# Lingory — user reviews > 105 indexed App Store user reviews of Lingory by Lingory Inc., rated 4.10/5 from 104 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lingory/id1556564572/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lingory/id1556564572.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 62 · 4★ 15 · 3★ 10 · 2★ 5 · 1★ 12 ## What do users think of Lingory? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 💯 Best app for learning Korean - 📚 Comprehensive lessons and vocabulary - 🎨 Well-designed and interactive - 🆓 Mostly free with minimal ads - 🗣️ Clear audio from native speakers - 🔍 Helpful for beginners and advanced learners **Cons** - 🐛 Occasional crashes and bugs - 🔇 Sound issues and volume problems - 🕰️ Too many ads interrupting lessons - 🔍 Typing recognition issues - 🤖 Lacking speech recognition for pronunciation - 🔍 Inconsistent or missing translations **Commonly reported bugs** - Lessons freezing or crashing after ads - Subscription issues and loss of premium features - Inability to access lesson history and progress - Compatibility problems on certain devices and OS versions **Most requested features** - Add more advanced grammar and TOPIK level lessons - Improve lesson organization and navigation - Implement a review system for previously learned content - Add writing practice and handwriting recognition - Provide more customization options (font size, themes, etc.) ## Newest reviews (12 of 105) ### 4/5 — Loving it. Giving suggestions *2025-12-11* I love the app. They have a good balance of vocabulary and grammar. One thing is I wished there was a review vocabulary button where it would randomly make a quiz for vocab you already learned. I wanted to review vocab but they only have where you can manually select the vocab words to test. I would say the app is a little bit laggy but it works fine. I also wish the vocab we learned would automatically be counted as vocab instead of having to manually do the vocab and checkmark it to add it to the vocab section. ### 3/5 — Good content, extremely laggy *2025-11-05, version 1.2.75* The lag is awful, but the actual content is good. ### 4/5 — Great with a few Kinks *2025-10-22* This is a really good Korean learning app. If you’re trying to stop using Duolingo, this is a great replacement. Really clear audio examples and fun, interactive app. Has clear breakdowns of the language and how different words are used. Only problem is it REALLY is not designed for Bluetooth users. The delay in Bluetooth headphones means I often miss the beginnings of words that I need to spell. If you get this app, you gotta use wired headphones. Also sometimes the ads make the app crash. Otherwise my Korean has never been better! ### 2/5 — Needs support for iOS 26 *2025-10-20, version 1.2.73* Love the app, just wish it worked for ios26 on apple ### 4/5 — LOVE the app, but… *2025-07-18* I have been using this app for several months now and I love it! However after an update a few weeks ago I can no longer view the sentence section of lesson summaries. I always add the vocab, grammar, and sentences to my study notebook before doing the actual lesson, but the other day when I went to open the sentence section in the summary for the lesson I’m on it was blank and had a grey rectangle covering most of the screen. I thought it could be just that lesson, but sentence section has the same grey box and is blank for all of the lesson summaries, including ones I’ve completed before. It makes me sad because I always organize my notes the exact same way and don’t want to move on in my learning until I can add the sentences to my notes for my current lesson. I gave it 4 stars still because I really enjoy this app and until now haven’t had any issues. I know bugs happen from time to time so I really hope this gets fixed soon. ### 2/5 — unusable glitch :( *2025-05-23, version 1.2.68* there seems to be a glitch where the ‘x’ on ads doesn’t work. even if you swipe off and reload the app you get an ad when starting a lesson and cant press ‘x’. for this reason, the app has become unusable and its very unfortunate because i was really enjoying this app, even after only one lesson. i reinstalled the app and the issue still persists. please fix :( ### 4/5 — Fantastic but buggy *2025-01-24, version 1.2.60* Great for learning Hangul and learning however lessons don’t work ### 3/5 — App won’t open *2024-11-13, version 1.2.49* It doesn’t open anymore ### 5/5 — cập nhật bài mới *2024-11-07, version 1.2.49* Khi nào sẽ cập nhật những bài mới v ạ ### 5/5 — Great! *2024-10-27, version 1.2.49* I think it’s such a cute app and I feel like it is very helpful in learning Korean. Much better than duolingo ;) <3 ### 2/5 — Ad buttons designed so you can’t press them. *2024-10-13, version 1.2.48* There’s a lot of potential here. I want to like it. But the close ad buttons do not work after the allotted auto play time. ### 4/5 — Beautiful app but *2024-10-05, version 1.2.48* Sorry but very turned off with the 30 seconds long ad as compared to 5 sec before the update. I could only hop on the app and learn for a few quick mins throughout the day, so for a 30 seconds it’s a real demotivation. I would prefer smaller duration ads ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Sound doesn’t work *2026-05-21* I don’t usually rate apps but I really wanted to use this app so I am only rating this out of hope that they fix this issue. The sound is so buggy, whenever I play a word the first part is always so hard to hear and then the rest of it is fine. It also seems to automatically mess with my volume since I see the volume slider on my phone changing on its own any time I play sound. My headphones keep turning on and off noise cancelling on their own as if the volume source is changing. I tried the clearing app cache but that does not help. I don’t know why this is happening but I hope there is a fix and maybe one day I will reinstall. ### 1/5 — Wtf *2026-01-09, version 1.2.75* ad every button you press… jesus christ i uninstalled so fast! ### 1/5 — uses ai *2025-12-18, version 1.2.75* duolingo has been going downhill for a while so I thought I would give this a go. In creating my account, it said they use ai to recommend me stuff in speaking lessons? something like that. the second i saw "ai" i finished my profile because you have to to carry on, and immediately deleted my account. i want to learn Korean, not be targeted with ad bots that boil rivers. ### 1/5 — The UI makes this app unusable *2025-08-17* I really wanted to like this app, but it’s just not usable in its current state. It feels like it was designed for one specific screen size… on my phone the font hierarchy and padding are almost nonexistent, and on tablet it’s completely unusable. If the team could spend some time refining the styles for different screen types and cleaning up the layout, this might actually become a usable app. Right now, though, I can’t even browse for five minutes without wanting to chuck my phone out a window. ### 1/5 — Please fix the sound! *2025-04-20, version 1.2.68* Great learning app—awful sound system ### 1/5 — Bug *2025-01-24, version 1.2.61* Please fix. Since the update, it shows that I do not have a membership but I have already paid for a 6 month subscription. ### 1/5 — Unreliable *2025-01-24, version 1.2.60* I thought this was the best app to learn Korean—until the screen went blank and was no way to access any data ### 1/5 — No sound *2024-09-10, version 1.2.45* The sound hasn’t been working for a week now. Can’t even finish lesson’s because of this, please fix. ### 1/5 — it almost broke my ipad *2024-02-18, version 1.2.29* the app literally froze my entire screen and i could get out of it, i had to force my ipad to turn off ### 1/5 — เสียงหาย หลังจากมีโฆษณา *2023-08-30, version 1.2.25* เสียงหายบ่อยจน การเรียน การเล่น ไม่ลื่นไหล ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Excellent App!! *2026-05-30* When looking for an app as comprehensive as this, and as generous with their free version), I can only ask for a lifetime warranty LingoryPass option. I rate it 5/5 because I enjoy the ability to learn like I’m in school, test out where I don’t need, and engage an AI model when I come across Korean sentences I don’t understand. New here, looking to add this app to my Korean learning curation. ### 5/5 — Fun way to learn vocabulary and grammar *2025-10-20* I love that I can access all the main lessons for free (and the ads aren’t that bad). I like the separate vocabulary section where I can learn words grouped by themes. I wish I could increase the font size more though. ### 5/5 — uhmm… *2025-09-28, version 1.2.73* ok, not gonna lie, this app kinda sucks… i rated it five stars so u could see it but when i opened it and put my email n stuff i clicked on the lesson but its in ALL korean so idk if u gotta fo somewhere else but i think it is in all korean so i dont recommend using it… ### 5/5 — Super app ! *2025-07-31, version 1.2.73* Super bonne application pour apprendre le coréen, à mixer bien sûr avec vos recherches en plus de l’app avec des vidéos YouTube par exemple. N’hésitez pas à chaque jour d’en apprendre un peu plus sur ce qui vous présente pour être complet. ### 5/5 — Great app *2025-07-25, version 1.2.73* Great service ### 5/5 — Wish I’d known about this one sooner! *2025-02-19, version 1.2.65* Love the app. Love the manageable bite-sized units. Simple, not overloaded explanations I can always refer back to. Really a shame I didn’t know about this before. Probably why I’m writing a review, which I rarely do! ### 5/5 — Best App For Learning Korean *2025-01-30, version 1.2.61* I’m only 10 days in but this app is better than any others I have tried learning Korean with, in every way. Very well structured lessons, everything taught is logical, detailed translations and explanations for every word especially for things that are tricky for someone who speaks a very different language to grasp, and more. I would already be fine paying for a service this good but on top of all this, the lessons are free and the ads are minimal. Lingory is leagues above other apps in my opinion ### 5/5 — Very good app *2025-01-07, version 1.2.53* It’s help a lot to learn Korean ### 5/5 — รีวิว App lingory *2024-12-30, version 1.2.53* โหลดแอปนี้มา2ปีกว่าแล้ว บอกได้เลยว่าเป็นแอปที่ไม่คิดว่าจะลบออกเลย ขนาดซื้อโทรศัพท์ใหม่แล้วก็ยังโหลดมาใช้เรียนต่อยอด เป็นแอปที่ดีมากก เราเรียนแอปนี่เริ่มตั้งแต่0จนตอนนี้พิมพ์คุยกับเพื่อนเกาหลีได้แล้ว เป็นแอปฟรีที่ดีเกินไปชอบมากๆใช้ได้จริงๆ ถ้าใครอยากลองเสียตังก็น่าจะยิ่งคุ้มไปอีก อยากให้พัฒนาแอปนี้ไปเรื่อยๆนะคะ ขอร้องอย่าหยุดทำเลย มันดีมากจริงๆค่ะ เราเรียนฟรีมาตลอด2ปีกว่าถือว่าคุ้มมากกกกก แม้ว่าอาจมีบัคบ้างบางครั้งหรือมีข้อบกพร่องนิดหน่อยแต่ขออย่าหยุดทำนะคะ ขอบคุณมากๆจริงๆสำหรับการสร้างแอปนี้ขึ้นมาให้เราทุกคนได้เรียนภาษาเกาหลี ขอบคุณจากใจค่ะ สะดวกในการเรียนด้วยเพราะเรียนจากมือถือ ว่างตอนไหนก็เล่นตอนนั้น ฮรื้อออยากร้องไห้ มันดีเกินไปจริงๆ ขอบคุณที่สร้างแอปนี้ขึ้นมาให้นะคะ สู้ๆนะคะ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💕 ### 5/5 — Goody good *2024-12-06, version 1.2.50* I like it. I find it better in some cases then Duolingo in my humble opinion. Should have more reviews/downloads.. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-23.*