FpgaLearn vs DLD
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FpgaLearn
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A complete FPGA starter course in your pocket. FpgaLearn takes you from logic gates to state machines, bus protocols, timing constraints and board bring-up. Write code and see the waveform instantly; grading checks circuit behavior, not code style, and points to the first mismatch when something is wrong. START FREE • Stage 1, Digital Logic Basics: all 10 lessons free • Beginner exercises, the logic gate lab, the Verilog playground and a 303-entry concept wiki are always free • Unlock the full course with one purchase when you are ready THE FULL COURSE • 42 lessons in 4 stages: digital logic, Verilog, hands-on projects, then FPGA architecture, timing constraints, toolchains and HLS • 28 auto-graded Verilog exercises across combinational and sequential logic, FSMs, arithmetic and UART/SPI/I2C, at beginner, intermediate and advanced levels • 54 lesson quizzes with spaced review and a wrong-answer log WHY IT WORKS • Real four-state simulation (0/1/X/Z): a forgotten reset shows up as red X on the waveform • Behavioral grading: any correct implementation passes; failures jump to the first mismatch on the waveform • Tap-to-repair: practice the key logic without typing whole modules on a small screen • Learning map: prerequisites across 303 concepts and 42 lessons at a glance • Bookmarks and personal notes OFFLINE AND CLEAN Lessons, simulation and grading all run on device. No ads, no subscription, no account. PURCHASE Unlock Full Course is a one-time purchase, not a subscription, and supports Family Sharing. Restore it anytime from the Me tab. Buyers of version 1.0.5 or earlier keep all content automatically.
DLD
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DLD is a digital logic design and circuits workbench for your phone. Drop gates onto the bench, wire them together, flip a switch, and watch the signal travel through the circuit in real time. Built for students working through a digital logic design course — and for anyone who wants to see Boolean algebra actually do something. BUILD ANYTHING • 28 components: switches, clocks, Vcc and ground, every standard gate, tri-state buffers, multiplexers, flip-flops, displays and probes • Gates take 2 to 8 inputs — one wide NAND instead of three cascaded ones • Tap a component to reach its settings: input count, clock speed, colour • A work bench far bigger than the screen, with pan, zoom and fit-to-circuit SEE IT WORKING • Current animates along every live wire, so you can follow a signal • LEDs, LED bars, 7-segment and hex displays light up as the circuit runs • A school bell that rings for as long as it has current • Logic probes read out 1 or 0 anywhere you wire one UNDERSTAND IT • Boolean equations written out from whatever you have drawn • A full truth table generated from your circuit, ready to copy out • Conflicting drivers on a net are flagged rather than quietly wrong • A tutorial section covering every gate symbol and its truth table KEEP YOUR WORK • Save and reopen as many circuits as you like • Undo and redo everything • Recolour wires, lamps and blocks however you want to read them COMPONENTS Switch · Clock · Vcc · GND · AND · OR · NOT · NAND · NOR · XOR · XNOR · Buffer · Tri-state buffer · Tri-state NOT · MUX · DEMUX · D flip-flop · T flip-flop · JK flip-flop · Virtual links · LED · LED bar · 7-segment · Hex display · Bell · Probe · Label PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No account. No sign-in. No analytics. No ads. Nothing leaves your device — your circuits are saved on the phone and nowhere else. The app works with no network connection at all.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: FpgaLearn at daily against DLD's every 5 weeks. DLD's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
FpgaLearn ships an update daily, DLD every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FpgaLearn | DLD |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 光浩 李 | Muhammad Rafhan |
In-app purchases
FpgaLearn
No in-app purchases
DLD
No in-app purchases









