Comparison

Irregular Verbs vs Soya

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

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Irregular Verbs

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Master all three forms of English irregular verbs β€” base, past simple and past participle β€” in just a few minutes a day. 175 verbs, hand-picked by real-world frequency and organised into three levels: Core (the 53 verbs you can't live without), Intermediate (65 more) and Advanced (57 for polish and bragging rights). New verbs are introduced in frequency order, so every minute you practise goes into the words you'll actually meet. HOW IT WORKS β€’ Smart reviews. A spaced-repetition schedule shows you each verb right before you'd forget it. Answer correctly and the interval grows; slip up and the verb comes back sooner. β€’ Three difficulties. Recognise the right forms (Easy), type both forms from memory (Normal), or complete a real sentence where you decide which form fits (Hard). β€’ Mistakes aren't punished β€” they're recycled. Any verb you miss returns at the end of the session until you get it right. β€’ Tap the β€œ?” on any card for a plain-English definition and a visual cue. KEEP THE FIRE BURNING β€’ Daily streak with freezes. Miss a day? A streak freeze saves your run β€” you earn one every week of practice. β€’ Combos reward accuracy within a session. β€’ Boss rounds. Every chapter of 10 verbs ends with a hard-mode, no-mistakes challenge. Beat the boss to seal the chapter in gold and earn a bonus freeze. β€’ Blitz. A 60-second speed round: how many forms can you nail? Beat your record and discover new verbs along the way. β€’ Collection. Watch all 175 verb cards light up as you learn β€” from grey silhouettes to mastered gold. β€’ History. Every session, boss fight and Blitz run is logged, so you can see your work add up. NO STRINGS ATTACHED No account. No ads. No subscriptions. No tracking. Your progress lives on your device and nowhere else. WHO IT'S FOR Learners from A2 to C1, IELTS and Cambridge exam candidates, teachers and tutors after a quick warm-up tool, parents helping with homework β€” and anyone tired of second-guessing whether it's β€œswam” or β€œswum”. Download it, do one session a day, and irregular verbs will stop being the annoying part of English.

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Soya

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Soya turns the things you already want to read into reading practice at exactly your level. Paste a link, share an article from Safari, or name a book β€” Soya rewrites it in Chinese, Japanese or Korean pitched at the level you choose, and hands it back as something you can actually read. AT YOUR LEVEL, NOT SOMEONE ELSE'S Pick HSK 1–6, JLPT N5–N1 or TOPIK 1–6. The same article at HSK 2 and HSK 5 is genuinely two different texts, not the same text with a glossary bolted on. Change your mind halfway and re-translate it at another level. FOUR LANGUAGES, INCLUDING BOTH CHINESE SCRIPTS Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Traditional is a first-class choice, not a conversion pass over Simplified. TAP ANY WORD Every word carries its reading β€” pinyin, hiragana or the pronounced hangul β€” and a tap gives you the definition, the word in that exact sentence, and examples. Tap "Break it down" and the sentence is walked through part by part. PRACTICE THAT COSTS NOTHING Five games built from the words you have actually looked up: fill the gap, pair match, sentence order, listening and a mixed session. They never call a model, so they work on a plane, on the underground, and on no signal at all. A bundled vocabulary catalogue means there is something to practise from the first minute. READ ALOUD Any sentence, any article, at your pace. NEWS, ALREADY TRANSLATED A daily corpus of short news stories, translated ahead of time, so browsing them costs nothing and opening one is instant. YOUR READING STAYS YOURS Your library, your words, your practice history and your reading positions live on your phone. There is no account to make. Sign in only if you want your library on a second device β€” it is off by default and always optional. FREE, OR YOUR OWN KEY Soya works out of the box with a monthly free allowance and no account. If you would rather use your own model provider β€” Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint β€” add your key in Settings and it goes straight from your phone to them. Your key stays in the keychain and is never uploaded.

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Irregular Verbs4 screens
Soya4 screens

Verdict

The call

Irregular Verbs and Soya are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters β€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them β€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Irregular Verbs versus Soya: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIrregular VerbsSoya
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyβ€”Every 6 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.416.4
Further details β€” not scored
Size45 MB84 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGrigory FrolovJames Gwee

In-app purchases

None

Irregular Verbs

No in-app purchases

None

Soya

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Irregular Verbs free?
Irregular Verbs is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Soya free?
Soya is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Irregular Verbs or Soya have ads?
Neither Irregular Verbs nor Soya shows ads.

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