Comparison

Pyonkee vs Language challenges

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

Head to head
About

Pyonkee

This app offers a real programming environment for creating games, animations, and stories using visual blocks. It's inspired by Scratch and optimized for touch devices, allowing users to learn logic, creativity, and collaboration through coding.

Highlights
  • Visual block-based programming
  • Create games, animations, and stories
  • Optimized for touch devices
  • Import sounds and pictures
  • Share projects easily
  • Connect with micro:bit
  • Utilize iPad sensors
Features
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Tired of consuming? Let's enjoy creating! Based on Scratch, Pyonkee provides a real, programming environment, anytime, anywhere! Pyonkee is a new dynamic media for developing various ideas. By combining visual blocks, kids/adults are able to create original games, animations, and stories on their own. Through the programming process, we will learn about logics, productivity, creativity, and collaborations. Pyonkee has been developed from the open-source code of "Scratch 1.4" from MIT Media Lab. Since Pyonkee is fully compatible with Scratch 1.4, millions of existing Scratch projects can be used for reference. Pyonkee's user interface is optimized for touch devices. We do not need cumbersome typing, even a mouse. Just write programs wherever you like. Pyonkee nicely supports pinch-in/out, and font scaling for small devices. Moreover, sound recorder and camera are provided for importing your sounds and pictures into the projects. We can mix various media on Pyonkee and program them. Moreover, you can share your projects via AirDrop, e-mail, iCloud, and other cloud storage services. From the version 2.1, you are able to create programs using various iPad sensors and Mesh network protocol. From the version 2.3, more than 100 instruments are available in sound block. You can even play other synth app's sounds by enabling Virtual MIDI. From the version 2.20, Pyonkee is able to connect to micro:bit. You can get values from various sensors and send analog/digital signals to the pins. By combining the micro:bit with Pyonkee, you can enjoy an even wider world of programming. Dive into the fun of visual programming!

About

Language challenges

Engage in fun, interactive language challenges and quizzes to improve your skills. Progress through levels, earn certificates, and compete with friends to become a master secret agent in over 20 languages. Offers an offline mode and is completely free to use.

Highlights
  • Interactive language challenges
  • Quizzes developed by European Commission
  • Progress through agent levels
  • Compete with friends
  • Offline mode
  • Available in 20+ languages
  • Certificates upon level completion
Features
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English Discover your true talent for languages… The challenges and quizzes contained within this app encourage learners – future international agents – to take advantage of the plentiful opportunities available to practice or learn more about a language beyond a classroom context. By passing through a series of levels you can rise from a lowly agent in training to become a master secret agent. You can compete with friends in achieving challenges, identifying countries and languages and completing quizzes. The challenges go from the easy, such as, “count from 1-10 in 3 different languages within one minute” to ones that are a bit more demanding, “together with a friend, write the words to a song/rap in a foreign language”. Why a secret agent’s language challenges app? - Fun - Interactive - Lots of new features (such as a quiz developed by the European Commission) - No ads, offline mode and totally for free! - Captivating - Available in 20+ languages You can reward yourself after completing each level with a certificate available on EDL website. Visit the official EDL website to find more interesting facts about languages. https://www.coe.int/EDL

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pyonkee at 62% against Language challenges's 20%. Language challenges's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 4 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pyonkee ships an update every 4 months, Language challenges fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Pyonkee versus Language challenges: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPyonkeeLanguage challenges
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (53 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews61.5% of reviews — better20.0% of reviews
Number of ratings53 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS1313.0
Further details — not scored
Size137 MB62 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSoftUmeYa, LLC.European Centre for Modern Languages

Customer experience

Pyonkee

All ratings43 ratings
Positive60.5%
Neutral9.3%
Negative30.2%
Written reviews117 reviews
Positive61.5%
Neutral10.3%
Negative28.2%

Language challenges

Written reviews15 reviews
Positive20.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative80.0%

Bugs and requests

Pyonkee

Reported bugs

16 issues
  • App crashes when importing photos
  • App kicks user out
  • Blocks not working
  • Stamp and select features not working
  • Forever if block issue
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  • Storage usage too high (5GB)
  • App crashes when making games (e.g., Five Nights at Freddy's)
  • Loading screen stuck
  • Blocks/sprites disappear briefly when moved
  • Memory cleaning issues causing reloads
  • Pixels shift when drawing sprites
  • Image import forces rectangular crop
  • App crashes on launch (iOS 8, iPad Mini)
  • Slow performance/lagging
  • Editor runs slowly
  • Freezes when making multiple costumes

Requested features

24 requests
  • Update to Scratch 2.0/3.0
  • Support for .sb3 and .sjr files
  • Add clone blocks
  • Add original Scratch Cat sprite
  • Implement auto-save function
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  • Improve drawing/sprite editing tools
  • Add sharing rules and report buttons
  • Add social media sharing
  • Add new blocks (e.g., when screen swiped)
  • Support for importing images from camera roll
  • Support for importing audio from iTunes
  • Add more background images
  • Add more scripts and features
  • Improve performance and speed
  • Add scroll bar for UI elements
  • Make it lighter/less resource-intensive
  • Add a home screen
  • Allow uploading projects to Dropbox
  • Add online play and sharing
  • Add iMessage sharing and email file opening
  • Add mature sprites
  • Add programming explanations
  • Support for Kanji input
  • Make it more compatible with newer iOS versions

Language challenges

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Pyonkee

No in-app purchases

None

Language challenges

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pyonkee free?
Pyonkee is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Language challenges free?
Language challenges is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pyonkee or Language challenges have ads?
Neither Pyonkee nor Language challenges shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pyonkee or Language challenges?
Pyonkee ships an update every 4 months, and Language challenges fortnightly. Most recently, Pyonkee was updated on November 1, 2026 and Language challenges on November 3, 2026.

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