Comparison

SekaiPals vs MintQuery

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

Head to head
About

SekaiPals

Discover a new word daily with charming characters. Track your vocabulary growth and revisit words with quizzes. Features a travel phrasebook and an electronic paper companion.

Highlights
  • Word of the Day with audio
  • Personalized Word Collection
  • Character Album
  • Review Quizzes
  • Travel Phrasebook
  • Electronic Paper Companion
Features
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SekaiPals is a gentle language-learning app where you meet cute Pals, discover a new word every day, and grow your own collections as you go. See a word, listen to it, and learn at your own pace. Open SekaiPals on your commute, between classes, before a trip, or whenever curiosity strikes. Every word you learn joins your Word Collection, and every new Pal makes the journey feel a little more personal. What you can do with SekaiPals - Word of the Day: Learn words and phrases with audio and easy reading aids. - Word Collection: Keep track of the words you have learned across categories. - Character Album: Meet new Pals as you continue learning. - Review Quiz: Revisit learned words with simple multiple-choice quizzes. - Travel Phrasebook: Browse helpful phrases for your trip and show them to the person in front of you. A flipped-display view helps you share the screen face-to-face. - Electronic Paper Companion: If you have a compatible electronic paper device, you can display a Pal and keep it close as a key holder. Make language learning feel a little lighter. With SekaiPals, the world's words can become a small, welcoming part of your day.

About

MintQuery

Learn SQL through interactive exercises and short lessons on your mobile device. Practice concepts like SELECT, JOINs, and subqueries with AI-powered hints and debugging challenges. Progress is saved and available offline.

Highlights
  • Interactive SQL exercises
  • Short, 5-minute lessons
  • AI tutor for hints and explanations
  • Streak tracking for habit building
  • Offline functionality
  • Progress saved across devices
Features
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Learn SQL in five minutes a day, on your phone. Every lesson teaches one idea, then you practice it straight away — tap-based exercises, nothing to type, nothing to set up. Every day there's also one real SQL interview question, from companies like Airbnb and Amazon. Free for everyone. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN - SELECT, FROM, WHERE — the building blocks of every SQL query - Filtering, sorting, and grouping data - JOINs — combining data from multiple tables - Aggregate functions like COUNT, SUM, AVG - Subqueries and more advanced concepts FEATURES - A daily SQL interview question from real companies - 8 exercise types including fill-in-the-blank, query builder, and debug challenges - AI tutor that explains concepts and gives hints without giving away the answer - Streak tracking to build a daily habit: lessons and the daily question both count - Progress saved across devices WHO IT'S FOR MintQuery is for beginners learning SQL for the first time, career switchers moving into data analytics, analysts refreshing skills they haven't used in a while, and anyone preparing for SQL interview questions. Practice writing queries, filtering data, joining tables, and debugging SQL — all from your phone, no laptop required. WHY MINTQUERY No hearts. No energy timers. No ads. No waiting three hours to continue a lesson. Make mistakes freely — that's how you learn. MintQuery is free to use, including the daily question and the first three modules. Premium unlocks all nine modules and unlimited AI tutor help, available as a monthly or annual auto-renewing subscription. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://mintquery.app/privacy Terms of Service: https://mintquery.app/terms

Screenshots

SekaiPals4 screens
MintQuery3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: MintQuery at none against SekaiPals's shown. MintQuery also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 8 days) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, rating, ratings volume 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for SekaiPals against 5.0 for MintQuery. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SekaiPals ships an update every 8 days, MintQuery every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
SekaiPals versus MintQuery: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSekaiPalsMintQuery
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size87 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKENICHI KAMBARAAnna-Anastasiia Balatska

In-app purchases

None

SekaiPals

No in-app purchases

None

MintQuery

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SekaiPals free?
SekaiPals is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is MintQuery free?
MintQuery is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, SekaiPals or MintQuery?
SekaiPals and MintQuery are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do SekaiPals or MintQuery have ads?
SekaiPals shows ads; MintQuery does not.
Which is updated more often, SekaiPals or MintQuery?
SekaiPals ships an update every 8 days, and MintQuery every 3 days. Most recently, SekaiPals was updated on October 22, 2026 and MintQuery on October 18, 2026.

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