uTalk vs Vanished Voices
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
uTalk
Learn over 150 languages with native speaker audio and interactive games. Build vocabulary and pronunciation skills through useful everyday phrases and 60+ topics. Progress through difficulty levels and track your learning journey.
- Learn from native speakers
- Interactive games
- 60+ learning topics
- Offline content download
- Progress tracking
- Pronunciation practice
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LEARN LANGUAGES FAST: uTalk gets results because every word you hear is in your new language and you speak, listen and understand from the start. With free starter words in 150+ languages, you can try it risk-free. Score 100% in the games and you can unlock an extra topic for free. WHY UTALK WORKS: 1. LEARN FROM THE LOCALS: We record native speakers so you hear every word pronounced clearly. Mimic their pronunciation and compare your intonation with theirs. Practise until you get it right – you can even slow the audio down if it’s too fast. 2. USEFUL EVERYDAY WORDS AND PHRASES. Topics take around two to three hours to complete. But you can dip in for just five minutes at a time or longer. With 60+ topics, that’s a total of 180 hours of learning. 3. KEEPS YOU MOTIVATED: Check your scores on progress bars as you move through five progressively difficult games. To get full marks, you’ll have to know the words as well as your own language. WHO’S IT FOR? uTalk’s tried and trusted way to learn a new language has been developed over 30 years and is perfect for beginners. But its wide-ranging language is also invaluable for intermediates looking to improve their vocabulary and pronunciation. HOW IT WORKS: Subscribe to everything on uTalk or buy individual languages or topics. The app automatically syncs between your devices. Work offline by downloading content. FIND YOUR LANGUAGE: A: Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Ancient Greek, Arabic (Egypt, Gulf, Lebanon, Modern Standard, Morocco), Armenian, Assamese, Azerbaijani B: Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Burmese C: Cantonese, Catalan, Cebuano, Chibemba, Chichewa, Chinese Mandarin, Cockney, Croatian, Czech D: Danish, Dari, Dutch, Dzongkha E: English (Australia, Canada, India, Scotland, UK, US), Esperanto, Estonian F: Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, Flemish, French (France & Canada) G: Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Greenlandic, Gujarati H: Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian I: Icelandic, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian, Irish, Italian J: Japanese, Javanese K: Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Kurdish (Kurmanji & Sorani), Kutchi, Kyrgyz L: Ladino, Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lingala, Luganda, Luxembourgish M: Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Manx, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian N: Neapolitan, Nepali, Norwegian O: Odia, Oromo P: Papiamentu, Pashto, Persian, Pidgin (Nigerian), Polish, Portuguese (Portugal & Brazil), Punjabi (India & Pakistan) R: Romanian, Russian S: Sami (Southern), Samoan, Sardinian, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Shona, Sicilian, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish (Spain, Argentina & Latin America), Swahili, Swedish, Swiss German T: Tajiki, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tigrinya, Tok Pisin, Tswana, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen U: Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek V: Vietnamese W: Welsh, Wolof, Wu Chinese (Shanghainese) X: Xhosa Y: Yoruba Z: Zulu 60+ TOPICS: Accommodation, Adjectives, Alphabet, Animals, Bathroom, Body, Business, Calendar, Camping, Clothes, Colours, Cooking, Countries, Directions, Doctor, Driving, Emergencies, Family, Farming, Food, Fruit, Golf, Football, Holiday, Illness, Ingredients, Kitchen, Hobbies, Numbers, Occupations, Olympics, Prepositions, Restaurant, Sailing, School, Shopping, Skiing, Social Phrases, Sports, Technology, Transport Any questions? support@utalk.com. Visit us now at utalk.com Information about uTalk subscriptions A subscription to uTalk is £7.99 a month, or the equivalent in local currency. Subscriptions give you access to all of uTalk’s content, in every language Subscriptions last one month, and auto-renew every month unless cancelled Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period Subscriptions can be managed by you and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to your Account Settings after purchase Terms and Conditions - https://utalk.com/termsandconditions.html
Vanished Voices
Explore the evolution of ancient languages and their pronunciation. This app allows you to trace how languages changed over time, offering insights into historical linguistics and reconstructed speech.
- Language evolution tracking
- Pronunciation audio
- Transliteration details
- Historical word development
- Language family tree navigation
- Phonetic and phonemic transcriptions
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How did people speak thousands of years ago? How did their language sound? This app is as close to time travel as you can get. HOW TO USE THE APP - choose a sentence in order to get details on pronunciation and transliteration in a particular language. - click on previous or later stages of a language to see how the language changed over time. - click on the family tree to choose another language. - click on the speaker icon for audio. - click on a sentence of a particular language to get information on the historical development of the individual words in this language. - [square brackets] indicate a phonetic transcription, /slashes/ a phonemic transcription. - an asterisk (*) is used to indicate that no surviving texts are known in a language, so that the language has been reconstructed on the basis of later stages. ‘Vanished Voices: The Indo-European Phrase Book App’ is part of the research project ‘Splitting the Mother Tongue’ (2014-2020, funded by NWO, project number 276-70-026) by Alwin Kloekhorst (Leiden University). The app integrates the Indo-Anatolian model, according to which the Anatolian branch was a sister language of Proto-Indo-European rather than a daughter language, both going back to an even earlier proto-language called Proto-Indo-Anatolian.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Vanished Voices at none against uTalk's 10. Vanished Voices also leads on review sentiment (83% vs 62%) and rating (4.7 vs 4.4). uTalk's advantage is ratings volume (1K vs 13). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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
Both are free to download. uTalk sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Vanished Voices asks for nothing beyond the download.
Vanished Voices holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: uTalk has 1K ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 62% of uTalk's written reviews are positive against 83% of Vanished Voices's.
uTalk ships an update monthly, Vanished Voices fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | uTalk | Vanished Voices |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (1K ratings) | 4.7 (13 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 62.2% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1K — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 288 MB | 97 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | EuroTalk | Zooma B.V. |
Customer experience
uTalk
Vanished Voices
Bugs and requests
uTalk
Reported bugs
4 issues- Crashes on launch or during use
- Syncing and login issues
- Incorrect translations or pronunciations
- Compatibility problems on newer devices
Requested features
5 requests- Add more grammar and sentence structure lessons
- Improve user interface for larger screens
- Allow users to record and compare their own pronunciation
- Provide more localized content for each language
- Improve subscription management and cancellation process
Vanished Voices
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
uTalk
- Learn Papiamentu$7.991 Month
- Learn Luganda$7.991 Month
- uTalk Monthly Subscription$10.991 Month
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- uTalk's 150+ Languages$11.991 Month
- Single Topic Purchase$0.99
- Taster uCoin Pack$1.99
- 200 uCoins$8.99
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- 800 uCoins$32.99
- Pack of 2600 uCoins$64.99
- Learn Cebuano$99.99
Vanished Voices
No in-app purchases









