iDoms Vocab 4+

I bought this application to help develop my Greek vocab. I've been learning for a few years and have always found grammar easier, so this was my way of honing vocab and extending it.

It's been great. You get 50 words of Greek and of Hebrew for free, and it's only £1.49 for all the words of the Greek NT (except for the hapaxes). It helpfully tracks your progress, both as a whole of all the words available, as well as on each term. You start on 50 points on each, get reduction for getting it wrong or not knowing, and then +10points every time you get it right. When it gets to 100 it introduces a new term and only includes the words on 100 occasionally.

It's the best money I've spent on learning Greek vocab. I've tried paper flashcards and other things, but this app is really handy, does the tracking work for me, and more importantly helps me learn Greek!

Only critique would be lack of pronunciation for the Greek terms (currently just Hebrew). It's not necessary, but it would add a bit extra. I'm looking forward to new vocab packs coming out (e.g. for all the vocab in Mark's Gospel or something).

A satisfied customer!

This is my favourite app for learning vocabulary for Biblical languages. It introduces words in order of descending frequency, so that you learn the most common words first. As you progress it uses a scoring system to make sure you learn words correctly before introducing new words. Furthermore, words you know well are occasionally brought back into exercises to refresh your long-term memory.

If you're serious about learning Greek and Hebrew, this could well be the best app to get.

Note, the app is free, but you need to pay for the word lists (£1.49 for each). I think it's worth it, and this gives you the option of only choosing one language if you prefer to pay less.

There are a couple of improvements that would raise this app to 5 stars, including seamless iCloud synchronisation between devices (there have been issues with this feature so far). I would also like to see my progress more easily (you can check your progress, but it isn't immediately obvious how to do that). However, the app is effective and certainly worth using. Highly recommended.

I've only just bought this but am really impressed with it. My main plus point is the value for money that takes Greek down to 2 word occurrences and Hebrew down to 5 times. I also like the way it intelligently adds in more words as you learn the more common ones. I haven't yet seen a way to manually control the frequency of words that you can study and this would be a nice extra for the future.