Earthlingo vs ListLang
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Earthlingo
Embark on an interstellar adventure to master a new language. Explore a vibrant world, interact with objects to learn vocabulary, and use your newfound linguistic skills to battle robots and save humanity. This engaging video game offers a unique and effective way to learn over 1000 words and 50 sentences in 28 languages.
- Explore interactive game world
- Learn vocabulary through object association
- Practice sentences in combat scenarios
- Master 1000+ words and 50+ sentences
- Choose from 28 languages
- Engaging alien character gameplay
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Earthlingo is an a fun language learning game and winner of the 2023 Australian Game Developer Award for Excellence in Impactful Games. You play as the alien Maco, exploring Earth and learning one of 28 different languages. Every item in Earthlingo is an opportunity to learn a new word. The game world lets you associate each word with a location, improving recall. Once you learn new words and sentences, use them to defeat evil robots and save the humans of this beautiful blue planet. Earthlingo teaches 1000+ words and 50+ sentences in 28 languages, all 100% free. (Arabic, Burmese, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese) The best place to submit bug/error reports and feature requests is Earthlingo's Reddit page.
ListLang
Master languages by focusing on the most frequent words in context. This app helps intermediate learners overcome plateaus with smart vocabulary acquisition and progress tracking. Engage with a global community and achieve fluency through effective, context-based learning.
- Learn 20+ languages
- Focus on high-frequency words
- Context-based vocabulary acquisition
- Overcome intermediate plateaus
- Progress tracking and statistics
- Global community leaderboards
- Free language courses
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Learn a language to fluency with ListLang! ListLang is a fun, free app for learning 20+ languages by learning the most frequent words in context. The top 1,000 most frequent words account for 85% of all text and speech. The top 5,000 account for 95%. It's really important to learn these words. Designed for intermediate language learners, ListLang helps you learn these words on your path to fluency. Learning words in context helps you naturally understand their meaning and use cases, while avoiding the rote memorization of definitions. Whether you’re learning a language for travel, school, career, or family and friends, you’ll love learning with ListLang. Why ListLang? • ListLang is fun and effective. Learning words in context helps you naturally understand their meaning and use cases, while avoiding the rote memorization of definitions. • Overcome the intermediate plateau. Designed by language and computer science experts, ListLang uses machine-learning to help you learn vocabulary smarter and faster. • Track your progress. Work toward your language learning goals with useful statistics and achievements when you make practicing a daily habit! • Stay motivated with competitive leaderboards as you learn alongside our global community. • Every language course is free. Learn Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, English, Czech, Turkish, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Persian, Italian, Polish, Romanian, and Finnish! Privacy Policy: https://www.listlang.com/privacy.html Terms of Service: https://www.listlang.com/terms.html
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Verdict
Earthlingo and ListLang both sit at 4.5 stars, but that hides the real split: 89% of ListLang's written reviews are positive against 67% of Earthlingo's. ListLang also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 weeks). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Earthlingo sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and ListLang sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Earthlingo against 4.6 for ListLang. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 66 and 38 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 67% of Earthlingo's written reviews are positive against 89% of ListLang's.
Earthlingo ships an update every 5 weeks, ListLang every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 9, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Earthlingo | ListLang |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (66 ratings) | 4.6 (38 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 88.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 66 — better | 38 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1.9 GB | 78 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Raymond Corrigan | Klavena LLC |
Customer experience
Earthlingo
ListLang
In-app purchases
Earthlingo
- 200 Gems$1.99
- Sentence Minigames$14.99
ListLang
- ListLang Premium$12.991 Month
- ListLang Premium$99.991 Year
