Comparison

Watch and Learn vs Gravitas Crunch

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

Head to head
About

Watch and Learn

Learn new languages by watching films and series with synchronized subtitles. Tap on unknown words or phrases for instant translations and save them to flashcards for later study. Supports over 40 languages and offers pronunciation practice and knowledge tests.

Highlights
  • Watch films/series in foreign languages
  • Interactive subtitles with tap-to-translate
  • Save words/phrases to flashcards
  • Pronunciation support
  • Knowledge tests for vocabulary
  • Supports over 40 languages
  • Offline dictionaries
Features
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A convenient application for watching films and series in foreign languages with subtitles and learning new words and phrases. Just touch an unknown word or a phrase, get its translation and add a card to learn it later. WATCH - support all popular video formats without conversion - support of subtitles in srt format - download new subtitles from opensubtitles.org - set of interesting films with subtitles for most common languages - audio track selection and many other settings LEARN - intuitive control over the sets of words - ready-made card sets for the most popular languages (English, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese) - pronunciation support for words and phrases in foreign languages - knowledge tests for each set of words - export/import cards into csv format TRANSLATE - translate your own phrases and add them to the words sets - transcription for the most popular languages - speech to text function - just say unknown words and app will translate it - edit translations when needed - support over 50 off-line dictionaries - support of 40 languages AND ALSO - synchronization between all iOS devices via iCloud - support of iPhone, iPad and Mac DEVELOPERS LINK support@readandlearnapp.com Main supported video formats: MPEG-4/2/1, MJPEG, H.264, H.263, VP6, VP5, Theora, DV, MPEG-1/2/4, MJPEG, WMV, Cinepak, H.264, H.263, HuffYUV, Indeo3, Theora, Sorenson, VC-1, VP5/6/8/9, H.265, MOV, MP4, AVI, FLV and much more.. Supported languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chichewa, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian, Myanmar (Burmese), Nepali, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sesotho, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zulu.

About

Gravitas Crunch

Transform your feeds and documents into presenter-led audio and video reports. This app uses on-device AI to narrate articles, PDFs, and even your Kindle library, with options to ask questions and direct explanations. Create custom stations or broadcast your own content.

Highlights
  • Convert feeds to presenter-led reports
  • Read Kindle library aloud
  • Siri integration for broadcasting
  • Audiobook mode for full text playback
  • Ask questions and direct AI explanations
  • Save and share presenter segments
  • Import articles, PDFs, and EPUBs
Features
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YOUR FEEDS. NOW ON AIR. Choose the sources you care about and press Play. Robot Radio turns followed feeds into a continuous lineup of short, presenter-led reports. Browse curated stations across news, technology, science, culture, and more, or build My Station around your own feeds. A program to turn on, not another reading queue. Discover a story, open the original, or stay for the next report. WATCH YOUR KINDLE LIBRARY Sign into you Kindle account and read aloud your favorites with an animated presenter. (NOTE: Kindle page layout must be set to SINGLE COLUMN, or it will not sound right). START WITH SIRI Copy a link, an article passage, or a long AI response from another app. Then say: “Hey Siri, Crunch broadcast.” Import your source, create an outline, and watch an animated explanation with your current settings. “Hey Siri, Crunch audiobook.” Hear the full text, not a summary. Playback starts when narration is ready. Nothing to copy? Say “Hey Siri, Crunch radio” to open Robot Radio, then choose a station and press Play. More Siri and Shortcuts actions open sources, start research, tune stations, and return to your last audiobook. HEAR THE WHOLE STORY Audiobook Mode reads the full text of articles, documents, and EPUBs with expressive on-device narration. Return to your saved place or move between sections. Your own reading becomes your listening library. GO DEEPER. DIRECT THE EXPLANATION. Ask questions about a source and follow available citations back to supporting passages. Explore Executive, Technical, and Study Guide modes, or use Focus Mode to investigate a particular question across the source. Shape a briefing, study explanation, or product introduction through conversation. Change the tone, length, audience, or focus. Choose a response or transcript and press Broadcast. KEEP THE VIDEO Replay, save, or share your presenter-led segment with available source imagery. Keep a briefing, revisit an explanation, or share what you learned. Generation waits stay out of the finished video. BRING YOUR SOURCES Import articles, PDFs, EPUBs, text, feeds, and research papers. Find more with Discover Assistant and save sources for offline reading. Supported sources include RSS, Atom, Medium, Substack, Ghost, WordPress, Wikipedia, arXiv, DOI, PubMed, LaTeX, Reddit, YouTube, and Vimeo. Available text, imagery, and transcripts vary by source. ON-DEVICE AI. ONE PURCHASE. Apple Intelligence powers summaries and research. Qwen generates speech locally. Mind’s Eye builds the animated presentation on your device—not a remote AI server. No Crunch account required. No Crunch subscription. Your library stays on your device. You choose what to save and share. A Liquid Glass workspace for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro. AI summaries, research responses, and narration currently support English. Apple Intelligence features require compatible hardware with Apple Intelligence enabled. Online discovery, source retrieval, and publisher media require internet access. Publisher sign-ins and subscriptions may still apply. Check important AI-generated information against the original source.

Screenshots

Watch and Learn4 screens
Gravitas Crunch4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Gravitas Crunch at 100% against Watch and Learn's 50%. Gravitas Crunch also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 10). Watch and Learn's advantage is ratings volume (6 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence 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. Watch and Learn sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month. Gravitas Crunch asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Gravitas Crunch holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Watch and Learn has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Watch and Learn's written reviews are positive against 100% of Gravitas Crunch's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Watch and Learn ships an update every 7 months, Gravitas Crunch every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Watch and Learn versus Gravitas Crunch: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWatch and LearnGravitas Crunch
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.0 (6 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings6 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 6 months — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size116 MB2.3 GB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperAnton IvanovRichard Fallat

Customer experience

Watch and Learn

All ratings6 ratings
Positive16.7%
Neutral16.7%
Negative66.7%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Gravitas Crunch

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Watch and Learn

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly subscription$1.491 Month
  • Annual subscription$14.491 Year
One-time8
  • The Snows of Kilimanjaro$0.99
  • The Little Shop of Horrors$0.99
  • Carnival of Souls (1962)$0.99
Show 5 more
  • The Stranger (1946)$0.99
  • Blood on the Sun$0.99
  • Detour$0.99
  • Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959)$0.99
  • Full version$19.99
None

Gravitas Crunch

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Watch and Learn free?
Watch and Learn is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Gravitas Crunch free?
Gravitas Crunch is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Watch and Learn or Gravitas Crunch?
Gravitas Crunch is rated higher. Watch and Learn averages 2.0 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while Gravitas Crunch averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Watch and Learn or Gravitas Crunch have ads?
Watch and Learn shows ads; Gravitas Crunch does not.
Which is updated more often, Watch and Learn or Gravitas Crunch?
Watch and Learn ships an update every 7 months, and Gravitas Crunch every 6 months. Most recently, Watch and Learn was updated on November 3, 2026 and Gravitas Crunch on October 31, 2026.

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