RuHero vs Piglet
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
RuHero
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RuHero - Your Path to Linguistic Mastery Four tabs, zero fluff. No account, no subscription, fully offline. Just open and go. LEARN - The Foundation Cyrillic Alphabet - All 33 letters with audio. Tap any cursive card to trace it with your finger, just like school propisi. 650+ Vocabulary Words - 30+ themed groups (Family, Food, Travel, Animals, Emotions, Street Russian, Idioms and more). Every word shows stress marks and an example sentence. 53 Grammar Rules - From Gender Detective and Plurals to the full 6-case system, Verb Aspect, Comparatives, and advanced topics: Verb Prefixes, Motion Verbs, Conditional, Participles, and Verbal Adverbs. Numerals & Time - The "1-2-5" counting rule, gendered numbers, ordinals, time-telling, days, and months. Graded Readings - A1 through C1 passages with translation and stress marks. IMMERSE - Real-World Practice 46 Dialogues - Airport, restaurant, doctor, job interview, shopping and more. Two distinct voices alternate naturally, with line-by-line translations. Native audio when available, high-quality TTS fallback. 19 Stories - A1 to C1, from everyday topics to Russian classics (Pushkin, Cheburashka). Tap any word to hear it and see its translation. Speaking Lab - 37 phrases. Record your voice and get a pronunciation score via speech recognition. PRACTICE - The Challenge No tests, no grades - just games that make Russian stick. Today's Lesson - One tap: SRS reviews, new words, grammar bite, listening check, done. Daily streak included. Quiz - Reading, Listening, and Reverse modes. Spaced repetition picks what you're about to forget. Writing Lab - Type the translation. Forgiving checking handles typos, stress marks, and yo/ye variants. Gender Lab - 30 sentences: pick the correct gendered form in context. Dictation - Hear a sentence, type Cyrillic, get word-by-word green/red feedback. Replay unlimited. Number Trainer - Russian numbers 0-999,999 with all the tricky rules (feminine forms, plural shifts, and the 11-14 exception). Mistake Notebook - Wrong answers auto-collected from Quiz, Writing, and Gender. Flashcard review; graduates after 2 correct in a row. Terminal - A tech-themed "data recovery" game: solve linguistic puzzles to unlock Russian data. TOOLS - The Linguistic Suite Phrasebook - 80 phrases in 8 categories (Greetings, Emergencies, Restaurant, Directions, Shopping, Hotel, Small Talk, Polite Power Phrases). Searchable in English and Russian. Tap to hear. Scratchpad - Paste any Russian text. Tap "Read" and every word becomes tappable: hear it, see its stress mark, get an instant translation from the 700-word glossary. Dictionary - Search 650+ words in English or Russian with stress marks and examples. Verb Conjugator - Handles both conjugation types, 270+ irregulars, reflexive verbs, husher rules, and compound future. Type any infinitive and see every form. Declension Calculator - All 6 cases, singular and plural. Soft stems, 7-letter rule, indeclinable loanwords, irregular plurals. Root Explorer - 24 root families visualized. See how one root branches into an entire word family. The fastest way to multiply your vocabulary. UNDER THE HOOD Natural Voice with real intonation - pauses at commas, rises on questions, picks the best installed Russian voice. SM-2 Spaced Repetition behind every quiz and lesson. No deck management needed. Stress marks on 250+ words across vocabulary, phrasebook, scratchpad, and stories. 100% offline. No internet, no account, no ads, no subscription. From Privet to Dostoevsky - let's begin!
Piglet
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Piglet teaches you to read and write Hangul, the Korean alphabet, starting from zero. It's genuinely learnable in about a week, and once it clicks, Korean stops looking like symbols and starts looking like words. Most apps stop at flashcards. Piglet makes you write. WRITE EVERY LETTER Trace each character stroke by stroke and get scored on what you drew. Piglet checks the shape, the stroke order, and the direction of every line so a letter drawn backwards gets caught instead of quietly passing. Three sensitivity levels, from forgiving to strict. THE WHOLE ALPHABET, IN ORDER Twelve lessons across three levels: โข All 40 letters โ basic, aspirated and tense consonants, and every vowel โข Syllable blocks โ how letters stack into the shapes you actually read โข Batchim โ why ใฑ sounds like "g" at the start of a syllable but "k" at the end HEAR IT SPOKEN Every letter and syllable is voiced. Consonants are taught the way Korean children learn them โ as ๊ฐ, ๋, ๋ค โ because a bare consonant has no sound on its own. REVIEW THAT ADAPTS Spaced repetition brings each character back right before you'd forget it. Letters you find hard come round more often. Letters you know get out of your way. Optional reminders tell you when reviews are due. TRACK THE CLIMB Day streak, characters mastered, overall accuracy, and a grid of all 40 letters showing exactly where you stand. BUILT TO RESPECT YOU โข Works completely offline โข No account, no sign-up โข No tracking, no analytics, no data collection of any kind Made for iPhone and iPad.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Piglet at Free against RuHero's $0.49. On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
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Piglet is free to download; RuHero costs $0.49 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | RuHero | Piglet |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.49 | Free โ better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | โ |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | โ |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 16.4 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nurgul Cakoglu | Kevin Minutti |
In-app purchases
RuHero
No in-app purchases
Piglet
No in-app purchases









