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Apps for the CCSE, compared honestly

The CCSE draws its 25 questions from 300 that the Instituto Cervantes publishes for free in its manual, and a quarter of them changed for 2026. So the first question to ask any app is which edition it uses. Here is what each one says, checked on 20 October 2026.

Checked 20 October 2026Facts from each publisherWritten by Belong Spain
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Who wrote this

Belong Spain makes one of the apps on this page, so read it knowing that. Every line about another app is what its publisher says on its own App Store page, Google Play page or website, read on 20 October 2026, with the link under Sources. Ratings are those stores' own figures on that day.

What to look for before you pay

The apps, side by side

Ours first so you know where it stands, the rest in no particular order. Prices and ratings are as each store showed them on 20 October 2026.

Which one to use

To learn the 300, start with the official manual and the Instituto Cervantes app, both free, or one of the apps above that names the 2026 edition. That is the core of passing the CCSE.

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Questions people ask

Is there an official CCSE app?

Yes. The Instituto Cervantes publishes a free app with the 300 questions, on Android and iPhone. Its App Store reviews report problems that the Android version does not have.

Are the CCSE questions published?

Yes, all 300, in the free manual from the Instituto Cervantes. The paper draws 25 of them.

How many do I need right?

15 of 25, in 45 minutes.

There are 1,041 practice questions in the app.

1,041 questions, drilled tarea by tarea in the order the Instituto Cervantes’ manual sets them, with a mistakes deck, spaced repetition and a mock in the real paper’s shape: 25 questions in 45 minutes, and a real apto or no apto, because all twenty-five come from one published manual.

Written by Belong Spain from the contents of the official manual. They are not the Instituto Cervantes’ questions, and the real sitting uses its own.

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