Comparison

FpgaLearn vs DLD

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

Head to head
About

FpgaLearn

Features
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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.

About

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.

Screenshots

FpgaLearn4 screens
DLD4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

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

FpgaLearn ships an update daily, DLD every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 5 level
FpgaLearn versus DLD: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFpgaLearnDLD
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer光浩 李Muhammad Rafhan

In-app purchases

None

FpgaLearn

No in-app purchases

None

DLD

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is FpgaLearn free?
FpgaLearn is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is DLD free?
DLD is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do FpgaLearn or DLD have ads?
Neither FpgaLearn nor DLD shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FpgaLearn or DLD?
FpgaLearn ships an update daily, and DLD every 5 weeks. Most recently, FpgaLearn was updated on October 31, 2026 and DLD on November 6, 2026.

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