Comparison

Idiom vs DMLS

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

Head to head
About

Idiom

Master new languages with real-world content. Learn vocabulary from trending news, practice listening with popular shows, and improve reading comprehension with books. Supports over 100 languages.

Highlights
  • Learn from trending news
  • Practice with popular shows
  • Build reading comprehension with books
  • Import custom content (websites, videos, ebooks, PDFs)
  • Camera mode for physical text
  • Supports over 100 languages
Features
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Get stuck learning a language? This app is for you. Idiom uses techniques from advanced language classes to get you fluent. - Work through trending news from around the world, researching the meaning of words and phrases until you master each sentence. - Watch popular shows, slowing and repeating until you can hear every syllable clearly. - Practice with a library of books, building your reading comprehension and speed. # Content Idiom recommends real-world content based on your interests and level, and you can also bring your own. The app can load most websites, youtube videos, epubs, and pdfs. There’s also a camera mode for things like paper books and instagram screenshots. # Premium Everything above is free. There’s also a premium mode that unlocks additional features: - Translate whole phrases and sentences - Natural text-to-speech for any written content - Remove ads from many websites You can try premium for 1 week for free, and if you like it keep using it for a monthly fee. # Supported languages Idiom supports learning more than 100 languages. Some of the most popular languages on Idiom are English, German, Spanish, French, Russian, Arabic, Italian, Dutch, Greek, Turkish, Japanese, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Thai, Polish, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Farsi, Czech, Danish, Romanian, and Swedish. # Privacy policy and terms of service https://getidiom.com/privacy-policy/ https://getidiom.com/terms-of-service/

About

DMLS

This app helps advanced language learners maintain and improve fluency through contextual exercises. It offers various practice methods, including translation, listening, and reading comprehension, with smart error tracking and instant translations.

Highlights
  • Contextual learning from diverse sentences
  • Practice any language pair
  • Sentence translation exercises
  • Listening and reading comprehension
  • Smart error tracking
  • Instant word and sentence translations
  • Bookmark favorite sentences
Features
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Drill My Language Skill: keep your learning momentum with beyond-the-basics lessons. Practice your English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian. A basic language course may get you to A2 or B1, B2 level - but probably won't take you further. What's worse, without constant practice your language proficiency will decline. With the free DMLS app you can maintain your fluency and improve your reading and listening skills, by building upon what you already know with continuous practice. Key features that set us apart: * Learn from context: This app is not about starting from scratch; it's about building upon what you already know. Engage with tens of thousands of diverse sentences to refresh known words and grammatical concepts and learn - sometimes infer - new ones. * Any language pair: Exercises "from" and "to" any of the supported languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian. * Variety of Exercises: Translating sentences both ways: to and from your target language. Listening and reading comprehension tasks. Constructing complete sentences from standalone words, either by listening to the target language's audio without seeing the text, or by translating from your known language. * Instant translations: Stuck on a word or sentence? Use our instant translation feature to translate a single word or the whole sentence, and keep practicing. * Smart Error Tracking: No one's perfect, and mistakes are a part of learning. The app intelligently tracks your errors, prompting you to revisit and master those tricky sentences later. * Your own favorite sentences Bookmark interesting sentences in a list to review at a later point. * Easy registration Full functionality with an anonymous account. Premium features: We offer a premium subscription that would make your language practice even more enjoyable: * Focus on specific exercise types Just reading (no sound required) or just listening: chose the exercise type that feels the most appealing right now. * Dual Language Learning: If you want to learn a language that is similar to the one you somewhat know, but don't know quite well. Or just up for a brain teasing, to challenge and enhance your cognitive skills? Learn two languages simultaneously! Add translations of all sentences to a third language - the one you have a good command of - and learn two languages at once. * Better translations Translations right in the app and explanations of what the specific word means in the specific sentence. Pretty neat! * No ads (obviously). There aren't that many to begin with, but with premium there's 0, so infinitely fewer.

Screenshots

Idiom4 screens
DMLS4 screens

Verdict

The call

Idiom and DMLS both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 91% of Idiom's written reviews are positive against 0% of DMLS's. Idiom also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (176 vs 5). DMLS's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, update cadence 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. Idiom sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and DMLS sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

DMLS holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Idiom has 176 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 91% of Idiom's written reviews are positive against 0% of DMLS's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Idiom ships an update every 9 days, DMLS weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Idiom versus DMLS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIdiomDMLS
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (176 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews91.4% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings176 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysWeekly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB51 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperThe Language CompanyCircling Shortcut LLC

Customer experience

Idiom

All ratings172 ratings
Positive96.5%
Neutral1.2%
Negative2.3%
Written reviews128 reviews
Positive91.4%
Neutral3.9%
Negative4.7%

DMLS

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Idiom

Subscriptions3
  • Student7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Pro7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Patron7 Days trial$6.991 Month
2 purchases

DMLS

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly premium3 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Yearly Premium7 Days trial$59.991 Year

Questions

Is Idiom free?
Idiom is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DMLS free?
DMLS is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Idiom or DMLS?
DMLS is rated higher. Idiom averages 4.8 out of 5 from 176 ratings, while DMLS averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do Idiom or DMLS have ads?
DMLS shows ads; Idiom does not.
Which is updated more often, Idiom or DMLS?
Idiom ships an update every 9 days, and DMLS weekly. Most recently, Idiom was updated on October 26, 2026 and DMLS on October 10, 2026.

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