Comparison

Sidetracked Day vs Norae

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

Head to head
About

Sidetracked Day

Features
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Sidetracked Day learns how you learn. Every answer changes what happens next. Sidetracked Day builds a learning system around your individual performance, what you understand, where you hesitate, which explanations work, and what you’re beginning to forget. Upload your lecture slides, notes, or PDFs. The app maps your material and turns it into active study sessions. As you work, it continuously adjusts the questions, difficulty, explanations, pacing, and review timing around you. If you struggle with a concept, Sidetracked Day approaches it differently. If you’re making progress, it increases the challenge. If you’ve mastered something, it gets out of your way. If you’re beginning to forget, it brings the concept back. What changes around you • The questions you receive • The difficulty of your session • How concepts are explained • Which topics receive more attention • When previous material returns • What you should study next No two students receive exactly the same learning path, because no two students learn exactly the same way. Built for university students who want to spend less time managing study systems and more time actually learning. Give it your material. Let it learn how you learn. Whether you're preparing for exams, catching up on lectures, or trying to build better study habits, Sidetracked Day helps you study more effectively and stay focused. - Privacy Policy: https://sidetrackedday.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Norae

Learn Korean through real-life short videos with interactive captions. Tap any word to understand its meaning in context, save it for review, and revisit it within the original video clip. This app uses authentic content to make language learning engaging and effective.

Highlights
  • Real Korean short video feed
  • Interactive word-by-word captions
  • Contextual word definitions
  • Save words for spaced repetition
  • Review words with original video clips
  • Adjustable playback speed
  • Content curated by learning level
Features
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Norae is a feed of real Korean short videos: the vlogs, street interviews, food runs and drama recaps people actually watch, with captions that light up word by word as they're spoken. Tap any word you don't know. You get what it means in that sentence, not a dictionary dump. Save it, and it comes back later, attached to the clip you first heard it in. HOW IT WORKS • Korean and English captions running together, with each word lit the moment it is said • Tap a word for what it means in that line, its dictionary form, and how it is actually used • Words you keep come back as review cards that replay the clip you found them in • Roots: the words you save, grouped by the Chinese character they share, so 학교 brings 학생 and 과학 with it • 0.75x and 0.5x on any clip, for the lines that get away from you • A feed built from the level you pick, from your first day of Hangul onward MADE FOR PEOPLE WHO ALREADY WATCH If you're already spending an hour a day scrolling, Norae puts that hour to work. Ten minutes gets you a handful of words that stick, because you met them somewhere real. No streak guilt. No sentences about a bear drinking milk. Videos play in the official YouTube player and belong to the creators who made them. Every clip links back to its channel. SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED Norae is available through an annual subscription with a free trial, and a monthly subscription without a trial. Apple charges nothing until the trial ends. After that the plan renews at the same price until you cancel it, which you can do any time in your Apple ID settings. Cancel at least 24 hours before a period ends and Apple will not bill you for the next one. Prices are shown in app and vary by region. Privacy policy: https://noraeapp.com/norae/privacy.html Terms of use: https://noraeapp.com/norae/terms.html Contact the founder: trent@noraeapp.com

Screenshots

Sidetracked Day4 screens
Norae4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Norae at none against Sidetracked Day's shown. Norae also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs fortnightly). Sidetracked Day's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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. Sidetracked Day sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month and Norae sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sidetracked Day ships an update fortnightly, Norae every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Sidetracked Day versus Norae: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSidetracked DayNorae
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.6 (32 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—45.5% of reviews
Number of ratings—32 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 2 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Subscription
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size84 MB109 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperSidetracked DayTC Fusion LLC

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Sidetracked Day

Subscriptions2
  • Sidetracked Day Pro (Monthly)7 Days trial$12.991 Month
  • Sidetracked Day Pro (Yearly)7 Days trial$69.991 Year
8 purchases

Norae

Subscriptions7
  • Norae Weekly$7.997 Days
  • Norae Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Norae Monthly$12.991 Month
Show 4 more
  • Norae Yearly, half price7 Days trial$24.991 Year
  • Norae Yearly, half price7 Days trial$34.991 Year
  • Norae Yearly7 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Norae Yearly7 Days trial$69.991 Year
One-time1
  • Norae Lifetime$79.99

Questions

Is Sidetracked Day free?
Sidetracked Day is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Norae free?
Norae is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Sidetracked Day or Norae have ads?
Sidetracked Day shows ads; Norae does not.
Which is updated more often, Sidetracked Day or Norae?
Sidetracked Day ships an update fortnightly, and Norae every 2 days. Most recently, Sidetracked Day was updated on November 5, 2026 and Norae on November 6, 2026.

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