Comparison

Dot Languages vs ListLang

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

Screenshots

Dot Languages4 screens
ListLang4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: ListLang at 4.6 against Dot Languages's 4.2. ListLang also leads on review sentiment (89% vs 72%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.5). Dot Languages's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ratings volume, 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. Dot Languages sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $9.00 per month 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ListLang holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 55 and 38 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 72% of Dot Languages's written reviews are positive against 89% of ListLang's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dot Languages ships an update every 5 days, ListLang every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Dot Languages versus ListLang: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDot LanguagesListLang
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (55 ratings)4.6 (38 ratings) — better
Positive reviews72.2% of reviews88.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings55 — better38
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.512.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size198 MB78 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDot Languages ApSKlavena LLC

Customer experience

Dot Languages

All ratings55 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral5.5%
Negative14.5%
Written reviews54 reviews
Positive72.2%
Neutral5.6%
Negative22.2%

ListLang

All ratings38 ratings
Positive86.8%
Neutral5.3%
Negative7.9%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive88.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.1%

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

ListLang

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Dot Languages

Subscriptions5
  • 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
2 purchases

ListLang

Subscriptions2
  • ListLang Premium$12.991 Month
  • ListLang Premium$99.991 Year

Questions

Is Dot Languages free?
Dot Languages is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ListLang free?
ListLang is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Dot Languages or ListLang?
ListLang is rated higher. Dot Languages averages 4.2 out of 5 from 55 ratings, while ListLang averages 4.6 from 38 ratings.
Do Dot Languages or ListLang have ads?
Neither Dot Languages nor ListLang shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Dot Languages or ListLang?
Dot Languages ships an update every 5 days, and ListLang every 3 weeks. Most recently, Dot Languages was updated on October 24, 2026 and ListLang on October 24, 2026.

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