Comparison

Ling vs BaOui

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

Head to head
About

Ling

Learn over 80 languages, including rare ones, with fun, bite-sized lessons and native speaker audio. Develop speaking, reading, writing, and listening skills while exploring cultural insights. Track progress and stay motivated with achievements.

Highlights
  • Learn 80+ languages
  • Bite-sized lessons
  • Native speaker audio
  • Develop all four skills
  • Cultural insights
  • Progress tracking
  • Gamified learning
Features
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Take the easy path to hard languages with Ling! Learn Tagalog, Serbian, Cebuano, Albanian, and 75+ more languages with bite-sized lessons and real native-speaker audio. Start with 2 free units in any language. One subscription unlocks all 80 languages, and annual plans include a 7-day free trial. WHY LEARNERS CHOOSE LING - Languages others overlook: We specialize in Asian and Eastern European languages, plus rare and endangered ones you won't find in most apps - Real native speakers: Every lesson uses recordings of native speakers talking naturally, so you learn how the language really sounds - Speak, read, write, and listen: Build all four skills in one place, from your first words to real conversations - Learning that feels fun: Bite-sized lessons and exercises that never feel like homework - Culture Notes: Understand the people and traditions behind the language - Stay motivated: Build your streak, unlock achievements, and track your progress across 200+ lessons CHOOSE FROM 80 LANGUAGES Afrikaans • Albanian • Amharic • Arabic • Armenian • Azerbaijani • Bengali • Bosnian • Bulgarian • Burmese • Cantonese • Catalan • Cebuano • Chinese Simplified • Chinese Traditional • Croatian • Czech • Danish • Dutch • English • Estonian • Finnish • French • Georgian • German • Greek • Gujarati • Hebrew • Hindi • Hungarian • Icelandic • Ilocano • Indonesian • Irish • Italian • Japanese • Javanese • Kannada • Kazakh • Khmer • Korean • Lao • Latvian • Lithuanian • Macedonian • Malayalam • Malaysian • Maori • Marathi • Mongolian • Nepali • Norwegian • Pashto • Persian • Polish • Portuguese • Punjabi • Romanian • Russian • Serbian • Sinhala • Slovak • Slovenian • Somali • Sorbian • Spanish • Sundanese • Swahili • Swedish • Tagalog • Taiwanese Hokkien • Tamil • Telugu • Thai • Turkish • Ukrainian • Urdu • Uzbek • Vietnamese • Yoruba SUBSCRIPTIONS Ling offers monthly and annual subscriptions for full access to every language. The 7-day free trial is available on annual plans only. Payment is charged to your Apple ID when you confirm your purchase, or when the free trial ends. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your App Store account settings. FOLLOW LING https://ling-app.com/ https://www.instagram.com/ling_app/ https://www.youtube.com/@LingLearnLanguages https://www.tiktok.com/@ling_app https://www.facebook.com/Ling.learn.languages/ Questions or feedback? Reach us at support@ling-app.com Terms of Use: https://ling-app.com/terms-of-use/ Privacy Policy: https://ling-app.com/privacy-policy/

About

BaOui

Learn essential words and phrases in over 30 languages through fun, structured exercises. Ideal for travelers and professionals, it offers everyday conversations, vocabulary practice, and grammar lessons. Track your progress and master pronunciation with interactive tools.

Highlights
  • Learn 30+ languages
  • Everyday conversation practice
  • Vocabulary and phrase mastery
  • Grammar and verb tense exercises
  • Pronunciation practice with audio
  • Progress tracking
Features
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Tired of random language lessons with no structure? Or searching endlessly for language exercises that fit practical everyday situations? Well, BaOui is the efficient app for YOU - and it’s free! If you’re an English, French, German, and/or Spanish speaker, you can use BaOui to learn essential words and phrases of over 30 languages through simple, fun, and easily accessible exercises. Its user-friendly and straight-forward approach is perfect for the traveling student or business professional – or anyone interested in learning a new language! Initially a French language learning app only, BaOui has now expanded to even more languages after great feedback and requests from our first users. Start practicing Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Tagalog, French, German, English, Spanish, and more today! New Features: For our English to French (and French to English) versions, additional theory exercises are available including verb tenses, articles, general grammar rules, grammatical exceptions, and so on. Each lesson will have its own set of exercises so you can instantly practice and review what you just learned. From audio examples of vowels and consonants to verb conjugation exercises, you will be able to build sentences on your own and pronounce them correctly! For our English, French, Spanish, and German language versions, read and listen to up to 100 everyday life conversations covering 50+ topics! Users will have the ability to instantly access their English, French, Spanish, or German translations while listening to dialogue from either of these four languages. If there are words in the audio that are unfamiliar to you, you can easily reveal their translations with just one click! You can replay the dialogue and click its translations as many times as needed. Users can also master over 4,500 essential words and phrases (including slang expressions) from each of these four languages through various interactive exercises – including high quality AI video exercises! Why BaOui? VOCABULARY AND PRACTICE We’ve gathered the most common words and sentences for all 30+ languages as they will be useful in daily conversations with locals! Whether you're a beginner or expert, BaOui was designed to ensure your learning experience continues to evolve and is always up to date with current lingo. All vocabulary and translations are also easily organized and searchable via our new search bar tool! Our fun and quick matching exercises are a hit with users! Learners must correctly match images to corresponding sounds and text, helping learners retain what they’ve practiced even further. Not only are BaOui exercises fun and intuitive, but they include high quality images and audio which significantly enhance the learning experience! Whether you practice daily or go at your own pace, you can easily track your progress with BaOui. All vocabulary is conveniently arranged by topic and level of importance. Whether you are at the airport, restaurant, gym, club, or hospital, BaOui will make sure you are prepared! Going on a date? No problem. You can easily access our “Romance, Dating” topic which includes the most common sentences and expressions used for these situations. With BaOui, you will have the most practical, concise words and phrases (even "taboo" terms) readily available at your fingertips! REVIEW Finally, the best part - review everything you've learned so far through one or all three of the following methods: Guess, Write, or Listen! This is easily BaOui's most fun and helpful section. Anytime, anywhere, you can practice everything you’ve learned so far from the app as often as you’d like or until you know it all by heart! You can also review any words and phrases you may have missed during exercises. Start your language learning journey with our free app today! Everything you learn from our free version will be accessible forever, whether you choose or not choose to unlock our full “BaOui Premium" membership. Happy learning!

Screenshots

Ling4 screens
BaOui4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: BaOui at 100% against Ling's 61%. BaOui also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Ling's advantage is ratings volume (17K vs 8) and chart position (#65 vs unranked). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Ling sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $10.99 per month and BaOui sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

BaOui holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ling has 17K ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of Ling's written reviews are positive against 100% of BaOui's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ling ships an update weekly, BaOui fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Ling versus BaOui: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLingBaOui
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (17K ratings)5.0 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews61.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings17K — better8
Update frequencyWeekly — betterFortnightly
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#65 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size195 MB111 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperSIMYA LABS COMPANY LIMITEDBAOUI LLC

Customer experience

Ling

All ratings16,785 ratings
Positive91.7%
Neutral3.6%
Negative4.7%
Written reviews2,194 reviews
Positive61.1%
Neutral12.3%
Negative26.6%

BaOui

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Ling

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Progress resets to zero
  • Incorrect translations and pronunciations
  • Lessons skipping ahead unexpectedly
  • Microphone issues, can't record properly
  • Sync issues across devices

Requested features

5 requests
  • Allow retry/go back in lessons
  • Improve speech recognition
  • Add grammar explanations
  • Provide more review and practice options
  • Introduce alphabet/writing system first

BaOui

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Ling

Subscriptions8
  • Monthly Language Learning Plan$10.991 Month
  • Ling Monthly Subscription2 variants$14.991 Month
  • Ling Pro 1 Month Subscription$16.991 Month
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  • Learn Language Pro Yearly 77 Days trial$48.991 Year
  • Ling Pro Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$54.991 Year
  • Ling Yearly Subscription7 Days trial2 variants$79.991 Year
  • Ling Pro 12 Month Subscription7 Days trial$89.991 Year
  • Ling Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$99.991 Year
2 purchases

BaOui

Subscriptions2
  • 1 Month$4.991 Month
  • 1 Year$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Ling free?
Ling is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BaOui free?
BaOui is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Ling or BaOui?
BaOui is rated higher. Ling averages 4.6 out of 5 from 17K ratings, while BaOui averages 5.0 from 8 ratings.
Do Ling or BaOui have ads?
Both Ling and BaOui show ads.
Which is updated more often, Ling or BaOui?
Ling ships an update weekly, and BaOui fortnightly. Most recently, Ling was updated on November 8, 2026 and BaOui on November 3, 2026.

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