Comparison

renshuu vs Rosetta Language Reader

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

Head to head
About

renshuu

Learn Japanese vocabulary, kanji, and grammar through engaging quizzes and games. Offers personalized learning paths, rich study materials with audio and images, and a unique quiz system designed for the Japanese language. Enjoy a fun, ad-free experience with a supportive community.

Highlights
  • Personalized learning paths
  • Extensive vocabulary and kanji database
  • Grammar explanations and quizzes
  • Native-recorded audio and images
  • Engaging quiz system
  • User-made lessons
  • Multiplayer games
Features
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A cute, ad-free, and enjoyable learning experience is waiting for you in the Renshuu community! The free version is unlimited: there’s no timer before you are forced to pay! - A path for every learning style and every goal - Whether you are getting started with the alphabets or have been studying for years, jump in exactly where you belong! Don’t waste time going through what you already know. Renshuu maintains learning paths for most textbooks, the JLPT, Kanji Kentei, and for those who just want to learn. You can also carve out your own path! Our community has over 10,000 user-made lessons for even more focused learning. - Cute, relaxing, and fun - Our mascot Kao-chan is here to let you enjoy learning Japanese, whether it’s through collectible coins every time you quiz, a character that evolves as you learn, manga pages that you unlock, or hundreds of hand-made illustrations. Additionally, we have both single and multiplayer games to help you keep your learning and reviewing fresh! - Personal service - We are just a two-person company - and we don’t use chat bots. That means that every question you have gets an answer directly from us. - Rich, in-depth materials - > Vocabulary: over 15,000 native-recorded audio files, 17,000 hand-picked images, and 160,000 example sentences make understanding vocabulary a breeze. Our growing library of accent/pitch data can even help you with accent reduction. > Kanji: 12,000+ kanji, with no limits on what you can study! Over 2,000 colorful mnemonics help you to understand and retain the meanings. > Grammar: Over 800 different expressions, each complete with native-written model sentences, construction diagrams, audio, and over 7,500 hand-made quiz questions. > Sentences: Thousands of sentences complete with audio, divided by theme and difficulty levels. - A superior quiz system designed around Japanese - Our SRS-for-Japanese system doesn’t treat Japanese materials like flashcards to be memorized, and breaks every item down into individual components so you can understand, and not just memorize. Mastery schedules keep you studying only what you need to, pushing weaker materials to the front for you to focus on. Dozens of different question styles keep things fresh, while a flexible input system (multiple choice, typing, or writing) lets you answer the way that you want to. - Customizable down to the last character - Renshuu doesn’t believe that there is a single way of studying that everyone should adhere to. Our expansive settings and customizations let you adjust the learning environment to what works best for you. End user license agreement can be viewed here: https://www.renshuu.org/eula

About

Rosetta Language Reader

Features
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Rosetta turns writing you cannot read into a lesson you can revisit. Photograph a sign, a menu, a label — even when you have no idea what language it is. Rosetta identifies it, translates the sentence, breaks it into words with readings and parts of speech, explains the grammar, and reads every word aloud. 39 LANGUAGES, IN ANY DIRECTION Rosetta teaches every language your iPhone can speak aloud — 39 of them, from Japanese and Korean to Thai, Arabic, Greek and Cantonese. Any of them can be explained in any other, so you learn Thai through Japanese, or Greek through Spanish, whichever you actually think in. A LESSON, NOT A TRANSLATION Every reading gives you the sentence, its meaning, each word with its pronunciation and role, the grammar worth knowing, and example sentences you can reuse. Scribble over part of a crowded page to focus on just that phrase. WORDS THAT STAY Save words into a wordbook for each language, add your own notes, and review them on a spaced schedule that brings each word back just before you would forget it. FREE AND PAID Rosetta includes 3 free AI readings. Wordbooks, notes, pronunciation and history are free forever — only AI readings are counted. Rosetta Pro removes the limit. Terms: https://birony.app/rosetta/terms Privacy: https://birony.app/rosetta/privacy

Screenshots

renshuu4 screens
Rosetta Language Reader4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: renshuu at 3 against Rosetta Language Reader's 1. renshuu also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. renshuu sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Rosetta Language Reader sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
renshuu versus Rosetta Language Reader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterrenshuuRosetta Language Reader
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (1.5K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews98.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.5K — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size51 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMichael HominickBIN WANG

Bugs and requests

renshuu

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Occasional freezing or crashes
  • Inconsistent responsiveness of writing/drawing input

Requested features

5 requests
  • Offline mode
  • More advanced grammar and kanji lessons
  • Verb conjugation practice
  • Ability to type answers instead of selecting
  • Integration with other language learning resources

Rosetta Language Reader

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

renshuu

Subscriptions5
  • renshuu pro subscription$3.991 Month
  • Kao Club - Level 5$5.001 Month
  • renshuu pro subscription$6.991 Month
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  • renshuu pro subscription1 Month trial$6.991 Month
  • Kao Club - Level 15$15.001 Month
One-time5
  • 1 year access to renshuu pro$49.99
  • 12 month gift code to renshuu pro$49.99
  • 1 year access to renshuu pro$59.99
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  • Lifetime renshuu pro$109.99
  • Lifetime renshuu pro$129.99
2 purchases

Rosetta Language Reader

Subscriptions2
  • Rosetta Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Rosetta Pro Yearly$24.991 Year

Questions

Is renshuu free?
renshuu is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Rosetta Language Reader free?
Rosetta Language Reader is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do renshuu or Rosetta Language Reader have ads?
Neither renshuu nor Rosetta Language Reader shows ads.

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