Scribo vs Leafy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Scribo
Capture new words from your surroundings and make them stick. This app uses spaced repetition and AI to create personalized quizzes, ensuring you remember vocabulary without tedious drills. Sync your learning across devices.
- Capture words via typing, writing, or photo
- AI-powered word selection from articles/videos
- Spaced repetition for effective memorization
- Personalized word lists for different contexts
- Cross-device syncing (iPhone, iPad, Mac)
- Learn from the sentence you first encountered the word in
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Met a word in real life? Write it down and make it yours. A street sign, an email from work, a form at the doctor's. When a word stops you, put it in Scribo. Scribo fills in the meaning, the sound and an example. Then it brings the word back as a quick quiz right before you'd forget it, so it sticks without drilling. Save a word in seconds Type it, write it with your finger or Apple Pencil, or snap a photo. You can also share text from another app. Ten words make a step Your words line up on Home as a path. Finish a step's quiz and the next one opens. Keep separate word lists for work, daily life or an exam. Today's quiz, right on time Spaced repetition asks again just before you'd forget. A few minutes a day is enough. Only the words worth learning Paste an article or a YouTube link and AI picks the words worth learning at your level and mixes them into your steps. Only the ones you miss go into your word list. The sentence you met it in Every word keeps the sentence you found it in, and the meaning it had there. On iPad and Mac too On iPad, write with Apple Pencil and read the articles and videos you care about at your level. Sign in and your words follow you across iPhone, iPad and Mac. Free to start Save up to 50 words, then 10 a day, for free. Quizzes are always free. Scribo Pro gives you unlimited saved words and new readings, your full learning insights, and the freedom to switch the language you learn. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Terms of Use: https://scribo.cc/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://scribo.cc/privacy/
Leafy
Learn languages through personalized AI-generated stories tailored to your reading level and interests. Get instant explanations for words and sentences, and build your vocabulary with a review notebook. Engage with classic novels adapted for your level and join book clubs.
- AI-generated stories at your level
- Tap-to-explain words and sentences
- Personalized vocabulary notebook
- Classic novels retold
- Reading streaks and progress tracking
- Book clubs for social learning
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Leafy teaches you a language through stories. Pick the language, your level and what you like, and Leafy's AI writes a story just for you, chapter by chapter. Tap a word or long-press a sentence for an instant explanation in your own language, and save the ones you want to keep to your vocabulary notebook for review. Good for you if • textbooks bore you and real books are still too hard • you want to read a little every day, about things you actually like • you want to learn words in context, not from lists What you get • 12 languages: English, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Korean • Stories at beginner, intermediate and advanced levels, in chapters sized to your daily goal • Tap-to-explain words and long-press-to-explain sentences (interface in English, Korean, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese) • An AI tutor you can ask more about the story • Classic novels retold at your level • Vocabulary notebook with review mode, reading streaks and your growing forest • Book clubs to read with friends, and reminders to keep going Start for free. Leafy Premium is a monthly subscription billed to your Apple ID that renews automatically each month. Cancel anytime in iPhone Settings › Subscriptions; after cancelling you keep access until the end of the current period. Stories and explanations are generated by AI. Terms https://readleafy.com/terms · Privacy https://readleafy.com/privacy · hello@readleafy.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Leafy at daily against Scribo's every 3 days. Leafy also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Scribo's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating, 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. Scribo sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $10.99 per month and Leafy sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Scribo against 5.0 for Leafy. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
Scribo ships an update every 3 days, Leafy daily. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | Scribo | Leafy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 87.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dain Jung | Dongkeon Nam |
Customer experience
Scribo
Leafy
In-app purchases
Scribo
- Scribo Pro Monthly$10.991 Month
- Scribo Pro Yearly$59.991 Year
- Scribo Pro Yearly$89.991 Year
- Scribo Lifetime$69.99
Leafy
- Leafy 프리미엄$5.991 Month








