Comparison

delve vs Delve

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

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delve

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Everything online wants your attention. delve gives you something back for it. A topic is one idea, explained properly: a video to watch, then prose that goes exactly as deep as you want to go. No listicles, no padding, no fifteen open tabs. Most take a few minutes, and they end — there is no feed here to swallow your evening. CINEMATIC TOPICS A handful of stories are made the way a film is made. Their own colours, their own typography, photographs given the whole screen. You move through one scene at a time, and every scroll lands with a resistance you can feel. READ IN THREE DEPTHS The hook tells you why it matters. The context gives you the ground. And if you're still curious, the deep dive takes you further. A rule marks each one, and it thins as you go — so you can always see how deep you are. AN AI THAT READ THE PIECE Anything still unclear, ask. It answers from the topic in front of you rather than improvising, and four good opening questions are already waiting at the end of every read. TOPIC GENERATION Nobody's library has everything. Type the thing you're actually curious about and delve writes it — same format, same depth, ready in about a minute, and yours to keep. PATHWAYS Name a goal in your own words and get the route there: three to six topics in an order where each one only assumes what the one before it taught. Tick them off and the path fills in behind you. AND THE SMALL THINGS Your library, one tap away. A proper dark palette, not an inverted light one. A home screen built from interests you choose once. FREE, AND NOT THE TRIAL KIND Every topic, every cinematic story and the whole reader are free. The only limit is a daily allowance on the AI, because generation costs real compute — and the app shows you exactly what you've used and when it resets. Students can ask for roughly double it; there's no form and no payment step — just write us. Questions, bugs, or a story you think we should make: contact@trydelve.app

About

Delve

Engage with bite-sized, interactive lessons on diverse topics, from world mechanics to life improvement. Each lesson uses AI to summarize Wikipedia articles, prompting you to guess before revealing the answer. Explore curated book ideas and daily logic puzzles.

Highlights
  • Interactive daily lessons
  • AI-generated content from Wikipedia
  • Daily logic puzzles
  • Book summaries with narrated lessons
  • Personalized learning feed
  • AI-powered review chat
Features
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Delve is short, interactive lessons about interesting things: how the world works, how to live better, stories that change how you see something, and ideas that are hard to get your head around. Each takes a few minutes, asks you to guess before it tells you, and is written with AI from the Wikipedia articles it links to. HOME A feed of lessons, ranked by what you told Delve you are curious about. Swipe away anything you do not want to see again. A LESSON WRITTEN FOR YOU, EVERY DAY With Delve Plus, a new lesson is written for you overnight from your interests and anything you ask for. Search for something Delve does not teach yet, ask for it, and it shapes your next lessons. A new one is written after you open the last one, so they never pile up. It needs AI turned on. BOOKS Ideas from 25 well-known books, and what the evidence says now. Each book has three narrated lessons in our own words, not the book itself: each teaches one idea the author argues, then says what research has found since, criticism included. Listen along or read at your own pace. PUZZLES Seven puzzle games, new every day at 10 a.m.: Seeds, Cuts, Bridges, Totals, Snips, Alibis and Fours. Each logic puzzle has one answer you can reach without guessing, and its hints tell you the next step and why it works. Free readers get about half of each day's puzzles; Delve Plus opens all of them and every past day. YOUR LIBRARY Everything you have played, saved and finished, the books you have started, and Review, an AI chat that asks you to explain what you learned. NOTHING TO KEEP UP WITH No courses to fall behind on. A reminder at the time you pick, if you want one, and a streak that counts the days you finished a lesson or a puzzle. HALF OF OUR PROFITS GO TO WIKIPEDIA Our lessons are written from Wikipedia, so half of our profits go to the Wikimedia Foundation, which runs it. FREE AND DELVE PLUS Free: two lessons or book parts a day, and about half of each day's puzzles. Delve Plus: a new lesson written for you every day, every lesson and book with no daily limit, and every puzzle, past days included. Delve Plus is $14.99 a month or $119.99 a year in the U.S. (prices vary by country). Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for the renewal within the 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings at any time. Terms of Use: https://delvelearning.app/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://delvelearning.app/privacy/

Screenshots

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Delve4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: delve at none against Delve's 2. On price, ads, device support 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. Delve sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. delve asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
delve versus Delve: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterdelveDelve
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (8 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—8 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.416.4
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB104 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperSimon RathNolan Connolly

In-app purchases

None

delve

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Delve

Subscriptions2
  • Delve Plus Monthly$14.991 Month
  • Delve Plus Yearly$119.991 Year

Questions

Is delve free?
delve is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Delve free?
Delve is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do delve or Delve have ads?
Neither delve nor Delve shows ads.

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