Comparison

Hearonymus vs Kage Loop

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

Head to head
About

Hearonymus

Transform your smartphone into an audio guide for museums and attractions. Discover new places with neighborhood search and download guides for offline listening. Easily manage and enjoy audio content.

Highlights
  • Modern audio guide functionality
  • Search by location, category, or topic
  • Neighborhood search for attractions
  • Offline audio guide downloads
  • Central platform for audio guide management
  • Listen to samples of guides
Features
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With the free Hearonymus app the smartphone turns into a modern audio guide for museums, exhibitions and attractions. With the possibility to search for location, category or topic the right audio guide for every occasion can be found quickly. The "Neighbourhood search" points to new, perhaps previously unknown, attractions. The downloaded guides are stored on the smartphone. Thus, the audio experience is guaranteed even in museums or at places with no Internet connection. The Hearonymus app is the central platform for audio guides to download, manage and listen. Very easy to use. There are also free guides. Listen to samples is possible for every guide.

About

Kage Loop

Features
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Kage Loop is a minimalist video player built for one thing: repeating a section of a video until you've got it. Perfect for shadowing practice, language learning, music transcription, or drilling any passage that needs repetition. A-B REPEAT Mark a start point and an end point. Playback loops between them indefinitely until you cancel. Both points are visible on the scrubber, so you always know exactly what's looping. SHAKE TO ADD Loop a line a few times, then shake your iPhone to add what was said to your word list. Speech is recognised entirely on your device. (iOS 26 on a supported iPhone.) WORD LISTS Jot down words as you practice. Each video keeps its own list, and you can review or edit it any time without leaving the player. Turn on meanings and each word gets a translation underneath, produced entirely on your device. Your notes outlive your videos. Word Lists on the home screen shows every list you have kept, grouped by playlist and then by episode — so you can delete a video to free up space and still have the words you learned from it. PLAYLISTS Group related videos together and name them. Videos take their filename automatically, and episodes sort the way you read them — 02 before 10. PLAYBACK BUILT FOR PRACTICE • Speed from 0.8x to 1.2x with voice pitch kept natural, remembered per video • Tap to jump 3 seconds, or press and hold to scan • Resumes where you left off • Audio keeps playing when the screen is locked • Plays sound even with the silent switch on COMPLETELY PRIVATE No account. No network requests. No analytics. No ads. Kage Loop plays videos straight from your photo library and never copies or uploads them. Everything you create stays on your device.

Screenshots

Hearonymus4 screens
Kage Loop4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Kage Loop at none against Hearonymus's 25. Kage Loop also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 months). Hearonymus's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.0). On price and ads 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. Hearonymus sells 25 one-off in-app purchases. Kage Loop asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hearonymus ships an update every 2 months, Kage Loop every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Hearonymus versus Kage Loop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHearonymusKage Loop
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.6 (7 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews42.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHearonymus GmbHYang LIU

In-app purchases

25 purchases

Hearonymus

One-time25
  • Schoenbrunn Palace$0.99
  • Treasury$0.99
  • Schönbrunn Palace Gardens$0.99
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  • Belvedere$0.99
  • Melk Stiftspark$0.99
  • HEINDL SchokoMuseum$0.99
  • Spanish Riding School$0.99
  • National Library$0.99
  • Albertina$0.99
  • Vienna Opera House$0.99
  • Museum of fine arts$0.99
  • Imperial Apartments$0.99
  • Minorite Church$0.99
  • Falter City-Walks - Art Nouveau in Vienna 4$1.99
  • Explore hidden Vienna (Part 1 of 3)$2.99
  • Stadtrundgang Torgau$2.99
  • Leopold Museum - The Leopold Collection$3.99
  • Melk Abbey - Abbey visit$3.99
  • Leopold Museum – Sachlichkeit$3.99
  • Leopold Museum - Vienna 1900$4.99
  • Wiener Zentralfriedhof$5.99
  • A boat trip through the Wachau$5.99
  • Bestattungsmuseum Wien$5.99
  • Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kirche$7.99
  • Pedal Power Red Tour$8.99
None

Kage Loop

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hearonymus free?
Hearonymus is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Kage Loop free?
Kage Loop is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Hearonymus or Kage Loop have ads?
Neither Hearonymus nor Kage Loop shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hearonymus or Kage Loop?
Hearonymus ships an update every 2 months, and Kage Loop every 5 days. Most recently, Hearonymus was updated on October 26, 2026 and Kage Loop on October 7, 2026.

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