Íslenska vs BÍN
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Íslenska
Practice Icelandic noun declensions with interactive games. Test your knowledge of cases, numbers, and articles for nouns, names, and pronouns. Track your progress with detailed performance graphs.
- Noun declension practice
- Tests cases, numbers, and articles
- Includes names and pronouns
- Progress tracking graphs
- Singular and plural forms
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Appið Íslenska er fyrir þá sem vilja æfa sig í fallbeygingu. Hver leikur samanstendur af mismunandi orðum sem þarf að fallbeygja í nefnifalli, þolfalli, þágufalli og eignarfalli. Orðið sem spurt er um getur verið í eintölu eða fleirtölu og með greini eða án greinis. Einnig er spurt um beygingu mannanafna og fornafna. Í lok leiks er sýnt graf með hlutfalli réttra svara.
BÍN
Access detailed inflectional forms for Icelandic words. This app utilizes the BÍN-core database API to provide comprehensive grammatical information for Icelandic vocabulary.
- Icelandic word inflection retrieval
- Access to BÍN-core database
- Grammatical information for vocabulary
- Utilizes published API
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BÍN-kjarninn is an app used to retrieve inflection information for Icelandic words accessed via the published API to the BÍN-core database, © The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies 2002-2025.
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Verdict
Íslenska and BÍN both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Íslenska's written reviews are positive against 0% of BÍN's. Íslenska also leads on iOS requirement (9.3 vs 13.4). BÍN's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Íslenska against 5.0 for BÍN. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Íslenska's written reviews are positive against 0% of BÍN's.
Íslenska ships an update every 3 weeks, BÍN weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Íslenska | BÍN |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.3 — better | 13.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Smaforrit ehf | William Stewart |
Customer experience
Íslenska
BÍN
In-app purchases
Íslenska
No in-app purchases
BÍN
No in-app purchases
