Comparison

MapleMind vs French

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

Head to head
About

MapleMind

Features
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MapleMind is a tutor for students in Grades 1 to 12, built on each Canadian province's curriculum. It teaches your courses lesson by lesson, helps with homework without doing it for you, and gives you quizzes and practice exams. AT A GLANCE • Grades 1 to 12, in every province and territory. • Math, science, English, French, social studies, French as a second language and English as an additional language: 765 courses. • Free to use every day, with daily limits. MapleMind Pro removes them. • iPhone, iPad, Android and the web (app.trymaplemind.ca), all on one account. • The app and the tutor work in English, French and 12 other languages. Course and lesson names stay in each course's language. HOMEWORK HELP Take a photo of the worksheet, upload a PDF, or type the question. The tutor works through a similar example, then asks you to try yours the same way. Ask for practice and it writes questions like yours, marks your answer, and shows how to get it. Guided mode is on unless it's turned off. The tutor explains and asks you questions, but it won't hand over the answer to your own homework. YOUR COURSES Choose your province and grade to see your actual courses, such as Alberta's Mathematics 20-1 or Ontario's Civics and Citizenship, Grade 10. Each follows the province's official outline. A lesson is a short conversation with the tutor: an explanation, worked examples, quick questions, and a skill check at the end. QUIZZES AND EXAMS Every lesson, unit and course has a quiz, in the formats your course uses, from multiple choice to labelling a picture and written answers. Before a question reaches you, a second AI model answers it on its own, without the answer key. If the answers don't match, the question is thrown out. There are practice versions of 113 provincial exams, including Alberta's diploma exams, Ontario's EQAO and OSSLT, BC's graduation assessments and Quebec's ministry exams. Each follows the real exam's sections, topic weights and time limits. Afterwards you see your mark by section, the skills that cost you marks, and how ready you are. STUDY AND PROGRESS In Study, review any course with a round of one question type, a flashcard deck, or an open conversation with the tutor. The Learn tab suggests your next lesson and the skills due for review, and before an exam it points to your weakest skill. A calendar and streaks show how regularly you study. FOR PARENTS • Set up an account for a child with no email address, or link to your teenager's own account when they invite you from it. • The Parent Dashboard shows the last week, month or term: days studied, skills learned, quiz and exam results, skills that need work, and exam readiness. A weekly email with the numbers is optional. • Set quiet hours and a daily goal, decide whether guided mode can be turned off, and ask your child to practise a skill. • One family plan covers up to 10 students, at the same price for each. PRIVACY AND SAFETY • A child under 13 (14 in Quebec) needs a parent's verified consent, and the parent holds the account. • No ads. We don't sell personal information, and conversations aren't used to train AI models. • Answers are written by AI (OpenAI's models) and can be wrong. Any answer can be reported from the app. WHAT IT COSTS Free: 4 activities a day (a lesson, quiz, exam, study round or flashcard deck) and 30 messages to the tutor. MapleMind Pro: no limits, for CA$9.99 a month or CA$49.99 a year. New subscribers can start with a 7-day free trial. MapleMind Pro renews automatically unless you cancel it at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://api.trymaplemind.ca/legal/terms Privacy Policy: https://api.trymaplemind.ca/legal/privacy Questions: support@trymaplemind.ca Made in Edmonton, Alberta, by MapleMind Technologies Inc. Not affiliated with any ministry of education. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

French

Build real French skills with a calm, honest approach. Focus on vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and reading with clear explanations and practice drills. Track your actual progress without pressure or gamified elements.

Highlights
  • Spaced repetition vocabulary review
  • Grammar lessons and drills
  • Practice by specific focus areas
  • Pronunciation audio
  • Reading and listening stories
  • Unlimited verb conjugator
  • Honest progress tracking
Features
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Practice French is a calm, honest way to build real French — without the streaks, lives, and guilt of gamified apps. Pick what you want to practice, see your actual progress, and stop whenever you like. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Vocabulary with spaced repetition (SM-2) — review the right words at the right time, so they actually stick. • Grammar lessons and short drills — clear explanations followed by fill-in-the-blank and multiple-choice practice. • Practice by focus — drill exactly the area you want: articles, conjugation, prepositions, pronouns, agreement, negation, or common mistakes. • Pronunciation — tap to hear French read aloud in the exercises and on vocabulary cards. • Reading & listening lessons — short illustrated French stories, every one narrated with high-quality audio, with a guided dictation mode and comprehension questions. • Conjugator — complete conjugation tables for more than 12,000 French verbs, with a type-every-form practice mode. Free and unlimited. • Listen — episodes about France and the French language, split into short chapters with a transcript, a translation and dictation. Audio keeps playing in the background. The first episode of every show is free. • Today — a short daily set on Home: a few words, one grammar area and one story. Do as much as you like. • Recent mistakes — what tripped you up lately, gathered in one place and ready to practise again, with a "Why?" after every wrong grammar answer. • Daily games — Word Puzzle (a French word a day) and Word groups (sixteen French nouns, four hidden groups). Free, with an archive of past days. • Optional daily reminder — one quiet nudge at a time you choose. Pause it or turn it off anytime. • Light and dark mode — follows your device, or pick one in the app. • Honest progress — see what you've learned and where to focus, with no fake streaks or pressure. BUILT TO BE CALM No ads. No daily streak shaming. No dark patterns. Just a few quiet minutes of practice whenever it suits you. FOR EVERY LEVEL Content spans A1 to C1 — from your first words to advanced, nuanced sentences. WORKS IN YOUR LANGUAGE The app and translations are available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, and Arabic. FREE TO USE Free daily limits apply on iOS, Android and the web: 50 practice answers and 3 story starts per day. Premium removes both limits. Purchase Premium only in the mobile app through the Apple App Store or Google Play. Sign in to the same account to use Premium on the web and across your devices. There is no checkout on the website. PREMIUM • Monthly or annual subscription. • Removes the daily free-practice limit. • Opens every podcast episode and adds the listening tools: slow mode, sentence loop and tap-to-jump. • Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled in your App Store account settings. Start today — your first session takes just a few quiet minutes. Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://practice-french.com/privacy

Screenshots

MapleMind4 screens
French4 screens

Verdict

The call

MapleMind and French 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. MapleMind sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and French sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MapleMind ships an update fortnightly, French every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
MapleMind versus French: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMapleMindFrench
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.5 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size122 MB71 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMapleMind Technologies IncToba UG (Haftungsbeschränkt)

In-app purchases

3 purchases

MapleMind

Subscriptions3
  • Push to Talk - Premium Feature$3.991 Month
  • MapleMind Pro Monthly7 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • MapleMind Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$39.991 Year
2 purchases

French

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Yearly Premium$22.991 Year

Questions

Is MapleMind free?
MapleMind is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is French free?
French is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do MapleMind or French have ads?
Neither MapleMind nor French shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MapleMind or French?
MapleMind ships an update fortnightly, and French every 9 days. Most recently, MapleMind was updated on October 28, 2026 and French on October 31, 2026.

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