Comparison

Mango Languages vs Mesha

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

Head to head
About

Mango Languages

Learn to speak foreign languages with conversational lessons focused on real language, culture, and progress. Features native speaker recordings, pronunciation tools, and personalized reviews. Download lessons for offline access and enjoy a distraction-free learning experience.

Highlights
  • Conversational lessons
  • 70+ languages
  • Native speaker recordings
  • Pronunciation comparison tool
  • Personalized reviews
  • Offline lesson access
  • No ads
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Ready to have real conversations? Mango Languages prioritizes real language, real culture, and real progress. Our comprehensive learning platform offers conversational language lessons in 70+ languages, teaching vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar, and culture simultaneously. From preparing for vacation or working abroad, to personal development and academic growth, our language courses are designed to take you wherever you wish to go. HOW DOES MANGO WORK? Learn languages from native speakers with courses that feature thousands of real recordings. Enhance comprehension with interactive listening and reading activities and bolster your learning with personalized daily reviews. Refine speaking skills with phonetic spellings, natural and slow pronunciations, and our pronunciation comparison tool. Sync progress across all platforms and NO ADS, so you can learn anywhere, at any time, with no distractions. WHY CHOOSE MANGO? Practical, Authentic Content: The outcome of using Mango is the ability to speak and communicate in real conversations. Linguist-Approved Language Courses: Each course is designed by expert linguists to provide high-quality instruction that produces real results. Placement Tests: Not sure where to start? Use our placement tests in select languages to identify the best starting point. Individualized Review: Our intelligent review system helps you retain knowledge through spaced repetition and adapts to your progress. Practice with Flashcards: Supercharge your vocabulary with built-in flashcards or take it a step further and create your own lists! On-The-Go Learning: Download lessons to your phone for offline access and take advantage of our hands-free audio feature! HOW CAN I START? When you sign up, you can find free access through a subscribing organization, like a public library, or you can subscribe with a 14-day free trial. Cancel at any time. Serious about language learning? Our paid subscriptions include: Individual Plan: Access to all of our languages in one learning profile. Family Plan: Access to all of our languages for you and up to five additional family members. For questions or feedback, please contact support@mangolanguages.com ​​Available Courses for English Speakers: • Arabic (Egyptian) • Arabic (Iraqi) • Arabic (Levantine) • Arabic (Modern Standard) • Armenian • Azerbaijani • Bengali • Chaldean Aramaic • Chinese (Cantonese) • Chinese (Mandarin) • Croatian • Czech • Cherokee • Danish • Dari • Dutch • Dzongkha • Filipino (Tagalog) • Finnish • French • French (Canadian) • German • Greek • Greek (Ancient) • Greek (Koine) • Haitian Creole • Hawaiian • Hebrew (Modern) • Hebrew (Biblical) • Hindi • Hungarian • Icelandic • Igbo • Indonesian • Irish • Italian • Japanese • Javanese • Kazakh • Korean • Latin • Malay • Malayalam • Norwegian • Pashto • Persian (Farsi) • Polish • Portuguese (Brazilian) • Potawatomi • Punjabi (Pakistani) • Romanian • Russian • Scottish Gaelic • Serbian • Shanghainese • Slovak • Spanish (Castilian) • Spanish (Latin American) • Swahili • Swedish • Tamil • Telugu • Thai • Turkish • Tuvan • Ukrainian • Urdu • Uzbek • Vietnamese • Yiddish Available Courses to Learn English: • English for Arabic (Egyptian) Speakers • English for Arabic (Modern Standard) Speakers • English for Armenian Speakers • English for Bengali Speakers • English for Chinese (Cantonese) Speakers • English for Chinese (Mandarin) Speakers • English for French Speakers • English for German Speakers • English for Greek Speakers • English for Haitian Creole Speakers • English for Hmong Speakers • English for Italian Speakers • English for Japanese Speakers • English for Korean Speakers • English for Polish Speakers • English for Portuguese (Brazilian) Speakers • English for Russian Speakers • English for Somali Speakers • English for Spanish (Latin American) Speakers • English for Turkish Speakers • English for Vietnamese Speakers https://mangolanguages.com/legal/terms-and-conditions/

About

Mesha

This app helps you learn languages using a unique approach. Create collections of words and phrases, record audio for them, and review using spaced repetition. It supports various media types like photos, text, and audio.

Highlights
  • Create custom collections
  • Record audio for items
  • Spaced repetition review
  • Supports photos, text, and audio
  • Growing Participator Approach (GPA) methodology
Features
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Mesha: your essential GPA companion. Mesha is designed to help you learn any language using the Growing Participator Approach (GPA). This version of Mesha is free and allows you to add 100 items. To add more items, you buy In-App-Purchases or you can buy the already unlocked version here: http://plus.mesha.tk Watch a tutorial explaining how to use Mesha here: https://youtu.be/rsG2ZWuKRZ4 You can also see tutorials on the philosophy behind GPA here (http://www.mesha.tk/tutorials/GPA) and how to use Mesha for the recommended six-phase program (http://www.mesha.tk/tutorials/six-phases). ** Creating Collections ** Mesha makes it as easy and as fast as possible for you to record your sessions with your nurturer/teacher. In your GPA session, simply make a 'Collection' by tapping on on the '+' button in the home screen. Then add items to your collection, such as photos of objects, sketches, text or audio. ** Recording Audio ** To record the audio for these items, open this collection in Slideshow Mode by tapping on an item or by pressing the slideshow mode button. A key feature of Mesha is that it has two recording buttons. The Short Recording Button and the Long Recording Button. Use the Short Recording Button for single words and phrases. And use the Long Recording Button for full sentences, such as for stories, explanations and examples. For basic vocab items, tap the Short Recording button on the left hand side. Your nurturer can say this word or phrase aloud two or three times, And then you slide to the next item and the next recording will start automatically. For items with just plain text, you will want to do a long recording for each item where your nurturer explains gives explanations and examples. If the items are telling a story such as when you are using Lexicarry or wordless picture books and your nurturer is explaining the items in complete sentences, then you should choose the Long Recording button instead, on the right hand side. You can tap the Embed button as you are listening to create new items at that point in the story if you are uncertain of what a particular word is. Then you can review these embedded items with your nurturer in Slideshow Mode. These embedded words are added to the same collection as the story audio and are also viewable in the waveform in the slide for that audio. ** Vocab Review Mode ** To review individual vocab items, tap the 'Vocab Review' button at the bottom right of the home screen. This allows you to test yourself on items at set intervals which increase the more times that record that you know it correctly. First you will hear the word and see the image of it or hear the explanation. From then on, you will only hear the audio of the item. If you know it, swipe right and this word will be placed in a higher 'Spaced Repetition Box'. If you don't know it, or just want to check the meaning, you can swipe left and the explanation audio will be played or the picture will be shown. If you did know it correctly, tap on the 'Box' icon to mark that it was correct, otherwise the item will go back to 'Box' number 1 and you will review it more frequently to get you better acquainted with the item. Tap on the statistics at the bottom to see a graph of your progress. ** Story Review Mode ** This mode allows you to spend time listening to your stories in your target language. 'Stories' are items in Mesha which have a 'Long' Audio recording without a 'Short' Audio Recording. After you've finished listening, swipe right or tap the 'tick'. You can manually schedule the next time you'll listen to this story. It will save your position in the story if you close this window before it is finished. First you listen to stories that you have not listened to before and then it will display stories that you next need to review. Stories are displayed in the order they were recorded. For more help, email us at help@mesha.tk or visit https://www.facebook.com/MeshaApp

Screenshots

Mango Languages4 screens
Mesha4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Mesha at none against Mango Languages's shown. Mesha also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.5). Mango Languages's advantage is ratings volume (44K vs 3) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Mango Languages sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $13.99 per month and Mesha sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Mango Languages against 4.7 for Mesha. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mango Languages has 44K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 77% of Mango Languages's written reviews are positive against 80% of Mesha's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mango Languages ships an update fortnightly, Mesha every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Mango Languages versus Mesha: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMango LanguagesMesha
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (44K ratings) — better4.7 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews77.4% of reviews80.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings44K — better3
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#187 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.59.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size85 MB13 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperCreative Empire, LLCROBERT B TURNBULL

Customer experience

Mango Languages

All ratings44,320 ratings
Positive96.8%
Neutral1.6%
Negative1.6%
Written reviews398 reviews
Positive77.4%
Neutral8.5%
Negative14.1%

Mesha

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%

Bugs and requests

Mango Languages

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashes when accessing flashcards
  • Downloading issues when traveling abroad
  • Inconsistent behavior when switching between lessons

Requested features

5 requests
  • Dark mode option
  • More grammar and writing support
  • Improved vocabulary tools
  • Customizable lesson structure
  • Offline access improvements

Mesha

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Mango Languages

Subscriptions4
  • Individual Plan (Monthly)14 Days trial$13.991 Month
  • Family Plan (Monthly)14 Days trial$19.991 Month
  • Individual Plan (Yearly)14 Days trial$119.991 Year
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  • Family Plan (Yearly)14 Days trial$149.991 Year
7 purchases

Mesha

One-time7
  • Mesha Beginner Pack$4.99
  • Mesha Intermediate Pack$4.99
  • Mesha Advanced Pack$5.99
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  • Mesha Advanced to Unlimited$5.99
  • Mesha Intermediate to Unlimited$10.99
  • Mesha Beginner to Unlimited$14.99
  • Mesha Unlimited$18.99

Questions

Is Mango Languages free?
Mango Languages is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mesha free?
Mesha is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Mango Languages or Mesha?
Mango Languages is rated higher. Mango Languages averages 4.8 out of 5 from 44K ratings, while Mesha averages 4.7 from 3 ratings.
Do Mango Languages or Mesha have ads?
Mango Languages shows ads; Mesha does not.
Which is updated more often, Mango Languages or Mesha?
Mango Languages ships an update fortnightly, and Mesha every 2 months. Most recently, Mango Languages was updated on October 13, 2026 and Mesha on October 6, 2026.

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