Comparison

Polyingo vs GoatHSK

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

Head to head
About

Polyingo

An interactive language learning app that uses videos and AI to help users improve pronunciation, vocabulary, and speaking skills. Users can chat with AI or other learners, play vocabulary and speaking games, and track their progress.

Highlights
  • Learn pronunciations via user videos
  • Chat with AI or other learners
  • Vocabulary and speaking games
  • Personalized word history and tagging
  • Daily word reminders
  • Poetry and accent searches
Features
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Polyingo turns the words you actually care about into stories, games and conversations — so they stick. Learn English, Spanish, German, French or Turkish, with the app itself in your own language. AN AI TUTOR THAT KNOWS YOUR LEVEL Chat naturally with Poly, your AI language tutor. Ask what a word means, get sentences tuned to your CEFR level, or turn the words you have saved into a short story and answer questions about it. 83 GAMES, NOT FLASHCARDS Twenty-four of them are arcade games: catch words on the beat, glide into the right meaning, rebuild a sentence one train carriage at a time. The rest cover vocabulary, writing, listening and speaking — including rounds where you say the sentence out loud and speech recognition marks it. Play with words from any CEFR level, from your own history, or filtered by tag. A DICTIONARY THAT FOLLOWS YOU Browse A1 to C2 across dictionaries, sentences, idioms and everyday routines. Pattern search finds words by shape — every four-letter word ending in "de", for example. Tap any word to hear it, translate it, tag it or save it. YOUR WORDS, REMEMBERED Every word you save keeps its audio, its translation and real examples. Tag them, filter them, and set reminders so a hand-picked word arrives even when the app is closed. LISTEN IN ANY ACCENT Text-to-speech with a choice of accents and adjustable speed, so you hear a word the way it is actually said. PRACTISE WITH PEOPLE Message other learners alongside your AI tutors. Post a word and hear how other people say it. EARN POINTS, CLIMB RANKS A 100-point daily target, Poly points for every session, and ranks to climb as you go. FREE AND PREMIUM The free plan includes monthly allowances for AI chat, translations, voice and pattern search. Premium lifts those limits and adds AI-quality translations, natural voices, games built from your saved words, every dictionary category, and reminders for any category. Setting up takes a minute: tell Polyingo the language you speak and the one you want to learn, take a two-minute level test if you like, and pick a few interests so the feed is yours.

About

GoatHSK

This offline flashcard app helps you learn HSK vocabulary levels 1-9. It uses spaced repetition to adapt to your memory, ensuring efficient review without overwhelming you with known words. All 11,000+ entries are available in one place.

Highlights
  • Offline HSK vocabulary learning
  • Supports HSK levels 1-9
  • 11,000+ vocabulary entries
  • Spaced repetition (FSRS-5)
  • No account or subscription required
  • No user tracking
Features
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GOAT HSK is an offline flashcard app for the official HSK 2021 vocabulary standard all 11,000+ entries across levels 1 through 9, in one app, with no account, no subscription, and no tracking. Built around modern spaced repetition (FSRS-5), it adapts to how well you actually remember each word, so reviews stay on schedule without flooding you with cards you already know.

Screenshots

Polyingo4 screens
GoatHSK4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Polyingo at Free against GoatHSK's $2.99. Polyingo also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). GoatHSK's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). On ads 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

Polyingo is free to download; GoatHSK costs $2.99 up front. Polyingo sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. GoatHSK asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Polyingo ships an update every 2 months, GoatHSK weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Polyingo versus GoatHSK: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPolyingoGoatHSK
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.5 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size76 MB141 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperMahmut TaskiranMatthias Holl

Customer experience

Polyingo

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

GoatHSK

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Polyingo

Subscriptions1
  • Polyingo Premium$6.991 Month
One-time1
  • Polly Anglo, Turk, Français...$0.99
None

GoatHSK

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Polyingo free?
Polyingo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is GoatHSK free?
GoatHSK costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Polyingo or GoatHSK have ads?
Neither Polyingo nor GoatHSK shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Polyingo or GoatHSK?
Polyingo ships an update every 2 months, and GoatHSK weekly. Most recently, Polyingo was updated on October 5, 2026 and GoatHSK on October 18, 2026.

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