Listening Tutor 1 vs Developing for Listening
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Listening Tutor 1
Enhance your English listening skills with interactive lessons and real-world scenarios. Practice daily with varied accents and questions to improve vocabulary, grammar, and speaking. Consistent use leads to significant improvements in English comprehension.
- 12 listening lesson sets
- 300 sentences
- Four American English accents
- Interactive question answering
- Daily practice focus
- Vocabulary and grammar improvement
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Build practical English listening with school, greetings, objects, and everyday daily-life scenes. Listening Tutor 1 trains short greetings, classroom objects, simple directions, family routines, and small daily decisions. Each lesson stays short and focused so learners can steadily react to practical English in everyday scenes. Inside this episode: - 50 short lessons - 5 learning units - 200 listening questions - normal and slow playback - unit review and mistake replay - offline use with no login required It is designed for learners who want stronger reactions to simple daily English.
Developing for Listening
This app offers an activity-rich course designed to build listening and conversation skills. It includes practice for testing and exam techniques, aiming to boost student confidence and exam success through short, practical activities.
- Listening skills development
- Conversation practice
- Exam techniques training
- Activity-rich course
- Short, practical activities
- Progress tracking
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Tactics for Listening Third Edition is an activity-rich listening course with proven success in building skills in listening and conversation. Now with Tactics for Testing, it provides plenty of practice in testing and exam techniques. The result is confident listeners - and exam success. This three-level American English listening course uses short chunks and practical, relevant activities to engage and motivate students.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Listening Tutor 1 at none against Developing for Listening's shown. Listening Tutor 1 also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 16 months) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Developing for Listening's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 65%) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Listening Tutor 1 holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 8 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 65% of Listening Tutor 1's written reviews are positive against 100% of Developing for Listening's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Listening Tutor 1 ships an update every 2 weeks, Developing for Listening every 16 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Listening Tutor 1 | Developing for Listening |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (3 ratings) — better | 4.5 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 65.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 16 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 211 MB | 132 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | winlink co. ltd. | Le Bin |
Customer experience
Listening Tutor 1
Developing for Listening
In-app purchases
Listening Tutor 1
No in-app purchases
Developing for Listening
No in-app purchases
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