Scribe Korean

Full disclosure: I am working on an app for English-speaking learners of Korean, so I'm a direct competitor. That said, I am also a learner of Korean, and I thought the app might be useful to review some vocabulary. The app has lots of different ways of quizzing the user on the content, which is good, but the example sentences are... of very random quality. Many of them are fine and helpful, but others are obviously broken, so don't put too much faith in them because not all of them are proper Korean. I'm not sure where they come from, but I'm pretty sure they weren't checked by a native speaker. The definitions themselves are mostly decent compared to those found in many competing Korean-language-learning apps. There's definitely room for improvement though. The pronunciations sound alright to me so far, but be aware that only a fraction of the words have example sentences. As of 2017-10-18, there is no support whatsoever for Apple's iPad Pro keyboard. The app allows you to add notes to vocabulary cards, but I had to type them on the glass because the app was completely unaware of the keyboard. (The keyboard works fine in other apps. It's not broken.) As far as Korean flashcard apps go, this one isn't so bad. It has not been updated in (more than?) a year though. It could become a pretty decent app if it were polished a little and good example sentences were added to each and every entry. I have no clue whether the developer has any intention of doing that (or of ever updating the app). As it is, it's neither excellent nor awful. I'll probably get my money's worth out of it, but if you don't like paying for apps, you might want to test the app thoroughly before you pull the trigger (or not) on the in-app purchase. If anything, the vocabulary list gives you a good idea of the vocabulary you have to learn if you're serious about mastering the language. (It does not help much with grammar though.)

Love this app. Very flexible for learning vocabulary. It's designed to optimize retention and learning and it delivers. Lots of great game modes to challenge yourself with. Definitely my favourite vocabulary app.

This app is amazing to learn korean, the only thing I would add is a web version so I can continue playing when I am home on my computer.

This app is so worth the money. My vocabulary has increased 3 times what it was in just a few weeks. It's not hard to use, either. I had an issue syncing between my iPad and iPhone, but contacted customer care and they were supportive. The sync isn't exact but it gets closer to perfect as I continue to sync my devices between study sessions. Way better value than anything else I have tried so far!

The voiced pronunciations are wrong most of the time, but you wouldn't know that unless you paid the 10$ for the full app since they locked that part out of the demo. Pretty smart thing to do if you are planning on never fixing that. I hope the devs prove me wrong, but until they do, don't waste your money on this one. Additionally, the example sentences which give context to the word's meaning were obviously obtained via a search engine and not a korean speaker, hence the example of "Columbus discovered America." for the korean word for 'bus' which is beosu in korean.

It's good because it has lots of different games. English to Korean. Korean to English. And spoken Korean to written English. There are a few mistakes in translation and some of the pronunciations but the developer is friendly and working to improve it

I paid for the app and found that I often come back to it to work on my vocabulary skills. I only wish that there was an option to exclude the romanization. As an English speaker my eyes naturally lock in on the romanized version of the word. This makes it difficult to focus on the Hangul. Edit: June 2020 I have to be honest here. I recently became serious about my language study and found that this app is a solid home base. I use this app to replace a flash card system and access it EVERY day. You are able to look through the list of vocabulary words and add a new word to rotation by selecting “learn”. This is helpful when you already know a word but want to keep a current, active list of how many words that you will be using. This is super helpful to me because I study Korean using a combination of different media and apps. I like that the app shows the number of words that you have learned and has different levels. In my experience the levels are appropriately assigned. The color levels assigned to the words that you know or don’t know also help with review. The ability to use of the different methods of review helps to learn the words without using the romanization. When I switched to the mode where I hear the word only, my understanding of the language improved immensely. All in all I am more than satisfied with this app. I’m glad that I paid the fee to upgrade. ALSO, THERE IS ONLY A ONE TIME FEE!!! I will be keeping this app as long as I am language learning. Borrowed Words Note: the lowest level has many borrowed words. But this is NOT the case for the higher levels. I think the developers wanted to start new korean language learners off slowly.

An excellent App! Challenging, interactive, and marks your progress. I wish it was also on Android😕 ✨ ✨👍✨👍✨ ✨

This app is an excellent way to control your learning because you can use the settings to turn on and off words. So if you turn off all the words and just turn on 4 words at a time and keep repeating it, you will build long-term memory. I just wish there was an 'All Off' switch. Please work on a more beautiful interface (like 'SplitMasters') 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

I would like to have gone far enough into the list to experience the app at my level (which I didn't think was very high until this), but I grew way too tired of 99% borrowed words in the intro lesson. While I believe it's good to know borrowed words, there definitely could've (and should've) been at least a slightly more balanced mix of borrowed and native words. 안녕하다 seemed to be literally the only non-borrowed word, and if I wanted to experience the app with more words like that, I was told to pay the $8.99 fee to upgrade. Maybe it's much better for very beginner Korean learners. The listening was nice and I appreciated the Diary/Learning/Due pages. If the intro were a bit better vocab-wise, I might be willing to pay the extra money. Might.