Comparison

Business English by BEP vs Learn Advance English

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

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About

Business English by BEP

Enhance your professional English with over 500 business-focused lessons covering vocabulary, idioms, and conversation skills. Practice real-world scenarios for meetings, negotiations, and job interviews, with options for offline learning and transcript study.

Highlights
  • 500+ business English lessons
  • New lessons added regularly
  • Offline lesson access
  • Business conversation practice
  • Vocabulary and idiom builder
  • Lesson transcripts with sync
Features
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Learn business English with your favorite business English lessons from Business English Pod! Boost your English vocabulary and learn English idioms. Improve your English listening skills with our advanced English lessons. • Learn business English with 500+ lessons • New business English lessons added regularly • All the business English you need to succeed Business English Pod brings you the Business English by BEP app, a powerful app packed with real business English for real business people. Learn English conversation skills, grammar and vocabulary, idioms, and more, with lessons on everything from meetings, presentations, negotiations to sales, job interviews and finance. The best lessons for learning English from the experts who brought you Business English Pod, the world’s most popular business English podcast with over 100 million lessons downloaded. Here’s what you get: • Access your lessons online or offline – download the lesson listening files for offline use • Lessons on meetings, interviews, vocabulary, telephone calls, presentations, negotiations, idioms and more • New lessons added regularly to keep motivated • Hours of top-quality audio and video English lessons (free to download) • Lots of free lesson listening transcripts to get you started Here’s how it works: • Listen and learn business English conversation you can use for your job or work • Business English vocabulary builder - Improve your English speaking and listening skills with clear explanations and lots of examples • Practice business English as it is used in everyday conversations • Study the transcript as you listen - sync to audio using the time codes in the transcripts • Download and save MP3 and video lessons for offline learning • Pay as you learn – buy only the lessons transcripts you need (the MP3s and videos are always free to listen to and download) • Access your lessons anywhere, anytime This Business English App gives you access to a great variety of different lessons for learning English. Try Video Vocab to learn useful business English vocabulary for business and technical topics. Listen to Skills 360 for advice on everything from using the telephone to high-level negotiations. Tune in to Business English News for a look at the latest business developments and learn advanced English vocabulary. Use our core Business English Pod (BEP) lessons to study real-world business situations, English conversations skills, vocabulary and idioms. Everything that has made BEP so popular for learning English for business is integrated into this mobile app. Our lessons use an effective format that helps you remember what you learn and improve your business English speaking and listening skills. This Business English App is brought to you by Business English Pod, a leading developer of mobile learning for business English since 2006. Our team of English teachers has experience in fields ranging from engineering to financial services. We are the go-to business English source for English teachers, schools, companies, and individual business English learners around the world. This App has auto-renewable subscription options to unlock all the lesson transcripts in the app during your subscription. You may purchase a monthly subscription for $9.99/month or a yearly subscription for $99.99/year. Price of subscription and renewal are identical. Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to iTunes Account Settings after purchase. More information available at: https://www.businessenglishpod.com/about/terms-of-use-agreement/ https://www.businessenglishpod.com/about/privacy-policy/

About

Learn Advance English

Enhance your English proficiency, vocabulary, and grammar to excel in standardized tests like TOEFL and IELTS. This app offers extensive practice questions and offline access for convenient learning.

Highlights
  • TOEFL and IELTS exam preparation
  • Vocabulary and grammar practice
  • Over 3600 practice questions
  • Offline access
  • Pronunciation guidance
  • Clear and simple interface
Features
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Do you need to pass the TOEFL® or IELTS exams or advance certificate? With Advance English improve your English skills, vocabulary, grammer and prepare yourself for the any exam in a very fast period of time and with great results! Learn Advance English today! It’s useful even if you don’t need to take the TOEFL® or IELTS, you can boost your level of English in order to reach your best level of English yet! With over 3600 questions to test your vocabulary and grammer level so improve your English and get ready for TOEFL® , IELTS. This Advance English is a free app and supports offline, you can study advance english with app even no internet connection. You’ll be find a clear, simple and colourful interface. All tests and choices have a option that you can listen to the correct pronunciation Advance English is designed to help students practice skills needed for the TOEFL® or IELTS exams. Our lessons: Articles Adverbs Exercises Mix Tense Words Conditionals Collocations At, On, In, Under and Out Relative Clauses Reporting Prepositions Gerunds and Infinitives Passive Adjectives Phrasal Verbs Modal verbs For, By, Until,... Inversion Verbs will, going to Wish Participles Can, Able To, May, .. Nouns Questions Some, Any, Much, Many Over, Above Below,.. No, none, any Must, Have to, Need,.. Possessive So, Such, Either, Neither... Do, Make Pronouns Ever There, It Would, Used To Verbal Simple Present Simple Present, Present Progressive Simple Past Future Tense Simple Past, Past Continuous Past Continuous, Past Perfect Continuous Future Tenses Present,Future Tenses Simple Past, Present Perfect Past Tenses Present Tenses Past Perfect, Present Perfect Welcome to download the Advance English!! Get in touch with us anytime, anywhere and for any reason.. Good luck! DISCLAIMER: TOEFL® is a registered trademark of Educational Testing Service (ETS) in the United States and other countries. This app is not endorsed or approved by ETS.

Screenshots

Business English by BEP4 screens
Learn Advance English3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Learn Advance English at free against Business English by BEP's free with in-app purchases. Learn Advance English also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.6). Business English by BEP's advantage is ratings volume (276 vs 6) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months). On price, review sentiment, ads 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. Business English by BEP sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Learn Advance English sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Learn Advance English holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Business English by BEP has 276 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 77% of Business English by BEP's written reviews are positive against 83% of Learn Advance English's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Business English by BEP ships an update every 2 months, Learn Advance English every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Business English by BEP versus Learn Advance English: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBusiness English by BEPLearn Advance English
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (276 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews77.3% of reviews83.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings276 — better6
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.610.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB46 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperBusiness English PodAbdulkadir Barlik

Customer experience

Business English by BEP

All ratings274 ratings
Positive92.3%
Neutral2.6%
Negative5.1%
Written reviews203 reviews
Positive77.3%
Neutral5.4%
Negative17.2%

Learn Advance English

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%

Bugs and requests

Business English by BEP

Reported bugs

35 issues
  • Podcasts not updating
  • Support unresponsive
  • App crashes during updates
  • Like button unclicking
  • Latest episodes not visible in app
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  • Purchased lessons disappear
  • Favorite lists and downloaded lessons removed
  • Audio not playing
  • Audio frequently not playing
  • Script disappeared from purchased tab
  • Lesson disappeared from lesson tab
  • Cannot restore subscription
  • Audio not playing or downloading
  • App crashes very often
  • Cannot move purchase from iPhone to website
  • Login issues
  • Cannot log in to mobile page
  • Thailand local specific login problem
  • Bug when setting favorites not fixed
  • Cannot access premium version
  • Purchase list removal request
  • No update on latest podcast
  • Back button not working
  • Multiple buttons not working
  • App does not work with iOS 9
  • Display entire free content but no member area
  • Audio stops automatically when clicking other navigation buttons
  • App closes, downloads don't work
  • App crashes when running
  • App doesn't work
  • Cannot be played on the background or when the screen is locked
  • Stop when screen off
  • Cannot listen and download episode at the same time
  • Lessons not arranged in ascending order
  • Update is unsatisfactory

Requested features

14 requests
  • More legal text content
  • Ability to change listening speed
  • Highlight spoken script
  • Link script and speech
  • Add playlist feature
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  • Add quizzes
  • Option to save listening progress
  • Ability to sort content by date
  • Option to delete downloads
  • Improve design
  • Allow users to google unknown words from scripts
  • Link with dictionary apps
  • Add dark mode option
  • More free content with transcripts

Learn Advance English

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Business English by BEP

Subscriptions2
  • All Lessons$9.991 Month
  • All Lessons$99.991 Year
One-time8
  • BEP 233 - Transcript$0.99
  • BEP 247 - Transcript$0.99
  • BEP 251 - Transcript$0.99
Show 5 more
  • BEP 278 - Transcript$0.99
  • BEP 279 - Transcript$0.99
  • BEP 281 - Transcript$0.99
  • BEP 282 - Transcript$0.99
  • BEP 289 - Transcript$0.99
1 purchases

Learn Advance English

One-time1
  • No Ads$2.99

Questions

Is Business English by BEP free?
Business English by BEP is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Learn Advance English free?
Learn Advance English is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Business English by BEP or Learn Advance English?
Learn Advance English is rated higher. Business English by BEP averages 4.7 out of 5 from 276 ratings, while Learn Advance English averages 5.0 from 6 ratings.
Do Business English by BEP or Learn Advance English have ads?
Neither Business English by BEP nor Learn Advance English shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Business English by BEP or Learn Advance English?
Business English by BEP ships an update every 2 months, and Learn Advance English every 5 months. Most recently, Business English by BEP was updated on November 10, 2026 and Learn Advance English on November 2, 2026.

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