Sacred Scripts vs Ordinary Ancient Greek
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
Sacred Scripts
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One sacred character a day. Sacred Scripts offers a single character from the world's writing traditions. Sanskrit. Hebrew. Arabic. Tibetan. Egyptian hieroglyphs. Elder Futhark runes. A different tradition each day. The character arrives quietly, in its own ink, on a warm ground. You sit with it. You hear its sound. You learn what it has meant to the people who have written it for thousands of years. Then you carry it with you into your day. This is not a language app. There is no streak. No score. No homework. There is one character, and the invitation to pause long enough to meet it. Built by Drew at SillyDroose. A small quiet thing, made with care. Free forever. A gentle Gratitude Jar is available if the app has meant something to you, and a portion of every gift goes to the Endangered Alphabets Project, a nonprofit that carves scripts the world is about to forget into wood so the letters stay in the world a little longer.
Ordinary Ancient Greek
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An Ancient Greek dictionary for reading and studying offline. Features: - Search and read with no internet connection - Search any way you like: in Greek (with or without diacritics), by Latin or Russian transliteration (Erasmian-like), or by a word from the translation - Understands basic inflected forms - Declension and conjugation tables right on the word card - Reader: paste any text and tap any word to look it up - Basic text recognition (OCR) β offline - Built-in dictionaries: LSJ and Middle Liddell (English), Dvoretsky (Russian) - Example sentences with a parallel English or Russian translation - Import custom dictionaries in an open format β you can even ask an AI to generate one for you - Search history with CSV export β feed it to your favorite AI assistant to build flashcards - Quick links to Logeion and Wiktionary - Appearance settings: color themes, fonts, text sizes The dictionary is built from open-data projects and is completely free.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ordinary Ancient Greek at none against Sacred Scripts's 4. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Sacred Scripts sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Ordinary Ancient Greek asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Sacred Scripts | Ordinary Ancient Greek |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No β better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad β better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 320 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Drew Douglass | Anton Saraev |
In-app purchases
Sacred Scripts
- A Single Mark$1.99
- A Page of Practice$4.99
- A Scribe's Quire$9.99
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- A Scriptorium Day$19.99
Ordinary Ancient Greek
No in-app purchases



