Comparison

Silq vs SigmaQuest

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

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About

Silq

This app offers a gamified approach to learning languages from Central Asia, South Asia, and the Middle East. It focuses on heritage languages and cultural context, making learning fun and engaging through points, levels, and streaks. It's designed for diaspora communities and anyone interested in these specific language families.

Highlights
  • Gamified learning with points and levels
  • Focus on heritage languages
  • Cultural context and authentic vocabulary
  • Covers Persian (Dari), Pashto, Tajik, Uzbek, and more
  • Progress tracking with streaks
  • Regional language variations acknowledged
Features
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Learn Dari, Pashto, Urdu and Punjabi — plus 20+ more heritage languages the big apps skip. You pick the dialect, and the lessons follow. YOU PICK THE DIALECT Most language apps do not know the difference between Afghan Dari and Iranian Farsi, or Afghan Pashto and Pakistani Pakhto. Silq does. Choose the variant before you start and every lesson, phrase and script sample follows it. Those differences are a huge part of our heritage. LEARN LIKE YOU PLAY Silq turns language learning into a game. Earn points, unlock levels and build streaks as you work through vocabulary, phrases and real conversations. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN Everyday conversational phrases Family and cultural vocabulary Numbers, greetings and essentials Native script alongside transliteration, so you can read it and say it Reading and pronunciation fundamentals LANGUAGES AVAILABLE Persian / Farsi (including Afghan Dari) Pashto (Afghan and Pakistani Pakhto) Urdu Punjabi (Pakistani and Indian) Tajik Uzbek Arabic (Egyptian, Syrian, Palestinian, Sudanese, and more dialects soon) Gujarati Tamil Telugu Malayalam Sindhi Kurdish (Kurmanji and Sorani) Marathi Kazakh Sinhala Nepali Kyrgyz Turkish and more coming WHY SILQ Many mainstream apps do not cover Pashto, Dari, Sindhi or Sinhala at all. Silq was built to fill that gap — giving diaspora speakers a way to learn the language their grandparents spoke, their parents tried to teach them, and they always meant to get around to. PERFECT FOR Diaspora communities reconnecting with their roots Parents teaching their kids the mother tongue Adults who understand the language but cannot speak it Heritage learners honouring their family history Anyone curious about Central and South Asian languages FREE TO START Silq is free to download and free to begin. A Silq Premium subscription (auto-renewing) unlocks full course access, additional languages and all premium lessons. Subscription price and billing terms are shown in the app before you purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple ID, and your subscription auto-renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Start your streak today. Your heritage is waiting. Questions, feedback, or want to help us add a language? We are built by the community, for the community. Reach us at info@speaksilq.com or visit https://speaksilq.com LEGAL Privacy Policy: https://speaksilq.com/privacy-policy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

SigmaQuest

Features
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SigmaQuest turns a full statistics course into something you can actually finish. It starts at "what is a variable" and ends at chi-square, regression, and the ways a real study goes wrong. Everything works offline. No account, no sign-up, nothing to log into. THE COURSE • 16 units, 112 lessons, 671 questions — the whole AP Statistics syllabus, plus a closing unit on p-hacking, Simpson's paradox and charts that lie • Seven kinds of question, not four: multiple choice, true/false, fill in the blank, matching, a numeric keypad for the ones you have to actually compute, and two kinds of chart question • Charts are drawn live inside the question — histograms, boxplots, dotplots, scatterplots and normal curves, not pictures of them • Every question you miss comes back on a spaced-repetition schedule that widens as you get it right, and only leaves once it has survived weeks THIRTEEN COURSES, ONE CURRICULUM Pick AP Statistics, a college intro track, a cram list for a STAT 101 final, or a single topic — probability, distributions, regression, inference, data literacy. Progress carries across all of them, because they are all views onto the same lessons. A 12-question placement check can skip you past what you already know. PRACTICE EXAMS Timed, and stratified by unit so no single topic can take over the paper. Choose a 15-question warm-up, a 25-question half exam, or the full 40 questions in 90 minutes. The AP paper comes back with a projected 1–5. THE LAB Six games that drill the parts people lose marks on: Stat Blitz, Sudden Death, Match Madness, Center Stage, Spread Duel and Word Scramble. None of them costs you a degree of freedom. THE FIELD STATION A farm where nothing grows on a timer. A correct answer — anywhere in the app — is the only thing that waters a crop. Every crop's yield is a named distribution printed on the seed packet, and the Almanac plots your harvests against the truth, so you can watch a sample mean converge on μ instead of being told that it does. Fisher worked out randomised blocks counting yields in plots; here the farm is the apparatus, not a mini-game bolted on. THE REFERENCE SHELF A formula sheet, a glossary, a t table, and a normal table you can slide: pick any z and watch the area under the curve move, computed exactly rather than read off a rounded page. Looking something up never costs you anything. THE CREW Ten characters, each with a perk that changes how a session actually plays and a voice that comments on it, plus eight themes. Unlock them by studying, or skip ahead with an optional purchase. Lessons run on df — five degrees of freedom that refill over time. Games, reviews and the reference shelf never spend any. WHAT IT DOESN'T DO No servers, no account, no sign-up. Every lesson, exam, game and reference table works with the network switched off. Progress syncs between your own devices through your own iCloud account, and never passes through ours. SigmaQuest is free and carries ads. It asks before anything is personalized, and declining changes nothing about how it plays. No ad ever interrupts a question, and no ad is ever required to keep studying. AP® and Advanced Placement® are registered trademarks of the College Board. SigmaQuest is an independent study aid and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the College Board.

Screenshots

Silq4 screens
SigmaQuest4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Silq at none against SigmaQuest's shown. Silq also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, in-app purchases 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. Silq sells 16 in-app purchases, starting at $2.29 per month and SigmaQuest sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Silq versus SigmaQuest: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSilqSigmaQuest
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.6 (80 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews30.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings80 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 days—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRahim SiddiqNICOLAS JORGE PETRIDES

In-app purchases

16 purchases

Silq

Subscriptions13
  • One Language - Monthly3 Days trial$2.291 Month
  • Extra Language – Monthly3 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Add Monthly3 Days trial$4.991 Month
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  • Basic Monthly3 Days trial$12.991 Month
  • Premium Monthly3 Days trial$19.991 Month
  • Basic International – Yearly3 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • One Language - Yearly3 Days trial$37.991 Year
  • Extra Language – Yearly3 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Premium Upgrade – Yearly3 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Add Yearly3 Days trial$50.001 Year
  • All Languages - Yearly3 Days trial$56.991 Year
  • Basic Yearly3 Days trial$99.001 Year
  • Premium Yearly3 Days trial$149.001 Year
One-time3
  • Premium International Lifetime$89.99
  • One Time Purchase - Basic$189.99
  • One Time Purchase - Premium$289.99
10 purchases

SigmaQuest

One-time10
  • Gauss$1.99
  • Professor Sigma$1.99
  • Nutty$1.99
Show 7 more
  • Bayes$1.99
  • Asymp$1.99
  • Vegas$1.99
  • Outlier$1.99
  • Alpha$1.99
  • The Central Limit$1.99
  • Unlock All Buddies$9.99

Questions

Is Silq free?
Silq is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SigmaQuest free?
SigmaQuest is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Silq or SigmaQuest have ads?
SigmaQuest shows ads; Silq does not.

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