Comparison

RainbowStar vs Otto

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

Head to head
About

RainbowStar

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Your e-books, your pedagogy. Cater your student's need. RainbowStar lets you create your own e-Learning materials and hold a truly interactive and engaging e-lesson. E-books can be easily created and adjusted freely to suit your needs. Our interactive e-lesson equipped with functions which helps you to save time. Exercises can be auto-corrected, and the learning data are analyzed to let you know more about your students’ ability. And the most important is, it is fun! Innovative e-Book Editor: Total Design Freedom We offer 80+ comprehensive tool and 10000+ images for you to tailor-make your e-books. You can start with a free canvas or choose from our templates. With easy drag and drop you can customize anything. Cross-platform lesson: Interact with your students Lesson can be held in a cross-platform environment. You can group your students and hold a competition, voting or discussion. We also provide page-sync, black-out screen and other functions that helps you manage your class. Instant Charts: Know your students well All questions with pre-set answers are instantly corrected. Learning data are automatically collected and analyzed. You can easily find out the learning difficulties of your students. Bookstore with editable e-books Share your knowledge! Here we have a bookstore for you to share your materials in public, and you can read the e-books from the bookstore to get some inspiration, or even download and edit it to suit your needs.

About

Otto

Features
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Otto is a browser that teaches you a language by immersion as you use your phone in the way you've always used it, only now it's at your level all the way from beginner to native. Open any site, search anything, and Otto swaps words on the page into the language you are learning, at your level. Start with a few hundred everyday words and move up to native as you go. Tap a swapped word and it translates itself; save it, and it is yours to practise later. Read the news, recipes, sport, the sites you visit every day. The web becomes your course book, and like your motivation, it never runs out. Set your level in seconds and change it any time. Weave every page, or just the ones you choose. Pause when you want to read as normal. Your usage is shown on every page, with a generous free allowance that renews. Practise what you save: match games, verb drills, quick judgements, built from your own words. Work with a tutor: they see your word bank and set the articles you read. On Apple Watch: follow a book, podcast or film with its swapped words on your wrist, go through the words that need work with a tick or a cross, say a word you heard to save it, and see your next lesson and grammar topic. Eleven languages: learn Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi or Arabic from English, English from any of them, and French, Spanish, Italian or Portuguese from one another. Free to use, with Pro and Max plans for more usage. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

RainbowStar4 screens
Otto4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Otto at every 5 days against RainbowStar's every 5 weeks. RainbowStar's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.0.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. RainbowStar sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Otto sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

RainbowStar ships an update every 5 weeks, Otto every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 11, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences Β· 4 level
RainbowStar versus Otto: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRainbowStarOtto
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 5 days β€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch β€” better
Requires iOS12.0 β€” better16.0.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size287 MB159 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperOpen Knowledge Association Ltd.Tom Honey

In-app purchases

6 purchases

RainbowStar

One-time6
  • 8個金幣$0.99
  • 48個金幣$5.99
  • 98個金幣$12.99
Show 3 more
  • 218個金幣$27.99
  • 368個金幣$46.99
  • 688個金幣$89.99
6 purchases

Otto

Subscriptions2
  • Otto Pro - Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Otto Pro - Yearly$29.991 Year
One-time4
  • 20 Tokens$1.99
  • 70 Tokens$4.99
  • 180 Tokens$9.99
Show 1 more
  • 450 Tokens$24.99

Questions

Is RainbowStar free?
RainbowStar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Otto free?
Otto is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do RainbowStar or Otto have ads?
Neither RainbowStar nor Otto shows ads.
Which is updated more often, RainbowStar or Otto?
RainbowStar ships an update every 5 weeks, and Otto every 5 days. Most recently, RainbowStar was updated on October 11, 2026 and Otto on October 11, 2026.

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