SummitPeek vs Combining Forms Dictionary
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SummitPeek
Identify mountain peaks by pointing your device's camera at them. This app uses GPS to pinpoint your location and displays summit names on screen, even without cellular service. It covers nearly 85,000 peaks in the United States and Canada.
- AR peak identification
- GPS location services
- Offline functionality
- Extensive peak database
- Supports iPhone and iPad
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Identify mountain peaks using your iPhone or cellular enabled iPad. Point the camera at the mountain range you are interested in and see the summit names displayed on the screen. Uses GPS to identify your location so it will work even if you are in an area with no cellular service. Information for almost 85,000 peaks across the United States and Canada is included.
Combining Forms Dictionary
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This app is designed to help you study combining forms and how to form an adjective, noun or verb from combining forms. Combining form is a form of a word that can combine with free word, root word or another combining form to get a new word. For example: • -affected :to form an adjective meaning "suffering from the thing that is mentioned" flood-affected, rain-affected, famine-affected • crypto- to form a noun meaning "secret" cryptography, cryptocurrency • -afflicted: to form an adjective meaning "badly affected from the thing that is mentioned" conflict-afflicted, disease-afflicted, poverty-afflicted • -appointed: to form an adjective meaning "chosen" court-appointed, government-appointed, president-appointed • - consuming: to form an adjective meaning "using" fuel-consuming, power-consuming, time-consuming • fast- to form an adjective meaning "quick" fast-charging, fast-growing • fore- to form adjective, noun, verb meaning "before, in advance" foreboding, forecast, foretell • high- to form adjective, noun, verb meaning "far above, greater" high-flown, high-flyer, high-grade • -induced to form adjective, noun meaning "caused by" diet-induced, earthquake-induced • -infested to form adjective meaning "existing in large numbers of something unpleasant that is mentioned" alligator-infested, bacteria-infested • low - to form adjective, noun, verb meaning "below" low-class, low-grade, low-intensity • mid- to from adjective, noun meaning "middle" mid-air, mid-Atlantic, midday, midlife, mid-range • much- to form adjective meaning "greatly" much-cited, much-debated, much expected • pseudo- to form adjective, adverb, noun meaning "not genuine" pseudo-science, pseudo-secular • -prone to form adjective meaning "likely to suffer" accident-prone, corruption-prone, flood-prone • -free to form adjective meaning "without" corruption-free, stress-free, tax-free, sugar-free • vice- to form noun and adjective vice-admiral, vice president, vice captain • radio- to form adjective, noun, adverb meaning "connected with radio wave" radio-controlled, radiotherapy • -raising to form adjective and noun meaning "lifting or increasing" awareness-raising, hair-raising, fundraising and many more. If you are preparing for SAT, IELTS, TOEFL, etc, this app will greatly help you to increase your vocabulary. It also improves your reading and writing skills. Using word such as "poverty-stricken", "corruption-free", "technology-driven", "time-consuming" in your essay and be a plus. COMBINING FORMS • 229 combining forms • Each entry comes with meaning, words from that combining form • Bookmark feature • Recent entries • Advanced search WORDS • Over 1980 words • Each entry comes with sample sentences from online news SENTENCES • Over 8700 sentences STUDY • Study combining forms • Study words • Learn a unit with multiple choice quizzes • Flashcards
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: SummitPeek at every 8 months against Combining Forms Dictionary's every 41 months. SummitPeek also leads on chart position (#186 vs unranked). Combining Forms Dictionary's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.6). 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
SummitPeek costs $0.99 and Combining Forms Dictionary $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SummitPeek ships an update every 8 months, Combining Forms Dictionary every 41 months. The most recent releases landed on September 7, 2026 and August 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SummitPeek | Combining Forms Dictionary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.0 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months — better | Every 41 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Best chart rank | #186 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 88 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Geoffrey S. Armstrong | Trung Nguyen |
In-app purchases
SummitPeek
No in-app purchases
Combining Forms Dictionary
No in-app purchases
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