Migaku vs LingoLens
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Migaku
This app helps you learn languages by making content interactive. Click words in subtitles or text to get definitions, create flashcards, and personalize study sessions. It focuses on high-frequency words for efficient learning.
- Interactive subtitles for YouTube
- One-click media-rich flashcard creation
- Personalized study sessions
- Data-driven courses for beginners
- Word frequency-based vocabulary learning
- AI sentence breakdown and explanations
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Learning languages is actually pretty simple: if you consume content you enjoy, and you understand that content, you will make progress. Period. Migaku (and its Chrome browser extension) enables you to do that: 1. Our courses take you from zero to 80% comprehension in ~6 months (10 cards/day) 2. We make text interactive: click words in your phone's YouTube subtitles to see what they mean 3. We let you make media-rich flashcards out of those words with one click 4. We make personalized study sessions out of the flashcards you create 5. Repeat! Whether you're learning Japanese, Mandarin, Korean, Spanish, Italian, German, Cantonese, Portuguese, English, French or Vietnamese, Migaku equips you with the tools you need to make real progress. Migaku requires a paid subscription to access its courses, features, and AI tools. Migaku – AI Language Learning Tool ■ How languages are really learned: If you want to watch movies in other languages, then you need to learn languages with movies. If you want to read books in other languages, then you need to learn languages by reading. As you spend more time doing the things you enjoy doing in the language you're learning, you'll build the unique skills you need to more easily do those things. Unfortunately, it's difficult to read books and watch movies in another language as a beginner. And that's where Migaku comes in ■ Data-driven courses for beginners The problem with most apps and textbooks is that they teach you what someone else thinks language learners need to know, and those things may not reflect what you actually need to learn to do the things that are important to you. This matters because not all words are used equally often: while a college-educated native speaker knows ~30,000 words, you only need to know ~1,500 words to recognize 80% of the words in modern media. Our flashcard-based courses teach you these ~1,500 words—the ones that are useful to everyone, no matter their goals—plus a few hundred basic grammar points. What makes our courses special is that every "next" flashcard contains only one new word, making Migaku's learning curve super smooth. You're always learning something new, but never overwhelmed. It's a fluent language learning approach. Migaku courses are currently available for Japanese, Mandarin, and Korean. ■ Turn subtitles and text into interactive language learning opportunities Migaku makes texts interactive: just click on words to see what they mean. You can also hear audio recordings from native speakers, reference images of the term, check example sentences, get an AI explanation of what the word means in context, have AI break sentences down for you word-by-word, or see a translation of the sentence that your word appears in. Basically, Migaku lets you consume content in another language as if you knew as many words as a native speaker. Our mobile app supports YouTube, manually pasted content, and physical content like books or street signs. Our Chrome extension supports web pages and several popular streaming websites. ■ Create custom study cards or import language flashcards Find a useful looking word while consuming content? Turn it into a high-quality flashcard with one button, and Migaku's spaced repetition language practice algorithm will create personalized study sessions for you. You'll be nudged to review these flashcards periodically, ensuring you remember them. Decks designed for the Anki flashcard app can be converted for use with Migaku, too. ■ Study anywhere, even offline Migaku's courses and any flashcards you make are available offline and automatically sync between all of your devices. ■ Learn multiple languages at once A single Migaku subscription gives you access to all of Migaku's languages and lets you use all of Migaku's features and AI language learning tools as much as you want. - - - Immerse → enjoy → improve
LingoLens
This app transforms your favorite videos into language learning lessons. It offers dual captions, instant word translations and saving, and a built-in dictionary. Sync your progress across devices and explore content in your target language.
- Dual captions
- Instant word translation
- Save words to bank
- YouTube search
- Cross-device sync
- Built-in dictionary
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LingoLens turns the videos you already love into comprehensible-input lessons in the language you're learning. • Watch videos with dual captions - your target language layered over your own. • Tap any word for an instant translation, pronunciation, and its dictionary base form, then save it to your word bank with one tap. • Search YouTube or browse a feed built around your learning language. • Your word bank and history sync across the LingoLens web app and the Chrome extension. • A built-in dictionary works both directions and auto-detects the language you typed. Learn Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, and more - translated into the language you already speak. LingoLens Pro (optional subscription) unlocks unlimited saved words. Terms of Use: https://lingolens.us/terms Privacy Policy: https://lingolens.us/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: LingoLens at 5.0 against Migaku's 4.4. LingoLens also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). Migaku's advantage is ratings volume (377 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Migaku sells 13 in-app purchases, starting at $14.00 per month and LingoLens sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.00 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
LingoLens holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Migaku has 377 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Migaku ships an update weekly, LingoLens every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Migaku | LingoLens |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (377 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 73.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 377 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1.9 GB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Migaku Inc. | John Hartwig |
Customer experience
Migaku
LingoLens
Bugs and requests
Migaku
Reported bugs
3 issues- Unable to create new accounts in the app
- Broken kanji course with empty cards
- Inconsistent behavior when switching between apps
Requested features
4 requests- Offline mode for learning on the go
- Expanded support for more languages
- Better integration with Anki and other SRS apps
- More customization options for flashcards and reviews
LingoLens
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Migaku
- Migaku Standard2 variants$14.001 Month
- Migaku Standard7 Days trial$14.001 Month
- Early Access2 variants$21.001 Month
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- Early Access7 Days trial$21.001 Month
- Migaku Standard$136.991 Year
- Migaku Standard7 Days trial$136.991 Year
- Early Access$179.991 Year
- Early Access7 Days trial$179.991 Year
- Lifetime$214.99
- Lifetime$289.00
- Lifetime$344.99
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- Lifetime$359.00
- Lifetime$719.00
LingoLens
- LingoLens Pro (Monthly)$4.001 Month
- LingoLens Pro (Yearly)$45.001 Year









