Latin App vs Scriba (Latin Dictionary)
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Latin App
This educational app helps middle schoolers master Latin verb, noun, and adjective forms through fun drills. It supports the Ecce Romani textbook and offers quizzes on specific word lists. New passive voice forms were added in the latest update.
- Verb, noun, and adjective drills
- Ecce Romani chapter support
- Quizzes on specific word lists
- Passive voice forms
- Information screen for generated forms
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If you are taking Latin I, this is the study app for you. Created by a teacher at the Foote School in New Haven, CT, to help middle schoolers study verb, noun, and adjective forms, the Latin App makes drilling simple and fun. If you are using the Ecce Romani textbook, just enter the chapter you are currently on and go. Otherwise, read about what forms are generated on the information screen before you start. The Latin App can quiz you on all of the forms of the nouns puella, servus, ager, puer, vox, pater, civis, nomen, baculum, arcus, res, and dies and the adjectives magnus, omnis, ingens, hic, ille, is, and qui. It can also quiz you on all of the forms in the active voice and indicative mood of the verbs paro, habeo, mitto, iacio, audio, sum, possum, volo, nolo, eo, and fero. New in version 1.2 are passive voice forms of regular verbs. Ecce Romani is published by Pearson Education, Inc., which is not affiliated with this app.
Scriba (Latin Dictionary)
This app provides comprehensive Latin language learning resources, including extensive dictionaries, grammar guides, and word parsing tools. It offers flashcards for vocabulary memorization and a document reader for in-context word lookups.
- Lewis and Short's Latin-English dictionary
- Cassell's Latin Dictionary
- Declensions and conjugations
- Latin word parser
- Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar
- Flashcards for vocabulary
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Scriba is a great tool to learn Latin. It features : - Lewis and Short's Latin-English dictionary (50 000 entries) - Cassell's Latin Dictionary (clear and shorter explanations for about 20 000 entries) - declensions and conjugations for most of the entries - a Latin word parser - Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar - an English-Latin lexicon (free version) - Smith & Hall's English-Latin Dictionary (full version) - full text search in Lewis and Short's Latin dictionary - classical texts - a Document reader which allows you to look up words in the database - Flashcards to learn new words
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Latin App at none against Scriba (Latin Dictionary)'s 1. Latin App also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 5 months) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 17.5). Scriba (Latin Dictionary)'s advantage is rating (4.4 vs 4.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Scriba (Latin Dictionary) sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Latin App asks for nothing beyond the download.
Scriba (Latin Dictionary) holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 36 and 13 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 76% and 76% positive.
Latin App ships an update every 5 weeks, Scriba (Latin Dictionary) every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Latin App | Scriba (Latin Dictionary) |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (36 ratings) | 4.4 (13 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 76.2% of reviews | 76.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 36 — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 17.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 155 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Andrew Sweet | Dominique CADIET |
Customer experience
Latin App
Scriba (Latin Dictionary)
In-app purchases
Latin App
No in-app purchases
Scriba (Latin Dictionary)
- Full version$2.99
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