ConjuGato – Spanish Verbs 4+

UPDATE: ConjuGato is adding updates that address all my suggestions, WOOHOO!!

So far I’ve researched other apps and this is my favorite one. Other ones you have to write out but I am more interested in quickening my ability to speak. I have a good baseline for Spanish and vocabulary but the first thing I lose is verb conjugation when it’s been a while since I’ve spoken. For that reason I like that this app can refresh me when I need to. I also like that for $5, it unlocks pro, none of this subscription frustration. Some suggestions I would add that I would pay additional for are if they made it so you could rate how well you know each card so that the algorithm makes that card show up more frequently and ones you don’t know as well not show up. For example I don’t need to practice present conjugation except for irregular verbs but until I get the irregular verbs I have to practice all of them. That’s my 2 cents. Also this app has the most verbs of all the verb conjugation apps. Another suggestion I would also pay additional money for is instead of showing the card that asks for the preterite form of the word “acabar”, in context sentences would anchor more in actual language use. That said, this is my favorite app so far, thank you Conjugato for not just making a great app but also one with a cute app icon because details matter!

Thank you for the review, glad the app helps! 😊 A rating algorithm is coming in the next update: there will be a "minus" button to decrease the frequency of the currently displayed conjugation. After 3-5 taps this conjugation will be excluded from the practice. For now, you can limit your practicing range to 1–50 in the Settings – most of the irregulars are in this range. We are also considering adding the example sentences but it will definitely take some time because of the number of verbs in the app.

This app has been one of my most used foreign language apps to help me with my Spanish practice. I’m not sure if the developer has made apps for other languages, but even the free version has been very useful, so I’m glad I paid for the pro version to support this developer. I can see this kind of approach to conjugation being excellent for French, Italian, and Portuguese. A suggestion for a future idea may be to have a toggle for studying irregular verbs. When it’s selected, it has the irregular tenses from the top 100 verbs, so that way people may be able to study the most used irregular verbs, practicing the hardest verbs exclusively! Also, since I use it as a quick dictionary for verbs, could there be a toggle to have the search panel always visible in the verbs section? That’s a small change that maybe would just benefit me so I’m not too worried about it.

For Spanish learners, this app feels like it’s genuinely helpful, unlike many apps that may teach words that aren’t even used every day. Having the top 100 most used verbs for free is really teaching people what they should learn first. So I very much recommend this app and hope there may be more apps from this developer for other Latin based languages!

Thank you a lot for the review! 😻 You can already filter conjugations by regularity from the Settings tab -> "Filter verbs" menu option. There you can find switches for verb forms that are regular, irregular, or have orthographic changes. You can combine it with the "Limit practice to a subset of verbs" setting on the same screen and practice just the 100 most popular irregular verbs. Regarding the search field: it would probably be better to make it always visible, but I have to check if iOS allows that – thanks for the suggestion! Regarding other languages: I'm contemplating a French version of the app and maybe a Portuguese one too. :)

IMHO ConjuGato is THE model for how a verb learning app should work. I first downloaded it to be able to see all the conjugations of a given verb in one place, and it does that wonderfully.

Then I discovered the Practice feature, and that was a game changer. It gives you a verb and its translation, and you conjugate it in the tense and person you're given. It gives you feedback as you're typing -- correct letters are black, incorrect letters are red, correct letters with incorrect accents are orange, and when you've got the word right the whole verb turns green. You can get hints one letter at a time.

Already mastered the present tense? No problem, just exclude it. Want to just focus on irregular and stem-changing verbs in the future tense? Easy as pie. The present subjunctive for only the 100 (or 200, or 343) most used verbs? Yep, it can do that, too. This app is great for really narrowing in on the areas you need to improve, and getting you to fix those areas FAST.

The interface, BTW, is clean and elegant and easy to figure out. It's a delight to use this app.

My only grumble is that I can't seem to find how to upgrade to the pro version. Not that I feel like anything is lacking in the free version; I just want to support the developer.

Also I would be thrilled if they came out with versions for other languages.

Thank you for such a detailed review!! 😻 Glad you are enjoying the app! The upgrade page should be available from the center button in the bottom tab. But it gets removed after upgrading, and you also mentioned having more than 100 verbs (the free version includes only the first 100), so it sounds like the Pro version is activated already.