Comparison

Basic Spanish conversations vs Casa Carmen

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

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About

Basic Spanish conversations

Learn Spanish through listening to everyday dialogues and practicing conversations with interactive exercises. Expand your vocabulary with over 2500 words and 1300 phrases, aided by high-quality photos.

Highlights
  • Listen to typical Spanish dialogues
  • Practice conversations with exercises
  • Learn over 1300 useful phrases
  • Revise over 2500 words with photos
  • Interactive vocabulary matching
  • Sentence and dialogue ordering exercises
Features
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Why don't you learn Spanish a little bit? A) Listen to typical Spanish dialogues: 1. Everyday conversation - meet your new friend, arrange another meeting, visit your friend, talk about your family and jobs... 2. Travelling - check in at the airport, travel by plane, coach, train or boat, go through the immigration and passport control... 3. Holiday - book your hotel or log cabin at the camp, order your meal at the restaurant, rent a car, buy your skipass... 4. City life - ask about the way, travel by tube, bus or taxi, go to the cinema or gallery, do some shopping... B) Practise conversations in exercises: 1. Match words to photographs. 2. Put words in the correct order to make sentences. 3. Put sentences in the correct order to make dialogues. 4. Listen and read all parts again. C) Learn phrases and words: 1. Listen, read and repeat more than 1300 useful phrases to speak fluently. 2. Use 750 high quality photos to revise the meaning and pronunciation of more than 2500 words. Terms of Use : https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy : https://www.myapp.page/language-reading-books/privacy

About

Casa Carmen

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Learn Spanish the way you'd actually spend your evening: watching a telenovela. Casa Carmen teaches beginner Spanish through "La Casa de Abuela Carmen" — an original animated telenovela about a nosy grandmother, a suspiciously charming new neighbor, and a neighborhood where everyone is watching everyone. Episodes are 60–90 seconds, fully voiced in Spanish, with big dual Spanish/English subtitles and key vocabulary highlighted as it's spoken. HOW IT WORKS • Watch a short episode — real dialogue, real drama, learner pacing • Practice what you just heard — exercises built from each episode's lines • Answer Carmen yourself — after every episode she asks about YOUR life, in Spanish, and coaches your answer without ever marking it wrong • Read the neighborhood's paper trail — Esperanza's surveillance notebook, love letters, recipe cards — short in-world texts at exactly your level • Save lines, words, and grammar drills as you go — everything feeds one spaced-repetition review deck (flip cards, typed recall, say-the-line) • Tune into Radio Casa Carmen — the episodes you've watched as a radio feed, with original segments you haven't heard to train your ear • Keep your streak — the sun rises with your daily progress WHY A TELENOVELA? Because you remember stories, not word lists. Every phrase you learn arrives attached to a scene, a face, and a dramatic sting. You'll know what "¿Quién es ese chico?" means because you were there when Abuela Carmen said it. WHAT'S FREE The first episodes, their exercises, and review are free. Casa Carmen Pro unlocks every episode of the season and new episodes as they drop. Aprende español con el drama. El drama no espera. Privacy Policy: https://casacarmen.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Basic Spanish conversations4 screens
Casa Carmen4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Casa Carmen at monthly against Basic Spanish conversations's every 3 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Basic Spanish conversations sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Casa Carmen sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Basic Spanish conversations ships an update every 3 months, Casa Carmen monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Basic Spanish conversations versus Casa Carmen: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBasic Spanish conversationsCasa Carmen
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.7 (36 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings36 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNatalja MorozovaTemno Modro d.o.o.

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Basic Spanish conversations

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly Subscription$4.997 Days
  • Yearly Subscription$24.991 Year
One-time6
  • Unidad 1: Buenos días$1.99
  • Unidad 2: Viajar$1.99
  • Unidad 3: De vacaciones$1.99
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  • Unidad 4: En la ciudad$1.99
  • Todas las unidades$4.99
  • Lifetime Access$39.99
2 purchases

Casa Carmen

Subscriptions2
  • Casa Carmen Pro$4.997 Days
  • Casa Carmen Pro$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Basic Spanish conversations free?
Basic Spanish conversations is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Casa Carmen free?
Casa Carmen is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Basic Spanish conversations or Casa Carmen have ads?
Neither Basic Spanish conversations nor Casa Carmen shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Basic Spanish conversations or Casa Carmen?
Basic Spanish conversations ships an update every 3 months, and Casa Carmen monthly. Most recently, Basic Spanish conversations was updated on October 24, 2026 and Casa Carmen on October 11, 2026.

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