Comparison

uTalk vs Lingala

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Learn from native speakers
  • Interactive games
  • 60+ learning topics
  • Offline content download
  • Progress tracking
  • Pronunciation practice
Features
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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

About

Lingala

Learn to speak Lingala with short, daily lessons featuring native speaker audio. Practice pronunciation, use smart flashcards, and track your progress with daily streaks. Start speaking real conversations in minutes a day.

Highlights
  • Bite-size daily lessons
  • Native-speaker pronunciation
  • Smart flashcards
  • Pronunciation practice
  • Daily streaks and progress tracking
  • Offline access
Features
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Speak Lingala, don't just study it. Learn Lingala the way people actually speak it: out loud, in short daily lessons, with real native-speaker voices. • Bite-size lessons you can finish in minutes • Native-speaker pronunciation • Smart flashcards that focus on the words you keep forgetting • Pronunciation practice with clear audio playback • Daily streaks and progress tracking to keep you going • Works offline once your content is downloaded From "Mbote" to real conversations: just a few minutes a day to start speaking Lingala for real. Start for free. Terms of Service: https://yaydy.app/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://yaydy.app/privacy-policy

Screenshots

uTalk4 screens
Lingala4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: uTalk at 4.4 against Lingala's 1.0. uTalk also leads on ratings volume (1K vs 1). Lingala's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs monthly). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. uTalk sells 92 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Lingala sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

uTalk holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: uTalk has 1K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

uTalk ships an update monthly, Lingala weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
uTalk versus Lingala: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteruTalkLingala
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (1K ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews62.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings1K — better1
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size288 MB82 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEuroTalkDiarno Diouf

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

Lingala

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

92 purchases

uTalk

Subscriptions19
  • Learn German$3.991 Month
  • Learn Latin American Spanish$3.991 Month
  • Learn Hebrew$3.991 Month
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  • Learn Tigrinya$7.991 Month
  • Learn Neapolitan$7.991 Month
  • Learn Luganda$7.991 Month
  • Learn Wolof$7.991 Month
  • Learn Amharic$7.991 Month
  • Learn Sesotho (Southern Sotho)$7.991 Month
  • Learn Argentinian Spanish$7.991 Month
  • Learn Canadian French$7.991 Month
  • Learn Swiss German$7.991 Month
  • Learn Cebuano$7.991 Month
  • Learn Flemish$7.991 Month
  • Learn Georgian$7.991 Month
  • Learn Ilocano$7.991 Month
  • uTalk Monthly Subscription$10.991 Month
  • uTalk's 150+ Languages$11.991 Month
  • Learn Kinyarwanda$34.996 Months
One-time73
  • Single Topic Purchase$0.99
  • Taster uCoin Pack$1.99
  • 200 uCoins$8.99
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  • 800 uCoins$32.99
  • Learn Russian$49.99
  • Learn Latin American Spanish$49.99
  • Learn French$54.99
  • Learn Spanish (European)$54.99
  • Learn Modern Standard Arabic$54.99
  • Learn Slovenian$54.99
  • Learn Kazakh$54.99
  • Learn Dari$54.99
  • Learn Luganda$54.99
  • Learn Xhosa$54.99
  • Learn Portuguese$54.99
  • Learn Maltese$54.99
  • Learn Neapolitan$54.99
  • Learn Bosnian$54.99
  • Learn Chinese (Mandarin)$54.99
  • Learn Armenian$54.99
  • Learn Basque$54.99
  • Learn Estonian$54.99
  • Learn Italian$54.99
  • Learn Dutch$54.99
  • Learn Kinyarwanda$54.99
  • Learn Pashto$54.99
  • Learn Dzongkha$54.99
  • Learn Malayalam$54.99
  • Learn Gujarati$54.99
  • Learn Catalan$54.99
  • Learn Latvian$54.99
  • Learn Japanese$54.99
  • Learn Shona$54.99
  • Learn Korean$54.99
  • Learn Tswana$54.99
  • Learn Flemish$54.99
  • Learn Yoruba$54.99
  • Learn Khmer$54.99
  • Learn Greenlandic$54.99
  • Learn Argentinian Spanish$54.99
  • Learn Filipino (Tagalog)$54.99
  • Learn Amharic$54.99
  • Learn Swiss German$54.99
  • Learn Irish$54.99
  • Learn Macedonian$54.99
  • Learn Haitian Creole$54.99
  • Learn Nepali$54.99
  • Learn Egyptian Arabic$54.99
  • Learn Albanian$54.99
  • Learn Kurdish (Sorani)$54.99
  • Learn Georgian$54.99
  • Learn Shanghainese$54.99
  • Learn Urdu$54.99
  • Learn Bengali$54.99
  • Learn Tibetan$54.99
  • Learn Tigrinya$54.99
  • Learn Sicilian$54.99
  • Learn Sinhala$54.99
  • Pack of 2600 uCoins$64.99
  • Learn Croatian$69.99
  • Learn Kyrgyz$99.99
  • Learn Chichewa$99.99
  • Learn Lao$99.99
  • Learn Scots$99.99
  • Learn Ilocano$99.99
  • Learn Samoan$99.99
  • Arabic (Gulf)$99.99
  • Learn Wolof$99.99
  • Learn Cebuano$99.99
  • Learn Moroccan Arabic$99.99
  • Learn Lebanese Arabic$99.99
  • Learn Canadian French$99.99
  • uTalk's 150+ Languages$199.99
1 purchases

Lingala

Subscriptions1
  • No Ads$2.991 Month

Questions

Is uTalk free?
uTalk is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Lingala free?
Lingala is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, uTalk or Lingala?
uTalk is rated higher. uTalk averages 4.4 out of 5 from 1K ratings, while Lingala averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do uTalk or Lingala have ads?
Neither uTalk nor Lingala shows ads.
Which is updated more often, uTalk or Lingala?
uTalk ships an update monthly, and Lingala weekly. Most recently, uTalk was updated on October 29, 2026 and Lingala on October 25, 2026.

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