Comparison

LingoZING! Learn languages vs Earworms

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

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About

LingoZING! Learn languages

Learn English, French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese through interactive audio-comic graphic novels. Immerse yourself in stories to naturally acquire vocabulary, dialogue, and cultural nuances. Features include playback control, pronunciation practice, and vocabulary saving.

Highlights
  • Interactive audio-comic graphic novels
  • Multiple languages and genres
  • Adjustable playback speed
  • Pronunciation practice and recording
  • Vocabulary lookup and saving
  • Switch between languages
Features
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LingoZING is the only interactive audio-comic-graphic novel narrative based language and subject learning tool for all ages. Learn English, French, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian the fun way by immersing into fantastic stories in a variety of genres. Experience familiar worlds (Witchblade, One Trick Rip Off), or new ones (Lumberjanes, Wytches) and discover the easiest natural way to learn. THE BENEFITS: LingoZING is efficient because it engages into a context. The brain is stimulated and rewarded in a fundamentally different way from traditional methods of learning languages, enabling you to retain a deeper grasp of a language in a much shorter period of time. Important learning aspects like real world dialogue usage, inflection, intonation and vocabulary are all presented in a natural context, easy to comprehend. Have you ever watched a foreign movie and wished you could control the playback speed to learn some of the dialogue? Wished there was an audio option to hear the characters in comics? LingoZING! combines both! Retention comes easily when learning in the context of an intriguing story-line. WHO IS IT FOR? LingoZING is for language learners of all ages, business executives, parents, teachers, comic readers and educational institutions who are looking for a fun supplement to learn a language. HOW DOES IT WORK? Download and open your favorite title, just like back in the old days, then switch between languages as often as you please, look up the vocabulary, have it read to you in normal speed or slowed down. Save vocabulary when you wish to dig deeper. Listen, repeat and record text - then share it with friends to brag about your new skills! Once you familiarize with your chosen story, you start to live in the language. This allows the mind to instinctively pick up cultural tid-bits which helps in assimilating the spirit of a language. THE PRODUCTION: LingoZING was developed by a handful of culturally diverse people, most of them with backgrounds in the arts and entertainment - and they learned languages using comic books! An incredible effort has gone into actors lending their voices to bring the diverse titles to life, resulting in a rich tapestry of dialogue and setting for each language selected. FEATURES: - Wide selection of titles. Choose from Comedy, History, and Superhero to Family, Sci-Fi, Horror and other genres. Browse, discover and download your favorite titles, classified by genre, age, reading level and creators. - Read, Play. Sit back, and have LZPlay read the book to you. Or interactively zoom in, read, play and switch between the languages as you please. Test your understanding by reading the translations. - Slow Play. Hear every line spoken in a poised voice that enunciates clearly and slowly so you can hear the correct pronunciation. - Pronunciation Check. Practice and record your voice over a frame. - Share your results interactively with an LZGram (FB, Instagram, Twitter) - Dictionary. Learn synonyms by looking up the words in the dictionary. - Notes. Bookmark and separately store any frame using the Circle and Save feature without the boring 'copy and paste’ routine. LingoZING! also provide 3 auto-renew subscription plans per month: - $3.99: you can download 3 comic books - $4.99: you can download 5 comic books - $6.99: you can download 7 comic books Award Winning app. EdTech Cool Tools Finalists 2019 & 2020 we collaborateswith the Institut Français, the Utah Immersion and more FOLLOW US ON: www.facebook.com/LingoZINGapp www.facebook.com/lingozing.fr www.twitter.com/lingoZING www.instagram.com/lingozing CUSTOMER SUPPORT & FEEDBACK: Please contact Help@LingoZing.com or all product or title related questions, and Support@LingoZing.com if you are a content publisher and have questions to your titles. JOIN US AS A PUBLISHER Please contact info@lingozing.com Terms of use: https://www.lingozing.com/terms-and-conditions/ Privacy policy: https://www.lingozing.com/privacy-policy/

About

Earworms

Learn languages effectively using the "earworm effect" with catchy music and lyrics. This method anchors foreign language words and phrases into your long-term memory through engaging, brain-based audio-visual lessons. Improve vocabulary and grammar with bite-sized tracks and native speaker pronunciation.

Highlights
  • Learn languages with music and lyrics
  • Brain-based learning technique
  • Audio-visual experience with karaoke lyrics
  • 6-9 minute learning tracks
  • Content-rich language based on CEF
  • Native speaker pronunciation
Features
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Do you know what “earworm effect” is? Experience it while you learn languages with catchy music and lyrics that you just can't get out of your head. This highly effective award-winning learning technique uses music as the medium to transport words and phrases of a foreign language into your long-term memory. Start your language learning now! Learn Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Mandarin, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Maltese, Dutch, Greek, Russian, Arabic, or Turkish and improve your vocabulary and grammar using the power of music. Earworms plant the words of a foreign language into your head with easy language courses. Try our language learning with music lyrics demo for free. THE EARWOMS METHOD 1. Brain-based: The Earworms method not only provides the words, phrases and grammar that you need for language learning, it also actively anchors them into the auditory cortex of your brain! It’s much more than language courses, it's language learning! Learn French, Spanish, English, Italian, German or Dutch listening to music lyrics. 2. Music is the key: Using music as the medium to learn languages is not only fun, it is also effective. Firstly, music puts the learner into the optimum state of consciousness for learning different languages. Secondly, music lyrics learning allows repetition (a prerequisite for language learning). On top of that, music engages and stimulates both hemispheres of the brain, unleashing more learning potential. 3. Chunking: Instead of language learning in terms of individual words and grammar, the Earworms approach immerses the learner in real-life dialogues and expressions with lyrics. These are broken down into bite-size chunks, practiced rhythmically with music and then reconstructed into full sentences. This gives the learner a strong sense of how real language courses are constructed and learning French, Spanish, German, Italian, English and other different languages and their vocabulary becomes easy. IMPORTANT FEATURES * Developed by language teaching experts. * Convenient. 6-9 minute tracks. Listen and learn track by track, any time, anywhere. * Audio-visual experience with 'karaoke-like' live lyrics feature. * Specific unambiguous goals. 200+ optimally selected sets of words and phrases for language learning. * Measurable. Easy tracking of progress of your language courses. * Target language spoken by native speakers - so correct pronunciation is acquired automatically. * Relevant. Carefully chosen content-rich language. Based on the CEF (Common European Framework) and immediately useful to the learner. * Time-bound. The musical memory method enables real rapid progress. E.g. you can learn to count up to 999 in Mandarin in an hour (!) or retain and recall words, phrases and structures in one language level within a couple of weeks. * Educational discounts are available. Visit https://www.earwormslearning.com/edu LANGUAGES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE French + German + Italian + Spanish (European) + Spanish (Lat. American) + Mandarin + Cantonese + Japanese + Arabic + Portuguese (European) + Portuguese (Brazilian) + Russian + Greek + Turkish + Polish + English + Dutch LEVELS There are 3 learning levels available, which will take you up to intermediate level (CEF level A2). * Volume 1. Within a few hours of listening to this volume, you'll have enough vocabulary knowledge of a language to be able to deal with real-life situations like taking a taxi, at the hotel, at the restaurant, requesting, polite phrases, finding your way, numbers, dealing with problems and so on. * Volume 2. This language course will soon have you talking about yourself, chatting and even flirting! * Volume 3. Here you learn more useful everyday situations while going more into the structure, the grammatical rules of the language while improving your vocabulary. NB. The app includes a demo album, full tracks of all languages available – and is free to download. You can then in-app purchase full courses.

Screenshots

LingoZING! Learn languages4 screens
Earworms4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Earworms at none against LingoZING! Learn languages's shown. Earworms also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.5) and ratings volume (357 vs 22). LingoZING! Learn languages's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 12.4). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

Both are free to download. LingoZING! Learn languages sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Earworms sells 16 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Earworms holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Earworms has 357 ratings behind it against 22, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of LingoZING! Learn languages's written reviews are positive against 72% of Earworms's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

LingoZING! Learn languages ships an update every 3 weeks, Earworms every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
LingoZING! Learn languages versus Earworms: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLingoZING! Learn languagesEarworms
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (22 ratings)4.8 (357 ratings) — better
Positive reviews63.0% of reviews72.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings22357 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 5 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS10.0 — better12.4
Further details — not scored
Size271 MB48 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperLingoZINGearworms Ltd

Customer experience

LingoZING! Learn languages

All ratings22 ratings
Positive86.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative13.6%
Written reviews27 reviews
Positive63.0%
Neutral3.7%
Negative33.3%

Earworms

All ratings357 ratings
Positive94.1%
Neutral2.8%
Negative3.1%
Written reviews83 reviews
Positive72.3%
Neutral10.8%
Negative16.9%

Bugs and requests

LingoZING! Learn languages

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Earworms

Reported bugs

11 issues
  • App crashes every few minutes on iPhone
  • Network error on startup despite internet connection
  • Infinite loop on initial setup screen
  • App closes unexpectedly during playback
  • Restore purchases feature not functioning
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  • Activation code cannot be claimed in app
  • Tracks download corrupted or fail to load
  • Text display shows English instead of native script
  • Phrase book download button subscribes to email instead
  • App no longer works after OS updates
  • Category selection feature removed in newer version

Requested features

11 requests
  • Additional volume levels for existing languages
  • More lessons and expanded content library
  • Autoplay feature for continuous listening
  • Repeat single track functionality
  • Ability to select specific lesson categories
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  • Business-focused lesson modules
  • Emergency/medical/police interaction lessons
  • Grocery shopping and tradesperson lessons
  • More Cantonese, Maltese, Hindi, and Finnish content
  • Improved booklet formatting and accessibility
  • Direct email contact option for support

In-app purchases

9 purchases

LingoZING! Learn languages

Subscriptions3
  • 3 comic book per month$3.991 Month
  • 5 comics per month$4.991 Month
  • 7 comics per month$6.991 Month
One-time6
  • LZ Comic Book$1.99
  • LZ Book$2.99
  • LZ Book$3.99
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  • LZ Comic Book$4.99
  • LZ Comic Book$5.99
  • LZ Comic Book$6.99
16 purchases

Earworms

One-time16
  • Try before you buyFree
  • Essayez avant d’acheterFree
  • Álbum de demostraciónFree
Show 13 more
  • French Vol. 1$11.99
  • Italian Vol. 1$11.99
  • Spanish Lat. Am. Vol. 1$11.99
  • Portuguese Vol.1$11.99
  • French Vol. 2$11.99
  • Dutch Vol. 1-2$19.99
  • Japanese Vol. 1-2$19.99
  • Spanish Lat. Am. Vol. 1-3$27.99
  • Bundle deals, French Vol. 1-3$28.99
  • Bundle deals, German Vol. 1-3$28.99
  • Bundle deals, Italian Vol. 1-3$28.99
  • Bundle, Spanish Eu. Vol. 1-3$28.99
  • Portuguese Vol.1-3$28.99

Questions

Is LingoZING! Learn languages free?
LingoZING! Learn languages is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Earworms free?
Earworms is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, LingoZING! Learn languages or Earworms?
Earworms is rated higher. LingoZING! Learn languages averages 4.5 out of 5 from 22 ratings, while Earworms averages 4.8 from 357 ratings.
Do LingoZING! Learn languages or Earworms have ads?
LingoZING! Learn languages shows ads; Earworms does not.
Which is updated more often, LingoZING! Learn languages or Earworms?
LingoZING! Learn languages ships an update every 3 weeks, and Earworms every 5 months. Most recently, LingoZING! Learn languages was updated on October 13, 2026 and Earworms on October 15, 2026.

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