Comparison

Classica Latin vs Onomi

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

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About

Classica Latin

Master Latin grammar, vocabulary, and reading with interactive lessons and practice exercises. Designed for students and independent learners, it offers tools for quizzes, translation, and exploring ancient Roman language. The app is completely free with no ads or paywalls.

Highlights
  • Interactive grammar lessons
  • Vocabulary practice
  • Conjugation and declension exercises
  • Reading practice
  • Integrated dictionary
  • Automatic scansion tool
Features
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Classica is a complete Latin learning platform: a textbook, a tutor, and a flashcard deck in one app. Instead of memorizing phrases, you actively master how Latin works: its grammar, its forms, its vocabulary, and its literature. And it's completely free, with no ads and no subscriptions. Whether you're starting your first Latin course, preparing for an exam, teaching a class, or returning to the language after years away, Classica meets you where you are and grows with you. WHAT YOU CAN DO A protocol-driven grammar engine generates and parses every form: noun and adjective declensions, verb conjugations, participles, infinitives, pronouns, and the irregular forms that textbooks leave you to guess. Browse full paradigms, or tap any word to see exactly why it's in the case, tense, or mood it's in. Sharpen your recall with fill-in-the-blank exercises, table completion, multiple-choice, timed drills, and free response. Difficulty adjusts to your performance, so you spend your time on what you haven't mastered yet. Work through Latin-to-English and English-to-Latin translation with clear, sentence-level grammar feedback that explains your choices instead of just marking them right or wrong. A spaced-repetition system (SM-2) schedules each vocabulary review for the moment you're about to forget, so words move into long-term memory efficiently. Study the frequency-ranked core vocabulary, build your own custom sets, and track your mastery word by word. Grow beyond exercises with a library of annotated passages. Tap any word to parse it in context, read contextual notes, and check your understanding with comprehension questions. Analyze Latin poetry with automatic syllabification, vowel-quantity marking, elision detection, and full dactylic-hexameter scansion with a build in line reader—the perfect companion for Virgil, Ovid, and beyond. Hear the language using our text to speech model designed specifically with Latin in mind. Our model truly understands all of Latin's quirks and can read lines of poetry aloud so you can hear the rhythm of the writing. Build a real feel for Latin sentence structure with focused syntax practice that turns grammar rules into intuition. Search through our database of over 58,000 words with full forms and definitions. All that and it works offline, so your dictionary is always with you. An included Latin keyboard makes macrons and long marks effortless, so you can write vowels with their quantities without fighting your device. Streaks, XP, mastery rings, and per-category analytics keep you motivated, while an optional daily reminder helps you keep your momentum. A word, quote, or fact of the day greets you each time you open the app. DESIGNED WITH CARE Classica is built to feel like a single, coherent product. A warm parchment-and-ink aesthetic inspired by illuminated manuscripts and imperial Rome, with full light and dark modes. Create a free account to back up your progress and sync it across your iPhone and iPad, or use the app without signing in: your progress is saved on your device either way. OUR MISSION We believe high-quality Latin education should be available to everyone, regardless of experience or budget. That's why Classica is free, ad-free, and free of subscriptions. There is no premium tier, no paywalls, no catches. Just the tools we wished existed for learning Latin. Ready to master Latin, actively? Download Classica and begin today.

About

Onomi

Features
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Point your camera at anything around you and Onomi tells you what it's called in English. Tap the word to see it used in a real sentence, and add it to your deck. Then Onomi brings the word back, days later, just before you'd have forgotten it; until you actually know it. YOUR LIFE IS THE TEXTBOOK Textbooks teach you words in the order someone else chose. Onomi teaches you the kettle in your kitchen, the wrench in your toolbox, the hydrant on your street. Words you meet every day are words you'll actually use. LEARNING THAT STICKS Every word you collect enters a review queue built on spaced repetition; the same well-tested method used by medical students and serious language learners. Review each word right before you'd forget it, and the intervals stretch out as your memory strengthens. ENGLISH, IN ENGLISH No translations. You're looking at the object, so you don't need one; the thing in front of you is the definition. Learning a word directly in English builds the instinct to think in it. WHAT'S INSIDE • Over 1,000 everyday objects, foods, animals and places • More than 10,000 example sentences, written to teach real usage — you boil a kettle, you tip a wheelbarrow, you chip a mug • Pronunciation for every word • A review queue that adapts to how well you're actually doing FREE, AND GENEROUSLY SO Unlimited scanning. All 1,000+ words. The complete review queue. No daily limits, no locked deck. ONOMI PRO • Word cards — how each word actually behaves: its plural, how you count it, the verb it goes with, and the mistake learners make • Spelling practice — type the word instead of choosing it • Listening practice — hear a word and pick it out • Weekly goals — three fresh targets every week to send you looking further SUBSCRIPTION Onomi Pro is an auto-renewing subscription, available monthly or yearly. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and you can manage or cancel it any time in Settings. Deleting the app does not cancel a subscription. Terms of Use: https://ebeyzag.github.io/onomi-app/terms.html Apple standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://ebeyzag.github.io/onomi-app/privacy.html

Screenshots

Classica Latin4 screens
Onomi4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Classica Latin at none against Onomi'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. Onomi sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Classica Latin asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Classica Latin versus Onomi: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClassica LatinOnomi
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (9 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings9 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGarrick OlsonBeyza Gurer

In-app purchases

None

Classica Latin

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Onomi

Subscriptions2
  • Onomi Pro7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Onomi Pro7 Days trial$29.991 Year

Questions

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

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