Morse Code vs Heard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Morse Code
Learn and practice Morse code with a system keyboard and LED transmitter. Features include training modes for beginners and professionals, listening comprehension exercises, and real-time message transmission via flash, screen, or sound. Supports German, Russian, and English alphabets.
- Morse code training system
- LED transmitter for messages
- Listening comprehension exercises
- Text to Morse code conversion
- Adjustable input speed
- Multi-language alphabet support
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Dit. Dah. And one day the hiss turns into words. Morse isn't another flashcard app with cartoon letters. It's a telegraphy school in your pocket: a course that takes you from zero to head copy, and a proving ground where experienced ops chase their own records. A gentle on-ramp for the newcomer. An honest fight for the veteran. NEW TO CW No memorizing the alphabet off a chart. The Koch method hands you two characters and adds the next only when the last ones are solid — you never get bored and never get buried. The app picks today's characters out of the mistakes you made yesterday. Fifteen minutes a day for a couple of weeks and you're hearing letters, not decoding them in your head. ALREADY HAVE A FIST Here's something to measure yourself against. Callsign copying scored the RufzXP way: fifty calls, the speed climbing with every clean one, errors biting into your score. Sending judged the way a contest judges it — an uneven fist and uncorrected characters cost you, not just your speed. Game Center leaderboards put a number on where you stand in the world. And you can run all of it on your own brass, not a finger on glass. AIR THAT DOESN'T GO EASY ON YOU Forget the clean textbook tone. QSB, QRM, QRN, carrier whistles, key clicks, chirp, a buzzy note — and the faster you work, the rougher it gets. You train in the band you'll actually meet, not in a laboratory. YOUR BRASS, IN THE APP Glass will never feel like brass, and we know it. Connect your key through a Bluetooth adapter — straight key, bug, iambic paddles, whatever sits on your desk — and work it right here: practice, take the test, chase records. Iambic auto-repeat behaves the way it should; paddles swap sides with one switch. No adapter? A game controller does the job — two buttons, dit and dah. WHEN THE KEY ISN'T WITHIN REACH The Morse keyboard turns iPhone into a paddle: key your messages straight into any app you type in. The converter turns text into dits and dahs, an audio file or a QR image in a second. Dictation keeps your texts and plays them back at any speed when you want blind copy practice. 37 MORSE TABLES — ANY LANGUAGE, ANY SCRIPT International, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, Hindi, Thai, Japanese Wabun, the Chinese telegraph code and more. Scripts with no table of their own are transliterated for you, so nothing stays silent. Progress and records follow you through iCloud — start on iPhone, carry on at the Mac. Some sections are free. Unlock all features with a monthly subscription or a one-time purchase for lifetime access. The subscription renews automatically until you cancel it in your Apple Account. Privacy policy: https://static.macflash.ru/PRIVACY_POLICY_EN Terms of use: https://static.macflash.ru/TERMS_OF_USE_EN
Heard
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Explore APRS like never before. Heard brings live amateur radio APRS activity to your iPhone and iPad with a clean, modern experience designed for discovering stations, following movement, messaging other operators, and understanding the signals around you. FEATURES • Native iPad layouts with the map and station details side by side • Weather reports and telemetry readings when supplied by stations • Live APRS map with semantic station categories • Explore nearby stations and recent activity • Search callsigns and view detailed station information • Track moving stations with breadcrumb trails and live following • Send and receive APRS messages in conversation-style threads • View station context including last heard, distance, status, and comments when available • Choose Standard, Satellite, or Hybrid map styles • QRZ integration for additional callsign information • Optional offline Canadian and United States callsign directories • Fast on-device callsign-directory lookup after download • Simple location-based listening setup • Live APRS-IS monitoring and messaging • Advanced connection details and diagnostics when you need them TRACK STATIONS Follow a moving APRS station while keeping the map in view. Heard can retain a recent breadcrumb trail, follow new position reports, center on the station, and reduce visual clutter from surrounding stations. Choose how much of the trail you want to see, from the last 10 minutes to the entire current tracking session. APRS MESSAGING Heard turns APRS messaging into a focused, conversation-first experience. Start a conversation directly from a station, send and receive messages, view delivery state where available, and move naturally between a conversation and that station on the map. CALLSIGN INFORMATION Quickly learn more about the stations you hear. Heard supports optional offline Canadian and United States callsign directories, with directory data stored locally after download. QRZ integration provides another convenient way to access additional callsign information when you want it. BUILT FOR AMATEUR RADIO Heard is designed to make APRS easier to explore without hiding the capabilities experienced operators expect. Everyday controls stay simple, while advanced connection settings and diagnostics remain available when needed. Whether monitoring local activity, exploring the APRS network, messaging another station, or following movement, Heard provides a simple and focused way to experience APRS on iPhone and iPad. Heard connects to the public APRS-IS network. Available stations, position reports, messages, and acknowledgements depend on live APRS network activity.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Heard at none against Morse Code's 3. Heard also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. Morse Code sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Heard asks for nothing beyond the download.
Morse Code ships an update every 4 days, Heard every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Morse Code | Heard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (64 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 48.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 64 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | macflash.ru | Dan Tilsley |
In-app purchases
Morse Code
- Premium for a Month$7.991 Month
- Premium year3 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Premium Forever$39.99
Heard
No in-app purchases








