RefCreate vs Language Diary
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RefCreate
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Build your drawing skills with RefCreate for iPad and iPhone. Draw beside a 3D reference, practise the fundamentals with scored drills, and watch your progress grow. RefCreate works best on iPad with Apple Pencil, with more room to draw and keep your reference beside you. DRAW WITH A 3D REFERENCE BESIDE YOU • Keep a 3D model in a floating or docked reference view while you paint on a layered canvas. • Turn and zoom the model, then lock the view you want to study. Your reference view is saved with each drawing. • Light the model your way: a key light, a fill light and an optional rim light, each with its own colour and intensity. • One perspective grid shared by your canvas and the reference, with its horizon, vanishing points and bounding box. • Trace the model on your canvas with an overlay you can show, hide and fade. PRACTISE WITH INSTANT FEEDBACK • Line Control drills: steady parallel strokes, connecting two points in one confident line, and longer sets. • Boxes drills: one-, two- and three-point boxes and cubes, dead reckoning, the Y method, and free boxes and cubes. • Get score feedback as you practise, check a box yourself when you are ready, and review every line or box in the set. • Short animated guides demonstrate line and box techniques, with exercise-specific tips while you practise. • Optional help on the box drills, including a 3D reference posed like your box, corner marks and lines that snap to the box's directions. Help costs some XP. • Line Control drills are free. Boxes drills come with the Boxes Pack, and two free sets a day can be used on two rotating box exercises. Repeats count toward the two-set limit; cubes require the pack. TRACK YOUR PROGRESS • A daily goal and streak, XP and levels. Harder drills earn more XP. • Mastery for every drill, and Progress for today, this week, this month and all time. • 31 badges for practice, accuracy, streaks and mastery. See your next goals or browse the full collection. • Open Progress for your level, streak and personal records. A FULL DRAWING WORKSPACE • A library of brushes organised by category, and a brush studio to make them your own. • Layers with opacity, blend modes and locks to protect finished work; freehand selection and transform; QuickShape and perspective guides. • Smoothing built into each brush for steadier lines. Edit any brush, and restore its defaults with one button. • Import images and export your drawings. Turn between portrait and landscape and your drawing stays where it was. BOXES PACK — EVERY BOXES DRILL, AND THE ONES TO COME Unlock every Boxes drill. New Boxes drills are on the way, and they are included in the Boxes Pack at no extra charge. A one-time in-app purchase, with no subscription. HEADS PACK — ONE PURCHASE, A GROWING COLLECTION Unlock the Heads 3D model collection, including Asaro, planes of the head, skulls and facial muscles. Future models added to this collection are included at no extra charge. The Heads drill is coming soon and will be included in the Heads Pack when released. It is not available in this version. The Heads Pack is a one-time in-app purchase, with no subscription. Other packs are sold separately. Existing RefCreate Heads Pack owners can restore their purchase with the same App Store account. The Loomis head remains free.
Language Diary
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Write badly. Learn fast. Language Diary turns imperfect diary entries into personal language lessons. Most language apps teach you sentences about other people's lives. Language Diary works with yours: you write a few lines about your real day in the language you are learning, and AI turns exactly those lines into corrections, explanations, and review material made only for you. **Write with what you know.** Do not know a word? Just write it in your own language. "I go to okul today" is a perfectly fine entry. Language Diary understands what you meant, detects the mixed-in words, and teaches you the right ones. **Get corrected, kindly.** Every entry comes back as a natural corrected version plus a short explanation of each meaningful mistake, written in YOUR language. Tense slips, missing articles, word order: you see what changed and why, without judgment. **Learn words from your own life.** The app extracts the vocabulary that actually matters to you: your work, your family, your hobbies, your daily routine. No random word lists. **Review with smart flashcards.** Corrections and new words become spaced-repetition review cards built from your own writing. A few minutes of review a day locks in what you learned. **See your patterns.** Language Diary tracks the mistakes you repeat across entries and shows your progress over time, so you always know what to work on next. **20 languages.** Learn English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, Hindi, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Thai, or Indonesian, with explanations in any of them. **Private by design.** Your diary lives on your device. Entries are sent securely to our server only for the moment of analysis and are never stored there. No account, no ads, no tracking. **Free to start.** Write and analyze 3 entries every week for free, with full corrections, explanations, review cards, and progress tracking. Premium unlocks up to 10 entries every day and full diary export, with a 7-day free trial on the yearly plan. Start writing about your life today. Your mistakes become your lessons. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://ofolabs.net/languagediary/privacypolicy App Terms: https://ofolabs.net/languagediary/terms
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Verdict
RefCreate and Language Diary are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. RefCreate sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Language Diary sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
RefCreate ships an update every 3 weeks, Language Diary every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RefCreate | Language Diary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 261 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lambda Code SL | Faruk Orman |
In-app purchases
RefCreate
- Head Construction Pack$5.99
Language Diary
- Monthly Premium$6.991 Month
- Yearly Premium7 Days trial$39.991 Year









