Comparison

Sapling vs Loufoque

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

Head to head
About

Sapling

Features
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Sapling is focused GCSE Spanish vocabulary revision that knows where you are heading. Choose your Foundation or Higher paper, set your exam date, and get a focused daily plan that fits the time you have. Sapling schedules vocabulary practice around what you need to remember — so your revision stays purposeful from first words to final review. STUDY THE AQA CORE Work through AQA GCSE Spanish vocabulary organised by tier and topic. See what is secure, what is still growing, and where to focus next. PRACTISE IN MORE THAN ONE WAY Learn, test yourself, type answers, listen, dictate, and practise recall. Different exercises help turn recognition into usable vocabulary. PLAN TO YOUR EXAM Choose your paper date and daily time budget. Sapling adjusts your workload as you study, protecting time for revision near the exam. SEE PROGRESS THAT MEANS SOMETHING Follow your coverage, recent activity, topic progress, streak, and words that need another look. BUILT FOR A REAL GCSE YEAR No Sapling account is required. Your learning progress is stored privately on your iPhone. Sapling offers optional auto-renewing subscriptions: • GCSE Year Pass: £19.99 per year. • Finish-line access: £6.99 per month. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel subscriptions in your App Store account settings. Sapling is an independent revision tool. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by AQA. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Loufoque

This app uses AI-generated absurd images and spaced repetition to make language learning stick. Engage in fun multiplayer challenges and learn grammar implicitly through sentence building. Collectible cards add a game-like reward system.

Highlights
  • AI-generated mnemonic images
  • Community image bank
  • Spaced repetition learning
  • Grammar through sentence building
  • Multiplayer language duels
  • Collectible learning cards
  • Offline language learning
Features
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You don't forget words because you're bad at languages. You forget them because a plain translation is forgettable. Loufoque makes words impossible to forget. Here's why it works when nothing else did: your brain can't hold onto a plain translation, but it can't forget a ridiculous picture either. So in Loufoque, every word becomes a vivid, absurd, AI-generated image. You create the association yourself, which is exactly why it sticks, or you open the community bank and adopt the best image another learner made for that word. Either way, the word is yours. It's stupid. That's the point. Then the words lock in on their own. Spaced repetition, the memory science the serious nerds swear by, brings each card back right before you'd forget it. No cramming. No streak guilt. No owl. Because the goal was never a streak. It's to actually use the language, to understand and be understood. Loufoque gets you there, and it never feels like studying. And it stays fun, because you don't do it alone. Challenge your friends and duel them on real words to see who actually remembers. WHY LOUFOQUE IS DIFFERENT - Vivid AI images for every word, created by you or adopted from the community, impossible to copy on a normal flashcard app - A community bank of mnemonic cards, so you can learn from the sharpest memory hooks other people made - Spaced repetition (SM-2) that locks words into long-term memory, not cramming - Real pronunciation audio, human voices plus high-quality AI - Multiplayer that's actually fun: challenge friends and duel them head-to-head GRAMMAR YOU LEARN WITHOUT NOTICING Our signature game is grammar in disguise. You build a gloriously absurd sentence one card at a time, and to make it hold together you have to nail the real grammar: conjugation, gender agreement, plurals, cases. You're laughing at "the warm morning wakes the tall story," and the rule sticks anyway. Play solo against our AI or team up with a friend. COLLECT AS YOU LEARN Finish a sub-level, complete a story, master a set, and you unlock collectible cards by rarity. The dopamine of a mobile game, pointed at your memory instead of wasting your time. 4 LANGUAGES, REAL PAIRS Russian, French, English, Spanish. Learn from a language you already know. New to the Russian alphabet? A guided track teaches you to read Cyrillic before you start on words. Works offline once your cards are loaded, so you can review on the subway, on a plane, anywhere. FREE TO START 15 mnemonic images and 100 cards, free, with no trial countdown. Enough to feel it work before you decide. Go Premium for unlimited images and the full library. Stop studying. Start playing. Finally remember.

Screenshots

Sapling4 screens
Loufoque4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Loufoque at 3 against Sapling's 1. Loufoque also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Sapling sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Loufoque sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $11.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sapling ships an update every 3 weeks, Loufoque fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Sapling versus Loufoque: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSaplingLoufoque
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNICHOLAS EDWARD CROSSJordan Janisson

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Sapling

Subscriptions2
  • Sapling Grow Monthly3 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Sapling Grow Annual3 Days trial$29.991 Year
5 purchases

Loufoque

Subscriptions2
  • Loufoque Premium - Monthly$11.991 Month
  • Loufoque Premium - Yearly$99.991 Year
One-time3
  • 50 card generations$5.99
  • 150 card generations$14.99
  • 500 card generations$34.99

Questions

Is Sapling free?
Sapling is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Loufoque free?
Loufoque is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Sapling or Loufoque have ads?
Neither Sapling nor Loufoque shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sapling or Loufoque?
Sapling ships an update every 3 weeks, and Loufoque fortnightly. Most recently, Sapling was updated on October 28, 2026 and Loufoque on October 5, 2026.

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