ESL English Listening Test vs Basic for Listening
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ESL English Listening Test
Enhance your English listening skills with over 200 conversation quizzes covering diverse topics, contexts, and difficulty levels. This app is ideal for IELTS test preparation, offering a convenient and effective way to practice.
- 200+ conversation quizzes
- Multiple topics and contexts
- Varied difficulty levels
- Diverse voices
- IELTS listening preparation
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Practice English Listening easily, conveniently and effectively through more than 200 conversation quizzes with many topics, contexts, different levels and voices. It is a great preparation for IELTS test. Terms of Use(Apple's Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Basic for Listening
This app offers an activity-rich listening course designed to build skills in listening and conversation. It includes practice for testing and exam techniques, aiming to develop confident listeners and improve exam success.
- Activity-rich listening course
- Builds listening and conversation skills
- Practice for testing and exam techniques
- Engaging and motivating activities
- Short, practical content chunks
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Tactics for Listening Third Edition is an activity-rich listening course with proven success in building skills in listening and conversation. Now with Tactics for Testing, it provides plenty of practice in testing and exam techniques. The result is confident listeners - and exam success. This three-level American English listening course uses short chunks and practical, relevant activities to engage and motivate students.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Basic for Listening at 100% against ESL English Listening Test's 51%. Basic for Listening also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 5) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). ESL English Listening Test's advantage is ratings volume (2K vs 5) and update cadence (every 4 months vs every 13 months). On price, 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. ESL English Listening Test sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Basic for Listening asks for nothing beyond the download.
Basic for Listening holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ESL English Listening Test has 2K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 51% of ESL English Listening Test's written reviews are positive against 100% of Basic for Listening's.
ESL English Listening Test ships an update every 4 months, Basic for Listening every 13 months. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ESL English Listening Test | Basic for Listening |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (2K ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 51.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2K — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 13 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 137 MB | 116 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | An Tran | Le Bin |
Customer experience
ESL English Listening Test
Basic for Listening
In-app purchases
ESL English Listening Test
- Plus Monthly$1.991 Month
- Plus Yearly$14.991 Year
- Unlock All Lessons$5.99
- Unlock TOEIC$5.99
- Unlock IELTS$5.99
Basic for Listening
No in-app purchases
Questions
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