Algorena vs Gam
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Algorena
Learn algorithms through interactive execution and prediction. This app provides step-by-step visualizations and quizzes to solidify understanding, with personalized drills based on your mistakes. It's designed for interview preparation and deep conceptual mastery.
- Interactive algorithm execution
- Step-by-step decision prediction
- Concept-based quizzes
- Personalized mistake-based drills
- Daily mixed skill practice
- Progress tracking and ranking
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Don't just watch algorithms. Call their next move. Algorena teaches algorithms the way they actually make sense: by running them. Every lesson is the same four steps. Watch the algorithm run, step by step, with every decision narrated. Then the machine stops mid-execution and asks you to call the next move — which cell does binary search look at now? Which neighbor does the queue serve? You answer, you find out immediately, and a wrong answer tells you exactly which idea slipped. Then three questions prove you understood the concept, not just the animation. Nothing here is a video. Every animation is the real algorithm executing on real data, generated fresh each time you practice — so you can never memorize a run. WHAT YOU LEARN • 58 skills across 18 tracks, from linear search to A* pathfinding • Free forever: arrays and search, two pointers and sliding window, prefix sums, the first sorts, stacks, queues and linked lists — 15 complete lessons, full quality, no teasers • Pro adds the advanced 43: merge and quick sort, heaps, radix, Timsort, hash tables, Bloom filters, LRU caches, BSTs, BFS and DFS, Dijkstra, topological sort, union-find, Kruskal, Prim, Bellman-Ford, Floyd-Warshall, recursion and backtracking, dynamic programming, flood fill, A*, KMP, Rabin-Karp, Boyer-Moore, tries, Huffman coding, minimax, alpha-beta pruning, quadtrees, convex hulls and Monte Carlo HOW IT WORKS • See — the algorithm runs on a live stage, with pseudocode highlighting the exact line executing • Predict — the run pauses at every real decision point and hands you the wheel • Understand — miss one and you get the specific misconception, not a red X • Prove it — three concept questions close every lesson A COACH THAT ACTUALLY WATCHES Algorena remembers which mistakes you repeat — not how many, but which kind. "You've been eliminating the half the target is actually in." Then it offers a three-round drill on exactly that. The Daily 5 mixes five skills a day, weakest first. BUILT FOR THE INTERVIEW, AND FOR AFTER IT Mastery per skill, a rank that climbs with the whole curriculum, and a streak that only asks for five minutes. ALGORENA PRO • All 43 advanced lessons • The Coach's drills and the Daily 5 across all 58 skills • No ads, ever • Every future lesson — included as the curriculum grows • One payment, shared with your family — no subscription PRIVACY, FOR REAL No account. No sign-in. No analytics of our own. No servers. Your progress never leaves your device — we couldn't see it if we wanted to. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Gam
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Gam is a small, friendly way to start speaking Teochew (Chaozhou / Chaoshan, 潮汕话) — the language of eastern Guangdong and of Teochew families all over Southeast Asia and the world. Follow Gam, a little New Year mandarin, through the words and phrases you would really use at the family table: • 171 everyday words — people, food, actions, numbers, time, places • 216 phrases — greetings, thanks, “have you eaten?”, and more • Every word taken apart: initial, final and tone, with a plain-English note on how each one sounds • Peng’im, the standard romanisation for Teochew, next to every character • Eight tones, drawn as pitch curves, and how they change when words run together (tone sandhi) • Short drills — pick the meaning, pick the word — that come back to what you missed • Streaks, mastery dots and a progress page, so you can see yourself improving The standard here is the Chaozhou prefecture-city accent. Free, with no ads. Your progress stays on your device (and in your own iCloud, if you turn that on). No account, and it works offline.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Gam at none against Algorena's 1. Gam also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price and device support 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. Algorena sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Gam asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Algorena | Gam |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vinh Nguyen | 梓鸿 陈 |
In-app purchases
Algorena
- Algorena Pro$0.99
Gam
No in-app purchases









