Comparison

Duolingo vs LingoPix

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

Head to head
About

Duolingo

Learn languages, math, music, and chess through fun, bite-sized lessons. Build vocabulary, grammar, and real-world skills with a science-based methodology. Track progress and stay motivated with a global community.

Highlights
  • Bite-sized language lessons
  • Speaking, reading, listening, writing practice
  • Math skills development
  • Music reading and playing
  • Chess strategy and gameplay
  • Progress tracking and rewards
Features
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Learn a new language, chess & more with the world's most downloaded education app! Duolingo is the fun, free app for learning 40+ languages through quick, bite-sized lessons. Practice speaking, reading, listening & writing to build your vocabulary & grammar skills. Designed by learning experts & loved by hundreds of millions worldwide, our lessons make learning effective & fun and help you prepare for real conversations in Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Italian, German, English and more. And now, you can learn CHESS on Duolingo! Whether you're a total beginner or looking to level up your game, you'll love learning chess the Duolingo way. Play matches and fun chess lessons for all levels, no matter the language - chess, ajedrez, xadrez, schach, Шахматы, الشطرنج. • Chess: Learn the moves, level up your game & play matches in our Chess course. Learn the basics, solve fun chess puzzles & improve your strategy with guided lessons. Whether you're new to chess or already play, our course is designed to help you have fun and build real skills. Checkmate! • Math: Forget lectures and math worksheets! Built by learning experts, our Math course makes math feel like a game. Boost learning and fight the summer slide with standards-aligned math lessons for elementary school, middle school, and high school students. • Music: Learn how to read music & play songs in our Music course, no instrument needed! Using an on-screen keyboard, you'll learn bit-by-bit. Whether you're learning a language for travel, school, career or your brain health, you'll love learning with Duolingo. Why Duolingo? • Duolingo is fun & effective. Game-like language lessons & fun characters help you build speaking, reading, listening, & writing skills, plus enjoy fun chess & competitive online chess in one app. • Duolingo works. Designed by learning experts, Duolingo has a science-based teaching methodology proven to foster long-term knowledge retention across language lessons & chess lessons alike. • Track your progress. Work toward your learning goals with playful rewards & achievements when you make practicing language lessons or chess online part of your daily habit. • Join millions of learners. Stay motivated with competitive Leaderboards as you learn languages & play chess online alongside our global community. • Every course is free. Learn Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Turkish, Dutch, Irish, Danish, Swedish, Ukrainian, Esperanto, Polish, Greek, Hungarian, Norwegian, Hebrew, Welsh, Arabic, Latin, Hawaiian, Scottish Gaelic, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, English, & even High Valyrian! And now, learn Math, Music & improve your Chess skills with fun, bite-sized lessons. What the world is saying about Duolingo: "Far & away the best language-learning app." - The Wall Street Journal "This free app & website is among the most effective language-learning methods I've tried… lessons come in the form of brief challenges, speaking, translating, answering multiple-choice questions, that keep me coming back for more." - The New York Times "Duolingo may hold the secret to the future of education." - TIME Magazine "Duolingo is cheerful, lighthearted & fun." - Forbes "I Can't Stop Playing Duolingo Chess." - Wired If you like Duolingo, try Super Duolingo for 14 days free! Learn a language fast with no ads & get fun perks like Unlimited Energy & Monthly Streak Repair. If you choose to purchase Super Duolingo, payment will be charged to your Apple account, and your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Auto-renewal may be turned off at any time by going to your settings in the App Store after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. Privacy Policy: https://www.duolingo.com/privacy Terms of Service: https://www.duolingo.com/terms

About

LingoPix

This app uses pictures, audio, and interactive exercises to help you build vocabulary in a new language. Features include AI-powered object recognition for real-world learning and speech analysis to perfect your accent. It offers personalized learning plans and spaced repetition to aid memory retention.

Highlights
  • Picture flashcards with audio pronunciation
  • AI object recognition with LingoCam
  • Speech analysis for accent perfection
  • Hands-free learning mode
  • Spaced repetition system (Smart Shuffle)
  • Personalized action plans
  • Customizable flashcard practice modes
Features
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Introducing your secret weapon for learning a new language… LingoPix is a vocabulary building system that combines pictures, audio, and interactivity to make words memorable. Build a deep vocabulary with thousands of picture flashcards • Tap the picture to hear the word for it spoken by a real person. • Tap again to hear it pronounced s-l-o-w-l-y. • Trying to remember a word and want a hint? Rub the empty area of the flashcard to reveal the word letter by letter. Learning words with pictures is great! • Pictures help your brain connect the letters and sounds of a new word with its meaning. • They enable immersive learning. See just the words of your new language along with pictures to explain them. Keep away words in your native language. • Learning with pictures is casual and digestible. When you have a little downtime, instead of picking up your phone for something mindless, treat your brain to a few new words. LingoCam. A fun new way to learn the words for things around you. Just point your camera at an object and hear the word for it spoken aloud. LingoCam operates with AI object recognition built with machine learning. A telescope lets you see faraway things. A microscope lets you see small things. LingoCam lets you see things in a new language. Perfect your accent with Speech Studio Record your voice, then hear your pronunciation compared with the teacher’s. You’ll be amazed as your accent melts away. Learn anytime with hands-free mode Press the Play button and cycle through words hands-free. Learn while exercising, doing housework, or cooking. Smart shuffle. Like a pipeline to pour words into your long-term memory. Smart shuffle is a unique spaced repetition system where each word to learn has a temperature. New words start “hot”. Hot words are reviewed frequently. “Cold” words are reviewed periodically, enough to retain them in long-term memory. Make an action plan Within seconds, create a personalized action plan to target the most useful words in the language. Just pick a goal and date, tap a button, and plot a course over the coming days and weeks to reach your goal. Receive a reminder on days of the week you’ve chosen for learning. Open the app and find a pack of “words for the day” prepared for you. Customizable flashcards With different program modes, you can choose to: • practice recognition of words from writing or from speech. • practice recall of words from memory. • fine-tune your accent. • repeat words many times in a row, when you want something to play in the background. A roadmap through the language LingoPix has an enormous database of pictures. Build a deep vocabulary, or explore a variety of topics that interest you. What excites you? Food? Travel? Shopping? Sports and games? Technology? A day at the beach? Or want to brush up on important words for school or your profession? LingoPix has a word pack for that. And it’s not just pictures… LingoPix offers audio cards for important words and conversational phrases that aren’t visual. Night Review Review everything that you saw earlier in the day. Perfect to reinforce words in your mind before you go to sleep. Flipboards A flipboard is an interactive overview of a collection of words. Each word has a tile on a gameboard. One side shows the word you are learning. The other side shows its translation. Tap tiles to flip them to the other side. iCloud Sync Sync your learning progress and plan across all your iOS devices. 4500 pictures and 6000 audio cards: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Arabic, Russian, Hebrew, Greek, Turkish, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Swedish, Dutch, Irish Gaelic, Hungarian, Catalan, Indonesian, Tagalog, Cantonese, Vietnamese. 600 pictures and 1200 audio cards: Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Czech, Croatian, Romanian, Malay, Sinhala, Tamil, Hindi Enjoy learning words with LingoPix! Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

Screenshots

Duolingo4 screens
LingoPix4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: LingoPix at none against Duolingo's shown. Duolingo's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (65% vs 38%). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Duolingo sells 16 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and LingoPix sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. 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 — 4.7 for Duolingo against 4.6 for LingoPix. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Duolingo has 5.5M ratings behind it against 79, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 65% of Duolingo's written reviews are positive against 38% of LingoPix's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Duolingo ships an update weekly, LingoPix every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Duolingo versus LingoPix: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDuolingoLingoPix
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (5.5M ratings) — better4.6 (79 ratings)
Positive reviews64.6% of reviews — better38.5% of reviews
Number of ratings5.5M — better79
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
Best chart rank#1 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size489 MB163 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDuolingoNemo Apps LLC

Customer experience

Duolingo

All ratings5,464,639 ratings
Positive94.2%
Neutral2.4%
Negative3.4%
Written reviews29,453 reviews
Positive64.6%
Neutral9.6%
Negative25.7%

LingoPix

All ratings79 ratings
Positive88.6%
Neutral6.3%
Negative5.1%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive38.5%
Neutral15.4%
Negative46.2%

Bugs and requests

Duolingo

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Freezing or crashing during lessons
  • Incorrect translations or answers marked wrong
  • Inconsistent behavior of certain features like leagues

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add more languages, especially less common ones
  • Improve grammar lessons and explanations
  • Allow more flexibility in navigating the course content
  • Provide better feedback and corrections for mistakes
  • Sync progress and features consistently across app and web

LingoPix

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

16 purchases

Duolingo

Subscriptions10
  • Super Duolingo7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Super Duolingo7 Days trial$12.991 Month
  • Super Duolingo14 Days trial$12.991 Month
Show 7 more
  • Super Duolingo2 variants$59.991 Year
  • Super Duolingo14 Days trial2 variants$79.991 Year
  • Super Duolingo14 Days trial4 variants$83.991 Year
  • Super Duolingo7 Days trial$83.991 Year
  • Super Duolingo7 Days trial4 variants$95.991 Year
  • Super Duolingo1 Month trial$119.991 Year
  • Super Duolingo7 Days trial$119.991 Year
One-time6
  • Chest of Gems$0.99
  • Barrel of Gems (1200)$4.99
  • Chest of Gems (1200)$4.99
Show 3 more
  • Cart of Gems (3000)$9.99
  • Barrel of Gems (3000)$9.99
  • Cart of Gems (6500)$19.99
2 purchases

LingoPix

Subscriptions2
  • World Passport Monthly7 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • World Passport Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Duolingo free?
Duolingo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is LingoPix free?
LingoPix is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Duolingo or LingoPix?
Duolingo is rated higher. Duolingo averages 4.7 out of 5 from 5.5M ratings, while LingoPix averages 4.6 from 79 ratings.
Do Duolingo or LingoPix have ads?
Duolingo shows ads; LingoPix does not.
Which is updated more often, Duolingo or LingoPix?
Duolingo ships an update weekly, and LingoPix every 2 months. Most recently, Duolingo was updated on September 24, 2026 and LingoPix on September 18, 2026.

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