Aura vs Looplingo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Aura
Learn American English pronunciation using a revolutionary color-coded system. Easily translate words, create flashcards, and access free video lessons. Accelerate your learning with a comprehensive master course.
- Color-coded pronunciation system
- Word translation
- Customizable flashcards
- Free video lessons
- Master Course available
- Conversational English course
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Aura is the only place where you can learn English HD, a new and revolutionary system that uses COLOR to teach American English pronunciation. By using color for specific sounds, you can now easily learn all the sounds of American English! Learning English is hard because English is confusing! For example, the letter "A" can represent 7 different sounds! Every other English lesson tries to explain this broken system by creating rules that work sometimes and don’t work other times! Memorizing all these different rules can be confusing and a waste of time. With English HD, one color = one sound. It’s that simple, and we do the coloring for you. Forget every lesson about English pronunciation and join us on your journey to master American English Pronunciation! Using Aura is amazingly simple: • Search any word, in multiple languages, and translate them into English HD! • Easily save any word or translation as a flashcard. Store them in personalized decks to study anywhere, anytime. • We will be continually adding free video-lesson content, covering topics such as pronunciation, slang, conversation, and more. In addition, if you want to accelerate your learning, we also have an English HD 12 Day Master Course for a one-time payment of just $46.99, which covers everything you need to know about English HD. We just added a new American English Conversational Course as well! Check it out in the Lessons Tab. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Looplingo
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Discover and learn Japanese with complete, real sentences. 180 themes of 10 sentences each, from the classics to the unexpected — 1,800 sentences in total. Free to download, no account, no ads. ONE SENTENCE AT A TIME Most learning methods drown you in vocabulary lists. Looplingo works differently: one sentence, one context, one score. Every review is rated, and the system prioritizes whatever keeps slipping away. The more you practice, the less time you waste. EVERYDAY THEMES Restaurant, transport, hotel, family… Pick a theme, review its sentences, and track your progress card by card. A fully mastered theme gets validated — but stays replayable anytime. THREE REVIEW MODES • Cards: flip the card and rate yourself honestly. • Multiple choice quiz: pick the right translation out of four options, with visual and haptic feedback. • Priority: a smart session that gathers your difficult sentences and your favorites. SIMPLE, HONEST PROGRESS No black-box algorithm: every correct answer brings a sentence closer to being acquired, every mistake pushes it back. And each direction is tracked separately — understanding a sentence and producing it are two different skills. When a sentence reaches your mastery threshold (adjustable from 1 to 100), it's acquired. Slow memorizer? Raise the threshold. Want to move fast? Lower it. YOUR FAVORITES FIRST Tap the heart on sentences that keep tripping you up. Priority mode puts them at the front of the session, together with the sentences the app automatically detects as fragile. BUILT FOR JAPANESE Display in hiragana or kanji, optional romaji under the cards, and text-to-speech to hear every sentence with the right pronunciation. CONSISTENCY OVER INTENSITY Daily progress rings, streak, daily goal, and an optional daily reminder: five minutes a day beats an hour on Sunday. FREE TO ACTUALLY TRY The free version is not a demo: 4 full themes, all language pairs, and every review mode, with no time limit. LOOPLINGO PRO, ONE-TIME PURCHASE FOR LIFE Unlock 100% of the themes (all 180, 1,800 sentences), add your own custom sentence packs (JSON, loaded from a simple URL), and export or restore your database anytime. One single purchase, no subscription. Your data stays on your device, and deleting a pack never deletes your learning history. 5 LANGUAGES, EVERY COMBINATION French, Japanese, English, Chinese and Korean are all built in — and every pair works both ways: French → Japanese, Japanese → French, Chinese → Korean, English → Chinese… Learn in whichever direction you want, from whichever language you already speak. More languages are on the way — feel free to tell us which ones you'd like to see first. Open a theme. Flip a card. Come back every day. That's the whole secret.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Looplingo at none against Aura's shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Aura sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Looplingo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Aura | Looplingo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (14 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 72.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 82 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Imaginative Augmented Intelligence, Inc | Julien Dutto |
In-app purchases
Aura
- Monthly Limited Subscription$1.991 Month
- Full Monthly Subscription$6.991 Month
- Monthly Subscription$37.001 Month
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- Full Yearly subscription$66.991 Year
- Yearly subscription$69.991 Year
- English HD Master Course$149.99
- Kalifornya Glamour Course$149.99
- Kalifornya Glamour Course$169.99
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- Lifetime Subscription$249.99
- English Course Bundle$299.99
Looplingo
- Unlock Pro Version$3.99









