Thai Alphabet vs ThaiCards
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Thai Alphabet
Learn the Thai alphabet, including consonants, vowels, and tone rules, with native speaker audio. Build words, practice recognition, and understand tones at your own pace. Features offline audio and progress tracking widgets.
- Learn 44 consonants and 32 vowel forms
- Understand Thai tone rules
- Native speaker audio recordings
- Offline audio playback
- Spaced review system
- Progress tracking widgets
- Practice writing and word building
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Audio recorded by a native Thai speaker. Learn each letter’s sound, build your first Thai words and understand how tones work, one small set at a time. Build familiarity with Thai script through small sets, active recall and spaced review. Progress at your own pace with no completion deadline. Return to recognition, listening and typed recall across separate sessions before introducing the next set. START WITH THE SCRIPT • Learn all 44 consonants, 32 vowel forms, four tone marks and essential reading patterns. • Begin with nine mid-class consonants and four vowels for free. • After your first completed teaching quiz, see an optional full-course offer. Choose Continue free to keep learning. The first three stages teach 13 signs; stage four onward requires Pro. • Browse the alphabet by consonant class and look up a letter whenever you need it. HEAR IT. SAY IT. REMEMBER IT. • Audio recorded by a native Thai speaker brings consonant names, vowel sounds, selected words and everyday phrases to life. The recordings work offline. • Additional words and signs without a recording use Thai system speech. • Practise recognising a letter, recalling its name, and identifying its consonant class. • Optionally record yourself and compare with the native speaker. This is listening practice, not an accent or pronunciation score. Temporary takes are deleted after the comparison. • Spaced review prioritises weak letters. Extra practice stays available between scheduled checks, without skipping ahead in the course. UNDERSTAND THAI TONES Learn how consonant class, vowel length, syllable ending and tone marks combine. Work through a written word and see why its tone changes. PRACTISE WRITING Trace a letter, hide the guide and try it from memory. Writing practice is freehand: it does not score handwriting or stroke order. KEEP YOUR PROGRESS VISIBLE Add a daily-letter widget or a practice-calendar widget to your Home Screen or Lock Screen. Your progress and study history stay on your device. No account and no ads. READ REAL WORDS Build simple Thai words from the signs you have learned, listen to selected everyday phrases and practise polite endings. FULL COURSE PRO Unlock the complete course with a one-time lifetime purchase or an annual subscription. Both options unlock the same learning content. The current price and terms are shown in the app before purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Your Apple Account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. You can manage or cancel a subscription in your Apple Account settings. The lifetime purchase does not renew. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm. Privacy Policy: https://thai-alphabet-nine.vercel.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://thai-alphabet-nine.vercel.app/terms
ThaiCards
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ThaiCards is a Thai flashcard app built on spaced repetition. It shows you each word right before you would forget it, and keeps bringing it back until it sticks. Every card carries Thai script, romanization, English and audio, so you can start before you can read Thai. Most of them carry a picture of the moment you would use the word in, which is what makes them stay put. Free to start. A beginner deck, the street food phrases and the coached practice tracks are open before you pay for anything, and you do not need an account to try them. Flashcards - Spaced repetition shows each word right before you would forget it. - Tap to flip between Thai and English. Swipe right or up when you know it, left or down to keep studying it. - Thai script, romanization and English on every card, with audio and tone information. - A daily queue sized to about ten minutes. Word Explorer - Browse thousands of common Thai words by category: basics, food, drinks, travel and more. - Ordered by how often Thai people actually say them, not by dictionary order. - Mark words known to clear them, or keep them in your deck. Situations - Whole phrases for the moments you are actually in: a food stall, a taxi, a market, a family meal, the bank counter. - Fourteen cards work the other way round. They show what somebody says to YOU, with the answer to give back, because asking a question is only half of it. - Tap any word in a phrase to see what it means, hear it on its own, and add it to your own deck. - Written for people who spend real time in Thailand, including a section for Isan and family life rather than tourism. Watch - A hands-off mode for the times you do not want to answer anything. Words play one after another with the audio and an illustration. - Choose one, two, three or four seconds a card and it keeps going on its own. - Slide anywhere in the deck: back to the most common words, forward into rarer ones, or to the point your studying has reached. - Over 2,500 Thai words, each with its own illustration. Coached practice - Work through guided tracks step by step, with a teacher panel that reads each line aloud. - Practice introductions and everyday conversation, one prompt at a time. - Choose your mix of Thai and English: mostly Thai, mostly English, or both. - Speak your answer and check it, or reveal the meaning and move on. Made for beginners - No prior Thai needed. Romanization sits beside the script from the first card. - An optional free account syncs your progress across devices. ThaiCards is an independent project, built by someone who splits time between the US and Thailand and married into a Thai family. It is updated often. If something is broken or confusing, email the developer and a human will answer. An internet connection is required. Subscription ThaiCards Premium is 1.99 USD per month and renews automatically until you cancel. The free tier includes a beginner deck, the street food situations and the coached practice. Premium opens the full deck catalogue, the rest of Watch and every Situations set, keeping words from Word Explorer, and custom vocabulary. You can cancel any time in Settings on your iPhone under your Apple Account, then Subscriptions. Cancelling stops the next renewal, and your access continues through the end of the period you have paid for. Terms of Service: https://flashcards.alexsears.org/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://flashcards.alexsears.org/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: ThaiCards at every 5 days against Thai Alphabet's fortnightly. ThaiCards also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). 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
Both are free to download. Thai Alphabet sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year and ThaiCards sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Thai Alphabet ships an update fortnightly, ThaiCards every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Thai Alphabet | ThaiCards |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Robert Grissom | Alex Sears CPA LLC |
In-app purchases
Thai Alphabet
- Full Course, Yearly$9.991 Year
- Full Course$19.99
ThaiCards
- Thai Tutor Premium$1.991 Month








