Dot Languages vs Language Player 2
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dot Languages
Master Mandarin Chinese with engaging texts tailored to your skill level, from beginner to advanced. Practice reading, listening, and writing with daily new content covering diverse topics. Share and discover texts with a community of learners.
- Learn Mandarin Chinese texts
- HSK 1-9 level categorization
- Daily new text additions
- Custom text creation and sharing
- Reading, listening, and writing practice
- Progress tracking
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Dot Languages is a complete Chinese learning app: lessons carefully written and crafted by humans, advanced exercises powered by AI — all built around a structured curriculum aligned to HSK 3.0 (2021 and 2025) and TOCFL 2.0 (2023), with personalised practice. Learn at your own pace through a dynamic HSK-aligned learning path with 11,000+ lessons covering vocabulary, grammar, and reading. Read new articles daily, refreshed for every HSK level, and look up any word in a comprehensive Chinese-English dictionary with character components. Practice that adapts to you: spaced repetition for vocabulary retention, animated stroke-order character writing, speech recognition for pronunciation, multiple choice, matching, sentence arrangement, flash cards, and AI-evaluated open-ended questions. Stay motivated with awards, streaks, learning milestones, leaderboards, and social profiles. Track your performance with weekly progress charts. Bring your own content — add private articles from any source and generate study material from text you paste in. More features: family plans, teacher classroom tools, grammar with sentence-structure analysis, and variable-speed audio narration of articles.
Language Player 2
Learn over 200 languages with a vast library of over 600,000 videos. Tap on words within videos to instantly look up meanings and expand your vocabulary through engaging clips. Ideal for beginners and intermediate learners seeking an interactive and effective language acquisition method.
- Extensive video library (600,000+)
- Supports over 200 languages
- Tap-to-translate word lookup
- Vocabulary building through video clips
- Interactive learning experience
- Suitable for novice and intermediate learners
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Language Player is the ultimate language learning app that offers over 600,000 videos in more than 200 languages. With a simple tap, users can watch videos, click on words to look up their meaning, and learn new vocabulary through hundreds of video clips. The app is perfect for both novice and intermediate learners who want to improve their language skills through an engaging and interactive experience. Whether you're learning English, Spanish, Mandarin, or any other language, Language Player has something for everyone. Download now and start your language learning journey today!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Dot Languages at every 5 days against Language Player 2's every 4 weeks. Dot Languages also leads on review sentiment (72% vs 56%) and ratings volume (55 vs 15). Language Player 2's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.5). On price, rating, 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. Dot Languages sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $9.00 per month and Language Player 2 sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.2 for Dot Languages against 4.3 for Language Player 2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 55 and 15 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 72% of Dot Languages's written reviews are positive against 56% of Language Player 2's.
Dot Languages ships an update every 5 days, Language Player 2 every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dot Languages | Language Player 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (55 ratings) | 4.3 (15 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 72.2% of reviews — better | 55.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 55 — better | 15 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 198 MB | 135 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dot Languages ApS | Jiang Long |
Customer experience
Dot Languages
Language Player 2
Bugs and requests
Dot Languages
Reported bugs
12 issues- App closes every time after signing up
- App not opening
- App crashes on startup
- Articles disappear when hitting back icon
- Return button partially visible after lesson
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- Bug where leaving and re-entering a story counts as two reads
- App freezes and never works again
- Login screen freezes
- App doesn't load at all
- Kicks out of login every time app is opened
- Streak and articles read does not carry across devices
- Button of 'open more stories' doesn't work
Requested features
9 requests- Add Korean and Japanese language options
- Add stories in addition to articles
- Option for lifetime subscription
- Speaking exercises
- More vibrant colors and backgrounds
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- Pictures to help remember words
- Way to practice tones for each character
- Option to switch to traditional characters
- App for Cantonese
Language Player 2
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Dot Languages
- Standard Monthly7 Days trial$9.001 Month
- Dot Premium - Monthly7 Days trial$18.491 Month
- Standard Yearly7 Days trial$72.001 Year
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- Dot Premium - Yearly7 Days trial$135.991 Year
- Dot Premium - Family Plan7 Days trial$339.001 Year
Language Player 2
- Lifetime Pro Account$169.00
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