Comparison

Terms vs Vim Master

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

Head to head
About

Terms

Learn terminal commands through daily flashcards and a home-screen widget. It offers a placement test to start you at the right level and uses spaced repetition for effective practice. The app is designed to be calm and distraction-free, with no ads or account requirements.

Highlights
  • Daily command line flashcards
  • Home-screen widget for daily commands
  • Placement test for personalized learning
  • Spaced repetition for practice
  • Offline access
  • Library of 231 commands and concepts
Features
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You've seen the terminal. Your AI assistant practically lives in it. Time to actually read what it's typing. Terms teaches you real terminal commands the way a vocabulary app teaches words — one card at a time, a few a day, until they stick. THE WIDGET IS THE APP Add the home-screen widget and a new command appears next to your apps every day. Read it when you unlock your phone. No app open required. A FEED YOU CAN BINGE Full-screen flashcards drawn as terminal windows: the command, what it does, every flag explained piece by piece, and why you've seen it before — "agents use grep to locate where code lives." HONEST LEVELS A 60-second placement test deals you in at the right tier: on-ramp, daily driver, combos & power, or deep cuts. No fake progress, no flattery — the deck starts exactly where your knowledge ends. PRACTICE THAT STICKS Quick quizzes built from the cards you're learning, with spaced repetition scheduling the reviews. Tap "just got it!" or "alr knew it" — that's the whole ceremony. CALM BY DESIGN • One notification a day. Opt-in, at your time, hard cap two. • Free, offline, no account, no ads. • Dangerous commands carry the warning they deserve (looking at you, rm -rf). WHAT'S INSIDE 231 real commands and concepts at launch — ls, cd, grep, cat, lsof -i :3000, chmod, pipes, redirects, xargs, sed, awk, tar — tiered from total beginner to power user, searchable in the library, every one tracked to mastery. Built for everyone shell-adjacent: vibe coders shipping with AI, students, new developers, and anyone who has ever copy-pasted a command and prayed. The terminal is the first course. More languages of code are coming.

About

Vim Master

Features
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This app was created in order to master the operation of vim editor. You can learn vim operations in quiz format. There are three types of difficulty, Easy, Normal, and Hard. There are 150 questions in total. You can narrow down questions, browse your history, and register your name as Vim Masters for the top grades. This app supports English and Japanese.

Screenshots

Terms4 screens
Vim Master4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Terms at 15.1 against Vim Master's 17.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Terms ships an update every 2 weeks, Vim Master every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Terms versus Vim Master: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTermsVim Master
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBen LittleTomohiro Hara

In-app purchases

None

Terms

No in-app purchases

None

Vim Master

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Terms free?
Terms is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Vim Master free?
Vim Master is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Terms or Vim Master have ads?
Neither Terms nor Vim Master shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Terms or Vim Master?
Terms ships an update every 2 weeks, and Vim Master every 3 weeks. Most recently, Terms was updated on November 5, 2026 and Vim Master on November 6, 2026.

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