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Nerdish: Learn Something New by Nerdish OU is on App Store and Google Play. Active Users (MAU & DAU), Downloads, rankings, keywords, revenue, and rating totals.
Nerdish: Learn Something New update history & changes
Last change · 28 events since 26 Jun 2021Full timeline ↓Full timeline · 28 events
- 🚀Nerdish: Learn Something New: now shown next to Yuno: Daily Micro Learning, Wyzr, MyGrowth: Daily Micro Learning +3 moreiOSthe store's “similar apps” for it changed: who it's seen as competing with
- 📈Nerdish: Learn Something New charting in a new country in 3 chartsAndroidAustralia · France · United Kingdom
- 📈Nerdish: Learn Something New entered the top 100 in 2 chartsAndroidTop Free · Education · DE · Top Free · Education · GB
- 📦Nerdish: Learn Something New updated to version 4.1.108iOSSmart reading starts the moment you’re curious. This update makes Nerdish a little lighter, so there’s less between you and your next topic.
- A lighter start: Nerdish now packs only what you’re about to read, not the whole library.
- Takes up less room on your phone.
Plus small fixes along the way.… more - 🆕Nerdish: Learn Something New first spotted by AppInsiderAndroidNetherlands
- ✏️Nerdish: Learn Something New added hidden keywords: articles, knowledge, deepstash, yuno +1 moreiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈Nerdish: Learn Something New entered the top 100iOSTop Free · Education · GB
- 📈Nerdish: Learn Something New entered the top 10 in 3 chartsiOSTop Free · Magazines & Newspapers · DE · Top Free · Magazines & Newspapers · GB · Top Free · Magazines & Newspapers · IN
- 📈Nerdish: Learn Something New entered the top 100 in 3 chartsiOSTop Free · Education · DE · Top Free · Magazines & Newspapers · FR · Top Free · Magazines & Newspapers · JP
- 📈Nerdish: Learn Something New charting in a new countryiOSJapan
- 📦Nerdish: Learn Something New updated to version 4.1.107iOSA daily reading habit grows one short read at a time. To make each one more inviting, every topic now opens like a page from a magazine.
- Fresh topic pages: a full-width cover, Read and Listen side by side, and your chapters at a glance.
- A calmer reader: each chapter starts with a big first letter, like in old books, minus the dust. The buttons step aside while you read. Tap the page to bring them back.
- Always know where you are: “Chapter 2 of 4 · 40% done”, with the next chapter waiting at the end.
- Made for iPad: a comfortable reading column, and with your iPad turned sideways, the chapters sit right next to the text.
- Going back to reread an earlier chapter no longer resets your progress.
Plus small fixes along the way.… more - 📈Nerdish: Learn Something New entered the top 100iOSTop Grossing · Magazines & Newspapers · IT
- 📦Nerdish: Learn Something New: now updating weeklyiOS4 updates in 30 days, after a quiet two months
- 📦Nerdish: Learn Something New updated to version 4.1.106iOSSmart reading is about minutes well spent, and this version makes sure your daily progress counts only those: the time you actually spend reading or listening.
- Daily progress: reading time now counts better while a topic is on your screen. Switch to another app, and the clock waits for you.
- Listening: audio still counts with your screen locked, so a walk with a topic in your ears still moves you toward your goal.
- Reminders: they now notice sooner that you’ve started reading, and adjust to match.
Plus small fixes and refinements for a smoother read.… more - 📈Nerdish: Learn Something New entered the top 100iOSTop Grossing · Magazines & Newspapers · BR
- 📈Nerdish: Learn Something New entered the top 100iOSTop Free · Magazines & Newspapers · KR
- 📈Nerdish: Learn Something New entered the top 100iOSTop Grossing · Magazines & Newspapers · SA
- 📦Nerdish: Learn Something New updated to version 4.1.105iOSSmart reading is a daily habit, and this version keeps yours fresh: For You now serves new picks every time you come back.
- For You: recommendations reshuffle on each visit, and new topics show up in “You May Like” as soon as they’re published.
- Pick up where you left off: topics you started but didn’t finish can now come back in your recommendations.
- Your daily progress card speaks curiosity now: “Curiosity: still hungry” on the way, “Today’s curiosity: fed” once you hit your goal. We looked for a “full” setting. There isn’t one.
- New to Nerdish? Tell us when you like to read (morning coffee, commute, before sleep), and your reminder will match.
- Settings: rate Nerdish anytime, in one tap.
Plus small fixes and refinements for a smoother read.… more - 📦Nerdish: Learn Something New updated to version 4.1.104iOSEvery day is a chance to learn something new, and this version adds a new way to play with what you know.
- Links, a daily word game: find four groups of four words that share a theme. Every word comes from a Nerdish topic, and after each puzzle you can jump straight into the topics behind it. A new puzzle arrives every day, free to play. Find it in the new Play tab.
- Quiz, refreshed: a cleaner question screen and a new results page that shows your Nerdish level.
Plus small fixes and refinements for a smoother experience.
Thank you for reading with Nerdish. If you enjoy the app, a rating helps other curious minds find it.… more - 📈Nerdish: Learn Something New charting in a new countryiOSFrance
- 📈Nerdish: Learn Something New entered the top 100iOSTop Grossing · Magazines & Newspapers · GB
- 📈Nerdish: Learn Something New entered the top 100 in 3 chartsiOSTop Grossing · Magazines & Newspapers · AU · Top Grossing · Magazines & Newspapers · CA · Top Free · Magazines & Newspapers · DE
- 📈Nerdish: Learn Something New entered the top 100iOSTop Free · Magazines & Newspapers · IT
- 📈Nerdish: Learn Something New charting in a new countryiOSItaly
- 🆕Nerdish: Learn Something New first spotted by AppInsideriOS#80 in Top Grossing · Magazines & Newspapers · United Arab Emirates
- 📦Nerdish: Learn Something New version 4.1.102iOSNo release notes
- 🆕Nerdish: Learn Something New released on the App StoreiOS
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Magazines & Newspapers FreeNerdish: Learn Something New at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-06. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
Nerdish is a free microlearning app offering short, curated articles and audio on general knowledge topics for adults seeking to expand their curiosity-driven understanding of the world. The app demonstrates strong traction in the Magazines & Newspapers category across diverse markets including the UK, India, Germany, and Australia, while also appearing in grossing charts in South Korea and Saudi Arabia despite being free.
Similar apps: CuriosityStream, Brilliant, TED
App Store
App details
App privacy Measured
Nerdish: Learn Something New’s App Store privacy label declares 1 data category used to track you across other companies’ apps and websites, 0 linked to your identity and 4 collected anonymously.
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
Google Play
App details
Nerdish: Learn Something New downloads & installs
Both stores, worldwide. Bands are open; exact numbers are free with an account.
| Store | Downloads / day | Lifetime installs |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | – | 100k+ |
| Google Play | – | – |
| Total | – | 100k+ Confidence |
How this is calculated
Where Nerdish: Learn Something New's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Hidden keywords
Nerdish: Learn Something New shows up in App Store search (US) for 1 word that appear nowhere in its name, subtitle or developer name, so they are almost certainly in its private keyword field, and it ranks in the top 10 for at least one of them.
Where it ranks now
Both stores, across every country we track.
| Store | Best rank | Charting in | US Top Free | US Top Grossing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| App Store | #3 Magazines & Newspapers Free | 14 of 30 countries | #27 | – |
| Google Play | #80 Education Free | 7 of 23 countries | – | – |
Full chart lists: App Store · Google Play.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisGrowing fastest in United Kingdom ▲ +175%
New ratings by country (4)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
 United States | 7 | 52% | ▲ +14% |
| United Kingdom | 3.2 | 24% | ▲ +175% |
 Canada | 1.8 | 13% | – |
 India | 1.5 | 11% | – |
App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
Ratings
Both stores. Store data, measured.
| Store | Rating | Ratings |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 4.8 ★ | 2.7k |
| Google Play | 4.7 ★ | – |
| Both stores | 4.8 ★ weighted by ratings | 2.7k |
What users say about Nerdish: Learn Something New
From the 50 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users appreciate the concept of bite-sized learning and the ad-supported free tier, but many are frustrated by perceived AI-generated inaccuracies and poor editorial quality. Significant complaints also arise from billing errors, subscription validity issues, and a lack of content depth.
Mixed (54% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its features and content, and few ads. The main complaints are about price and subscriptions, and missing features or content. Recent reviews are more negative than earlier ones.
What people like
- Features & content: “Good but lacks some features”
- Ads: “I got a random ad for this app”
- Ease of use: “This app gives an simple interesting read”
- Price & subscription: “I like that you can watch ads to continue reading the paid articals instead of getting a subscription!!”
Common complaints
- Price & subscription: “Wish I could get a refund”
- Features & content: “What was read lacked scholastic level writing”
- Fun: “Consistently poor writing eroded my faith in the quality of the information, although I did enjoy learning from a few articles”
- Connection & sync
About Nerdish: Learn Something New
You can read them or listen to them, and most take about ten minutes: why people like spicy food, what Nefertiti actually looked like, how the internet crosses oceans.
What's inside:
- Articles we write ourselves. Each one starts with a question our editors find interesting, and gets researched properly before it's written.
- Topics from the life around you. Sleep, coffee, déjà vu, the internet, Nefertiti — things you pass by every day without wondering about them.
- Our own writing framework. It keeps every article interesting and concise, but still genuinely educational — a lot of thought went into getting all three at once.
- Built as microlearning for adults. Short chapters of a couple of minutes each, designed to fit a phone screen and a busy day.
- Audio for everything. Read it, listen to it, or follow the text while it plays.
- Historical photographs, archive material and artwork alongside the text, with facts and details in the margins.
- A wide range of subjects, from the human body to ancient history — and the connections between them.
We built Nerdish for people who:
- would rather spend phone time on something better than socials. Same ten minutes, different outcome.
- enjoy learning random things for no particular reason. Curiosity doesn't need a goal attached to it.
- want to stay mentally sharp. Reading something unfamiliar is a small habit that keeps the mind working.
- want to find their way back to reading. Short pieces are easier to start with than a book you've been meaning to open for months.
- want to have more to say — about art, history, or why the sky is blue.
Why it works:
There's no way to measure general knowledge and no point where you have enough. But it's what you're using when you read the news, or decide whether something sounds true, or find a solution that came from somewhere unrelated.
Hardly any of us sets out to work on our knowledge. Nobody ever taught us how — there's no course in general knowledge, nowhere obvious to begin. So it stays on the list of things you'd like to do.
Nerdish works because the mechanism is already there. Curiosity is what built your general knowledge in the first place, and it doesn't need much — an interesting question and ten minutes. And knowledge doesn't stay in separate piles. We write science with its history in it, history with its culture, and culture with the people behind it — nothing is only about one thing.
Pick a topic, read or listen, learn something you'd never thought to look up. That's how general knowledge grows.
Learn with us about:
- Health and the human body: sleep, memory, ageing, and how the body actually works.
- History: ancient empires, revolutions, great discoveries, and the people who changed things.
- Science and technology:
Nerdish: Learn Something New App Store
Nerdish: Learn Something New is #3 in Magazines & Newspapers Free in United Kingdom and charting in 14 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
24 Sep 2026 Magazines & Newspapers FreeNerdish: Learn Something New at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-06. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
Nerdish is a free microlearning app offering short, curated articles and audio on general knowledge topics for adults seeking to expand their curiosity-driven understanding of the world. The app demonstrates strong traction in the Magazines & Newspapers category across diverse markets including the UK, India, Germany, and Australia, while also appearing in grossing charts in South Korea and Saudi Arabia despite being free.
Similar apps: CuriosityStream, Brilliant, TED
Nerdish: Learn Something New on the App Store
App details
App privacy Measured
Nerdish: Learn Something New’s App Store privacy label declares 1 data category used to track you across other companies’ apps and websites, 0 linked to your identity and 4 collected anonymously.
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
Nerdish: Learn Something New downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where Nerdish: Learn Something New's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Hidden keywords
Nerdish: Learn Something New shows up in App Store search (US) for 1 word that appear nowhere in its name, subtitle or developer name, so they are almost certainly in its private keyword field, and it ranks in the top 10 for at least one of them.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | Magazines & NewspapersFree | #3 |
| United States | Magazines & NewspapersFree | #27 |
 Germany | Magazines & NewspapersFree | #10 |
 Italy | Magazines & NewspapersFree | #14 |
 France | Magazines & NewspapersFree | #25 |
 Australia | Magazines & NewspapersFree | #21 |
| Canada | Magazines & NewspapersFree | #22 |
| United Kingdom | EducationFree | #47 |
| India | Magazines & NewspapersFree | #25 |
 South Korea | Magazines & NewspapersGrossing | #49 |
| South Korea | Magazines & NewspapersFree | #57 |
 China | Magazines & NewspapersFree | #132 |
 Indonesia | Magazines & NewspapersFree | #28 |
| Germany | EducationFree | #93 |
| United Arab Emirates | Magazines & NewspapersFree | #24 |
 Saudi Arabia | Magazines & NewspapersGrossing | #46 |
 Brazil | Magazines & NewspapersFree | #71 |
| India | Magazines & NewspapersGrossing | #86 |
| Saudi Arabia | Magazines & NewspapersFree | #57 |
| United Arab Emirates | Magazines & NewspapersGrossing | #94 |
Apps near Nerdish: Learn Something New on the chart
Magazines & Newspapers Free, around #3.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisGrowing fastest in United Kingdom ▲ +175%
New ratings by country (4)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 7 | 52% | ▲ +14% |
| United Kingdom | 3.2 | 24% | ▲ +175% |
| Canada | 1.8 | 13% | – |
| India | 1.5 | 11% | – |
App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Nerdish: Learn Something New
From the 50 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users appreciate the concept of bite-sized learning and the ad-supported free tier, but many are frustrated by perceived AI-generated inaccuracies and poor editorial quality. Significant complaints also arise from billing errors, subscription validity issues, and a lack of content depth.
Mixed (54% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its features and content, and few ads. The main complaints are about price and subscriptions, and missing features or content. Recent reviews are more negative than earlier ones.
What people like
- Features & content: “Good but lacks some features”
- Ads: “I got a random ad for this app”
- Ease of use: “This app gives an simple interesting read”
- Price & subscription: “I like that you can watch ads to continue reading the paid articals instead of getting a subscription!!”
Common complaints
- Price & subscription: “Wish I could get a refund”
- Features & content: “What was read lacked scholastic level writing”
- Fun: “Consistently poor writing eroded my faith in the quality of the information, although I did enjoy learning from a few articles”
- Connection & sync
About Nerdish: Learn Something New
You can read them or listen to them, and most take about ten minutes: why people like spicy food, what Nefertiti actually looked like, how the internet crosses oceans.
What's inside:
- Articles we write ourselves. Each one starts with a question our editors find interesting, and gets researched properly before it's written.
- Topics from the life around you. Sleep, coffee, déjà vu, the internet, Nefertiti — things you pass by every day without wondering about them.
- Our own writing framework. It keeps every article interesting and concise, but still genuinely educational — a lot of thought went into getting all three at once.
- Built as microlearning for adults. Short chapters of a couple of minutes each, designed to fit a phone screen and a busy day.
- Audio for everything. Read it, listen to it, or follow the text while it plays.
- Historical photographs, archive material and artwork alongside the text, with facts and details in the margins.
- A wide range of subjects, from the human body to ancient history — and the connections between them.
We built Nerdish for people who:
- would rather spend phone time on something better than socials. Same ten minutes, different outcome.
- enjoy learning random things for no particular reason. Curiosity doesn't need a goal attached to it.
- want to stay mentally sharp. Reading something unfamiliar is a small habit that keeps the mind working.
- want to find their way back to reading. Short pieces are easier to start with than a book you've been meaning to open for months.
- want to have more to say — about art, history, or why the sky is blue.
Why it works:
There's no way to measure general knowledge and no point where you have enough. But it's what you're using when you read the news, or decide whether something sounds true, or find a solution that came from somewhere unrelated.
Hardly any of us sets out to work on our knowledge. Nobody ever taught us how — there's no course in general knowledge, nowhere obvious to begin. So it stays on the list of things you'd like to do.
Nerdish works because the mechanism is already there. Curiosity is what built your general knowledge in the first place, and it doesn't need much — an interesting question and ten minutes. And knowledge doesn't stay in separate piles. We write science with its history in it, history with its culture, and culture with the people behind it — nothing is only about one thing.
Pick a topic, read or listen, learn something you'd never thought to look up. That's how general knowledge grows.
Learn with us about:
- Health and the human body: sleep, memory, ageing, and how the body actually works.
- History: ancient empires, revolutions, great discoveries, and the people who changed things.
- Science and technology:
Latest updates
More from Nerdish OU
Nerdish: Learn Something New Android
Nerdish: Learn Something New is #80 in Education Free on Google Play in United Kingdom and charting in 7 of 23 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
Education FreeNerdish: Learn Something New on Google Play
App details
Where Nerdish: Learn Something New's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Where it ranks on Google Play
Every top 200 chart it appears in across 23 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | EducationFree | #80 |
| Germany | EducationFree | #118 |
| France | EducationFree | #174 |
| Australia | EducationFree | #190 |
| Italy | EducationFree | #156 |
 Netherlands | EducationFree | #83 |
 Spain | EducationFree | #172 |
Apps near Nerdish: Learn Something New on the chart
Education Free, around #80.
Ratings
Google Play, worldwide.
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