English Listening vs Basic for Listening
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
English Listening
Improve your English skills with short, offline lessons. Practice listening, grammar, and vocabulary through conversations with native speakers. Save favorite lessons and take notes for a personalized learning experience.
- Offline English lessons
- Listening practice with native audio
- Vocabulary and grammar exercises
- Lesson notes and bookmarks
- American English conversations
- Voice recording and saving
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* English Listening - 6mins - This is free app to learn English and improve your English Listening, English Grammar, English Vocabulary. * Learning English - Learn English through simple English Conversations from English Learning Programs. - Each lesson comes with audio, transcript and vocabulary list, which help you to improve your English Grammar and expand your English Vocabulary. ● New features - American English conversations - Add "Study centre", you can do exercise free and offline. - Support "Bookmarks" feature - Take note on the lesson. - Includes vocabulary on lessons. ● Main features - Practice your english conversations. - Learning vocabulary - Learning grammar - Listening audio with native voice. - Record your voice and save in device. - Favourite a lessons - Remember lessons has learned in history. - Search lessons very fast. **** Learning English Offline ***** - Privacy policy: https://p2plearningenglish.com/p2pdictionary/privacy.php - Terms of Use: https://p2plearningenglish.com/p2pdictionary/term_of_use.php - And read more USER LICENSE AGREEMENT (about EULA) at here: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Basic for Listening
This app offers an activity-rich listening course designed to build skills in listening and conversation. It includes practice for testing and exam techniques, aiming to develop confident listeners and improve exam success.
- Activity-rich listening course
- Builds listening and conversation skills
- Practice for testing and exam techniques
- Engaging and motivating activities
- Short, practical content chunks
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Tactics for Listening Third Edition is an activity-rich listening course with proven success in building skills in listening and conversation. Now with Tactics for Testing, it provides plenty of practice in testing and exam techniques. The result is confident listeners - and exam success. This three-level American English listening course uses short chunks and practical, relevant activities to engage and motivate students.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Basic for Listening at none against English Listening's 3. Basic for Listening also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 76%) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). English Listening's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 13 months). On price, rating 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
Both are free to download. English Listening sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Basic for Listening asks for nothing beyond the download.
Basic for Listening holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: English Listening has 11K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 76% of English Listening's written reviews are positive against 100% of Basic for Listening's.
English Listening ships an update every 4 weeks, Basic for Listening every 13 months. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | English Listening | Basic for Listening |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (11K ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 76.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 11K — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Every 13 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 166 MB | 116 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nguyen Thi Hoai Thu | Le Bin |
Customer experience
English Listening
Basic for Listening
Bugs and requests
English Listening
Reported bugs
3 issues- Favorite/download/bookmark features not working
- Search function not reliable
- App crashing after updates
Requested features
5 requests- Add Chinese translations
- Ability to control playback speed
- Bookmark/favorite episodes
- Categorize episodes by difficulty level
- Suggest related content after each episode
Basic for Listening
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
English Listening
- 1 Month$9.991 Month
- 1 Year$12.491 Year
- Premium$14.99
Basic for Listening
No in-app purchases
Questions
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