Comparison

檸檬樹 vs Mindio

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

檸檬樹

This app guides beginners in learning Japanese with structured lessons, vocabulary, grammar explanations, and authentic audio. It offers customizable reading and listening exercises, vocabulary drills, and search functionality to enhance the learning experience.

Highlights
  • Structured beginner Japanese lessons
  • Vocabulary and grammar explanations
  • Authentic Japanese audio recordings
  • Customizable reading modes
  • Adjustable audio speed
  • Vocabulary drills and quizzes
  • Search and bookmark functionality
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學習日文很難嗎?《檸檬樹-大家學標準日本語:初級本》透過本書作者出口仁老師的引導,可以激發想學日文的朋友,快速找到日文學習的正確方法,穩紮穩打,讓日語能力循序漸進,步步提升! 《檸檬樹-大家學標準日本語:初級本》是針對初階程度所規劃的, 第01課【自我介紹】:學習目標為「表達身分」的「肯定句、否定句、疑問句」 第02課【某物在哪裡】:學習目標為「表示事物、位置」的「指示代名詞」 ※ 點選「取得完整版」輸入「書籍內容序號」或「教學影片序號」,可以取得「完整書籍內容」或「教學影片」。 ● 內容特色 1. 單字、文型、長篇和短篇對話,面面俱到的學習內容! 2. 【課本】+【文法解說】,完整學習一次到位! 3. 日籍專業播音員錄製,最正統的【東京標準音】! ● 學習功能特色 1. 提供iPhone/iPad閱讀模式:讓您在使用裝置中,擁有最好的閱讀模式。 2. 閱讀訓練:中日文顯示或隱藏模式,可設定全日文/中日文對照學習環境 3. 聽力訓練:語音速度調整,可調整五段不同速度 4. 單字訓練:提供單字標記功能,方便背誦不熟的單字,並提供單字記憶背誦與單字測驗功能,徹底強化單字力。 5. 搜尋:輸入關鍵字即可查找想學習了解的內容。 6. 書籤:將重要學習內容標以書籤,方便日後反覆復習。

About

Mindio

Features
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Mindio is a daily learning companion for the curious. Five minutes a day with a primary text, a painting, a body practice, or a virtue worth thinking about — read, reflect, and slowly build a small library of figures and traditions that stay with you. Most learning apps treat your mind like a leaderboard. Mindio treats it like a garden. — THE FOUR PIECES — Every day you'll spend a little time across four small modules. The mix is gentle, the order is yours. INTELLECT — A short passage from a primary source. Plato, Confucius, Marcus Aurelius, the Mahabharata, Gilgamesh, the Analects, Ibn Tufayl, Murasaki Shikibu, the Tao Te Ching. One excerpt at a time. One question to chew on. AESTHETIC — A single artwork, presented slowly. Hokusai, Vermeer, Cassatt, Klimt, Song landscape, Mughal miniature, Egyptian relief. You'll look closely, read a paragraph of context, and write down what you noticed. BODY — A few minutes of movement, paired with the day's HealthKit data. No streak shaming, no calorie tracking. Just a quiet nudge to move. CHARACTER — Franklin's thirteen virtues, rotated week by week. A short reflection prompt and a way to mark how today went. — HOW IT WORKS — A passage. A question. Your real answer, in your own words. A short conversation back — never grading, never "correct" or "wrong," just a thoughtful follow-up that helps you read more carefully. Then a collectible — a small figure from the tradition you just spent time with — joins your collection. Over the months your cast grows: Socrates and Confucius, Lao Tzu and Marcus, Murasaki and Hafez, Vermeer and Hokusai. A library you built one short reading at a time. — WHY PRIMARY SOURCES — Every passage and every artwork in Mindio is from the public domain or a freely licensed translation. No paywalled summaries, no AI book reports. You'll read what Plato actually wrote, look at the painting Vermeer actually made. We built the reading list from what the world's great universities and the big literary anthologies keep coming back to — and then added the traditions those lists tend to overlook. It ranges across Greek philosophy, Confucian and Daoist classics, Persian poetry, Japanese diaries, the great Indian epics, and the canon of pre-modern art. — WHAT IT'S NOT — No syllabus, no final exam. Wander off for a week and come back whenever — nothing's waiting to scold you. No feed, no follower counts, no leaderboard breathing down your neck. Just you and the ideas, and your progress is nobody's business but yours. No endless scroll. The day's piece is short on purpose: when you're done, you're done, and the app is glad you came. — PRIVACY — Your reflections are private. Your HealthKit data stays on your device unless you choose to record it. We don't sell anything to anyone — Mindio is built to be a quiet daily room you visit, not a feed that visits you. — WHO IT'S FOR — If you've been meaning to read more classics and never quite get there. If you find yourself reaching for your phone and wishing you were reaching for something else. If you'd like to know one more thing about a painting next time you walk past it. If five minutes a day sounds like the right amount. Start with whatever sounds good today.

Screenshots

檸檬樹4 screens
Mindio4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Mindio at every 2 days against 檸檬樹's every 18 months. 檸檬樹's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

檸檬樹 ships an update every 18 months, Mindio every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 10, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
檸檬樹 versus Mindio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter檸檬樹Mindio
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 18 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size72 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDarcherng DuhCamus Technologies Ltd

In-app purchases

None

檸檬樹

No in-app purchases

None

Mindio

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is 檸檬樹 free?
檸檬樹 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Mindio free?
Mindio is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do 檸檬樹 or Mindio have ads?
Neither 檸檬樹 nor Mindio shows ads.
Which is updated more often, 檸檬樹 or Mindio?
檸檬樹 ships an update every 18 months, and Mindio every 2 days. Most recently, 檸檬樹 was updated on October 10, 2026 and Mindio on October 10, 2026.

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