ListLang vs Matryoshka
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
Matryoshka
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Every Russian word is made of parts: a prefix, a root, a suffix, an ending. Learn the parts, and words you have never studied start to open by themselves. Matryoshka teaches Russian from the inside out. Like the nesting doll, the language has layers — Sound, Beat, Root, Word, Link and Thought — and you grow through all six. WHAT YOU DO IN A SESSION • Word forge: build a word from its parts — вы + ход + н + ой = выходной, "day off". • You can read this: read a word you have never studied, because you already know every part of it. • Two sounds: tell apart sounds English doesn't have — ы and и, hard and soft consonants, ш and щ. • Beat: catch the stressed syllable. Ordinary Russian text doesn't mark it. • Case bridge: choose the right ending through English — of, to, with, in. • Root and sentence: match roots with their meanings and put words together into sentences. MADE FOR ENGLISH SPEAKERS The sounds you train and the way cases are explained are chosen for an English speaker's ear and grammar. The genitive is "of", the dative is "to", the instrumental is "with" — six cases, each with a bridge from English. Explanations are in English, and you can switch to German, Japanese or Chinese at any time. MEMORY THAT SPREADS Reviews come back when a word starts to fade. Practice one word, and its parts get stronger in every other word that uses them. INSIDE • 700 words built from 328 parts, including 258 roots • The Root Atlas: every root with the family of words that grew from it • 25 grammar topics and 19 notes comparing Russian with English • Audio for every word, phrase and example, with the correct stress • Start from zero, from knowing the letters, or from the basics • A daily goal of 5, 10, 20 or 30 minutes • For iPhone and iPad. Works offline, with no account and no ads FREE AND PLUS Free: one full session a day, all six layers and every exercise type, and the first 6 roots of the Atlas. Matryoshka Plus: unlimited sessions and the full Atlas of 258 roots. Choose a monthly or yearly subscription, or buy it once for life. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase, and renewal is charged within 24 hours before the period ends. You can manage or cancel subscriptions in your Apple Account settings. If a free trial is offered, any unused part of it is forfeited when you buy a subscription. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://shityark.github.io/matryoshka/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: ListLang at 12.0 against Matryoshka's 18.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. ListLang sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month and Matryoshka sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | ListLang | Matryoshka |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (38 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 88.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 38 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 78 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Klavena LLC | Iaroslav Oleinikov |
In-app purchases
ListLang
- ListLang Premium$12.991 Month
- ListLang Premium$99.991 Year
Matryoshka
- Monthly$9.991 Month
- Yearly7 Days trial$59.991 Year
- Matryoshka Plus · Lifetime$99.99









