Comparison

DMLS vs Tutor Lily

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

Head to head
About

DMLS

This app helps advanced language learners maintain and improve fluency through contextual exercises. It offers various practice methods, including translation, listening, and reading comprehension, with smart error tracking and instant translations.

Highlights
  • Contextual learning from diverse sentences
  • Practice any language pair
  • Sentence translation exercises
  • Listening and reading comprehension
  • Smart error tracking
  • Instant word and sentence translations
  • Bookmark favorite sentences
Features
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Drill My Language Skill: keep your learning momentum with beyond-the-basics lessons. Practice your English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian. A basic language course may get you to A2 or B1, B2 level - but probably won't take you further. What's worse, without constant practice your language proficiency will decline. With the free DMLS app you can maintain your fluency and improve your reading and listening skills, by building upon what you already know with continuous practice. Key features that set us apart: * Learn from context: This app is not about starting from scratch; it's about building upon what you already know. Engage with tens of thousands of diverse sentences to refresh known words and grammatical concepts and learn - sometimes infer - new ones. * Any language pair: Exercises "from" and "to" any of the supported languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian. * Variety of Exercises: Translating sentences both ways: to and from your target language. Listening and reading comprehension tasks. Constructing complete sentences from standalone words, either by listening to the target language's audio without seeing the text, or by translating from your known language. * Instant translations: Stuck on a word or sentence? Use our instant translation feature to translate a single word or the whole sentence, and keep practicing. * Smart Error Tracking: No one's perfect, and mistakes are a part of learning. The app intelligently tracks your errors, prompting you to revisit and master those tricky sentences later. * Your own favorite sentences Bookmark interesting sentences in a list to review at a later point. * Easy registration Full functionality with an anonymous account. Premium features: We offer a premium subscription that would make your language practice even more enjoyable: * Focus on specific exercise types Just reading (no sound required) or just listening: chose the exercise type that feels the most appealing right now. * Dual Language Learning: If you want to learn a language that is similar to the one you somewhat know, but don't know quite well. Or just up for a brain teasing, to challenge and enhance your cognitive skills? Learn two languages simultaneously! Add translations of all sentences to a third language - the one you have a good command of - and learn two languages at once. * Better translations Translations right in the app and explanations of what the specific word means in the specific sentence. Pretty neat! * No ads (obviously). There aren't that many to begin with, but with premium there's 0, so infinitely fewer.

About

Tutor Lily

Engage in natural conversations to build real language fluency. This AI tutor remembers your progress and interests, adapting sessions to your goals and mistakes. Practice real-world scenarios and receive gentle corrections for effective learning.

Highlights
  • Natural conversation practice
  • Personalized learning based on goals
  • Real-time, gentle corrections
  • Smart vocabulary building
  • Adaptive difficulty levels
  • Practice real-world scenarios
  • Pronunciation coaching
Features
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How long have you been telling yourself you'll learn English? Spanish? French? Let's make this the year it actually happens. Not from 400 owl reminders. Not from tapping pictures of fruits and animals. From real conversations — from your very first day. You'll be speaking with confidence in weeks, not years. Just 10 minutes a day with me. You speak or type. I match your level in real time. Use your target language, your native language, or a mix of both as you get more comfortable. MISTAKES ARE WELCOME It's actually how we learn. Make all your mistakes with me first. Then you won't have to make them with real people. When you slip up, I don't shame you. No red Xs. No buzzers. I give you real-time feedback on grammar, pronunciation, and word choice. I use a three-step method I call the Lily Method: I nudge, then I hint, and only then do I give you the answer. Learners fix their own mistakes 46% of the time with this method (Lyster & Ranta research). Other apps just feed you the correct answer — so you learn nothing. With me, you learn it because YOU found the answer. The biggest mistake you can make is being afraid to make one. Duolingo punishes you for mistakes — I reward you for making them. LET'S TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU LIKE Whatever you want to talk about — I'm like a friend who happens to speak 50+ languages. The movie you watched last weekend. Your day at work. The trip you're planning. Your favorite K-drama. The book you can't put down. The song stuck in your head. Personal conversations stick. Generic lessons don't. Pack me for the trip. I'll be your travel buddy who already speaks the language. Want to practice a specific moment — ordering at a Parisian café, checking into a Tokyo hotel, meeting your partner's parents? Just ask me to roleplay it. I REMEMBER YOU Other apps forget you the moment you close them. I don't. I remember the word you stumbled on last Tuesday. I remember your sister's wedding next month. I remember you work in marketing and your dog's name is Bean. Session 100 with me is smarter than session 1 — because I've been paying attention. You told me in onboarding you have a trip to Italy? Today let's talk about what you're packing. You mentioned you're nervous about a presentation? Walk me through it — I'll help you fix the rough spots. EARN STREAKS FOR REAL PRACTICE Streaks earned by real messages, not by tapping a button to keep a number alive. All the motivation. None of the guilt trips. No hearts. No leaderboards. No "you broke your streak!" notifications. 50+ LANGUAGES, NATIVE ACCENTS English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Italian, Portuguese, Arabic, Russian, Hindi, Turkish, Dutch, Swedish, Polish, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Greek — and 40+ more. Each with native accent variants (British or American English, Latin American or European Spanish, etc.) — so you sound like you actually live there, not like a textbook. STOP STUDYING. START SPEAKING. Babbel scripts you. ChatGPT forgets you. A human tutor costs $30-60 an hour and needs scheduling. I'm available 24/7. I'm 50× cheaper than a private tutor. I remember every word you've ever said to me. And I'll never make you feel stupid for not knowing something — that's the whole reason you're here. Five minutes on your coffee break. Thirty on the train home. I fit your day, not the other way around. Open the app. Say hi. I'll take it from there. — Lily Privacy Policy: https://tutorlily.com/privacy License Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

Screenshots

DMLS4 screens
Tutor Lily4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Tutor Lily at 46% against DMLS's 0%. Tutor Lily also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (242 vs 5). DMLS's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. DMLS sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and Tutor Lily sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

DMLS holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tutor Lily has 242 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of DMLS's written reviews are positive against 46% of Tutor Lily's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DMLS ships an update weekly, Tutor Lily fortnightly. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
DMLS versus Tutor Lily: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDMLSTutor Lily
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better4.7 (242 ratings)
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews45.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5242 — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterFortnightly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size51 MB60 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperCircling Shortcut LLCTutor Lily Inc.

Customer experience

DMLS

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

Tutor Lily

All ratings242 ratings
Positive91.3%
Neutral4.1%
Negative4.5%
Written reviews37 reviews
Positive45.9%
Neutral13.5%
Negative40.5%

Bugs and requests

DMLS

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Tutor Lily

Reported bugs

27 issues
  • App settings change and can't contact support
  • Recent update removed roleplay/topics
  • App is buggy
  • Makes users answer same questions each time
  • App locked behind paywall without notice
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  • Had to give payment info for free trial
  • Stopped working after paying for pro
  • No way to restore purchases
  • Automatic recording function is very poor
  • Correct statements understood and written incorrectly
  • App has loading dots without allowing use
  • Hands-free mode isn't useful
  • Translations are incorrect at times
  • Speak option only works best with built-in phone voice to text
  • Cancelled subscription but still got charged
  • No customer support reply
  • Voices are very robotic
  • Questions asked are very artificial
  • Hands-free mode is glitchy and poor
  • Message disappears/gets deleted when clicking to see mistakes
  • Freezes on 'evaluating sentence…'
  • Loading dots forever
  • Resetting conversation is only fix
  • Doesn't change input language to German for voice
  • Fails to record first response or delay in submitting
  • Doesn't know how to use formal 'You'
  • No sound on iPhone 13

Requested features

18 requests
  • Option to watch ads for more messages
  • Ability to see pre-corrected version of messages
  • Add Icelandic language
  • Improve hands-free mode
  • More natural sounding voices
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  • Fix slow audio for German and French
  • Provide more phrases for repetition
  • Better support for absolute beginners
  • Allow users to restore purchases
  • Improve automatic recording function
  • Fix formal 'You' usage
  • Fix delay in recording submissions
  • Allow viewing of original message before correction
  • Offer a cheaper alternative
  • Fix sound issues on iPhone 13
  • Improve input language switching
  • Make it easier to use while driving
  • Increase chat limit or offer unlimited option

In-app purchases

2 purchases

DMLS

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly premium3 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Yearly Premium7 Days trial$59.991 Year
10 purchases

Tutor Lily

Subscriptions10
  • Weekly PRO Membership$4.997 Days
  • Monthly PRO Membership$11.991 Month
  • Monthly PRO Membership$19.991 Month
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  • Monthly PRO Membership$29.991 Month
  • Annual PRO Discount3 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Annual PRO Discount3 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • 6-Month PRO Membership$56.996 Months
  • Annual PRO Membership$83.991 Year
  • Annual PRO Membership3 Days trial$83.991 Year
  • Annual PRO Membership7 Days trial$169.991 Year

Questions

Is DMLS free?
DMLS is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tutor Lily free?
Tutor Lily is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, DMLS or Tutor Lily?
DMLS is rated higher. DMLS averages 5.0 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Tutor Lily averages 4.7 from 242 ratings.
Do DMLS or Tutor Lily have ads?
DMLS shows ads; Tutor Lily does not.
Which is updated more often, DMLS or Tutor Lily?
DMLS ships an update weekly, and Tutor Lily fortnightly. Most recently, DMLS was updated on November 3, 2026 and Tutor Lily on November 3, 2026.

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