Stride Spanish vs Hola Means Hola
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Stride Spanish
Master Spanish with a sentence-based approach. This app offers over 4,500 practice sentences, clear translations, and pronunciation tools. Progress from beginner to expert with practical topics and personalized study options.
- 4,500+ practice sentences
- Beginner to Expert levels
- Clear English translations
- Pronunciation audio
- Tap-to-reveal translations
- Personalized Liked list
- Local progress tracking
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Stride Spanish Learn Spanish one sentence at a time. Stride Spanish is a focused Spanish learning app built around real example sentences, clear translations, pronunciation practice, and a gradual learning path from beginner foundations to advanced fluency. • 4,500+ Spanish practice sentences • Levels from Absolute Beginner through Expert Fluency • Clear English translations for every lesson sentence • Audio recordings for pronunciation practice • Slow playback option for careful listening • Tap-to-reveal translations so you can test yourself first • New vocabulary introduced inside example sentences • Lesson notes and pronunciation hints where helpful • Save favorite examples to a personal Liked list • Study mode for reviewing saved sentences • Local progress tracking so you can continue where you left off • Settings for showing translations automatically or enabling auto-play audio • Practical topics including travel, work, health, conversation, opinions, culture, business, and advanced nuance
Hola Means Hola
This app is a Spanish learner's dictionary designed for intermediate and advanced users. It features a frequency-ordered word list with definitions in Spanish, example sentences, and optional English hints. The app also includes a reader view, flashcards, and audio for offline listening.
- Frequency-ordered Spanish dictionary
- Reader View with 500 pages
- Flashcard review system
- Spanish audio for offline listening
- Search Spanish and English words
- English hints available
- No account or ads required
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Learn Spanish words without constantly translating them. Hola Means Hola is a Spanish-first learner’s dictionary designed to be searched, read, and listened to. Look up the word you need, or follow a frequency-ordered path through Spanish vocabulary. Without flashcards. --SEARCH IN SPANISH OR ENGLISH-- Search more than 70,000 Spanish entries and hundreds of thousands of conjugations, plurals, inflected forms, and related terms. Choose Simple Spanish for the essential meaning or Detailed Spanish for greater precision and nuance. Definitions, examples, and connected words remain in Spanish. English support is available when you need confirmation, but it never takes over the learning experience. --READ THE DICTIONARY--- Build your Spanish from the words that matter most. The 25,000-word reading path is organized into 25 levels, beginning with the words Spanish uses most. Clear Spanish definitions build on more common vocabulary, so each level helps unlock the next. Read while you wait in line, take a break, or have a few quiet minutes. Your place and progress are saved automatically. --LISTEN WHILE YOU MOVE-- Turn vocabulary into a Spanish listening practice for walks, commutes, or time away from the screen. Choose from three listening modes: - Complete: Spanish definition and example, English confirmation, then the example again - Spanish Only: definition and example entirely in Spanish - Mixed: a shorter bilingual review Adjust playback speed, set a sleep timer, and download audio for the levels you want available offline. --EACH ENTRY INCLUDES-- - Frequency rank - Simple and detailed Spanish definitions - Spanish example sentences - Optional English support - Multiple meanings, if applicable - False-cognate warnings --BUILT FOR INDEPENDENT LEARNERS-- Hola Means Hola is for intermediate and advanced learners who want to spend more time understanding Spanish with Spanish, and less time translating back and forth. You can also: - Track how many words you read each day - Review your recent activity - Hide Spanish words that are already obvious to English speakers, such as “animal” - Download the complete dictionary for offline search - Report entries that seem wrong or unclear - Use the app without creating an account Hola Means Hola has no ads, third-party analytics SDKs, or cross-app tracking. Limited first-party analytics help improve the dictionary, search, reader, and audio experience. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.holameanshola.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Hola Means Hola at 3 against Stride Spanish's 1. Stride Spanish's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Stride Spanish against 5.0 for Hola Means Hola. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.
Stride Spanish ships an update weekly, Hola Means Hola every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Stride Spanish | Hola Means Hola |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Jason Huang | Patrick Griffith |
Customer experience
Stride Spanish
Hola Means Hola
In-app purchases
Stride Spanish
No in-app purchases
Hola Means Hola
No in-app purchases
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