Ingenium vs Glossnote
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Ingenium
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Short, calm brain training for a few minutes a day. Practice reading faster without losing the meaning, train your memory and focus, or relax with a puzzle. Tell Ingenium what you want to work on and how much time you have, and it plans your session. READING ⢠Word by word: words appear one at a time in the middle of the screen, so your eyes stay still. You choose the speed. ⢠Reading Speed Test: read a short text, answer a few questions, and see how fast you read and how much you understood. Reading fast without understanding won't raise your score. ⢠Guided reading: a highlight moves along the line at a steady pace, or the text comes in short blocks you can take in at a glance. ⢠Real texts: texts written for your language, or Wikipedia articles about space, nature, history, technology, animals and the human body. ⢠Quick eyes: find numbers in order on a Schulte table, look for letters, and recognize words that flash for a moment. MEMORY, FOCUS AND MORE ⢠Memory: remember which squares lit up, repeat sequences, and spot when something repeats from a few steps back (N-back). ⢠Focus: pick the color of the ink, not the word you read (the Stroop test), and find a target among look-alikes. ⢠Reaction: tap as fast as you can, or only when you should. ⢠Words and numbers: build words from letters, find synonyms and opposites, do math in your head, continue number patterns. ⢠Logic: find the missing piece in a pattern, and turn shapes in your head. PUZZLES FOR YOUR DOWNTIME ⢠Sudoku, from a small 4Ć4 to the classic 9Ć9, with notes, hints and undo. Untimed boards wait for you if you stop halfway. ⢠Mazes with loops, and Locked Maze with keys and locks. ⢠Tower of Hanoi: move the disks into place in as few moves as possible. MADE AROUND YOU ⢠Choose 5, 10, 15 or 20 minutes a day and the skills that matter to you. Reorder, replace or skip exercises in the plan. ⢠Most exercises get harder when you do well and easier after mistakes, and each one remembers your level. ⢠Star your favorites, and keep exercises you don't like out of your plans. ⢠See your streak, your personal bests and how each skill is going. ⢠Reminders, if you want them. ⢠11 languages, each with its own word games and reading texts. CALM AND PRIVATE ⢠No ads, no account, no leaderboards, no coins. ⢠Your progress is saved on your iPhone, not on our servers. ⢠Crash reports and usage statistics are sent only if you agree. ⢠Light and dark mode, and less motion if you prefer. WHAT IT COSTS Schulte Table, Memory Matrix, Quick Tap and Ink Color are free to play, without a subscription. During setup, you can also take the Reading Speed Test once for free. Everything else needs a monthly or yearly subscription. New subscribers start with a 7-day free trial, and starting it needs a payment method on your Apple ID. If you cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends, you won't be charged. After that, payment is charged to your Apple ID, and the subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can cancel anytime in your Apple ID account settings. Privacy Policy: https://ingenium-brain-training.web.app/en/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Glossnote
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Remember annotating song lyrics or poems by hand, with little translations penciled into the margin next to the words you didn't know? Glossnote brings that exact experience to language learning. Glossnote turns any text into a notebook you can write in, and now helps you learn every word you collect. How it works ⢠Open a song, poem, article or short text ⢠Tap any word you don't know ⢠Its translation appears in the margin, right next to that line ⢠Keep reading. Your notebook fills up as you go. Learn the words you collect Every word you translate becomes a card, together with the line you found it in. Smart reviews bring a word back right before you'd forget it, and four games keep it fresh: Quiz, Match, Spell and Listen. Streaks, XP and a sticker book celebrate your progress. Already know a word? Mark it "Know it ā skip" and it leaves your reviews. Every translation is yours, in context Glossnote reads the whole sentence to pick the meaning that fits. Tap the same word in two different lines and you can translate it two different ways, the way a real reader annotates, not the way a dictionary defines. Phrases, not just words Hold a word and drag across to translate a whole phrase, like "pick ⦠up" or "give up". Add your own notes, such as pronunciation, under any word. Your library, your notebooks Organize what you're reading into notebooks. Words you've met before are underlined in every notebook. A gentle daily reminder helps you come back, and dark mode keeps reading cozy at night. Glossnote Premium Premium unlocks all reviews and games and unlimited notebooks. Your first study session is free. Choose a monthly or yearly subscription (the yearly plan starts with a free trial) or a one-time Lifetime purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment is charged to your Apple Account, and you can manage or cancel subscriptions in your App Store account settings. Currently optimized for Ukrainian translations, with more languages on the way. Privacy Policy: https://glossnote.pages.dev/privacy Terms of Use: https://glossnote.pages.dev/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ingenium at none against Glossnote's 3. Glossnote's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Glossnote sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Ingenium asks for nothing beyond the download.
Ingenium ships an update fortnightly, Glossnote weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ingenium | Glossnote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Weekly ā better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No ā better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod ā better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.5 ā better |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 75 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bohdan Varchenko | Valeria Chub |
In-app purchases
Ingenium
No in-app purchases
Glossnote
- Glossnote Premium Monthly$3.991 Month
- Glossnote Premium Yearly7 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Glossnote Premium Lifetime$49.99









