Language Board vs NeoWords
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Language Board
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Language Board - Learn Words Tap, listen, learn! Language Board is a beautifully illustrated word-learning game designed for toddlers and young children. Each tap speaks the word aloud, helping kids build vocabulary naturally through play. 210 Words Across 21 Categories Animals, food, vehicles, nature, colors, shapes, numbers, emotions, and many more. Every word is brought to life with charming vintage-style illustrations that kids love to explore. Made for Little Hands Large, colorful illustrations with generous spacing make it easy for toddlers to tap and discover. No timers, no scores, no pressure - just the joy of learning new words. What You Get - 21 themed categories - 210 illustrated words with audio pronunciation - Category grid for quick navigation - One-time purchase to unlock all content - Free updates with new words and categories No Subscriptions. No Ads. Unlock everything with a single purchase. No recurring charges, no interruptions, no data collection. Just a safe, simple learning experience for your child.
NeoWords
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Every word is a painting, and every noun has a colour. NeoWords teaches vocabulary six words at a time โ German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch or English. Each word arrives as a watercolour illustration with its article, its plural and its voice โ because learning "Katze" and learning "die Katze" are not the same thing, and only one of them is any use in a sentence. GENDER AS COLOUR Gender is not guessable and not optional, so here it is never small grey print beside the word. It is the colour the word wears โ der is blue, die is terracotta, das is green โ on every card, in every exercise, from the first minute. At some point you stop recalling the article and start seeing it. Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese work the same way with el and la, un and une, il, lo and la, o and a; Dutch with de and het. English has no gender, so the English course honestly drops articles everywhere instead of drilling an empty question. SIX WORDS, SIX WAYS You meet six words at a time, then you are asked for them six ways: Meet the words, Flashcards, Pairs, Anagram, Write it, Mix. Recognising a word is the easy half of knowing it โ four of the six steps make you produce the word yourself: pick it out, build it from loose letters, type it into its own example sentence, then do it again cold. A PAINTING FOR EVERY WORD 42 topic packs and 1,645 words in every course โ the same curriculum, painted once and rebuilt seven times. Every illustration is a watercolour made for its word โ painted, not stock. Every word is read by one voice, checked clip by clip, and comes with its plural and an example sentence. SCENES A painted room for every pack whose words stand somewhere. Hear a word and find its thing, name its article โ and in German, ask for it: der becomes den, the colour stays. LOOK AROUND Point the camera at your kitchen and the course's words appear on the things themselves โ the article in colour, the course's own voice. Words you already know are marked as met in real life. It all runs on your device, and no picture is kept. WORDS COME BACK What you learn returns after 1, 3, 7, 14 and 30 days until it settles: recall first, then reveal, then grade yourself honestly. The listening lap turns the clip into the question โ you hear the word cold and answer before you see it. And the placement check starts you where you actually are, not at page one. A DAY THAT CLOSES GENTLY A small daily ring fills as you learn. Closing it keeps your streak; every seventh closed day banks a mend, and a mend repairs a missed evening overnight, silently. At most one reminder a day โ and none once the ring is closed. THIRTY SECONDS OF ARTICLES The Blitz, in every course that has articles: thirty seconds, articles only, as many nouns as you can clear. An optional weekly league runs through Game Center, with one board per language โ a German score and a Spanish score are different games. IN THE LANGUAGE YOU THINK IN Meanings, example sentences and the whole interface in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Russian, German, Italian, Polish, Dutch or Ukrainian. The only foreign thing here is the words. FAIR UNLOCK Six packs are free in every course, with the whole learning loop inside. One purchase opens all seven courses and the content updates that follow: monthly or yearly access, or a one-time lifetime purchase with Family Sharing. The yearly plan may include a 7-day introductory trial when your Apple ID is eligible; prices and availability are always shown by the App Store before you buy. NOTHING WATCHES YOU LEARN No account, no ads, no third-party analytics. Progress lives on your device and in your private iCloud storage, and the optional card report carries no account or device identifier. Made for people who keep forgetting the article. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy: https://neowords.app/privacy ยท Terms: https://neowords.app/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Language Board at 13.0 against NeoWords's 18.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Language Board sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and NeoWords sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Language Board | NeoWords |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | โ | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 โ better | 18.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 121 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Baan Software | Dmytro Arekhta |
In-app purchases
Language Board
- Full Access$2.99
NeoWords
- Monthly$6.991 Month
- Yearly7 Days trial$27.991 Year
- Full access$39.99









