer checkout page. Always confirm the final price, shipping, availability, returns, and seller details with the retailer before buying. Some features require a Plus or Pro subscription.
Polyglottos
Translate and learn languages offline with over 200 supported languages. Features voice input/output, phrasebooks with transliterations, and a spaced repetition flashcard system. Prioritizes user privacy with no accounts or data collection.
- Offline translation for 200+ languages
- Voice input and output
- Phrasebook with transliterations
- Spaced repetition flashcards
- Multiple learner profiles
- No account or data tracking
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No wifi. No accounts. No tracking. Just translation. Translate between 200+ languages entirely on your device, with no internet connection required. TRANSLATION - Speak or type in one language, get output in another - Voice input with on-device speech recognition - Natural voice output with on-device text-to-speech - 200+ languages supported worldwide - Works in airplane mode, remote areas, or anywhere off-grid Translation and speech recognition quality varies by language pair. Works best with widely-spoken languages. QUICK PHRASES - Tap-to-speak phrasebook for 200+ languages - Transliterations for every phrase — read unfamiliar scripts phonetically - 16 categories: greetings, medical, directions, food, emergencies, and more - 15 Arabic dialects with dedicated phrasebooks LANGUAGE LEARNING - Spaced repetition flashcard system (SRS) - Listening and speaking card types - Transliterations for unfamiliar scripts - Multiple learner profiles - Set your own daily card limits per language PRIVACY - No accounts required - No data collection of any kind - No analytics, no ads, no crash reporting - Audio processed locally and deleted immediately - Nothing leaves your device. Ever. SUPPORTED LANGUAGES Custom text-to-speech voices: Arabic, Burmese, Dari, Hindi, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Pashto, Persian (Farsi), Sindhi, Tajik, Turkish, Turkmen, Urdu, Uzbek Arabic dialect phrasebooks: Algerian, Egyptian, Emirati, Hassaniya, Iraqi, Jordanian, Lebanese, Libyan, Moroccan, Palestinian, Saudi, Sudanese, Syrian, Tunisian, Yemeni Regional dialect phrasebooks: Pashto (Afghan), Pashto (Pakistani), Spanish (Colombian), Spanish (Mexican), Spanish (Venezuelan), Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (European), Korean (North) 200+ languages with translation: Acehnese, Afrikaans, Akan, Albanian, Amharic, Aragonese, Armenian, Assamese, Awadhi, Azerbaijani, Balinese, Balochi, Bambara, Banjar, Bashkir, Basque, Belarusian, Bemba, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Bosnian, Buginese, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cantonese, Catalan, Cebuano, Central Kurdish (Sorani), Chhattisgarhi, Chinese (Mandarin), Chinese (Wu), Chinese (Gan), Chokwe, Crimean Tatar, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dinka, Dutch, Dyula, Dzongkha, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Ewe, Faroese, Fijian, Finnish, Fon, French, Friulian, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Guarani, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Jingpho, Kabiyè, Kabyle, Kamba, Kannada, Kashmiri, Kazakh, Khmer, Kikongo, Kikuyu, Kimbundu, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Kurdish (Sorani), Kyrgyz, Lao, Latgalian, Latvian, Ligurian, Limburgish, Lingala, Lithuanian, Lombard, Luba-Kasai, Luganda, Luo, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Magahi, Maithili, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Meitei, Minangkabau, Mizo, Mongolian, Mossi, Nepali, Nigerian Fulfulde, Northern Sotho, Norwegian, Nuer, Nyanja, Occitan, Odia, Oromo, Pangasinan, Papiamento, Pashto, Persian (Farsi), Plateau Malagasy, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Quechua, Romanian, Rundi, Russian, Samoan, Sango, Sanskrit, Santali, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Shan, Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, South Azerbaijani, Southern Sotho, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swati, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Tamasheq, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, Tigrinya, Tok Pisin, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen, Twi, Ukrainian, Umbundu, Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek, Venetian, Vietnamese, Waray, Welsh, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zulu NOTES - Large initial download — wifi recommended for setup - First translation takes a moment while models load - After that, fast Free. No subscriptions. No in-app purchases.
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Verdict
BuckHound and Polyglottos are too close to call on the numbers: across 9 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for BuckHound against 5.0 for Polyglottos. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively.
BuckHound ships an update every 9 days, Polyglottos every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BuckHound | Polyglottos |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 1.3 GB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bryan Mathews | In Situ Services, LLC |
Customer experience
BuckHound
Polyglottos
In-app purchases
BuckHound
No in-app purchases
Polyglottos
No in-app purchases









