Comparison

AB Player vs Listano

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

Head to head
About

AB Player

This app is a music player designed for language learners and students of study material. It offers features like A-B repeat playback, adjustable speed, and clip saving to aid in comprehension and practice. Easily share audio clips with others for collaborative learning.

Highlights
  • A-B repeat playback
  • Adjustable playback speed
  • Save and share audio clips
  • Direct track selection
  • Recently studied albums list
Features
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Music Player for listening/study material. Fantastic learning aid for all language students. This app is especially made for anyone who studies a foreign language and who listens to CDs which come with text books or podcasts. • When listening to a CD, some parts can be difficult to hear correctly and you can't understand by listening only a few times. You want to and need to repeat that part many times.  Set playback area and you can repeat that particular area as many times as you want.  (A-B repeat playback). • You can save the clip and listen to it later. Send the clip as an email with attachment, or upload to Twitter or Facebook so your friends and teacher can listen to it too. (*) • Adjustable playback speed. • List up Recently studied albums. • Track selection screen has a scroll bar so you can directly scroll to the track you need.  This is useful when a CD contains many short tracks. • Directly move tracks from the player screen.  If your listening material tells you "Move to track number xx", you can move directly without going back to the track selection screen. * Clipping is restricted to maximum 3 minutes. * This player does not support to play back music with DRM (copy guard protection). -- THIS APPLICATION INCLUDES 5000 lines of original ObjC codes 4281 lines of original Swift codes SoundCloud API with JSON API and OAuth API Lame mp3 framework to encode mp3 libid3 framework to access mp3 metadata

About

Listano

Enhance your language learning with this audio player designed for focused study. It offers precise playback controls like section repeat, variable speed, and instant rewind/forward. Easily play your own audio files transferred from a computer.

Highlights
  • Section Repeat
  • Fast Playback (2x)
  • Slow Playback (0.5x)
  • 3-second Rewind
  • 3-second Forward
Features
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This is an audio player app suitable for language learning. Main Playback Features: - Section Repeat - Fast Playback (2x speed) - Slow Playback (0.5x speed) - 3-second Rewind - 3-second Forward Supported Audio: You can play audio (such as mp3) transferred from your computer to the built-in Music app on your iPhone. * A computer is required to transfer audio to your iPhone. * DRM-protected audio is not supported. Audio files such as iTunes Lossless Audio, Apple Music, and audiobooks from the Books app are DRM-protected and cannot be played.

Screenshots

AB Player4 screens
Listano2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: AB Player at Free against Listano's $2.99. AB Player also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly) and device support (4 vs 1). Listano's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 3.1) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On review sentiment and ratings volume 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

AB Player is free to download; Listano costs $2.99 up front. AB Player sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Listano asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Listano holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 34 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 71% and 71% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

AB Player ships an update fortnightly, Listano monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
AB Player versus Listano: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAB PlayerListano
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating3.1 (13 ratings)4.6 (34 ratings) — better
Positive reviews70.7% of reviews71.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1334 — better
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterMonthly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCatalystwo LimitedYosuke Oki

Customer experience

AB Player

All ratings13 ratings
Positive46.2%
Neutral15.4%
Negative38.5%
Written reviews75 reviews
Positive70.7%
Neutral13.3%
Negative16.0%

Listano

All ratings34 ratings
Positive91.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative8.8%
Written reviews91 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral6.6%
Negative22.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

AB Player

One-time1
  • Paid Version$2.99
None

Listano

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is AB Player free?
AB Player is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Listano free?
Listano costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, AB Player or Listano?
Listano is rated higher. AB Player averages 3.1 out of 5 from 13 ratings, while Listano averages 4.6 from 34 ratings.
Do AB Player or Listano have ads?
AB Player shows ads; Listano does not.
Which is updated more often, AB Player or Listano?
AB Player ships an update fortnightly, and Listano monthly. Most recently, AB Player was updated on October 22, 2026 and Listano on October 20, 2026.

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