Comparison

Cognate vs Student Browser

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

Head to head
About

Cognate

Features
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Most vocabulary apps ask you to trust a streak. Cognate asks a harder question and then answers it: how many words do you actually know? Sixteen yes-or-no questions place you on a frequency list. From that day on the app keeps one number, the words you retain: the words it expects you to remember right now, with at least 90% probability, calculated from your own review history. Nothing else is dressed up as progress. MEASURED, NOT PROMISED The number starts at zero on your first day and it can go down. A word counts only after it has come back days later and stuck. That is the whole point: a count you can trust is worth more than a streak you can protect. 49 LANGUAGES, OFFLINE Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian, Russian, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian, Macedonian, Romanian, Catalan, Galician, Basque, Latin, Ancient Greek, Greek, Albanian, Turkish, Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Malay, Tagalog, Hungarian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Welsh, Armenian, Georgian, Afrikaans and Esperanto. Each dictionary downloads once, then works with no connection: entries, senses, example sentences with translations, inflected forms and pronunciation. Free keeps one language in study. FIVE WAYS TO BE ASKED Recognition, listening, production, cloze and inflection. The scheduler is FSRS-6, and it opens a new card type for a word only once that word has earned it. ON THE LOCK SCREEN, ON THE WRIST A Lock Screen widget with the word of the moment and today's count. A Home Screen widget that shows the word first and the meaning on Reveal, with both grades right there. An Apple Watch app for one-handed review. Siri and Shortcuts. WORDS YOU CANNOT KEEP After too many misses in a row, a word leaves the study queue instead of eating every session. It stays in the dictionary and you can put it back whenever you want. PRIVACY No account, no sign-up, no password. Your words and answers stay on your phone, and in your own iCloud if you are signed in. FREE AND PRO Free: one language, 50 words in study, the widgets, the whole dictionary and search. Pro: every language, no cap on words. Monthly, yearly or once. SOURCES Dictionary data from Wiktionary and JMdict. Example sentences from Tatoeba and public-domain corpora. Pronunciation from Lingua Libre and Wikimedia Commons. Every example sentence and recording names its own source and licence, and the full list is in Settings. SUBSCRIPTION AND TERMS Cognate Pro is available monthly, yearly with a two-week free trial for new subscribers, or as a one-time Lifetime purchase. Prices appear in the app before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. A subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends, and you can manage or cancel it in Settings, Apple Account, Subscriptions. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://getcognate.app/privacy

About

Student Browser

Features
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The student watch browser is a learning tool for students. Manage words, TXT files, formulas, periodic tables of elements and videos through iPhone and transfer them to Apple Watch. It supports memorizing words, reading and reviewing on the wrist when there is no mobile phone or Internet.

Screenshots

Cognate4 screens
Student Browser4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Student Browser at none against Cognate's 3. Student Browser also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Cognate sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Student Browser asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Cognate versus Student Browser: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCognateStudent Browser
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch โ€” better
Requires iOS26.017.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size130 MB9 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperTanzi Labs LLCๅ‡ฏ็ฅฅ ๅญŸ

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Cognate

Subscriptions2
  • Cognate Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Cognate Pro Yearly14 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Cognate Pro Lifetime$79.99
None

Student Browser

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cognate free?
Cognate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Student Browser free?
Student Browser is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Cognate or Student Browser have ads?
Neither Cognate nor Student Browser shows ads.

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