Comparison

Morse Code Complete vs Longpath CW

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Morse Code Complete

Master Morse code with a comprehensive course covering both sending and receiving. Progress from basic characters to real-world communication, with structured lessons, practice modes, and support for external hardware. Offers a focused learning experience without ads.

Highlights
  • Structured Morse code course
  • Learn both copying and sending
  • Practice with real key or paddle modes
  • Guided lessons, reviews, and challenges
  • Progress to words, callsigns, and Q-codes
  • Adjustable speed and spacing controls
  • Customizable practice sessions
Features
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Learn, practice, copy, send, and translate Morse code in one structured trainer. Morse Code Complete combines 200+ lessons, reviews, and challenges with receive and send training, an instant text ⇄ Morse translator, Custom Practice with Head Copy, a realistic QSO generator, key and paddle support, adjustable speed, Farnsworth spacing, and multiple outputs. Start with letters and numbers, then progress to words, phrases, sentences, callsigns, prosigns, Q-codes, abbreviations, and CW QSO basics. 6 Sections • 20 Subsections • 200+ Lessons, Reviews, and Challenges Free to download and try. No ads. A COMPLETE MORSE CODE COURSE • Follow a structured path from beginner basics to practical Morse skills • Learn both copying and sending through lessons, reviews, and challenges • Progress beyond characters into words, callsigns, abbreviations, Q-codes, prosigns, and real exchanges • Practice up to 60 WPM with Farnsworth spacing TEXT ⇄ MORSE TRANSLATOR • Translate text to Morse and Morse to text instantly • Paste text, copy results, and play translations • Adjust speed, spacing, and tone • Combine audio, vibration, screen flash, and flashlight COPY MORSE CODE • Learn to recognize Morse by sound and rhythm • Practice with lessons, reviews, challenges, and custom sessions • Progress from characters to words, callsigns, prosigns, Q-codes, abbreviations, and QSOs • Adjust speed and spacing as your skills improve SEND MORSE CODE • Practice timing and accuracy with immediate feedback • Use a straight key, single-lever paddle, or dual-lever iambic paddle • Choose Iambic A or Iambic B • Use touch controls or supported external hardware, including VBand • Adjust sending accuracy to your skill level CUSTOM PRACTICE AND HEAD COPY Create Receive, Send, or Head Copy sessions with: • Characters • Words, phrases, and sentences • Prosigns • Q-codes • Abbreviations • Callsigns with country-based filtering • QSO content based on the course Head Copy builds direct sound recognition without entering an answer. Choose timed or question-based sessions and adjust delay, speech, playbacks, cue tones, reinforcement, and auto advance. QSO GENERATOR • Generate realistic two-station CW exchanges • Practice callsigns, signal reports, names, locations, equipment, antennas, and weather • Adjust speed, Farnsworth spacing, and station tones • Regenerate and listen at your own pace • Preview the opening for free; Full Access unlocks complete exchanges FLEXIBLE SESSION OUTPUTS Use audio, vibration, screen flash, and flashlight individually or together. Audio, vibration, and screen flash are free; flashlight requires Full Access. WHAT YOU’LL LEARN • Section 1: Letters, numbers, and punctuation • Section 2: Words, phrases, and sentences • Section 3: Prosigns • Section 4: Q-codes • Section 5: Abbreviations • Section 6: CW QSO basics and real-world exchange patterns WHAT’S INCLUDED Free Access • Free to download and try with no ads • Includes the complete Text ⇄ Morse Translator • Includes all Alphabet Receive lessons, selected Alphabet Send lessons, and Level 1 Words • Includes straight key and paddle modes • Includes Custom Practice and Head Copy for all included free content • Includes a free QSO Generator preview with unrestricted playback and settings • Includes audio, vibration, and screen flash outputs Foundations Access • Unlocks all Section 1 lesson-path content • Unlocks all Words in Section 2 • Unlocks Custom Practice and Head Copy for Section 1 and Words Full Access • Includes everything in Foundations Access • Unlocks the rest of the course across all sections • Unlocks all available Custom Practice and Head Copy content • Unlocks full QSO Generator exchanges • Unlocks the flashlight output • Restore purchases available in Settings Support: support@morsecodecomplete.com Privacy Policy: https://morsecodecomplete.com/#privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://morsecodecomplete.com/#terms Website: morsecodecomplete.com

About

Longpath CW

Features
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Longpath teaches you to hear Morse code, not to decode it letter by letter. And it lets you practise on the Morse key you already own. YOUR OWN MORSE KEY Every telegraphist has a favourite key. With the BLE key interface you plug it straight into Longpath: a straight key, a single paddle or an iambic paddle, connected over Bluetooth to your phone, tablet or Mac. The app produces the sidetone, decodes what you send and shows exactly where your timing drifts, so you train on the very key you will use on the air. The interface is open hardware. Build it yourself from the public ble-key project, or order a parts kit or an assembled key straight from the app. Bluetooth key support is a one-time unlock: buy it once and it stays yours. A key with the optional battery mod runs without a cable, shows its charge level in the app and reconnects on its own after it wakes from sleep. COPY TRAINING BY EAR Copy training follows the Koch method. You start with two characters at full speed and add the next one only when you are ready. Because every character is sent at full speed from the first minute, you learn its rhythm as a sound, never as a row of dots and dashes you have to count. That is the difference between reading Morse and hearing it, and it is why counting habits are so hard to unlearn later. Farnsworth spacing keeps the gaps between characters wide while each character stays fast. You get thinking time without ever practising the wrong rhythm. CHOOSE YOUR CHARACTERS Learn characters shows every character with its rhythm and a toggle. You decide exactly which ones are in play, and copy and send training draw from that one set. SENDING No key at hand? Practise on the on-screen key, straight or iambic, with the same sidetone and the same decoder. YOUR PRACTICE, IN VIEW A practice stopwatch, a daily goal and a statistics view show what you actually practised rather than what you meant to practise. LIGHT OR DARK Practising late in a dark room? Choose Light, Dark or System under Settings, and Longpath follows your device the moment it switches. LOCAL AND PRIVATE Everything runs on your device. No account, no sign-up, no network connection. Your progress belongs to you, and on Apple devices it follows you to your other devices through your own iCloud. Longpath is named after the long way round: the path a Morse signal takes around the globe, and the path you take to learn it.

Screenshots

Morse Code Complete4 screens
Longpath CW4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Longpath CW at none against Morse Code Complete's 3. Morse Code Complete's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.2). On price, update cadence and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Morse Code Complete sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Longpath CW asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Morse Code Complete ships an update every 10 days, Longpath CW every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Morse Code Complete versus Longpath CW: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMorse Code CompleteLongpath CW
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (85 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings85 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 8 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.2
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB45 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCody SparksTobias Wissmueller

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Morse Code Complete

One-time3
  • Foundations Access$4.99
  • Full Access Upgrade$4.99
  • Full Access Unlock$9.99
None

Longpath CW

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Morse Code Complete free?
Morse Code Complete is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Longpath CW free?
Longpath CW is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Morse Code Complete or Longpath CW have ads?
Longpath CW shows ads; Morse Code Complete does not.
Which is updated more often, Morse Code Complete or Longpath CW?
Morse Code Complete ships an update every 10 days, and Longpath CW every 8 days. Most recently, Morse Code Complete was updated on October 8, 2026 and Longpath CW on October 6, 2026.

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