Comparison

ddrepeater vs Learn

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

Head to head
About

ddrepeater

This app aids foreign language listening practice by allowing users to set sentence repetition times, playback rates, and pause durations. It offers convenient modes for detailed sentence comprehension and word-by-word listening.

Highlights
  • Sentence repetition
  • A-B repetition
  • Variable playback rate
  • Audio waveform display
  • Recording functionality
  • Favorite sentences for review
  • Lyric editor
  • Colorful UI and night mode
Features
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The ddrepeater is an app that will let your iPhone/iPad has the functions of repeater, It is specially designed for practising listening to a foreign language. With ddrepeater ,you can set the times of repetitions for each sentence,the rate of playback and the pause time after each sentence, so that you can understand every sentence very carefully by automatic repeat play. In order to understand each sentence, ddrepeater provides some convenient operation modes. For example, when you long click a sentence, ddrepeater will automatically repeat this sentence. The repetitions of the listening and understanding every word carefully is the most effective way to learning a foreign language. Let’s use ddrepeater to listen every word. Features: 1:Repetition of sentences one bye one; 2:Repetition between A and B; 3:Variable playback rate; 4:Audio waveform displaying; 5:Recording; 6:Adding sentences to favorite for review; 7:lyric Editor; 8:colorful UI and night mode;

About

Learn

This app helps you learn languages by breaking down audio into sentences. It provides tools for listening, speaking practice, pronunciation feedback, and memorization. Track your progress and identify difficult sentences to improve your language skills.

Highlights
  • Sentence-by-sentence audio learning
  • Blind listening and imitation tool
  • Pronunciation and intonation feedback
  • Visible progress bar for learning
  • Recite mode for memorization
  • Error correction for text and phonetics
Features
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No matter what language you are learning, with just an audio file, we immediately let you listen, speak, learn, memorize and spell it sentence by sentence and finding out your listening, pronunciation and intonation problems immediately [Support learning 61 languages]. Outstanding Features: 1. Learning Sentence by Sentence ->​ Becomes so easy: Drag in or add in an audio file and you are good to go [see App Preview: V1]. 2. High-efficiency Blind Listening + Imitation Tool ->​ Each sentence starts with automatic continuous blind listening, and you can choose to imitate it directly and get individual letter-level hints when needed [V2]. 3. Cross Play:Makes Pronunciation, Intonation Problems not only can be Seen, but also can be Heard [V3]. 4. The innovative colorful and visible "Sentence Blocks Progress Bar" allows you to see Difficult Sentences, Learning Process and Results, etc. at a glance, and makes sentence by sentence learning super easy ->​ Every sentence you want to learn is so clear and visible that all you have to do is click on it. 5.Rich and Extensively sourced audio text books. Main Function: 1. Listen: Auto-play repeatedly according to your choice: 1.1. Single Sentence [Step mode: Default] / All Sentences [normal] / Sentences marked with "Difficult" [normal + difficulties] 1.2. Original Soundtrack only 1.3. Your voice only 1.4. Cross play [you said, then the original] 2. Speak, Check and Hint: 2.1. Immediately display each word and phonetic symbol you say. 2.2. Automatically check each sentence and show the correct part of what you said in the original area. 2.3 Letter-level hints. 3. Learning: 3.1 You can check the text, translation and phonetic symbols of each sentence at any time [P3, P4] 3.2 supports text right-click menus. So you can easily use third-party apps such as audio dictionaries, etc. [P7] 4. Recite and Bear in mind 4.1 In [Recite] mode: Choose a sentence that was correctly spoken before and see if you can still say it correctly in 7, 15, or 30 days only based on its translation? [P5] 5. Spelling/Back Translation 6. Browse, Copy, or Print Text, Phonetic Symbols and Translations. [P6] 7. Correct errors Errors in text and phonetic symbols due to recording quality or teacher's accent or current network status, etc., can be corrected by: 7.1. Tap the "Edit" button to modify its text, phonetic symbols and translation. 7.2. Try to merge 2 sentences. 7.3. Try to split the sentence. 7.4. If you said it out correctly, tap the [Bingo? ] Button 7.5. Import the sio file shared by others 8. More 8.1. Auto starts learning from the last sentence you quit. [entry -> book] 8.2. The number of sentences on "Sentence Blocks Progress Bar" can be adjusted according to the speed of specific audio file. 8.3. Background playback and headphone control* enable you to learn anywhere, anytime. .One click: play / pause .Double Click: Play the next sentence .Press 3 times: Play the previous sentence 8.4. Swipe Left / Right to choose Previous / Next sentence. 8.4 Multiple screen. 9. Settings & Select a Dictionary 9.1. To get the correct text: Please make sure that the language code is consistent with the recording language you are learning. 9.2. To get your native language translation: In the preferences, set your native language to the language of the translation you want to get. 9.3. Get phonetic symbols*: Install one of the following dictionaries. .New Oxford American Dictionary .Oxford Dictionary of English .Chinese, Traditional-English .Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary .Oxford German Dictionary .No installation required for learning Chinese *Currently only US, English, French, German and Chinese are supported. 10. Others 10.1. Requires iOS 14.0, MacOS 11.0 or above 10.2. Built in a Chinese and an American MP3, download to experience 10.3. 5 sentences free trial [any audio file], unlimited use on all Macs, iPads and iPhones for a total of only $2.99, support family sharing.

Screenshots

ddrepeater4 screens
Learn4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: ddrepeater at 68% against Learn's 0%. ddrepeater also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 14.0). Learn's advantage is price (Free vs $3.99). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Learn is free to download; ddrepeater costs $3.99 up front. ddrepeater sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Learn sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
ddrepeater versus Learn: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterddrepeaterLearn
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating3.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews68.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS9.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer金 王秋生 廖

Customer experience

ddrepeater

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive68.0%
Neutral8.0%
Negative24.0%

Learn

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

ddrepeater

One-time1
  • VIP member$2.99
3 purchases

Learn

One-time3
  • get 100 Checks$0.99
  • upgrade to unlimited$1.99
  • Unlimited voice checks.$2.99

Questions

Is ddrepeater free?
ddrepeater costs $3.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Learn free?
Learn is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ddrepeater or Learn have ads?
Neither ddrepeater nor Learn shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ddrepeater or Learn?
ddrepeater ships an update every 6 weeks, and Learn every 6 weeks. Most recently, ddrepeater was updated on October 18, 2026 and Learn on October 4, 2026.

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