Comparison

Lingua Notes vs Duory

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

Head to head
About

Lingua Notes

This app helps self-directed language learners create and process foreign language notes. It generates custom exercises to aid in review and repetition of learned material. The goal is to integrate language learning into everyday interactions.

Highlights
  • Create foreign language notes
  • Translate and process notes
  • Generate custom exercises
  • Review and repeat learned material
  • Integrate learning with environment
Features
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Lingua Notes is a tool for self-directed language learners. Create notes in foreign language and the app will help you to translate it, process it, and even create an exercises specially for you. We believe, that it should be possible to learn any language by interacting with the environment around you: read signs, watch TV shows, play games. But you need something, where you could put all this knowledge to review and repeat it later.  Lingua Notes is an app for that. Privacy policy: https://skintimeapp.com/privacy.html Terms of use: https://skintimeapp.com/terms.html Don't forget to rate the app!

About

Duory

This app helps you study, practice, and journal in your target languages. It centralizes your language notes, vocabulary, and phrases, offering hands-free practice and journaling features. Capture phrases from anywhere and reinforce learning with widgets.

Highlights
  • Organize notes for multiple languages
  • Hands-free practice
  • Journaling in target languages
  • Capture phrases from various sources
  • Vocabulary browsing from notes
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • On-device language tasks
Features
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Save time and stay focused—no more bouncing between translation apps, Google search and your notes. Study, practice, and reflect with dynamic language notes. Why Duory? • Duory is the smartest way to take language notes on your phone. • Duory lets you keep and organize notes for all your target languages in one place. • Save time and stay focused — no more bouncing between Google Search and your notes. • Practice hands-free while doing boring chores. • Improve your output by journaling in your target languages. • Capture interesting phrases from anywhere! • Browse vocabulary from your own notes in a focused, immersive way. • Make them stick with Home and Lock Screen widgets. • Duory supports 40 target languages. NOTES • Duory is designed to perform language tasks on-device thanks to Apple’s language APIs and other offline language tools. • To perform translations, iOS needs to download language dictionaries for each language pair. This only happens once for each pair. • Duory requires access to your microphone for you to record pronunciation of phrases and your camera for scanning text. FREE FOREVER Get started for free with these features: • Create notes and journals in one target language. • Enhance your language journals with Apple Journaling Suggestions. • Capture phrases from your physical textbooks, Duolingo sessions, images, or RTF/PDF documents. • Use a handy widget to reinforce recently learned words and phrases. • In-app translation and transliteration, including Hiragana and Pinyin. • Record and play back your phrases (no playlists on the free plan). • Access notes you create during your free trial or subscription – forever! Important: If you create notes in target languages outside of the initial language during an active subscription, they will become read-only when your subscription expires (the notes you create in your oldest target language will remain editable forever) DUORY PLUS PLANS Unlock the full power of Duory with a subscription: • Create notes and journals in multiple languages. • Turn your phrases into playlists for hands-free practice. • Control playback from your lock screen or Control Center. • Turn plain notes into memorable ones with stickers and pictures. • Sync your notes and journals to iCloud. Plans are available on a monthly or annual basis. Your payment is charged to your iTunes account. Subscriptions auto-renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can turn off auto-renewal at any time by going to your Account Settings on the App Store after purchase. Start your journey with a 14-day free trial on annual plans—cancel anytime to avoid charges. You will always have permanent access to notes created during the trial period or while your subscription was active. However, an active subscription is required to create new notes or edit existing ones in languages other than the first target language you added in Duory. Notes created in the first target language you add to Duory remain editable forever with or without an active subscription. LANGUAGE TRANSLATION SUPPORT ** Duory uses Apple’s Translation API for on-device translation. Here’s the full list of supported languages: • Arabic • Chinese (Mandarin, Simplified) • Chinese (Mandarin, Traditional) • Dutch • English • French • German • Hindi • Indonesian • Italian • Japanese • Korean • Polish • Portuguese (Brazil) • Russian • Spanish (Spain) • Thai • Turkish • Ukrainian • Vietnamese PRIVACY Duory is designed with your privacy in mind. We don’t track your data or store your information. Privacy Policy: https://duory.alewa.co/privacy.html Terms of Service: https://duory.alewa.co/terms.html

Screenshots

Lingua Notes4 screens
Duory4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Lingua Notes at 100% against Duory's 0%. Lingua Notes also leads on rating (3.0 vs 1.0) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.6). 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. Lingua Notes sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.49 per month and Duory sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Lingua Notes holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Lingua Notes's written reviews are positive against 0% of Duory's.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Lingua Notes versus Duory: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLingua NotesDuory
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequency—Every 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size46 MB148 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRoman TsopinAdegboyega Dada

Customer experience

Lingua Notes

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Duory

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Lingua Notes

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$7.491 Month
  • Yearly$25.991 Year
4 purchases

Duory

Subscriptions4
  • Duory Plus (Monthly)$2.991 Month
  • Duory Family Plus (Monthly)$4.991 Month
  • Duory Plus (Annual)14 Days trial$29.991 Year
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  • Duory Family Plus (Annual)14 Days trial$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Lingua Notes free?
Lingua Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Duory free?
Duory is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Lingua Notes or Duory?
Lingua Notes is rated higher. Lingua Notes averages 3.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Duory averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Lingua Notes or Duory have ads?
Neither Lingua Notes nor Duory shows ads.

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