RuHero
Learn Russian with better ways
$0.49 · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Learn Russian with better ways.
RuHero - Your Path to Linguistic Mastery
Four tabs, zero fluff. No account, no subscription, fully offline. Just open and go.
LEARN - The Foundation
Cyrillic Alphabet - All 33 letters with audio. Tap any cursive card to trace it with your finger, just like school propisi.
650+ Vocabulary Words - 30+ themed groups (Family, Food, Travel, Animals, Emotions, Street Russian, Idioms and more). Every word shows stress marks and an example sentence.
53 Grammar Rules - From Gender Detective and Plurals to the full 6-case system, Verb Aspect, Comparatives, and advanced topics: Verb Prefixes, Motion Verbs, Conditional, Participles, and Verbal Adverbs.
Numerals & Time - The "1-2-5" counting rule, gendered numbers, ordinals, time-telling, days, and months.
Graded Readings - A1 through C1 passages with translation and stress marks.
IMMERSE - Real-World Practice
46 Dialogues - Airport, restaurant, doctor, job interview, shopping and more. Two distinct voices alternate naturally, with line-by-line translations. Native audio when available, high-quality TTS fallback.
19 Stories - A1 to C1, from everyday topics to Russian classics (Pushkin, Cheburashka). Tap any word to hear it and see its translation.
Speaking Lab - 37 phrases. Record your voice and get a pronunciation score via speech recognition.
PRACTICE - The Challenge
No tests, no grades - just games that make Russian stick.
Today's Lesson - One tap: SRS reviews, new words, grammar bite, listening check, done. Daily streak included.
Quiz - Reading, Listening, and Reverse modes. Spaced repetition picks what you're about to forget.
Writing Lab - Type the translation. Forgiving checking handles typos, stress marks, and yo/ye variants.
Gender Lab - 30 sentences: pick the correct gendered form in context.
Dictation - Hear a sentence, type Cyrillic, get word-by-word green/red feedback. Replay unlimited.
Number Trainer - Russian numbers 0-999,999 with all the tricky rules (feminine forms, plural shifts, and the 11-14 exception).
Mistake Notebook - Wrong answers auto-collected from Quiz, Writing, and Gender. Flashcard review; graduates after 2 correct in a row.
Terminal - A tech-themed "data recovery" game: solve linguistic puzzles to unlock Russian data.
TOOLS - The Linguistic Suite
Phrasebook - 80 phrases in 8 categories (Greetings, Emergencies, Restaurant, Directions, Shopping, Hotel, Small Talk, Polite Power Phrases). Searchable in English and Russian. Tap to hear.
Scratchpad - Paste any Russian text. Tap "Read" and every word becomes tappable: hear it, see its stress mark, get an instant translation from the 700-word glossary.
Dictionary - Search 650+ words in English or Russian with stress marks and examples.
Verb Conjugator - Handles both conjugation types, 270+ irregulars, reflexive verbs, husher rules, and compound future. Type any infinitive and see every form.
Declension Calculator - All 6 cases, singular and plural. Soft stems, 7-letter rule, indeclinable loanwords, irregular plurals.
Root Explorer - 24 root families visualized. See how one root branches into an entire word family. The fastest way to multiply your vocabulary.
UNDER THE HOOD
Natural Voice with real intonation - pauses at commas, rises on questions, picks the best installed Russian voice.
SM-2 Spaced Repetition behind every quiz and lesson. No deck management needed.
Stress marks on 250+ words across vocabulary, phrasebook, scratchpad, and stories.
100% offline. No internet, no account, no ads, no subscription.
From Privet to Dostoevsky - let's begin!
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This is our biggest update yet — RuHero is now a full toolkit for learning Russian, not just a study app.
NATURAL VOICE
Speech now reads with real intonation, pausing at commas and periods and rising on questions — and automatically picks the highest-quality Russian voice on your device.
NEW WAYS TO PRACTICE
• Dictation — hear a sentence, type what you catch, get instant word-by-word feedback
• Listening & reverse quiz modes — train your ear and learn to produce Russian, not just recognize it
• Mistake Notebook — every wrong answer is saved and re-drilled until it sticks
• Today's Lesson — your 10 minutes assembled in one tap, with a daily streak
• Number Trainer — master Russian numbers from 0 to 999,999 out loud
EVERYDAY TOOLS
• Phrasebook — real phrases for travel, cafés, shopping and emergencies, searchable and spoken
• Scratchpad — paste any Russian text and tap any word to hear it and see its meaning
• Fixed and expanded Verb Conjugator and Declension Calculator for accurate grammar
MORE TO LEARN
• Stress marks (ударение) shown on vocabulary
• Spaced repetition that schedules reviews right before you'd forget
• Pronunciation scoring — speak a phrase and get a score
• Cursive tracing practice
• New stories, hundreds of new words, and advanced grammar (verb aspect, prefixes, conditional, participles and more)
Spasibo for learning with us! Keep the feedback coming.
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Data Not Collected
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Information
- Seller
- Nurgul Cakoglu
- Size
- 8.7 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.6 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 16.6 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 16.6 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 13.5 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Contains
User-Generated Content
- Copyright
- © 2026 Nurgul Cakoglu
