LingoDeer Plus vs Mina
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LingoDeer Plus
This app offers a fun, gamified approach to practicing Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, Chinese, and German. It features 7 engaging games designed to improve specific language skills with culture-specific content relevant to proficiency exams up to B1 CEFR.
- 7 gamified language practice exercises
- Culture-specific content for exams (up to B1 CEFR)
- Professionally curated word lists (3000+ words per language)
- Native speaker audio recordings in HD
- Quick Review mode for weak items
- Offline download for all content
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LingoDeer Plus is a gamified practice app for language learners of Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, Chinese and German, developed by the same team behind the popular language course app LingoDeer. It currently features 7 games that help you improve specific language skills, such as the use of fixed expressions or prepositions and more. So start practicing! The main features of LingoDeer Plus: ※ Culture specific contents that are also relevant to proficiency exams (up to B1 in CEFR) ※ 7 cute deer-themed games that will keep practicing a language a pure joy ※ Professionally curated word lists with around 3000 words for each language ※ Every single word or sentence is recorded in HD with native voice actors/actresses ※ Review weak items in Quick Review mode ※ Test out levels to skip to your current level ※ Feel supported with options to turn on or off romanisation while learning Japanese, Korean, Chinese ※ The ability to download everything to your device and play offline ~~~~ Words from the LingoDeer team ~~~~ Hi deer! To develop LingoDeer Plus, every member of our team has started learning a third (or fourth) language so that we can again put ourselves in your shoes. With the goal to eliminate painful and tedious drills, we decided to keep every session under 90 seconds and introduce a cute mission with each exercise. To make sure the content you will practice with is practical and level appropriate, we handpicked culture-specific vocabulary and crafted sentences that are also relevant to the exams you guys are preparing for. Our mission is to help language learners like you progress efficiently and happily anywhere and anytime by using our original, pedagogically sound content in the most fun format possible. Thank you for your continued support! PLEASE NOTE: You will need a subscription (aside from LingoDeer) in order to access all levels and features in LingoDeer Plus. LingoDeer Plus pricing: - Monthly subscription for $8.99 - Quarterly Subscription for $17.99 - Annual subscription for $35.99 (saves 50%) About subscriptions: - The above prices are for U.S. customers. Pricing in other countries may vary, and changes may be converted to your local currency depending on your country of residence. - Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase - Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period - Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal - Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase - Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable Support: Found a bug in LingoDeer Plus? Send us a bug report in Feedback in the app or - Email: support@lingodeer.com - Support Url: https://www.facebook.com/lingodeer - Terms of Use: https://www.lingodeer.com/terms-conditions-html - Privacy Policy: https://www.lingodeer.com/privacypolicy-html
Mina
Learn new languages through engaging games and interactive challenges. Track your progress with visual activity maps and compete with friends to improve your vocabulary and performance. Unlock unlimited custom courses and illustrated content with a premium subscription.
- Gamified learning experience
- Progress tracking with heatmap
- Social competition with friends
- Unlimited custom courses (subscription)
- Illustrated course creation (subscription)
- Access to all courses (subscription)
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Learn languages by playing. Mina is an indie vocab app: tiny games, illustrated words, and progress you’ll actually want to open. A few minutes is a real session. LEARN BY PLAYING • Quiz, Swipe, Bubbles, Spell, and Scroll — short rounds that fit a commute • Picture, sound, and the word together so it sticks • Perfect for Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, French, and 6 more languages YOUR LISTS, YOUR PACE • Official Mina courses • Unlimited custom courses (Premium) • Import Anki decks and play them as games • Community courses to explore and publish PROGRESS YOU’LL OPEN • Activity heatmap and streaks • XP, levels, and weekly rankings • Compete with friends • Review words you’ve learned or only seen Mina is built by one developer, with players in the loop. Free to start on iPhone and iPad. ———— MINA PREMIUM Unlocks: • Unlimited custom course creation • Illustrated course creation • Access to all Mina courses • Review of learned and seen words • Premium access across Mina products Plans (prices shown in the app, may vary by region): • Premium Monthly • Premium Yearly • Lifetime Premium Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the period. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. No cancellation of the current period. Terms of Use: https://minatori.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://minatori.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: LingoDeer Plus at 81% against Mina's 33%. LingoDeer Plus also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (3.3K vs 2). Mina's advantage is monetization model (freemium vs subscription). 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
Both are free to download. LingoDeer Plus sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month and Mina sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
LingoDeer Plus holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: LingoDeer Plus has 3.3K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 81% of LingoDeer Plus's written reviews are positive against 33% of Mina's.
LingoDeer Plus ships an update monthly, Mina every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LingoDeer Plus | Mina |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (3.3K ratings) — better | 4.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.9% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3.3K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 121 MB | 111 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LingoDeer Co, Ltd. | LUNATORI |
Customer experience
LingoDeer Plus
Mina
Bugs and requests
LingoDeer Plus
Reported bugs
2 issues- Frequent crashes and login issues reported by some users
- Offline mode not functioning properly for some users
Requested features
4 requests- Add more languages, especially Arabic and Latin American Spanish
- Introduce alphabet/character learning games for languages like Japanese and Chinese
- Allow users to customize font sizes for better readability
- Improve integration between LingoDeer and LingoDeer+ to provide a more seamless learning experience
Mina
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
LingoDeer Plus
- Monthly subscription$8.991 Month
- Quarterly subscription$19.993 Months
- Annual subscription$53.991 Year
- Lifetime membership$99.99
Mina
- Premium Monthly$1.991 Month
- Premium Yealry1 Month trial$17.991 Year
- Lifetime Premium$114.99









